Daily Archives: Saturday February 23rd, 2013

We are here in Everett, WA….living in our home on wheels in our friend’s RV lot in their alley way.  Which was a very tight fit….doesn’t help that Ackbar is low and we had to worry about bottoming out trying to get into the alley.  It was not an easy park job at all….icks….but ToRn got it with Allen’s help.

Everything is all over the place, we are slowly getting things situated….just not fast enough for me.  We had to pretty much unload stuff into their garage so we can do the office area and bring it back in next week.

We couldn’t put the cat litter where we wanted due to a support beam.  Then things don’t come apart as easy as we thought.  So just going to get office set up, put things away there and move on from that.  We’ll worry about painting and such next year.

Hubby took a chill out day today after a very stressful day yesterday.  Me, I want to get things done, just don’t know where to start and it is stressing me out.  Then trying to get work done on top of it….icks….

I keep telling myself we got time, that is why we are here….have time and space to get set up.  But until everything is in it’s place….ggrrr  Right now it feels as if we are fighting Ackbar…everything is so small, that things don’t seem to fit…..

I’m stressing the holding tanks…we were at 1/3 when we got here and now 2/3rds???  How the hell did we do 14gals of each of the tanks….since Wed when we haven’t even taken showers in it yet?  Do have to be fair, it has been at 1/3 since we got it in Dec and it may have been half way between 1/3 and 2/3….so we may have had only 7 gals.  But how the hell we did 7 gals??  Haven’t it used it that much.

Don’t want to have to move it to find a dump station and then repark….did find a service that will come out and dump for us.  So going to have that done this Thurs…that is going to make me feel better, so we are starting fresh and now we can figure out how long it’ll last.

We got a WiFiRanger Mobile, seems to catch other networks, but we can’t always able stay on.  Our own 2 networks of AT&T & Millenicom….even our friends….and they are less then a 100yds away.  So another new frustration, that we knew we were going to deal with that….but with everything else…not helpful.

So when I have issues, I head down to our friend’s house and steal their internet for work.  =)

Our friends have been so, so helpful.  We are trying to visit without imposing on them.  You know what they say about fish and visitors after 3 days……so hopefully with having our own home, that won’t happen.  =)

Right now watching a Ron White, getting some needed laughter….

Everett, WA – Arrived Wednesday February, 20, 2013 about 2:45pm

We made it!

We are staying at some close friends who have a RV lot in their backyard with a alley entrance. So the joke is “Her best friend lives in a box in the alley behind her house”. We will be here for at least 2 week’s but looking for 3-4 weeks. Just need to sort things out and this is the perfect time and place to do so.

Unfortunately, this is a one time thing as they will be redoing their entire property with such additions as a new patio and chicken coop etc, where the RV lot currently is.

The only regret I will have is “wishing it was Spring/Summer/Fall and not Winter.

However I can not think of one other place I would rather be then right here, right now. My Big Red Wife, my Evil Cat’s, and two of the best friends I have ever had are all within 50′ of me at all times pretty much.

We had a interesting drive. A for sure learning experience for the both of us. Too many “self inflected wounds” that could have been avoided, but I am confident we will not repeat in the future.

Over the last few day’s we have learned more then we knew prior regarding Admiral Ackbar. Things we would never learn outside of living here. Sadly some are heartbreakers. Such as we will not be able to put the cat door to the cargo space for the kitty litter. There is a large support beam in the way. That one hurt. A lot. That was our “perfect” solution.

Life goes on.

We also decided that we need to just get our living/work space installed and worry about “how it look’s” next year when we have more experience and have spoken to more who have experience we have yet to learn.

I have the tile installed and the Ikea items assembled. We need to get the desktops prepared and then start moving things around and verify it will work and then secure everything down.

Hope to have our living/work space completed by Friday.

Monday I am taking off to spend some time with a close friend as Pauline will have time to chill on her own doing whatever it is that she does when I am not around.