I Miss Rob

For those of you who don't know (and that probably includes most of my readers since I haven't written anything about this), Rob is now the Assistant Manager at the new Spot coffeehouse in Williamsville -- Grand Opening tomorrow! It's a really cool store, and has tons of room for hanging out, though in a very upscale Williamsville way. It's an awesome opportunity for Rob since he's been promoted up the ladder fairly quickly and I'm so proud of him.

Sadly it requires mondo amounts of hours. Yesterday he worked 15 hours, today he's working probably 14 hours. Last week he worked 7 days (hence my bad moving day). Whenever he does have off, I have to have him running errands for the move (although I think I'm pretty much done with that, thank God!). I find myself back in the whole alone every night situation that happens when Rob works nights. And I miss him! I think this is going to go on for a while still. The new store will take a while to get up to speed, so he might be working constantly through most of May. In fact his next day off is May 9th -- and that's the day of our childbirth class, so not exactly much free time there. Poor Rob:(

Irony

Um.... My stove in my new apartment doesn't work. It's an electric stove and the outlet for it seems to be too loose, so it keeps coming unplugged. Yesterday I was going to heat up some pizza and I turned on the oven and all of a sudden it just turned itself off.

But I made a repair request online (yes, that's how they roll) and supposedly it will be fixed within 24 hours. But yes, I still love my apartment. And it's not a gas stove so I know we're not being slowly gassed to death.

One More Thing Done...

We made our last big trip to the old apartment. Rob had to do at least 20 trips up and downstairs loading all of the stuff into the car, but we've gotten all of our stuff out. Tomorrow, I'll go over to let the cleaning lady in so she can make our apartment look gorgeous and then we'll be done! The nice thing is this time it seems like such a smooth move -- meaning for the first time I actually didn't throw out anything vital. So moving in here, I don't have a list of 10,000 things that we need to buy ASAP in order to live here.

Also, for those of you who are facebook users, I want to point out something that my friend Jenny told me about. Log in to your facebook and scroll to the bottom. Click where it says English (US) and then select English (Pirate). Guaranteed to provide a few laughs. Enjoy!

Getting Settled

We're really close to being done unpacking. My room full of boxes has decreased in number and size -- from about 70 boxes to maybe 10 or so -- and I can actually walk through the room. My friend Sarah came over last night and helped me with all the books. By this, I mean she actually did all the work, and I opened a box handed her a book and said, "This goes on the red shelf." (That's right, the color coordinated shelves are back!!) But seriously, Sarah is that awesome. Then we had Veggie-Artichoke pizza on a sesame seed crust -- God, I love Buffalo.

The best part about this apartment is I do not feel at all shamed by my apartment -- whereas before I always felt like craptastic apartment smelled bad, could never be organized or neat looking, never was able to be decorated, never clean. Here I feel like everything has it's place and the whole apartment is a breath of fresh air. I love that I've already had company over -- though I made her work. And today Aunt Dode is going to come over, who never even saw my old apartment because I was always too embarrassed by it.

Plus this evening, I think we have managed to line up a maid service to clean the old apartment so we can be out of there for good. Wiping all that bad energy out of my life -- phew!