myJaxonIf we don’t go crazy once in a while, we’ll all go crazy. - Hawkeye

I said I would do it, so here are some pics of the new place.

So the move is about 75%-90% over. Give or take. I am now in Rochester Hills with Jesse full time, I’m no longer employed, I have a new OB doctor and the apartment is basically unpacked, but still trashed. The new place is definitely smaller than the old one, but that may be only because the new one is a single floor apartment with two bedrooms. Before we had a two bedroom two floor apartment. I like this place though; it seems like it’ll be a lot more cozier. We’ll use all the rooms and we won’t have to divide them into different “entertainments”. Although, I am missing the bookshelves. We still haven’t figured out where we’re putting the 500+ books, but we’ll manage.

Jesse is still enjoying the job. It’s been one month and all seems to be going well. He isn’t stressed out or worried about stuff breaking. Well, besides the obvious worries that is. This place seems to know what they are about though. They are slowly bringing him onto projects, they have given him time to learn the systems, and they actually believe in testing programs and upgrades before launching them. So Jesse is coming home happier than when he was at the last place.

Ian is starting to get cramped. He’s been moving a lot more and causing me all sorts of uncomfortableness. We found a new OB doctor who is directly associated with Crittenton Medical Center. That’s going to be good when March comes around. Ian had a checkup with him on the 11th and everything is still going good. His heart rate was around 150 per minute, which has been normal for him. We start Lamaze in a couple of weeks. Everything is starting to pick up speed for the pregnancy, but we’re still about 8 weeks out.

I think that’s it for now. I’ll post pictures of the new place once it’s clean. The goal is to have everything clean by the 19th so when we have the baby shower on the 20th, we’ll know where to put stuff and it won’t be a mess for long.

So we’re practically finished with the move.  We took possession of the new apartment on the 20th of Dec and we moved all of our stuff on the 29th.  I stayed with Jesse over the holiday weekend to start the unpacking process and got a lot of it done.  Granted, it’s not all done, but the kitchen is unpacked and most of the stuff in the living is out of the boxes.  The office really hasn’t been touched yet and that’s going to be the biggest job. 

Yes, we still have the Ramblewood apartment until the 8th and I’m still working until the 5th.  So you may be asking “where is she staying?”.  I am staying in our old apartment with our bed, my computer, the servers, and enough clothes and food to last me through the 8th.  That’s not a lot, is it?  The plan was: work during the day, have the internet at night to keep me busy/entertained.  Sounds like a good plan, right?  I mean, I already do a lot of that now.  However, my computer hates me and decided this was a good time to tell me.  The computer died over the weekend and since Jesse is in RH and not here, he can’t get to it to fix it.  So now I’m sitting in an empty apartment with no form of entertainment.  God help me, this week better go by fast.

So it’s definitely official. We’re moving to Rochester Hills, Michigan. Jesse and I spent the last two days on the east side of the state looking for a new apartment. We saw six different apartments with varying floor plans and we were able to narrow it down to two. We had a hard time deciding between the two apartments so we went back on Friday to see them again. Let’s just say, the decision was taken out of our hands. How you ask, well let me explain.

The first apartment was a two bedroom townhouse that was three stories. The two bedrooms were on the second floor with the kitchen and living area on the first floor. The third floor was an unfinished basement. Jesse fell in love with this floor plan. He could put the office in the basement and Ian would have his own room. I wasn’t crazy about it because it was more than what we were spending on an apartment now and we didn’t want to spend that much since our plan is to buy a house after a year. Plus the security deposit was one month’s rent. That was steep.

The second apartment was a two bedroom apartment, single floor. We had our choice between first and second floor, but the entire place was on one floor. Our last two apartments were two stories so this seemed small to Jesse, which he wasn’t crazy about. This seemed to be Jesse’s biggest complaint. The apartment complex is surrounded by a nature preserve, which I kind of liked. Plus we could sign an 18 month lease and still take $200 off of what we’re spending now. Financially, this was the better deal.

So we were having an issue deciding which one to do. Jesse wanted to see if we could talk the first place into reducing their security deposit. If they would, it would be more feasible for us to take it. The idea was to go back and look at the floor plans again, during which Jesse would casually bring up the security deposit issue. Jesse wanted to take a second look at the basement and started envisioning how he was going to set up the office down there. During some talks about the construction of the basement, I made a very BIG observation. There wasn’t any electric outlets in the basement. You can image Jesse’s disappointment when I mentioned this observation. Needless to say, we went right to the second complex and filled out an application and had our new address two hours later.

So it’s actually happening. We take possession of the new apartment on December 20th. The plan is to get the movers in here between christmas and new years and then I’ll be moving out there permanently the first full weekend in January. Jesse is actually going out tomorrow since he has to start work on Monday. He’s going to be staying with PJ and Chris until we can get into the apartment, but that should only be about 2 weeks. Now I have to get all the utilities up and running.

So let the headache of moving begin…

Yes, you’re reading that right. We’re moving yet again. As most of you should be aware, the job that brought us back to Michigan laid Jesse off in August. Well, he’s finally found something else…only it’s in Troy, Michigan. That means we get to move across the state. The PROS - we’re staying in Michigan, we won’t get as much lake effect, we’ll be closer to PJ for a change. The CONS - we’re moving again, I’m 6 months pregnant and we’re switching doctors, we’re moving again. But hey, Jesse has a job and I’ll have a better chance at finding something out there than here in Grand Rapids.

Now we’re on the hunt for a new apartment. Any recommendations?