We're in Sun City!

Wow! I'm not sure how we did it but we managed to pull it off and we're settling in to our temporary rental house in Sun City while we wait for our new forever home to be built! Last week was a blur. The movers came Tuesday and due to impending weather wanted to completely load us instead of just starting to load us and finishing on Wednesday! Yikes! We immediately went in to over drive! By 5:00 they were done and so were we. We went to dinner with Elsa and Joe at BoneFish! Kind of appropriate as we had gone to Bonefish the night we had decided to make an offer on our Pinehurst house! We went full circle. It was really fun to see them again and hope we stay in touch. We decided to spend the night with Valorie and Frank and really didn't sleep much at all. We got up in the morning and went back to our house to clean it. Wow! What a job. Frank and I worked non-stop for 6 hours. Exhausting. It looked great though and I think the new owners will be happy that we left it so nice for them. I hope they enjoy our house. We will miss it but I think the move is the best thing for us. About 2:30 we left for SC and got hung up in traffic. We made it to the landlords office about 5:30 to pick up the key. Now we're off to the new house. We found the house but there was no power. That was not good. It was getting dark and cold. We finally talked with the electric company and discovered that the main breaker had been turned-off. Power was on! We turned on the heat and went to find a hotel. Hotels were full or not dog friendly and we ended up staying at a dump. Really it was disgusting. I can't believe I didn't pursue at least switching rooms. The room we were in had had a microwave that had apparently had a popcorn fire. The smell was horrible. I couldn't wait to get out of there! It cost us over $100.00 to stay in a dump. Horrible. I hope I never tolerate that kind of treatment again. Long story, and I was tired. Another sleepless night! Poor Chico has been really stressed along with us. We were all getting grouchy!
We got up early and left to come back to the house to wait for the movers. They finally called and let us know they wouldn't be here until 11:00! The smoke detector was emitting an beep because of a low battery and that is horrible! Chico was really freaking out and didn't even want to go in the house. We didn't have a ladder or anything. I decided to put my MacGiver mind to work to figure out how to remove the detector. I noticed the large garbage can with lid and the recycle box. So I used the recycle box to step up on to the top and voila, it worked. I was able to remove the detector and the noise was gone. A little annoying that the landlord didn't get the house ready for us. Not a good sign.
Now, the movers finally show up. That was crazy, decisions, decisions. The garage is full and the house was full of boxes but we were finally in. The movers left about 5:00 and now we'd have to try to make sense of the mess. I realized that my yoga mat, bike helmet and swimming stuff did not make it in the house. They are buried and probably won't be able to be located. I hate to buy a new mat and bike helmet but we may have to if we want to be able to play.
Saturday and Sunday were finally a little less stressful. We had much of our stuff unpacked and put away, at least enough to be able to function. We even took a little time to go for a short run on Saturday and Sunday. We hit Costco on Sunday afternoon and our frig and freezer are full. I'm going to start the Eat to Live diet tomorrow which is lots of fruits and veggies. I want to lose some weight (that's nothing new) but I feel that I really have to drop a few pounds if I want to do better running and working out. It's a new place and a new opportunity to start a new. I'm going to Florida in March with Tate and Julie so have that as a goal date to reach by desired weight. It'll be fun! Huh! Green smoothies will be my new best friend!
Well it's time to get some rest so off I go to bed. I'm planning on posting about my success for the next 6 weeks with Dr Fuhrman.