OK, I wasn't really dragged, it was my idea, lemme explain.... Sometime in March, my brother Jariah called and said we should all move to Columbus(2 hours away) so the guys could get better jobs. I said that's a great idea, but lets go to Tucson(36 hours away) instead!! (Zion's been wanting to for years.) Everything worked out really fast, so two months later, we were on our way!
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Christine(Israel's wife)did laundry at the hovel a few days ago.
(I don't know why that matters, I just thought it was kinda funny...) =)
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Lucky her!
Mom and I are at retreat, so mom won't be able to blog much this week, since we have to come to one of the sitting areas to get the connection to work. Talk to ya later!
Oh, No!! They're are all sick? That's terrible! I hope they get feeling better soon!!
It might have something to do with hanging out at the hovel, we all got sick for a month when we first moved here. I think you have to build up an immunity to it. =)
I know there are those of you who want to get my impressions of the famous hovel, so here goes:
It was in much, much worse shape than it was when my Grandma and Grandpa lived there. Apparantly Bro. Green used it primarily for storage and it fell into disrepair, either that or he rented it out to a family of orangutans.
I could see that considerable work went into making it more livable, however it is still a pit.
The neighborhood is also worse than when I lived there and it does have a lot of shady looking characters walking around nearby.
That said, I don't think the girls are in any real danger in that neighborhood as long as they use common sense. There is a big fence around it that can be locked, double locks on the door and a nice shotgun inside. I recommended a nice pitbull, a doberman or a rottweiller, but Jeshanah says she doesn't like animals.
The house although kinda depressingly ugly is still pretty livable. Brandon's room is nice, big, clean and well-lit and full of great toys. My kids loved the hovel and we spent a lot of time there playing with Brandon's toys.
The kids liked it much better than the El Conquistador Hilton and the Hilton is a world class hotel. Brandon will probably look back at it as one of the greatest places in the world as he has two full-time loving caretakers, a bunch of highly educational Love & Learn toys to play with and as many chicken nuggets as he wants.
And the hovel dwellers also don't live like poor people. They have cable TV, high-speed internet, three cars, at least three computers, tons of scrapbooking supplies and some nice purple dishes. The house is pretty roomy and has a big lot. Also the rent on that place is super cheap and way below market rate.
Barring major screwups, Zion and Jariah will be due for some fat raises pretty soon so things are looking up. I see them able to move out of there and into a nice neighborhood in another year or less if they save their money. They have pretty good jobs, and I don't think either Zion and Jariah have any intention of moving to either Ohio or any place else and the sooner somebody realizes that the better! :)
By the way, we ended up buying a nice 3 bedroom Condo near Sabino Canyon with a swimming pool, exercise room, clubhouse and nice mountain views.
However, Jeshanah has apparantly become quite attached to her hovel because she decided not to take us up on our offer to rent. Oh well!!
I haven't had time to congratulate Georgie Bush for the great job he is doing running the country and liberating Iraq lately so I'm gonna recycle one of my posts from a couple of years ago. Unfortunately for our great country, I was right on then and I'm even more right now ;
"Please overlook the fact that this moron lied about WMDs in Iraq in order to settle a little vendetta his father had against Saddam, alienating the entire world in the process.
Now we are stuck in a quagmire of our own making and we’re footing the bill to try to reform a country whose own citizens
1) hate our guts and will always hate our guts
2) Are saying that the wished we had never even showed up in the first place.
Please reward him with your vote for giving us the highest oil prices in the last 21 years, (Oh his daddy’s in the oil biz, what a coincidence!) and turning the greatest budget surplus in history into the greatest deficit.
And forget about the fact that the only people profiting from this worthless war in Iraq are the oil companies and Dick Cheney’s buddies at Halliburton who got all of those nice Government Contracts. It so nice of them to distract us from the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with Sept 11th and the real threats on the planet are now not getting enough attention because we are wasting of all our time and money on Iraq.
Good job George! We’re all gonna vote for you because we like a President who is just as stupid as we are. It makes us feel better about ourselves. And you look good in a flight suit, declaring "Mission Accomplished!"
Your mission has been accomplished, and your friends at Enron thank you! And you’ve done quite well for someone who absent his connections would be lucky to be managing a Burger King!"
"However, Jeshanah has apparantly become quite attached to her hovel because she decided not to take us up on our offer to rent."
