Yesterday we ventured back to our old apartment to clean up a little bit and to pick up our couch and coffee table…which we will currently use as our “entertainment center”.

By the way, mad props to Big Poppa Ben and Big Boi B-Rad Meigs for helpin’ out.

It was quite an interesting day. 

My mom met our stalker.  We heard a knock at the door and she answered it.  We’re pretty sure he was sky high.  Kim goes, “can I help you?”..and he goes, “uh yea, I just wanted to talk to them…” and points past her…to which Kim goes, “Yea well we’re moving!”..and slams the door.  It was quite humorous.

Then Bennett and Brad arrive.  Brad tells us we’re screwed when we move out and it will probably cost us more than 2 grand..lovely! They moved our washer and dryer down three flights of stairs and then set it by the dumpster..which we very much appreciate, but if we get a bill for that, I think we all know who it will be going to!

All in all, it was a very successful moving day and we finally have our couch!!!

We’ll let you know how dreaded Friday goes, which is when we have to go back and clean..AHHHHH…Kim’s gonna help, nice!

Today is Bec’s 7th Birthday!!

She spent a solid amount of time last week on the computer with Britt instructing her on which items she could buy her.  I believe they looked at every item on the Toys-R-Us website.

I had the priveledge of looking at it yesterday with her.  By the time she left, we had agreed that we would be getting her either Barbie Fairytopia or Barbie clothes..which she needs “so so bad”.

Well she changed her mind last night.  She called and said, “Alright Mare, I don’t care if I’m not surprised, but I totally want you to get me roller skates instead.” So that’s what she got!

What else does a seven year old want?? Well apparently her tastes are a little mature, because she wanted to go out to lunch with Mom and Dad.  Where did she want to go? Not somewhere normal like McDonalds or Wendy’s, but she wanted to go to Mimi’s Cafe.  Nice girl! Someone raised you right!

Anywho…HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!!

It seems our neighbors had a little visit from the police last Friday.  Not so good for them, quite entertaining for us!

At around nine o’clock we hear a motherload of noise coming from outside the door, so we took a little peek out the peep hole to see what all the fuss was.  We saw about 15 guys and two cops just all standing outside the door.  We curiously watched for about ten minutes and then decided we needed to get a closer look.  We gathered up all the trash we could find and quickly stuffed it all in a bag so we could pretend like we were taking the trash out.

Ya know, we should really learn to not be quite so nosy, or one of these days we’re gonna get oursleves into some trouble.  The minute we walked out the door one of the coppers goes, “So, did you girls buy these guys alcohol?”  To which we responded, “who? us?…No, no sir we didn’t!” And then he goes, “hmmm, ok well we’re just trying to figure out who bought it for them since none of them are 21.”

Nice..why don’t we just walk out in the middle of an investigation…way to go stupids.

We moved in to our new apartment on September 1st, 2007.

Today is September 14th, 2007.

We decided not to get cable until at least after the first month, so we could see how bad we really wanted/needed it.

Well…we need it.

It’s not really that there are all these shows we want to watch or something..but at night before we go to bed, we don’t have anything to do but talk to our drunkened neighbors or sit there and look at eachother.

So, we do believe that we will have to get us some cable next month!

Yesterday afternoon Priscilla squashed what little decomposing matter was left of Sigmund.

You should have seen it…we heard the cracklings of his brittle flesh crush beneath her foot and gasped for air at the thought of what she had done…she had no idea.

Our poor little protector is no more than a slowly fading mark on the concrete outside our door.

Don’t worry Sigmund..you will forever live in our hearts…we’ll never forget you!

Brittany has found the official name of the “enormo winged grasshopper/bee bug thing”.

It is a Dog-Day Cicada from the order Homoptera.

This is definitely what it was.

Friday night when we went to leave our apartment we found a lovely surprise right outside the door.

It was this enormo winged grasshopper/bee bug thing.  It was doing this weird hopping/buzzing thing while it was stuck on it’s back.  It was quite  possibly the sickest thing we have ever seen, and it was trapping us inside due to it’s location.  We nad no choice but to kill it.

Our first thought was to go for the flip flop to smash it, but then quickly decided against that, seeing as how we really didn’t want it’s insides on the bottom of our footwear.  Next we went for this duck cup sitting by the door, but then realized it wasn’t quite large enough in diameter to ensure our safety.  Finally we decided on covering it with a kroger bag and then performing a lil dance on top.  This seemed to do the trick and we succeeded in taking it’s life!

The only problem is that it is far too disgusting to move away from the door, so there it remains. We have to do this weird glide thing to get around it in order to enter and exit our home.  We are starting to feel kinda bad for it though, because it is decomposing.  We named it Sigmund yesterday.

Perhaps it will protect us from any possible intruders who would want to harm us. 

You know that part in Aladdin where he takes Jasmine for her very first ride on the magic carpet and they soar through the skies and sing one of the best songs ever written, “A Whole New World”???

Well last night we discovered a whole new world ourselves! We were trying to find a tanning place closer to our new apartment, and thought there was a good one in Delaware off the 36/37 exit from 23 (turns out there isn’t!).  But we did find amazing things. Here’s a list:

1. The cutest freaking church ever where we both decided we would get married (it’s right on 36/37 williams street if you would like to see it!)

2. A Tim Hortons which has amazing coffee!

3. A little town looking thing that really made us feel like we were about to arrive at Michindoh.

4. A Dominos Pizza, that we are NEVER allowed to go to.

5. A BP…that is slightly trashy looking, but still has the coffee.

6. A Kroger and a Blockbuster and a Starbucks.

7. Ohio Wesleyan, which we saw and we have never ever known where it was located, and now we do!.

It just amazed us that we seriously have never been down there before in all the years we’ve lived here.

Makes us want to sing the song…if you don’t want to hear it, we suggest you not come see us right now, cuz we’re singin’!

So after three days of trying and failing to move, we were determined on Monday that we were gonna be proactive, and get out there and find us some help and get er done!

We come up with a wonderful plan to invite ourselves over to Matty and Jeff and now Benji’s house and once we got over there, trick them into helping us.

Well we got distracted with making the peanut butter cookies we found in Jeff’s refrigerator, and then we were more hungry, so we took a break to get McDonalds and Starbucks (which in case anyone wants to know, they are not “right next door to eachother” like some people would tell you!)…and then we got distracted even more with the television.

We watched a variety of shows, settling on…wait for it….Joe Dirt. That’s quality entertainment right there! (notice the sarcasm)

Basically a big waste of our freaking time…we’re shooting for Thursday…we think!

Monday morning my dad and Paul brought over our washer and dryer.  They were both more than willing to help out, until they found out our apartment was on the third floor.

 It was really quite humorous..we had a good time, they didn’t.

I especially liked it when my dad asked us for a pair of pliers or a wrench…yea right.

He then proceeds to wake up our hungover neighbors to ask them for a wrench..he did eventually find a pair though, after knocking on only a few doors.

Our dishwasher was broke from the get-go though, and contrary to what my dad thought, running it once through “just to make sure”, doesn’t fix it…you’ll end up with water pouring out of your dishwasher.