It’s all up to me

Current weight: 225.5 (+3, nice!)

Yesterday was not fun. Several of the people we were counting on to help us move didn’t show so it was me and my hubby, my 65 year-old dad, my younger brother who was sick and my hubby’s friend. That was it! We loaded up the boxes and stuff from the garage and it ended up filling up the entire rental truck, all 26 feet! The fun part of my day was bringing up 18 boxes of ceramic tile from the basement, carrying them down our steep driveway into the rental truck and then out of the truck and into our new basement. My arms are a bit tender today, but at least it was a workout! And yes, I’m counting yesterday’s activities as a day toward my workout goal.

When we got to the house there were guys working on the drywall which was fine. I was sent back to our house to get a push broom and when I got back my hubby was extremely angry and told me I needed to call Chad (our builder) “immediately”. We’re supposed to move into the new house on Thursday and the drywall guy said they won’t be done until Thursday which means there can be no painting, flooring installed, trim installed, etc. He said we’re looking at 2 weeks before things are done.

I called Chad and he said that the drywallers are there to do their job and that he’d take care of the contracting stuff. “That’s fine,” I said, “but you know our situation w/Kyle and I can’t be told on Tuesday that we’re not going to have a home to move into on Thursday.” The main issue w/the drywall is that it takes time for the mud to dry so they can paint over it and there’s no way to make it dry faster than nature allows. He can make guys work around the clock but I doubt he’s going to pay them to sit and blow on the mudded areas. I finally got him to admit that there’s a 60% chance that he’s going to go over “by a few days” and that we should have a backup plan in place but that he’s still going to try to have it done by Thursday.

So we figured out best bet would be to talk to the guy who is buying our house and pay his November rent. It might be $600 but by the time we pay movers to move our stuff twice, rent another storage garage and find a hotel it would actually be cheaper to pay his rent. That was the reason he gave last week as to why he couldn’t let us stay an extra couple of days so we figured if we paid the rent then he’d be ok. His realtor said she’d check w/him but she didn’t think he’d go for it. If he says no I am going to go apesh*t.

On the good side we did pick up my elliptical yesterday and I can’t wait to try it out. I have gained so much weight in this last week or 2 and the craziness is going to keep coming. Since we still thought we’d be in the new house yesterday morning I packed up my weights and sent them to the new house. I did keep out my TJ DVD so that I could do that since it doesn’t need equipment but I’m getting to where my pants are getting tight. And this is not the time to be feeling fat b/c I just found out we’re going to a semi-formal costume party on the 30th and I have no clue what to wear. I don’t even really know what “semi-formal costume” means so I asked our friend who is organizing it and it sounds kind of like a masquerade ball.

Is it Christmas yet?

Progress toward workout goal: 129/300