It's coming along...

The house that is. The kitchen is entirely finished and set up. Not much more cabinet space than before since we lost out on having a separate pantry, but everything fits and we do have more space to spare if need be. Love having more counter space to work on. It was a little weird at first cooking with gas, but I think I am going to enjoy it much more than if it were electric. The living room is mostly the way it is gonna be until we get a tv stand and the new tv. It's so small since we have two living areas, that really besides the sectional, tv stand and tv-nothing else will go in there except hanging pictures. I bought an area rug last night and now I just need to get new curtains in the color I want. But I need to go to Target for that. On the bright side, it's just 15 mins away to get to Target! Maybe even less depending on traffic.
The rec room is well on it's way to being finished. All we need to get is a tv stand for here too. That room will have the old living room tv, all the game systems, the papasan chair, some pillows, the bookshelves and all of the books, and it will be decorated with John's awards, his plaque, and the military prints we have. I'm excited to see it finished.

All of the boxes in Chance's room are unpacked but we have to do some purging in there. That kid has way too much stuff. He's going to need another mattress since his bunk beds are put together and his favorite place to sit and watch tv is on top of the ladder, so yeah....gonna need another mattress.

Got the washer and dryer hooked up. I did the washer and John came in as I was finishing up and he went to do the dryer. We ended up having to get a four prong cord since we had a three prong. Luckily the appliance repair guy was already coming by to look at the stove since one of the auto pilots on it wasn't working and we asked him what to do and he had a cord in his truck already and saved us about $9. So shortly I will be doing some serious laundry.

Really need to get started unpaking our room but ugggggggggggggh. Sooooo many clothes. I stayed up late last night/this morning unpacking and getting things in their place while John was passed out in Chance's bed, so I've slacked off today. John went to clothing and sales to pick up some goggles, gloves, face mask and some other things. I went ahead and started on dinner getting everything marinated so we'll just have to throw it on the grill pan once it's time.

Friday was John's last day of the inprocessing. Then he was picked up by his unit. He said he really thinks he is going to enjoy this job b/c so far the guys in his battalion are so laid back. Which I can imagine so since it's nothing but E6's and up so they don't have to worry about the stupid stuff that comes along with being in a line unit. I guess the entire battalion is the size of John's old platoon and most of them live right around here in the North East like we do so that's cool. I guess they meet up in the morning like one exit down at one of the local grocery stores so that is awesome. Not far at all for John to have to go.

Last night the wind was AWFUL. It got so bad that I went and got Chance out of bed and brought him in the room with us. I could feel the house moving. Since we are so close to the mountains, it's the worst on this part of El Paso. The moving guys informed me of this the other day. But it's a small price to pay I suppose. Today they're gonna be up to 50mph again on our side of town. Which is why I have zero plans to leave the house. Driving is NO fun in an suv in this wind.

I finally got my computer back. Still sucks that I had to pay so much and for whatever reason, now my C key wants to give me problems. I keep having to go back and make sure it typed it out. I guess it was worth it to get it back with all of my pictures and stuff on it.

Despite my initial thoughts on coming to El Paso, (mainly for the reason being that it is so far away from 'home') I am really loving it here. There's so much to do, especially if you enjoy shopping! Then I found out about the outlets just over the mountain, about 15 mins away.....oh boy. Watch out now. Of course there is all the stuff you are seeing on the news right now with Juarez and the border, but I will say this after having literally thirteen people in and out of my house just since Wednesday-everyone is so incredibly friendly here. It's just different than Hinesville. I don't really know how to explain it. Customer service is a million times better here, that much I can tell you.

I mean, they unload your grocery cart for you at the commissary! I have yet to run into any language barriers either. I'd still like to learn Spanish but we'll have to see how that works out.

Anyways, I guess that's about it. I will eventually post pictures once this place is completely finished.