Tishia Lee

don’t know when I’ll be back again. Ok so I’m not really leaving on a jet plane - it’s more like a U-Haul truck. It’s weird to think that the last 4 years of my life can fit into a 14 foot U-Haul truck! I’d be lying if I said I’m not nervous. I am SUPER excited about the fact that I’m finally doing this after talking about moving for the last 4 years. But I’m also nervous thinking about being in a new city, making new friends (I already have a small group of friends down there so that will be nice), etc. And I’m definitely nervous about driving this U-Haul truck! Let’s just say that the couple blocks from where I picked it up to my apartment I managed to run over 2 curbs! LOL I just plan on driving slow and taking my time. If a trip that should only take about 3 hours ends up taking me 6 I don’t care. I just want to get there safe and sound.

Did I say how excited I am???? I’m so ready to get moved, get settled and start fresh. It’s time to close this chapter of my life and leave all the negativity and bad stuff behind. I’m looking forward to the fresh start and a new life for not only myself but Caleb as well. He’s excited about the move but nervous about a new school. I told him it’s ok to be nervous, in fact that’s only normal. He starts school down there on Monday.

I’m still in awe of how everything just fell into place and happened so quickly. Actually my head is spinning over how fast everything happened. If you would of asked me a month ago if I thought I would be up and moved starting over by the end of September I would have laughed at you. I never thought it possible. I began losing hope on ever moving actually. I mean I’ve tried a couple different times over the last 4 years and something always happened that a door or two closed. So I kind of felt why is this time any different? But as one door opened and then another and then another I was like wow it’s really happening. I’m really doing this.

I was thrown for a loop the other day with Caleb’s dad and court and everything but I’ve prayed about it and I’m at total peace with everything. I know that what’s meant to be is going to be and I’m not worried about it anymore. 

We have also been wanting a kitten forever but our old apartment charges a $200 security deposit to bring pets so we never got one. The house we are moving into we can have a kitty so it’s ok there. And then my old neighbor (not my noisy, loud, obnoxious one) reminded me that her cat had kittens and they are old enough to take now so we’ve already got a kitten picked out (hopefully it will do ok traveling!). It’s really cute, Caleb loves it and he’s already named him - Spazz Attack. Plus he’s getting a hamster for his birthday and he’s naming him flames.

I’m trying to finish up some VA projects before everyone gets here later this evening to help load my furniture and everything and I have to tear down the computer. My mind is racing about 3,000 miles an hour with everything I need to finish still.

So the next time I make a blog entry I will be living in my new house :-)  Woo Hoo! I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it I’m about to lose control and I think I like it. Yes I’m a dork but hey I’ve never hid my dorkiness before so why start now?

Tish 

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I just got a phone call from my dad. My step brother R was in an accident Sunday night and they had to go to Grand Rapids for surgery on his hand. My dad was on his way back from Grand Rapids when he called. It was a golf cart accident, nothing too major (thank God!) but he’s done with football for the rest of the season.

My cousin who I wrote about awhile back that was getting a pancreas transplant was rushed back to the hospital today. She had complications from the transplant surgery awhile ago and ended up back in the hospital with a staff infection. My dad called my Aunt (my cousins mom) but she didn’t have much news. They don’t know what’s wrong with my cousin other than she’s really sick.

Ok I’ve had it - NO MORE bad news today! It’s been one thing after the other and I can’t take one more thing. It’s been such a long day and I’m so emotionally wiped out. My head hurts, my eyes hurt, I’m sick to my stomach and I feel like I’m having another one of my panic/anxiety attacks.

Not only do I need prayer for the situation I wrote about earlier with Caleb’s dad but I could use prayer for my family and everything going on right now. Thanks!

Tish 

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I’m sitting here bawling my eyes out and it’s not easy to type when you are so emotional and upset. Caleb’s dad is now giving me a hard time about moving. My paperwork states “the domicile of the minor child shall not be removed from the state of Michigan without the prior consent of this court. The legal custoian of the minor child is hereby ordered to notify the office of the Friend of the Court for Charlevoix County and the non-custodial parent of any change of address of said minor child immediately.” Aside from that everything was ok a couple days ago and he wasn’t arguing with me about it.

We just had a very heated discussion. I called Friend of the Court. We have to go in front of the judge on Sept 18th. Chad is fighting me about this move now. Please pray for favor in this situation. I can’t imagine having my son taken away from me! I’m so upset with his dad that I could ring his neck!

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I really didn’t know it would be so difficult to find boxes to use for packing! I used to work at Wal-Mart so I know the over abundance of boxes they have. But guess what? I’ve stopped there the last two days and I’m being told they have no boxes at the moment! Two days in a row? I find that pretty hard to believe but whatever. So I moved on to a couple other stores in the area and they are telling me the same thing - they have no boxes to give away. What?

Thankfully I thought of calling my mom to find out if the shop she works at has any boxes they could give away. Bingo! She’s bringing a bunch home tonight for me. It’s proved just a tad bit difficult to ‘pack’ with no boxes. LOL I’ve got piles of things all just waiting for a box.

On another note:

I feel so ‘disconnected’. I haven’t had yahoo messenger or my Gmail chat (Google Talk I think it’s called) for quite sometime but I’ve had Skype…until yesterday. For some reason it isn’t working. It tries connecting but it keeps timing out before it establishes a connection. And Twhirl (for my Twittering) isn’t working either. Sigh! Aside from just wanting boxes the other thing I want is my messaging capabilities back! I miss everyone and chatting with everyone!!!!

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Lots of you that know me know I’ve been talking about moving back down to the city, out of redneckville Northern Michigan for about four or five years now. My best friend B and her husband S bought a second home a couple years ago for her brother & his wife & they ended up backing out of the arrangement which left them with a 2nd house payment. It had been rented out but recently became available again.

These past two weeks down here have made me dread going home. We started talking about the house being available for rent and I found myself getting excited. I didn’t want to get too excited because I have the lease in my apartment, Caleb’s ‘home’ is up there, Caleb’s dad is up there, etc etc. But as for me - there really isn’t much up there. Yes I have a couple friends that I hang out with once in awhile but other than that there is nothing up there. My family is up there too but even being up there I don’t see them a whole lot.

I figured all I could do was talk to my landlord and see what the consequences of breaking my lease would be. Things went way better than I anticipated! Then there was Caleb’s dad that I had to talk to. I have been waiting ALL day to write this blog post and share my exciting news. But I had to wait until I finished a conversation with Caleb’s dad.

So without further delay…..

Pictures of Our New Home!

Caleb standing outside at the front door:

My New Kitchen:

Another Kitchen Pic:

I’m Most Excited About This! LOL

Living Room:

My Bedroom (it’s kind of dark):

The Bathroom:

The Hallway:

There are 2 other bedrooms but I didn’t snap pics of those. One will be my office (how exciting to have a room dedicated to JUST my home office!). I didn’t take pics of the little ‘deck’ off the sliding glass doorway in the kitchen because the lawn needs to be mowed really bad. LOL

I wasn’t expecting things to fall into place so fast. I was thinking I could have a good couple months to get everything up North situated and then move but it’s happening all within the next couple WEEKS! I have to have Caleb enrolled in his new school down here by Sept 24th when they do head count because we are doing school of choice (meaning he’s going to my friend B’s daughters school instead of the school that is by our house) so they have rules that have to be followed.

I am so EXCITED! And for me to full excitement about something again is a good sign! I’ve been so down in the dumps lately that I’ve finally got something to look forward to.

Woo Hoo!

And I’m paying the same amount for rent on this house as I was paying in my apartment so everything is still going to work out ok financially.

Tish

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