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Today we bought a new refrigerator at Lowes for our new house. It’s pretty cool (ha-ha)… a nice new side-by-side job with ~26 cubic feet of fresh-food lovin’ on the inside as well as a separate filtered water and ice dispenser. Plus it was on sale since it was a discontinued model. Yeah; “discontinued”, kind of like the year-end models that car lots have for sale at a cheaper price.

Anyhow, we had them hold it until they deliver it on Thursday. That’s when we are (hopefully) going to be moving into our new house. Or have already moved into. Or something like that. I don’t really know when we’re moving in because we don’t sign the papers until tomorrow, then its going to take a day or two for it to get closed.

The builders are going to let us move into the house on Wednesday, however, but since it’s a mid-week move I only have one other person able to help me. This, coupled with the pulled muscle from the other day, is going to be quite interesting as far as getting out of this house and into our new one. The whole house is basically packed and ready to go; all except for a few extra towels, plates, and of course my Dell laptop (which I’m typing on).

Tomorrow is going to be a hell of a day. Actually, the rest of the week is going to be quite crazy!

Today I taught Evan how to jump… now that may sound weird, but hey; he’s 18 months old so it’s a big deal. He got both feet off the ground and everything! WooHoo!

What with us moving and all we’ve got a bunch of extra boxes around and he’s taken to playing with them like a duck to water. The empty box from the bubble wrap is particularly fun for him; he’s transformed it into a slide of sorts now that the opening has been crushed down a bit and he just loves it. He heads on to the higher end of the box and slides down head first. Good times!

Last night I tried to get over to Seattle and buy Kimberly her birthday present, but the store I need to go to closed an hour earlier than I expected so I drove almost an hour for nothing.This morning Kimberly opened at work and as soon as she left I made a mad dash through the house to get Evan and myself ready to go.

We made it to Pacific Place in record time, and we were in and out of the Coach store in less than 10 minutes before we were back on the road. Yep… I splurged and bought her exactly what she wanted, a brand new Coach Hamptons Hobo purse in Silver/Black. Sure they’re spendy, but she loves them so much and her last one lasted about ten years, so it’s actually not a bad price.

Anyhow, Evan and I are just passing Tullys Coffee on I-5 when Kimberly calls. Keep in mind: she doesn’t know where I am or what I am doing, so I have to play it cool. It’s just about Noon, and our normal routine is that I call her from the road on my cell around this time. When she calls me she says “Where are you now? Are you just going to drop off Evan?”. I panic for what seems to be about 5 minutes but what is actually about 1.5 seconds and say, cool as a cucumber, “Yeah, I’m on the road right now.”. Perfect… it’s the truth, because I was on the road, and I didn’t have to give anything away. Then a quick segue into “So hows your day so far?” like usual and my plan goes off without a hitch.

Of course, I can’t buy a present without giving it right away, so I gave it to her before we went to bed. She cried tears of joy and I felt like a super-husband. All of the running around was well worth it to see the look on her face when she saw the Coach bag wrapped up.