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Quoted from http://cynthiaokelly.blogspot.com/2011/09/meantime.html:

Cynthia O’Kelly: The Meantime

There are several times in my life that I have been in the “meantime”. The meantime is when you havefinished a chapter in life and are waiting for the next chapter to start. Does this sound familiar to you? I readthe book, “In The Meantime” by Ivana Van Zandt years ago when I was waiting for my husband to enter my life.

 

Cynthia is so right.  I’m in a meantime myself — I’m waiting for my house to be back and have both an attached garage, dog door and yard again.

Coping with that process has to be my focus, and my weight loss will be my meantime again.  Though I’ve also tried to live "What Not to Wear’s Motto", which is dress the body you have.

Did you know that UPS can’t figure out how to forward all packages from a damaged house to another addess?

That is fubared.

Okay, it’s actually going to work out BUT.  I’m on EzReadOrder, have had an order in the system for weeks, tried to call them and tell them that it couldn’t be delivered, and left them a message!!!!!

They didn’t call me back, and shipped it anyway.

God’s looking out for me, as it is to arrive tomorrow by 3:00 pm and I’ll be there.  Didn’t want to be there that long, but someone should probably be there to take delivery when I can’t be there.

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Tomorrow is clear out debris day and get keys for my Ford Focus made day.  Found a locksmith that will do it at the house for cheaper than driving to the dealership would.

Ask me tomorrow morning.

We had meet the parent night from 4:30-6:30 and they asked us to stay a half hour after.  There were few people upstairs, no one came to see me so I took off after 7:15.  Elevator seemed to be stuck.  All the lights were on and it would open but not go to the first floor, so I stashed most of my stuff in my room.

Husband was at home so I called him and asked for him to find me some wheels, he did and brought them to the apartment.

We went to the apt pool this evening and it was nice.

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Got up this morning, dogs immediately peed and let me get ready for work.  Took them for a 15 minute walk at 7:00 am, then dropped by Petsmart.  Maggie didn’t seem to care that I came by and seems content at Petsmart though she was wet.

School day went well, but I got tired during 5th period. 1 1/2 classes to go.

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Mom’s check arrived which was nice of her, but we didn’t need.

Mail is finally being forwarded.  ATT has turned down the TV, and I need to turn down the rest of our services.  Back in a minute.  Darn, they did put us on vacation hold.  I’m sure they will be happy to turn it back on earlier if we get back, but I think I’ll check on it tomorrow.

I’m glad we moved out.  It was getting me down.  I do have to deal with the debris clean up and packing, probably at the end of the week.  I also think things well get done faster in the long run.

I’m glad we put Maggie in boarding, the apt wouldn’t have been right for her, but the other dogs are coping well.  No one has been banished with her.  She doesn’t seem to care either way if we visit or not.

Not win / win, but not bad considering the situation.

Well, the right place would be our house, before the drunk driver took it out.

I woke up at 5:30, which is my alarm for going to the gym.  I’m going to rethink that plan.  Got up, took girls out, they peed.  Slowly got ready for work.

Rich got up early too.

Once I was ready, I took the girls out, walked them around the park and Macy had a runny poop.  Thankfully she did it outside. 

Then I dropped by Petsmart, was barely acknowledged by Maggie, this is normal, another reason for her to be boarded.

Tonight will be a late night for me, meet the parents.

At least their twitter account is noticing.  I got up and put us at a higher speed, thinking that was part of our problem, but hasn’t helped.

I’m assuming they don’t have enough bandwidth to support the entire apartment complex, which is a shame.

Husband couldn’t watch football and had a frustrating time getting his jobs to work.  Of course, I was off doing the dog thing, so couldn’t help.

We’re in the apartment and had cable and internet installed yesterday, if you want to call it that.

Ordered 3 DVRs because no whole house DVR.  But get this, the DVR can only record if you are watching the channel?  WTF?

Seriously people.

They brought out one modem that has only a single drop, no wireless, but thankfully had my own.

But it drops constantly.

Man I miss UVERSE. 

We’re in the apartment, I’m sleeping better. I’ve actually been here two days, Rich has been here one night. I got what I hope is my final load in today. Waiting on Time Warner Cable to come install cable and internet and will be happy.

Using MIFI right now, on the Mac Mini. May have to break down and buy some type of wireless internet for the desktop but trying to hold off until 3:00 pm.

The apartment isn’t bad, their staff is good, and we’re making it. Definately better than a hotel, especially with two dogs. I can’t imagine how we would have managed if we had had to leave the house that night.

Of course we would have had three dogs.

However, living in the house with no garage was hard. Best thing about the apartment is the garage, and I can stash the dogs their in the truck in their cages when things get tough. They are used to being quiet there.

Adjuster’s report came in last night and the contractor is working on a plan.

I hope we are back home soon.

Have lost over 10 pounds now

Seriously.  I only woke up twice before I wanted to.  And worried about school stuff.

Macy only stopped and looked at the debris, she didn’t crawl in.

For some reason driving past it didn’t bother me as much.

Didn’t take any calls related to the crash, but did talk to the Relocation people and email the apartment people and made sure we were okay to move soon.

Did have to met with an furniture evaluator, and discovered that there is a huge amount of truck paint on our stairwell.  There is a huge crack in our ceiling (in the debris room) and that IKEA bookcases don’t count as furniture.  We’ve had more than $1000 of damage on the furniture itself.

We’re moving to temporary quarters soon.

Electronics evaluator next, which I keep hearing horror stories about – not them in particular – just electronics evaluators in general.

Man, this has been a tough week.  I’ve lost 9 pounds.  This is a good thing.  I haven't been able to eat a lot of days due to the stress.

On the day of the crash, the following happened:

• We rejected the offer to relocate to a hotel because we had three dogs
• The house was boarded up
• City approved the house for us to occupy as long as some changes were made.
• Boarding up company came back and fixed.
• First insurance adjuster came and examined the house.  Escalated to a second adjuster.
• “The Maids” came and cleaned the debris for us.
• Deck man came and fixed the gate so we could get in and out.

Sunday my Pooper Scooper girls brought us new dog run panels as the dogs were getting out of our dog run.

My husband stayed home from work on Monday and met with the new insurance adjuster and two contractors.  The third contractor met with both of us that evening.  Very long story, but we are going with their third.

Thursday, the flooring inspector came and two took sample tiles, one from the wood floor and one from the carpet.  Also the electronics people came and irritated me.  They are supposed to come and get stuff Tuesday.

Walking around the house and seeing it each day is getting me completely down.  Also my husband.  So we’ve decided to relocate to an apartment and I have been working on that each evening.  Wednesday saw an apartment, Thursday put in application and Friday signed the lease.  We will start moving to it on Wednesday.

We have to board one dog, as the apartment only allows 2, and we have three.  We are prepared to leave the other two dogs with her each day if they are disturbances.

This has been no fun, and the drunks surely haven’t been this inconvenienced.