First of all, ‘apparantly’ is not how you spell apparently…
Second, Haha, yeah right!! Think about it from our point of view for like two seconds, Israel, and you will see that it would be completely moronic for us to rent your condo from you at the price you named. Even you wouldn't want us to pay that much to rent something, if it wasn't to you whom we would be paying the rent. That would just be throwing our money away, and throwing money away is never smart. =)
And finally, I love the way you put all the blame on me. That’s funny…
Apparently Shan doesn't get my jokes if I don't put a smiley face next to them.
I'm not blaming you for anything. It would have been great to have you guys rent our condo, but the numbers just didn't add up is all.
I really think you guys made the right decision and my wife and I particularly appreciated Jariah's level-headed and honest response.
(I'm sure Zion would have agreed to pay anything to get you out of the hovel, but I'm glad Jariah was there to talk some sense into him.)
You guys are really lucky to have husbands that love and care for you so much and long-term you will be much better off for having endured the hovel a while longer.
By the way the price I named would have included a sizeable subsidy on our part when you finished calculating the mortgage, homeowner's association fees, taxes, insurance, etc.
The bottom line is, nice places are expensive. Christine paid $500 a month for an old one bedroom apartment 12 years ago that was no where near as nice as that three bedroom condo and didn't have a washer, dryer swimming pool or anything.
You guys are paying like $350 right now for a much larger house, so I think you guys should just take advantage of that deal for as long as it lasts. Save as much as you can and next year you guys will be in a much better neighborhood and much, much happier.
I like the idea about the goat, those are pretty mean! You should also get some attack geese. Geese are so mean and territorial that Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson used them to protect their airplanes. (I'm not kidding! I don't knwo if they still do though.)
I remember well a jod site we worked at for several weeks that had geese . every time i had to go to the officevthey would chose me around the parking lot grab my pants leg and not let go. until I got to the door draging one behind. ATTACK GEESE WORK
19 comments:
Lucky her!
Mom and I are at retreat, so mom won't be able to blog much this week, since we have to come to one of the sitting areas to get the connection to work. Talk to ya later!
Shan, did the guys find out about getting tickets from TEP yet? If not, I need to order those pretty soon. Let me know...
I keep trying to get in touch with Zion to check, but he's there right now and not able to answer his phone.
I am doing laundry right now, (sheets, blankets, pillows, clothes) because Gabriel, Miguel and Christine have been puking their guts out all day.
I hope you guys don't get this stomach virus.
I suspect it may have something to do with hanging out with Republicans...
or maybe a few days in Tucson just has that affect on people...
*rethinks Spring Break plans*
Seriously though, I hope they get feeling better soon. That is no fun. :-(
Oh, No!! They're are all sick? That's terrible! I hope they get feeling better soon!!
It might have something to do with hanging out at the hovel, we all got sick for a month when we first moved here. I think you have to build up an immunity to it. =)
I hope John still comes. ;)
I know there are those of you who want to get my impressions of the famous hovel, so here goes:
It was in much, much worse shape than it was when my Grandma and Grandpa lived there. Apparantly Bro. Green used it primarily for storage and it fell into disrepair, either that or he rented it out to a family of orangutans.
I could see that considerable work went into making it more livable, however it is still a pit.
The neighborhood is also worse than when I lived there and it does have a lot of shady looking characters walking around nearby.
That said, I don't think the girls are in any real danger in that neighborhood as long as they use common sense. There is a big fence around it that can be locked, double locks on the door and a nice shotgun inside. I recommended a nice pitbull, a doberman or a rottweiller, but Jeshanah says she doesn't like animals.
The house although kinda depressingly ugly is still pretty livable. Brandon's room is nice, big, clean and well-lit and full of great toys. My kids loved the hovel and we spent a lot of time there playing with Brandon's toys.
The kids liked it much better than the El Conquistador Hilton and the Hilton is a world class hotel. Brandon will probably look back at it as one of the greatest places in the world as he has two full-time loving caretakers, a bunch of highly educational Love & Learn toys to play with and as many chicken nuggets as he wants.
And the hovel dwellers also don't live like poor people. They have cable TV, high-speed internet, three cars, at least three computers, tons of scrapbooking supplies and some nice purple dishes. The house is pretty roomy and has a big lot. Also the rent on that place is super cheap and way below market rate.
