Well, my computer is fixed and it went as well as I could have hoped. I got a new case (pink, what?) and power supply at Fry's (at one point we mentioned the store's name and Lily said, "No, it's the 'puter store, not the french fry store!") and switched everything out with no problems. Unfortunately, Mark hasn't had as easy as a time and he is still working on getting his system running.We thought the store had a replacement motherboard in stock, but it turned out the website was wrong, and they didn't carry any of his socket type any more. So we ended up getting him a new case, MB, processor and power supply. We got home and he discovered the processor had been used and put back inside the box. So we had to go back to Wilsonville and exchange it today. Now he's finally assembled everything, and it's giving him some error beeps and not booting, so he's working on troubleshooting it now. (Update: I helped him fix it by putting the RAM in correctly).
Last night we went to my parents house that they just moved into, 5 months after getting here. It's in a really awesome area and we are hoping we'll be able to find an affordable house to rent in the region once our lease is up. It was great visiting with my family and the girls had lots of fun running around the partially empty house. We sat at their table for the first time in almost 6 months and ate my dad's awesome grilled chicken and Mark made the joke, "Hey guys, how are we going to get to Portland?" This time, the answer was much easier than before - "Well, you can take I5 or 205...". It's just hard to really explain how many times in the last few years we sat around that table and talked about and planned this move, agonizing over details and how to move the pets, and now here we all are, finally getting settled and really trying to embrace our new Oregon lives.
So almost 6 months ago, on May 22nd,2014, we got up very early and finished packing our car. We had a hell of time with our car topper, and my dad had to help tie it down (it was a soft-sided POS). My friend Sandra stopped by on her way home from work to say a final goodbye. We walked around the house, making sure we had the things we needed in the car.
I took a few final pictures of the house - everyone sitting at the table, empty closets, my bedroom door that still had the stickers that I put on it in high school - and then we all went outside, gave lots of hugs to my parents and grandparents, and got in the car, and left our old lives. Mark drove, while I cried. We had planned and planned this change for so long that I should have been very prepared, but it actually happening was overwhelming.
I got over my shock pretty quickly, as we were reminded of one of our reasons for moving when it was about a thousand degrees outside when we stopped at our first rest area. Then, I got a very awesome phone call just a few hours into our trip. I was offered the position that I only kind of even had a phone interview for the previous week, and my start date would be in the middle of June. Knowing that I officially had a job in Oregon was such a huge relief, and it enabled us to have a little more fun on our trip than we would have otherwise.
The girls were really well behaved during our drive to Atlanta, and soon we made it to Grandmommy's house where we would be spending the next few days before heading to Tennessee. The girls were thrilled to get out of the car, visit with their Grandmommy and play in the gigantic playroom.
To be continued, again!
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