Sometimes Nothing is Going On

And sometimes, I can be a nosey neighbor. On Sunday afternoon, Steve and I were just hanging at the abode.  We had our front room curtains wide open, enjoying the beautiful sunlight coming through.  The house across the street is for sale and currently vacant. Late in the afternoon I see the last tenants pull up in their explorer with a very large trailer, they back up to the front door.  At this point, I'm curious and wondering what the heck they are doing. They open the front door using the pin code door lock, and proceed to load up the over-the-stove microwave, the fridge, and the washer and dryer. And maybe the dishwasher.
While this is going on someone who appears to be a realtor with a couple come to see the house for sale. Now I'm thinking its about to get messy. But no, they just load up and leave. Awkward!
The only thing I could think of to do was tell my realtor. Who then in turn contacted the agency for the house.
I will probably never know if they had made some deal with the owners to buy the appliances, or if they were stealing them.
I hope it was a deal, because they seemed like really nice people.

Catching up

I read a couple of my old posts and noticed that I promised some photos.  So here we go.

Ashleigh's Baby Shower a la Anna!

And some photos from our trip to the mountains:

My Relationship with Caffeine

Over my lifetime I have jumped on and off the caffeine wagon. As a child my mom never let me have soda, and it wasn't until high school that I became addicted.  It was so readily available in the drink machines in the courtyard at Buchholz High School.  It always gave me that jolt of energy to get through my afternoon which included classes, 2 hours of cheerleading practice and about a 2 mile + run when I got home.
I experience withdraw when I try to stop it.  And withdraw for me is severe migraines. Terrible terrible migraines. So my only chance to ever quit it was when I was sick.  Thanks to my once annual sinus infections, I was able to use how terrible I felt to hide the withdraw symptoms from caffeine. I would do good for a few months.  Then I would just crave one and think "Just one can't hurt."  Then I was done.  Back on that caffeine wagon. Evil!

A few years ago I decided that I needed to cut some calories out of my diet so I opted for Diet Pepsi. I always thought diet sodas were disgusting.  I loved the tasty syrupy flavor of regular sodas. It took a while to adjust, now it's the opposite regular soda tastes disgusting.

I feel I may never truly beat caffeine, but I can at least use it in moderation. I have limited myself to one can a day, and drink water for the rest of the day. Maybe I will get to a point where I won't need that sweet refreshing thirst quenching morning caffeine shot.  That would be nice.  

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