Remember how I was so excited about moving to Houston?
I'm still excited, but now that I actually THINK about it...I'm a crazy stressed mess. As in, I may lose my mind.
Let's examine the months of April/May, shall we?
- April 25-28: A is going on a bachelor party trip to Mullet Toss in Gulf Shores, AL. So that means little ole me has to pack up the whole apartment by myself. Deja vu, my brain says. Why? That's because I had to do this last year, too. A was on a rig and I packed everything up by my lonesome. And this time we have an extra room. Yayyyy!
- May 3-5: I have to go to Jazz Fest. Ok, when I say it like that I bet you don't feel bad for me, huh? It's just not great timing. And I can't cancel because it's a work trip and I have clients coming in.
- May 9-12: I have my best friend's bachelorette party in Dallas.
- May 13: A's anticipated start date.
How fun, right? The next three weekends we won't have both of us here together to move. We planned these weekends MONTHS ago, so we can't really cancel them now (what am I supposed to do? just NOT go to the bachelorette party as the matron of honor? UHH NO) even if we wanted to. Which we don't. So I'm just going to complain about it.
Then I called PODS this morning because that's the easiest option. I hung up on the guy when he quoted me $1584.69. THAT INCLUDES NO STORAGE. To store that it would be $250 a month. A swore that I needed to call back because SURELY he meant $150.69, but no, that first number is correct.
The plan now? We are picking up a UHAUL on May 7. Then movers are coming on May 8 to put it all in the UHAUL. Then we are driving it to Houston last night (I'm going to have a panic attack just thinking about A driving that while towing his car) and loading it into a storage unit on May 9. And then I leave that night for Dallas.
I wish you could all see how many deep breaths I am having to take right now.
And this all leads to my new series. I'm going to call it:
Adventures in Moving in with Your Parents.
Hi, Mom. You know I love you, but you have to admit that it's going to make for some great blog posts. Now let's all think some positive thoughts and say some prayers that we find a house fast. The market in the area we want to be in is SUPER hot right now, so I'm worried. But I worry about everything sooooo yea.
And that's this week's edition of how much can Kaitlyn complain about something she's actually really excited about? We all know that answer is a lot. A LOT.
Happy news on here, that is. On the real news (which we can't turn off), it's not happy. A town on lockdown. Police officers down. A small tight-knit town in Texas recovering from a deadly explosion. But as I said on Tuesday, I am choosing to remain happy. I won't let these events get me down and depressed.
Throwing it back here y'all. I remember walking down the aisle at a dance recital to this song when I was 5. So yea, OLD SCHOOL. For two reasons:
1. It's fitting this week, I think. We're all proud. And we all should be.
2. There's a line in the song: "from Detroit down to Houston..." Why Houston? Well if you've been reading this long enough, you know that I was born and raised in Houston and moved to Baton Rouge for college. A and I currently live in Lafayette. This is where the real happy news comes in. This morning A was offered a job in Houston. How excited are we?
That excited. I've talked to my close bloggy friends about this a TON recently and they know how huge this is for us.
I LOVE Lafayette, don't get me wrong. If A got an offer there we would have been excited to be able to buy a house and make a home. His family is there and it's a great city. The culture and people are amazing! If we end up back there one day, we would not be sad about it.
But Houston has always been on the radar because he's in the petroleum engineering field and most of the big oil companies are either HQ'd in Houston or have major offices here. And of course, I am from Houston. My entire family is here. My cute little precious nephew is here. There's a good chance that A's brother and his sister and her husband might end up here one day, too.
We will find out this afternoon when his official start date is, but it will likely be a fast move. As in, putting everything we own into a pod and then moving in with my parents for a while. It's a good thing my parents are really fun people! There will be lots of driving around during rush hour to see what areas aren't as bad of a commute to find out where we want to live. Oh yea - and starting the house hunting process ALL over again. Just when we found the neighborhood we wanted live in Lafayette! But it's all worth it. All of it.
If I catch myself complaining about any of this, I'm going to come back and read this post. We are so blessed! Thanks to those who knew of the interview for the prayers. They worked!!
