Things are looking up, except for the bug thing...

Yesterday was MUCH better! I got the printer working (found a cord in storage), got my presentation (re)done, the whole project completed, and watched a movie with B. Definitely an improvement on Tuesday.

Something interesting did happen the other day though (I can't remember which day, Monday maybe?). Anyway, I took the girls out for a walk in the afternoon and this gold-ish fly thing kept chasing me. At first it was just annoying, but I started to become alarmed when it would not leave me alone and when it landed on me, I felt a sharp pain, not like stinging, but like it was cutting or scratching me, ouch! This kinda freaked me out so I tried to pick up the pace, but with 3 dogs that can be a bit challenging...

Anyway, I got back to the trailer, and safely inside, I forgot about the whole thing. Later that night (or the next morning? wow my memory is shot) I noticed a few sore spots on me shoulder and neck (which I initially thought were spider bites). Finally, yesterday I put it all together and figured out is was the pesky fly that got me; so what did I do? I googled it, duh. This is what the little meanie looks like (on a very hairy person, haha):Apparently they are in the same family as horseflies and the females slice your skin and lap up your blood. Loverly. Did I mention they carry a whole host of diseases? Awesome... Their saliva (used as and anticoagulant) usually produces a moderate to severe allergic reaction in humans. Hence the sore, angry welts on my skin.

Anyway, with that National Geographic moment out of the way, I must bid you adieu. I have to go into Elko for some errands today. Wish me luck! :)

Coco's having a bad day

Well, today is one of those days...I think I should just go back to bed.

I got up the walk the girls and Shasta did her dirt flinging thing all over me, which annoyed me. Then as I was watching Ruby, the girls saw a bunny and just about jerked my arm off, majorly tweaking my bad shoulder. So, fed up, I decided to head back and get a cup of tea and try to chill a little before getting started on today's work. No. Such. Luck.

I got back to the trailer and tugged at the door. Locked. WTH? Sh*t. So I contemplated my options and decided to go in through the window, which worked (with a little help from the neighbors).

OK, all better, right? Not even close. I sat down for a while with my tea and though surely this would be the end of my bad luck for the day. So I decided to hook up the shiny new printer the in-laws got us so I could do several things that required its use. I then realized a) I had no paper, and b) I needed a USB cable. OK, so off to town, those are basic, eay-to-find things, right? Wrong. I finally found a ream of paper pretty quickly, yay success!! (though it cost $7, which is ridiculous). NO ONE had a USB cable, I even tried the truck stop... I just can't see driving 50 miles for a $2 cord, but I just might have to.

Resigned to the fact that I was not going to find the cable today, I decided I needed a little well deserved girl time, so I thought I'd get my eyebrows waxed (strange I enjoy a stranger ripping hair off my face, isn't it?). Anyway, I find a cute looking salon and walk in (there was a large sign advertising that walk-ins are welcome I might add). Inside, there is one girl (who is on the phone) doing someone's nails. Coco's #? pet peeve (I have quite a few, haha), do NOT talk on the phone while performing a service for someone, it's soooo rude. The customer looks up and says, "hi." I returned her greeting, expecting the shop girl to say some thing to me. Instead, she gets more into her phone call, and, visibly annoyed with whoever is on the other line, and starts speaking even louder and more aggressively. Ok, I thought, maybe this is a really important call, I'll wait a second. So I stand there, and stand there, and stand there. Finally, I get on my phone and start texting, trying to look peeved with my bodly languange, to no effect. After another few minutes, I leave. Seriously lady? You could have at least told me you were going to be a while. Peace out.

Salon #2. I walk in, hoping to find someone who at least acknowledge my existence. The salon is empty, but I hear voices. "Helllooo?" Someone comes out to tell me everyone is on vacation, but hands me a card. "Call her" she says and apologizes. Ok...

Salon #3. Finally! A nice, staffed salon that was happy to have my business! Yay! Success!!!

Feeling (and looking) better, I come home, finally ready to finish up my project for work. I open up the computer, click on the presentation, and up pops...nothing. NOOOOOO!!!! Really?!?!

Which brings me to right now. And it's only noon.

WTF pics from our 20 months in GA

I decided to put together some of the funniest pics from my iphoto album from our time in GA. I have a thing for signs, and I saw some great ones while we were there. Others are just things that struck me for whatever reason. There are more, but I thought this was a good start. All were taken by yours truly. :)

No comment needed

Why is it that the girls least likely to be playboy bunnies get this tattoo?

So I only know of 2 kinds of "stools." Poo and those things you sit on. Not things you sit on to poo...

My personal favorite. And no, I wasn't the one who corrected their grammar.

A shirt at Target that mocked me...

This was actually in North Carolina..only in the South...

Not a southern thing, but found at Publix

Another favorite of mine. At the gas station close to where I used to work.

In case you didn't know, moonshine is real. And this lovely "shop" was at the gas station.

Butts County, GA :)

mmmm I love me some BBQ booty!!

Well, that's all for now, hope you enjoyed it!!!

Break from workie-work!

Hello all,

I'm just talking a quick break form working on my 2nd project for my new consulting job, woot woot!! I met a teacher here at the coffee shop and asked her about subbing, She said that they are dying for subs and that I should go over to the district office 1st thing on Monday to sign up. I'm super stoked!! She told me that they only have classes Mon-Thurs, which is interesting. Even if I only sub a few times a month, I think I will be good to get out a little and meet people (even if they are kids, lol). School doesn't start for another month, but I'm excited. I miss interaction with humans.. the girls don't talk to me as much as I'd like ;)

Here's a fun pic of the neighbors...anybody wanna guess what this is? (Sorry it's at a weird angle, taking pics while walking dogs isn't as easy as it sounds)

Well, I better get back to it..

