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I realize that this blog is littered with movie reviews, so here's an update on what we've been up to this week.

Monday I changed our address info in a bunch of different places and ordered cable installation. We ate at Panera and went to Best Buy to buy a modem so that we wouldn't have to rent one from the cable company. Guess who was in the returns line? Rob! We haven't seen him in about a year and a half, which is out of pure laziness on both ends, since he only lives 5 miles away from us. We caught up with him and Dee for a while an determined that we must hang out soon. Ric and I then hurried home to pack more things and ended up running into our neighbors, Brad and Jenny. We ended up talking for a long time. I like them. They're the only thing left at the apartment complex that we regret leaving.

Tuesday Ric got home late from work, so we packed up the cars (Minis hold a lot more than you'd think, by the way) and grabbed plain sandwiches from Arby's on the way up to the new place. We unpacked and I taped up the rest of the bedroom while Ric went to get another load of stuff. We painted another wall and then I was pretty much out of energy. Pathetic back.

Wednesday Ric had a craving for Ruby's. I thought our goal was to be minimal in caloric intake while eating out this week, but I guess that's gone to pot and I will resume my healthy eating later on. We even had shakes. I have been eating so well that I now feel extreme guilt when eating stuff like that, so of course, today I have goals to do much better. We loaded up both cars again and painted another bedroom wall, and then Ric was out of energy. I don't blame him. Lugging around my boxes of books is quite a feat! I'd just like to remind everyone out there that Ric rocks. He works so much harder than I do at a job that is so much worse than mine, spends 4-5 times more time in his car per day than I do, and still manages to come home and lift all of the heavy stuff that my back can't handle.

Tonight, we hope to go yell at/beg from the U-Haul by our house to produce something we can use on Saturday or Sunday, since I tried to make a reservation on the internet and they scheduled me to pick up something in Pico Rivera, which is basically adding tons of mileage (and .99 per mile) to our expenses. After that, I really want to finish off the bedroom painting, which is looking pretty darn cool if I say so myself. It's a light brown, or dark beige, whichever you want to call it. I picked it from Martha Stewart's color palette. One coat does it all, and no primer. Sweet.

This weekend we'll be moving all the big items, and probably switch over to staying at the new place. After that I'll be coming back to the old place to clean so I can get my deposits back. Yep, he has a few hundred in security and a couple in pet deposits, so I want to clean well so I get a lot of that back.

Meanwhile, I'm almost done listening to the Hobbit, and Ric and I have been watching Lost episodes while we rest on the couches and groan about our backs after all the hard work of the day. By the way: we have so much stuff.