Quest for Where?

For various reasons cost, distance, complexity, fears about steady careers the Mr. and I have been talking and we have a few other destinations in mind.  We have talked about the following:

• Austin, TX
• Portland, OR
• Boulder, CO
• Denver, CO

Where do we go, where do we go?

Well in other news, Brandon has decided to go to college, so our moving plans just got pushed back another 4 or 5 years.  Guess we will have plenty of time to ponder our options.

Four Trashcans, Three trips, Two Closets, and some Freedom

Well our amazon store is officially closed!  No more late night or early morning packaging.  No more runs to the post office!  Yay!

We are free from selling our stuff and from having too much stuff.  After having the amazon store open for about a year we were exhausted from books and dvds being stacked everywhere waiting for the email that tells us to ship.  The books and dvds went to Half price books and Disc replay, everything else went to Goodwill(or in the trash).

The office is now ready to become a two person office, school here we come.  Depending on if I can resist the urge to get a Masters in Accounting this next year will be my last one!

-Christina

Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  And welcome to the first major family holiday since we made our announcement.  All in all the news was old enough not to cause any waves.  Though I admit that the absence of a few cynical family members help the situation.

I refuse to name names!

We had a good time visiting with family, and the holiday has become easier now that most kids are old enough to entertain themselves.  It was nice to eat some good food (even if they are foods I'm not supposed to have) and talk to fantastic people.  When we move it will be difficult to leave such good people behind, so they will just have to come and visit us!

Weird moment for the day: When a family member asked if they could come and visit us and my husband responded "SURE!" in a positive tone while making a face expressing some other less positive emotion. 

-Christina

P.S. I'm thankful for my amazing husband and his family.

The House

We have spent the week working on the house.  Trying to fix things up before we put it up on the market.
1. Carpet torn out of the dining room
2. Tact strips & staples, all that non-carpet, carpet junk torn up
3. Trim gone
4. Wallpaper boarder removed (it was so ugly)
5. Holes in the wall were patched

We are planning on painting the living and dining room Chilled Lemonade.  It is number 3 in the photo.  Lots of work still to do but it has been a productive week.

This Is What Happens

Do you remember the last time that you moved? Do you remember how many boxes you use? Well think long and hard about the mess moving makes and then add to that you are not going to be bringing 99% of it with you.

Question: What is step one to getting rid of 99% of your personal belongings?
Answer: Letting you closets explode all over your office until it is a distraction from homework(and then you find yourself blogging instead of writing your English paper)

This may not look TERRIBLE but I'm a pretty bad neat freak so it is annoying me right now.  Here have another.

Why yes! Those are stacks of VHS tapes!

I'm going to go do homework now.
-Christina

The word has spread

Well I think everyone knows our plans now. The last one we were going to tell was my mom, and she was accidentally informed via a third party. I think this means, no matter what, we have to move. :)

-Brandon

Things have started

We're both really surprised how quickly things move on Amazon. We posted over 300 items on our seller page over the weekend, and orders are rushing in. Our living room looks like a post office right now :). Don't forget to check us out @ www.quest4brisbane.com

-Brandon