Have a great day all!

Another morning in BM, another chai...

Well, today is Brady's first official day at work. He had training Monday and yesterday, so today he got up at 3:30 (yikes!) and headed in. He is scheduled to work Mon-Fri 5am-5pm everyday. I think I would die. He seems happy though, if not a little nervous. New jobs are always a little stressful at first. He will be (or is, I suppose) driving an off-road haul truck from the mine to a reload station; O and did I mention he has no AC?

I started my job (from home, yay!) yesterday, and will be working more today after I finish here. I like blogging first thing, collecting my thoughts, then attacking my day. Perhaps this will be my new routine. Now I just need Joyous to come back and make me breakfast :)

I'm getting used to "trailer life" (sounds ridiculously glamorous does it not?), though I will be grateful when I don't have to turn on the water heater 20min before I wash my face, do dishes, shower, etc. And laundromats...hmm. I went on Monday and the machines were pretty fast, so it only took about an hour, but I still miss having a washer and dryer at home. My neighbor was there as well, so we chatted and that made the time breeze by. It's the only one in town, so I'm sure I'll meet more people as time goes by.

It's amazing, but 3 dogs, a cat, and 2 people do fit in here ok. We each have our own little spot, so it's not too bad. The dogs are (finally) getting on Pacific time and not waking up a 4am to go out, and I followed Christy's example and tossed Misu in the bathroom for the night (well for the morning really, I finally couldn't handle her crawling all over me and trying to eat my ear..she's an odd kitty).

Well, I best get to work, hope you all have a good day!

Getting cozy

I am finally getting somewhat used to our new home, so I thought I would sit down with my chai latte (from my awesome Keurig machine) this morning and write a little. Now that Brady is working and Joyous has gone home, I am left to my own devices during the day. The girls keep me busy, but at the moment, they are all napping (surely tired from waking me up and being crazy at 6:30 this morning).

Looking out my window here in lover-ly Battle Mountain, I can see over the railroad tracks and directly at about half of Main Street (actually named Front Street I think, though no one here ever actually uses road names). The background for the whole area are large brown mountains, visible in nearly every direction. They turn reddish-pruple, then flaming orange when the sun sets, and I think they are quite beautiful, if not hauntily so.

not the best illustration of my description, but an idea at least

Our next door neighbors have been incredibly nice. We did not have power when we first arrived (it finally got turned on yesterday) and they let us run an extension cord to theirs so we could run some things. They even brought us dinner the first night we were here. We brought them chocolate cake in thanks. :) Our nighbors on the other side, though not in the RV Park, are alarmingly close and...umm..well lets just say they aren't the best maintainers of their single-wide.

The immediate area is pretty rough looking, though for some reason it doesn't have that feel. In any other location, I would be afraid to walk down the street alone, but for some reason, here the piles of car parts and weed filled yards are almost quaint. Even threatening looking KEEP OUT signs are comical and actually feel welcoming. There are a few well maintained houses sprinkled in the mix, tucked away between dilapitated mobiles and leaning fences.

We have taken severl walks out into the desert, and I have to say I love the openness and the dry air. The lonely landscape is comforting to me, much more so than the claustrophobic explosion of green that is Georgia.

Day 1 Complete!

So we stopped for the night in a motel in Illinois. It's CRAZY hot ad sticky, there's actually have extreme heat warnings in place. the trailer was over 100 degrees, so it was the only real option. We had a good day of driving, everything is going smoothly, thank for all your travel prayers!! Ruby is a great little copilot, though she seems to fall asleep on the job quite a bit.










We saw a few pretty cool things, including this (sorry it's hard to see):


If you can't see it, it's a horse and buggy crossing over the overpass, pretty nifty.

We are making good time so far, but we need our rest tonight for another long day tomorrow, and apparently so does Shasta..


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Uh-oh

Well this is my first post from my phone and it's because we are on the way to Wal-mart (again) because I noticed this (see below) on the driveway as we were setting up. O joy... We think it may be transmission fluid so we are going to get a few quarts to fill 'er up.

If all goes well we will still leave tomorrow morning.


Also, I spotted this "little" guy in the garage. One of the many things I will not miss about Georgia.


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New Adventures

Alrighty folks, so we are headed to Nevada in less than 2 days, which is insane! We still won't be in Cali, but we will definitely be much closer. I will start my new job as soon as we get there and B will start his training for his and getting everything all firmed up. Hopefully this will be a good move for us, I think it will definitely be an adventure. My mom asked me what I would miss about GA today and (besides them and a few friends), I could not think of anything...I guess we just didn't click here (I did finally think of banana pudding, yum!).

I expect that NV will have a more western feel, wich is what we are comfortable in, but the snow and ice will be interesting to say the least. I am just super excited to be close to everyone. Amtrack tickets are about $66 each way if anyone wants to come visit! :)I plan on blogging about our trip there, which should take about 4 days. I got the blogpress app on my phone, so I should be able to post from the road. We will be staying in the camp trailer until we find a good rental; they seem pretty expensive from what we found on Craigslist, so it may be a little bit...we will have all 3 dogs and the cat with us, so I expect the trailer will start to feel pretty small fast.

Any, best wrap it up, we have a busy day tomorrow and it's getting late.