IKEA, the weather, and more...

Well, the past couple days have been productive. Jeremy is not content with leaving boxes around the house, so he's been driving me pretty hard to get it all put away. We've picked a bank and gotten that settled to. We ventured out to IKEA today, which Jeremy surprisingly loved..... he was worse to have along than a child. He had to look at EVERYTHING..... we were in there for over 3 hours, but emerged with a bookcase, TV stand, some organizing thing for Jeremy's closet, and some potpourri. All which were must haves for our little, cozy abode. He'll write about his experience later. TJ and Laura... we did manage to get a bookcase similar to you all and also got it in the car with some creative arranging.

We are watching the weather for the rest of the week right now, and just found ourselves saying 84 on Friday! ugh.... what a miserable and hot day. It is interesting how thoughts change given the circumstances and lack of air conditioning.

Also, I am proud to let everyone know that all my clothes (minus my 3 coats which reside in Jeremy's closet) all fit. I guess I downsized just enough.

As for the dogs, Billy loves his porch..... we'll have to post a picture of him sitting out there. If we'd let him, he'd sit out there and stare for hours in a very stoic stance. He also likes to poop on the sidewalk in front of the Temple on our block which he's done two out of two walks so far. I guess he's just making a statement in his own way. Jackson is having a bit tougher of an adjustment, but I think he'll make it just fine.

Ok here's Jeremy....

So I feel I'm starting to get a bearing on the layout of this city. Our drive to IKEA today was quite a comfortable commute. No jolts across 4 lanes of traffic or anything like that. That IKEA was something else. I was fascinated at the level of thought and detail engineering that went into creating such a successful furniture store. So where do they get all those spare flat screens, xboxes, PS2, and books they use for the mock rooms? And a cafeteria? Dude! Not to mention their cheap prices. They've won me over, I can garranteeya that much. Anyways, it was nice. Enough about that.
The place is looking more and more like home as the boxes vanish. My stress levels seemed to be elevated by the large number of boxes. The Lord has been taking good care of us. Setting up our bank accounts went well. We aren't as far from the grocery store as we had originally thought. Our neighborhood seems to be very (almost eerily) quiet. We feel quite safe and secure here, especially for the sake of Chelsmels. Back to work. Aufwiedersehen