Getting Comfy

This week was our first full one in our new apartment, and it was pretty busy! Along with the normal chaos of moving, one of the things I forgot to mention last week was that Jake and I discovered that I had card fraud on my Wells Fargo account. Thankfully we discovered it while the transaction was still pending, and it was only $5, so I called the bank customer service and had to wait on hold, and then was told that they had to transfer me to another line so I had to wait on hold again for even LONGER than the first time, and then I had to answer all these questions, and they had to put my account on hold and issue me a new debit card, which meant that the one I had was invalid. This freaked Jake and I out because we borrowed money from my parents to be able to pay for some of the apartment as well as any extra shelving/other stuff we'd need, and that money was in my account. So I had to go to the bank and get a temporary card. It was just a big mess and another layer of stress for Jake and I to deal with, but I guess that's just what it means to be living the Grown-Up Life! This experience has helped me discover how truly impatient of a person I am...so I'm hoping to work on that.

Monday evening Jake and I finally had a chance to really "test out" our new balcony. We strung up lights around the perimeter (and by "we" I mean Jake, while I stood next to the step stool and handed him nails and told him when he was doing something wrong). Then we lay out a blanket, and made s'mores by roasting marshmallows over some tea light candles! It was so much fun getting to spend time together in our "backyard" especially now that it's warming up out here in Rexburg. I've never lived in a place where summer storms are so common, but they seem to be a normal thing in Idaho--starting around 4 or 5 the clouds got very thick and stormy, and while we were enjoying our s'mores we even got a bit of rain, even though it was about 80 degrees!

Jake's exciting story this week: On Thursday, they received their weekly shipment at the pizza place he works at. While loading things into the freezer, Jake noticed that they had 11 boxes of eggs...which is apparently a LOT more than they need. He asked his boss what to do since they all wouldn't fit in the freezer, and he said "oh just crack them all, and we'll turn them into liquid egg form and store them that way." So Jake proceeded to crack over 2,000 eggs...a process that took nearly 3 hours. Not only was this hard and time-consuming work, but the eggs STILL would not all fit in the freezer! Poor Jake.

This weekend was spent working on homework and finally organizing all of our DVDs on the shelving we bought at last weekend's garage sales. On Sunday we went on a walk around our neighborhood. We exploring our "new" side of the street now that we've moved, and found some HUGE dandelions!