Colton is so keyed up, he has had trouble sleeping the last few days.  Now this morning he woke EO up and asked him if he could go with him to town to pick up a U-Haul truck and get him moved in today.  I guess EO got most of what needed to be done yesterday and he can finish up later today at the apts.  So EO got up and left with him.  We missed our morning worship this morning, but maybe we can do it tonight when he gets home.

Ok, Colton has been trying to find a way to go pick up a white leather sectional couch that his friends are "giving" him... free...wow!  but there is hardly anyone left in our Hall who has a pick-up truck.  Or has a hitch.  Our truck is on the verge of breaking down.  EO doesn't dare drive it until he can have it fixed. But how crazy is that, there used to be trucks galor in our cong, now... next to none.  So Colton looked at his budget, and decided he can afford a U-Hall.. well, he would be better off if he didn't, but he just doesn't know what else to do.  So they went to go get the truck, then the couch, then they will come back here and load up his stuff, and then go pick up a chair from some other friends and then go unload and get him moved in all before he has to go to work tonight.  He will crash tomorrow, at least I'm guessing. 

The best news is, Colton will be getting every other weekend off.  He will have to work every other Tuesday for a month or two as they train in a new girl to take his every other weekend.  Once she is trained in, he will have his Tuesday nights off again.  

I am worried about Steph... she asked a long time ago if we could use the truck to move her.  Now the truck isn't available.  She has more and bigger furniture than Colton.  I am pretty sure she can't afford a U-Hall truck.  So I don't know what we are going to do to move her. We have a couple of trailers, but we don't have a hitch.  maybe will have to find out who has a hitch.  It's always something!

Steph's schedule has changed on her too.  they are finding they need to have a baker there pretty much 24/7.  So they are using the 2 day bakers to over lap each other to get those evenings covered. So that started last night.  so hopefully that won't interfere with meetings.  Well, it would have last night, as she was going to go to the meeting with Lauren, but the roads up there were so bad, that the meeting was canceled.  Steph only found out about having to work last night, Tuesday night at the staff meeting.  well, the staff meeting wasn't for all staff, just for the bakers... they are going to be having flat breads now... can't wait to try that!  

Lauren was having a rough evening.  poor girl.  at least she called me and I was able to help talk it out with her.  I am sure once she is done with Walmart, and is able to get some sleep...as she is seriously lacking sleep (she is only getting 6 hours a night...on a good night), so her panic attacks will calm down for her too.  It was too much for her to work full time at Walmart and full time for ma and then have her schooling on top of it.  Poor girl.  She is looking forward to being able to get some sleep and take care of ma and be able to go in service.  And just strengthen her spiritual routine. 

I warned each of the kids that when you first move, your spiritual routine will get scrambled.  And it really takes a few weeks to a month to adjust and nail that routine back down.  When you move someplace totally new, and you don't know a lot of people, it is all to easy to let that routine become irregular.  And that is life threatening.  So to be aware and nail it down as quick as possible and Jehovah can help them to adjust to the new cong. It took just over 2 weeks and Lauren could see she had trouble nailing it down.  She prayed and studied about what she needed to do and that is when she decided to leave Walmart.  She couldn't nail it down as wore out as she was. 

I am super sick today.  No voice, sinus headache, plus the knot in back of my head is back, my stomach still hasn't settled down and man oh man, i have big time pain in my hips and low back.  Lots and lots of pain.  Lots of it.  If anyone needs any pain, they can come and have some of mine, i don't want as much as i have. ....hahaha... ok, i know, nobody wants pain...i clearly don't.  and if someone wanted some, they would be crazy. I am just on the edge of going crazy from my pain, and I am trying to laugh it off before I start pulling my hair out and until the real pain meds kick in.

So when I had that big allergy attack from the furnace running.. well, i was sneezing so much that i started having nose bleeds.  ok, not just all of the sudden, but each time i would sneeze, or blow my nose, my nose would bleed.  Well, I am still dealing with it.  It is super annoying.  I never have "nosebleeds"... actually, not never.  Each time I was pregnant I had one nosebleed.  just one.  odd but true.  and one time my reg doc had me using a nasal spray, and i started having them.  my reg doc gave it to me and i saw my ENT about it and he said he wished docs would stop having people use nasal sprays.  so it is very rare for me to have to deal with this.  So i'm still dealing with this issue and I'm getting tired of it.  With as sick as i am, you would think it wouldn't bug me so much.  But it is one of the few things i don't have to deal with.  so if i can get away with not having them... i would be so much happier. I have also had to double up on my allergy meds.  the regular dose isn't cutting it.  oh well, it could be worse.

EO has found a bunch of outside projects he wants to do.  Which is fine since it will help keep him busy as he adjusts to the kids moving out.  Colton said he will try to spend time with him too as he knows EO is already missing his babies. So sweet.  I just wish I could be more active and we could do more together.  If only I could handle sitting in a boat, I could go fishing with him.  Oh well. i'm sure we will find other projects we can do.  

about the moving thing, EO says he thinks we should wait a year before we downsize and move.  He says just in case someone needs to come back or something.  He just figures we shouldn't be to hasty about moving.  But i would still like to thin things out now, so when we do move, we won't have to deal with that later.  I would have liked to move sooner, but what he says makes sense, so we will wait.  in the mean time, we have a great big house to roller skate in...hahaha, what a sight that would be.  

I better get a couple things done.  They will be back with the truck in an hour or so.  He is going to be thrilled, his tables just arrived.  He ordered a matching coffee table and a consoul table (which is just taller and more narrow).  They are very pretty.  He was hoping they would arrive before he moves.  Well, now they are here and by the door and ready to go right into the U-Haul.