settling in

Wow, it's been almost a month since we've posted. Well, in that month we've moved back to the great state of Alabama, moved in to our first house, and spent waaaaay too much time packing and unpacking. We did throw a good bit of stuff away that we realized we wouldn't need, but there was still a lot more stuff than I realized.

Among the things we've learned in the last month:

- Cortez of Two men and a Truck Atlanta is a hoss. That man took care of in 15 minutes the couch that took us an hour and a half, 5 people, and two near death experiences to move in. We gave the couch away to the Burkett's across the street neighbor, which we were happy to do because a) he wanted it and b) we won't have to move it again.

- Packing material is expensive. Luckily, I borrowed about 15 boxes full of biodegradable crinkles from the VON Corporation, so we didn't have to buy those, but we would have had to spend about $15 a box for the material and the boxes. So hooray for Radar Engineers and their packing methods.

- People are pretty gracious at CFUMC your first week on the job. Everyone been very nice and so far no one has called me out on doing anything stupid. Since I'm sure I've done something stupid, it's nice to get some time to figure out what that is on my own.

- Having Wal-Mart within a 2 minute drive of your house is a whole lot easier than having to drive 45 minutes to get to one.

- We're not going to move again without paying movers. Each one of them were the best money we'd ever spent.

- diesel trucks give a nice back massage while you drive, but they nearly make you deaf.

That's about all for now, guess I need to use my office for something other than posting.