Barring major screwups, Zion and Jariah will be due for some fat raises pretty soon so things are looking up. I see them able to move out of there and into a nice neighborhood in another year or less if they save their money. They have pretty good jobs, and I don't think either Zion and Jariah have any intention of moving to either Ohio or any place else and the sooner somebody realizes that the better! :)
By the way, we ended up buying a nice 3 bedroom Condo near Sabino Canyon with a swimming pool, exercise room, clubhouse and nice mountain views.
However, Jeshanah has apparantly become quite attached to her hovel because she decided not to take us up on our offer to rent. Oh well!!
I haven't had time to congratulate Georgie Bush for the great job he is doing running the country and liberating Iraq lately so I'm gonna recycle one of my posts from a couple of years ago. Unfortunately for our great country, I was right on then and I'm even more right now ;
"Please overlook the fact that this moron lied about WMDs in Iraq in order to settle a little vendetta his father had against Saddam, alienating the entire world in the process.
Now we are stuck in a quagmire of our own making and we’re footing the bill to try to reform a country whose own citizens
1) hate our guts and will always hate our guts
2) Are saying that the wished we had never even showed up in the first place.
Please reward him with your vote for giving us the highest oil prices in the last 21 years, (Oh his daddy’s in the oil biz, what a coincidence!) and turning the greatest budget surplus in history into the greatest deficit.
And forget about the fact that the only people profiting from this worthless war in Iraq are the oil companies and Dick Cheney’s buddies at Halliburton who got all of those nice Government Contracts. It so nice of them to distract us from the fact that Iraq had nothing to do with Sept 11th and the real threats on the planet are now not getting enough attention because we are wasting of all our time and money on Iraq.
Good job George! We’re all gonna vote for you because we like a President who is just as stupid as we are. It makes us feel better about ourselves. And you look good in a flight suit, declaring "Mission Accomplished!"
Your mission has been accomplished, and your friends at Enron thank you! And you’ve done quite well for someone who absent his connections would be lucky to be managing a Burger King!"
Btw...Shan likes animals, I don't.
Unless a goat could protect us, I think I'll pass...haha
"However, Jeshanah has apparantly become quite attached to her hovel because she decided not to take us up on our offer to rent."
First of all, ‘apparantly’ is not how you spell apparently…
Second, Haha, yeah right!! Think about it from our point of view for like two seconds, Israel, and you will see that it would be completely moronic for us to rent your condo from you at the price you named. Even you wouldn't want us to pay that much to rent something, if it wasn't to you whom we would be paying the rent. That would just be throwing our money away, and throwing money away is never smart. =)
And finally, I love the way you put all the blame on me. That’s funny…
Apparently Shan doesn't get my jokes if I don't put a smiley face next to them.
I'm not blaming you for anything. It would have been great to have you guys rent our condo, but the numbers just didn't add up is all.
I really think you guys made the right decision and my wife and I particularly appreciated Jariah's level-headed and honest response.
(I'm sure Zion would have agreed to pay anything to get you out of the hovel, but I'm glad Jariah was there to talk some sense into him.)
You guys are really lucky to have husbands that love and care for you so much and long-term you will be much better off for having endured the hovel a while longer.
By the way the price I named would have included a sizeable subsidy on our part when you finished calculating the mortgage, homeowner's association fees, taxes, insurance, etc.
The bottom line is, nice places are expensive. Christine paid $500 a month for an old one bedroom apartment 12 years ago that was no where near as nice as that three bedroom condo and didn't have a washer, dryer swimming pool or anything.
You guys are paying like $350 right now for a much larger house, so I think you guys should just take advantage of that deal for as long as it lasts. Save as much as you can and next year you guys will be in a much better neighborhood and much, much happier.
It just makes sense...
I like the idea about the goat, those are pretty mean! You should also get some attack geese. Geese are so mean and territorial that Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson used them to protect their airplanes. (I'm not kidding! I don't knwo if they still do though.)
We'll look into the goat/geese idea... =)
I remember well a jod site we worked at for several weeks that had geese . every time i had to go to the officevthey would chose me around the parking lot grab my pants leg and not let go. until I got to the door draging one behind. ATTACK GEESE WORK
That's hilarious! I can imagine you having a goose running after you...that had to be a sight!
Rofl! You don't by any chance have video of that, do ya, Pops?! Cause we could make a fortune!!!! haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhVJ2ITTVkU
Lol,John!
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