I can Bearly Hear you....

Long time no post....

It has been easy for me not to post since I have had ZERO extra time. I remember thinking how after I graduated my life would slow down and I would have time to do "stuff"....Boy was I wrong! First off, for those of you that do no have kids, they sure are needy little buggers. It doesn't matter how fast you need something to done or if you are currently lifting 200lbs of fish water and rock. They will demand your time right that minute. If you don't give them your full attention right that second then by dammit they will keep hounding you until you do. This gets in the way of any and all attempts to be productive.
Anyways, The past couple of weeks I have been running non-stop trying to get everything ready for the big move on Friday. As partially mentioned before, I have been interrupted with other things/people that need my attention more then the packing and moving does. I am not sure if I will have everything ready to go by Friday, so I have decided to rent the moving truck for 3 days just in case. In about 10 minutes I get to run to my house from work and lock the dogs in the kennel so that the lady from the bank can take a look at the house. It's not the easiest thing for me to just leave my work in the middle of the day to mess around with the doggies, however it is just another thing I have to make time for in order to get the house sold.
Well I just got back from locking the dogs up and I also had the opportunity to fix a closet door that got pulled off of its tracks.
By the magic of the internet, here is the dogs in their kennel


Tonight scratz and I are kid free until next Monday so we will be packing like crazy. We didn't get much done over the weekend because it took us 3 days just to move the fish to their new temporary location at the condo. I am hoping it doesn't take as long to move just the tank or to set it back up when the new house is complete. Speaking of the new house we did pick out our colors last week and here is a sample.
Interior colors:


Exterior colors:


We also found out that the design for the new home has been redesigned for this year. This means that even though there is one home in our development which has the same model name, the two houses will not look the same. With this great news, this will mean that not only are we getting all the new features that will be found on the 2009 model line, there will not be any other homes in our area that look the same.

I was going to type more but I have work that I actually need to be doing. I just wanted to give a slight update of the situation so nobody wonders if I fell of the face of the earth.

Not enough Time...

Since, I don't have enough time to post a real blog, even though I have a ton of stories to blog about, I have decided to post a picture...

Precious

Openess...

Quotes of the day...

"Redundancy is as Redundancy does"

and

"Redundancy is in the eye of the beholder"

- Author Unknown

Getting ready....again....

Today, I met with the real estate lady today. I have decided that there is not enough room in this house for all of us. It really hit me at about noon on Monday. I had worked the night shift and had been trying to sleep with the sound of two girls doing who knows what at 10am in the morning. By this time I had just hit REM sleep and was woken up. Then at noon, I woke up to use the restroom and low and behold it's occupied. AAAARG. Not only was it occupied but the individual using it was taking a shower. Now I have nothing against clean people, however the people who I just so happen to live with have a habit of taking showers that are entirely too long. I personally could take up to 5 showers for the amount of time these people spend in the shower. Im not sure what they are doing in there, but I beleive I could watch the entire 4 hour - directors cut of Dances with Wolfs in the same amount of time and still have time for tea. Anyway, by time I was able to get into the restroom I was going to die. This is when I came to the concllusion that this house is not big enough for the 5 of us. So I am listing my place for sale again in the attempts to find something larger.

It's Got to Go!!!

Well, as many of you know I recently spend a large amount of money on some exotic corals for my fish tank. Well One of the pieces hasn't been looking for the last few days. I have been wondering why it is looking so bad when the rest of the corals seem to be doing fine. Then this morning after being to work all night, I was woken up at 10am by the kids fighting over whose turn it was to play the GameCube. Since the lack of sleep seems to put me in a grumpy mood, I decided to sit in from of my fish tank and just have a moment of peace. Well, my moment of peace was interrupted when I saw my Foxface

swim over and start eating the one coral. The Foxface is supposedly a grazer and typically just eats algae. I thought at first that he might have just been nipping at the corals skeleton to get to at some algae or something. However, a few moments later he swam over and took a monster bite out of the middle of the coral. I couldn’t believe it. Once he took that big bite he took a few more. This is when I decided that he had to go. The $30 fish is not going to feed off my $$$ corals.
I spent the next 40 minutes, chancing the fish around the tank with a big fishnet and a stick to chase him around the tank until I could catch him. He was pretty scraped up by time I got him out of the tank. I then put him in my 12g nano tank. He is about 5” long, so we aren’t talking about a little guppy here, so there isn’t much room for him in that little tank. Now that he is out of my main tank, I need to find him a new home. Hopefully, with him being gone, my corals will try to make a comeback like Rocky did.