Moving...AGAIN

Yes, I'm a a masochist. What can I say? John (a.k.a. Bonus Dad) told  Teddy when we first got married that we needed to put all of our shit on wheels. Boy, was he right :) 

Okay, so how many times have we moved since we married in 11/2001? 

1) into Vantage Point in October of '01 

2) out of vantage into 5545 Forest View Dr (I'm not apartment material) in Feb '02

3) from Forest View out to Christiansburg so I could return to VT in Dec '02. 

4) We found a perfect country home in April of '04. We moved from Christiansburg to Sugar Maple Lane in Newport. 

5) I graduated from VT in May of '05. We moved from Newport back to Virginia Beach, into the same neighborhood (5521 Aurora Dr - blue house on the right). 

6) Stayed in VB until October of 2006 when we decided to give Phoenix a try. 

7) Came back from Phoenix in August of 2008 and moved into this place. It's the brown building on the corner. We're on the second floor. 

8) Now, January of '09, we're outta here and into this. We will be in the left side of that white house. It's so much more living space and better section of the neighborhood. No more sirens directly under our bedroom window. Hopefully not as many drunks waking us up at 1:30am.  We will not be living in an apartment, having to hear all of our neighbors! I have discovered that I can tolerate living in small quarters, but I don't prefer it. I really hate being subjected to other people's lack of consideration. Best of all, the ambience in the new place is infinitely better than our current living arrangements. Not to mention we'll have GOOD maintenance (I know the landlord :) )  and HEAT!! I would NOT recommend for anyone to rent from Norfolk Property Development. They just don't care about their properties AT ALL and it is evident when you look at their appearance. They just aren't worth the hassle unless you are REALLY hard up, which we were when we first arrived :) 

So, now I'm off to pack boxes again. It was just yesterday that I was ready to lose my mind packing and unpacking, yet I am still excited to be getting outta here. I'm ready to feel at home. 

To all my vegetarian/vegan friends

Please take a moment and tell me what your favorite cook books and/or recipes are. I am taking the plunge into removing animal products from our food, but I don't know what to make. Help me por favor :)

How do you keep up with all the blogs?

This has been a frustrating issue for me since I entered the blogging world. How do I possibly remember to check all of these awesome blogs that I read? I tried to keep the blogs bookmarked and would attempt to check it once a day. It became rather cumbersome, especially when you repeatedly check a blog only to discover it STILL hasn't been updated (sounds like my blog, huh?).
Well, thanks to Shez , I discovered Google Reader . Now, there may be other tools similar to this out there that I don't know about, but so far I am pleased with this application. I highly recommend using google reader if you don't utilize this tool (or anything like it) to keep up with your blog reading. All I have to do is the add the URL to the blog I like and google keeps up with all of the posts. All of your updates come to one site. It also allows you access to past blogs, not just the news ones. So, on those occasions that you skim a blog, come across something you want to delve deeper into but don't have the time, you can always go back. You can also "star" an item that you want to go back to again in order to avoid having to dig back through all of the posts to find the one you are looking for. The only drawback to using the reader is that you cannot leave a comment directly to the blog via the reader. You have to click the link to the blog itself, which pops up in another window, in order to leave your comment. Not really a big deal, but the only draw back that I can see thusfar.
Okay, stepping down off my pulpit now... more writing to occur later!

It has been brought to my attention...

...that I have not written in awhile. It's not that I don't have anything to say because I do. I just haven't been able to carve out the time to really write about what's been on my mind or what has been going on in my life. I will be writing again soon, I promise.