Moving...or not....

Wow, what a whirlwind of a week. At first we were moving and then we were not. Here is the rundown.
Peter happened upon an ad on craigslist for a 4 BR house to rent. It sounded great so we decided what the hell and looked into it further. He talked back and forth with the woman who owns it and it seemed like it would be a great place. It was about a half an hour away from where we are now, bt we thought we could deal with that. The rent was over double what we are paying now, but for an entire house, the sacrifices seemed worth it.
We went to look at it on Thursday night. The house was huge and very cute. It could use a little work, but basically wallpaper and stuff like that. The yard was huge and there was also tons of storage in the basement. The bathroom was terribly tiny :( I hated the bathroom.
We talked to the owners and were pretty sure we were going to go forward with it all. We left saying we were going to discuss it.
Then... they told us they had to wait for a meeting about their new house to find out when they could move out so we could move in and they would let us know Friday. Friday came and went, Peter e-mailed them, no answer. Peter e-mailed them twice more on Saturday and finally called them twice until we got ahold of them and she still had no answers for us. In addition to this we never had gotten anything in writing, so there was no guarantee it was ours. All the while she was still pushing us to move in for July 1st. How are we supposed to let our current landlord know we are moving in one week when we aren't even positive.
The whole situation was a little odd and Peter and I just got a bad gut feeling. Something just felt like it was not a good choice. Sunday afternoon he called her back and told her we decided not to take it. He said she sounded kind of upset and tried to get him to still take it if maybe she could push the date until the 15th. We still said no. It all just seemed a little to urgent for her to us.
I am kind of disappointed, the room would have been so nice, but I am also relieved. I did not want to screw up the girls dance classes, and travel would have been a killer although I would have managed. Although we hate it here, there is a certain sort of comfort level too. Does that makes sense. I guess it falls into the same category as know your enemy or something like that. Now I wish I knew the correct saying... the evil you know is better than the one you don't.
So here I sit in my crappy dirty apartment in my crappy dirty neighborhood and sort of happy about it. I already signed the girls up for free swimming lessons at the state pool, the boys are at summer school and summer dance classes start the 7th. Back to being busy!!!

Wii Sweat...

...well ok, it's really called Wii Fit, but Wii are sweating right now. I got my hands on the newly popular wii fit yesterday, fully ok with the fact that I may not like it after I get it. I figured even if I was too lazy in the longrun to use it, the rest of the family would get good use out of it. It's only day too, but here is my opinion so far...

GENIUS

That's the word I would use to describe every person involved in coming up with this. I am overweight. According to them the meter hit the top of Obese. (I'm just glad I am under the weight limit of 330lbs) That being said...

Today I did my body test again (a few simple balancing tests and a weight check) and some yoga. Yes, yoga..can you believe it??? That's not even the most of it. After that did one or two of the strength training excercises and then decided instead of the balancing games I was going to check out the aerobic category. Well My fat ass Hula Hooped and jogged.

Now back to the word genius...
Whoever could manage to get me up off of the computer for an hour to do yoga and jog is a flipping genius. The best part is, I am such game addict that I wasn't happy with my score, so I did it again.

These nintendo people are definately onto something. This is exactly what us lazy americans (and plenty of other people I am sure) need. Get us up and moving. Even for a little bit is better than nothing. I think I have already moved in the last 2 days more than I have all year. And for that I say thank you.
Thank you for making something so un enjoyable fun. I may change my mind down the road, but for now I am totally impressed!

The Mystical Pizza Tracker

Have you seen this? This is the new fascination in our house. When you order pizza from Dominos online, they have a tracker now that shows you step by step what care is being put into your pizza.

Tonight was one of those magical nights of laziness. I ordered our pizzas online and up popped the tracker. We were promptly told that Jason had begun making our pizza. Then it popped up to say that our pizza was being placed in the oven. Little girly yelps of joy rang through the house as the both girls stood at the computer waiting to see what Jason would do next.

We were then told it was being placed in the box. I yelled this to them in excitement and they cheered! (ok a little exaggerated, but not much)

Now we sit here and wait for our pizzas that I 1: did not have to make, and 2: gave us entertainment while we wait!!!

Does it get better than that???

Random Ramblings for Carla!

So it has been noted that I have not blogged for a while. I guess that's the kind of organized chaos that takes over when life happens around you and takes you for a ride. Am I making any sense? ...No, I didn't think so.

Well, what have we been up to the last couple months...

The beginning of the year was very busy with rehersal for me and the variety show I was in. That finally came to an end after the performance in the beginning of May. You may remember my post about puppet hell. ah yes, those beloved puppets (said through gritted teeth), all 35 of them were a big part of the show.

The weekend after my show, Emma had a show for her school. It was called putting on the hits. Groups of kids performed by dancing and lipsyncing to a bunch of rock and roll songs to state that South Street Elementary Rocks!!! LOL It was a great show and Emma's rendition of Rock you like a Hurricane was the Bomb ;)

The girls are both gearing up for their dance recital now that will be on June 14th. The whole recital is a Disney theme this year. Emma is in 2 numbers, a Hannah Montana song for Hip Hop (but of course) and Beauty and the Beast for ballet. She has the most beautiful yellow leotard with a HUGE tutu! Melanie is doing Pocahontas for her ballet class. It is the most adorable little outfit brown and teal with a big teal feather. I can't wait to get good pictures of them all done up.

We have signed up for summer dance classes already and warned the studio that they can't get rid of us.

I always feel like I don't have much to say about the boys, but......Boys WILL be boys.
Tucker is doign ok at his school. He's not doing great, but we are working on some things and just went through an evaluation for him. There is still alot to go through.

Christopher is busy living through teenage drama, guitars, skateboards and girlfriends. Mostly in that order I think..lol

Peter and I are doing well. I couldn't be any happier. He's busting his ass at work and it shows, but he is finally getting the recognition he deserves.

Phew....I think that's enough of an update for now. I will try to come back more often.

Now to sit back and sip on my GrapeAde!!! MMMMmmmmm