Update

It has now been 6 days since I moved to Seattle and SOOOO much has happened. I got my apartment and its amazing. Just enough space to make it usable and nice, but no misused space. It is in an amazing location. There is a target, a Fred Meyers, a Whole Foods, a Safeway, and a Panera, not to mention an entire shopping mall and music store near by.

I had an interesting time with spiders the first few nights I lived here. I spent a lot of time killing them and they actually had to come and fumigate. These are not your normal spiders... these are large 2 inch in diameter HAIRY spiders... yep like tarantulas only a bit thinner!!

On Thursday I went to Tacoma to pick up my sofas, which are gorgeous btw!, and got the cargo van I rented stuck in the sand... fortunately for me people in Seattle are so nice that two guys just came and towed me out... FOR FREE!!!! But people in Seattle really just are the nicest people in possibly the world, at least the world I have visited.

I also have an interview scheduled for a position at the Seattle Conservatory, but I pretty much have it because I have been asked to sub for them already. So its merely a matter of meeting with the faculty and administration and making sure that we are a good fit.

Finally I began the weekend single and ended it in a relationship. I am now officially Tom's girlfriend... holly cow!! And let me tell you I am a lucky lady...

So let us recap, in less than a week, I have moved states, found a job, furnished and apartment and begun a wonderful relationship... I think I am going to like it here! :)

End of countdown

Ok everyone. This ends the countdown. I am officially packed and about to leave the house in a half hour to commence my trip to Seattle and a new adventure. So the countdown has ended and now the real fun begins. I was really nervous last night while packing, but thanks to Tom and Lana the fear is now manageable! So yay for friends and yay for new adventures. Here goes nothing and everything.

13 hrs to take off

I officially have 13 hrs to take off... man I need to pack!

2 days

I have 2 days, actually its only 37 hours!! Woah. Starting to get scared of the plane ride... as always. I am currently getting ready to go by doing laundry and packing. Better get packing!

4 more days!!

I only have 4 more days. Thats all.

5 more days

5 more days till Seattle.

Verizon rocks, they made a mistake and they fixed it, PLUS they actually made good on it by giving me the deal of all deals. Plus they will soon have FiOS in my area!! Ahhh. Comcast should take a lesson from them.

6 Days

I have 6 days till I arrive in Seattle/Redmond.

As those of you who have been reading my blog regularly know I HATE Comcast. So when I received a call from the apartment company letting me know that they would take care of all utilities except phone, internet and cable I figured I was going to ask the question! Who did their internet. They said Comcast, my heart sank, then... they said Verizon!! With this one word my heart soared! These people do fiber optic internet. I have been drooling over this since Tom mentioned it. Was it possible? Yes and no. Yes they service and I got high speed to rival Comcast for 29.99 a month... forever, no change in price after 6 months. No they don't have FiOS... YET. So once they get it they can just upgrade! Oh yeah. I am so excited. Oh and should I decide to get cable services, they have direct tv, so I do not need to get Comcast cable which is a ripoff! Only catch is I need a land line. So I now have a land line in Redmond, which is good for buisness and emergency reasons. You know like when my cell phone runs out of batteries mid-call and takes half an hour to charge again!

Also, I bought a flat panel TV. Thats right. Me, the "I already have a TV what the heck to I need a new flat TV for?" girl. Well I needed a new TV since I, how shall I say, threw mine... hehe. So I got a flat panel. I was informed by a friend, who knows way more about this sort of stuff than me, (you know a guy) that it would probably be obsolete in 2 years as everything was switching to HDTV, but oh well, at that point I can be known as being the girl who says "what do I need an HDTV for, this one works fine?" Plus I hear there are converters. Plus I got a great deal on bedding online. It is exactly what I was looking for at an amazing price.

So what have I learned in all this? The internet is amazing, you can purchase things for amazing prices and often times can either pick them up in store or delivered for free. It's awesome. Advise: don't buy anything till you look for it online and compare prices.

One week

I have only one week left. Again the internet is acting up. It's become my daily battle to make this thing work. I wake up take my mom to work, come home do things for my dad, and then spend a good hour or so making the internet work. Unfortunately it doesn't end here. I usually have to turn the thing on and off at least five or six times a day as it keeps losing the signal. Again i say... I HATE YOU COMCAST!

Is it wrong to hate your computer?

I wonder if it is possible to hate an object? I manage to do a good job of hating my computer. Today I was having trouble with the internet, whats new you ask... I will tell you! I clicked on the little icon to see why I had no wireless and it told me that I could not sign on with Microsoft as I had elected another program to run my wireless... WHEN?! I have no recollection making any internet connection choice other than, no please do not make Yahoo my main page. So in their infinite wisdom the people at Microsoft (sorry Tom) decided to tell me, via a little button, if I did not want to use another program I could use something called Wireless Access point Zero. Ok fine I will do that... what the hell is that. To explain what it is there is a link. Ok I say, obviously I should click on this. So I do... AND IT TRIES TO TAKE ME TO THE INTERNET!!! HELLO!!! If I had internet would I need the button I ask you?! Well I got all sorts of upset and after looking into it more realized that Intel was now running my wireless... same difference to me. I then had to figure out how to make that work.

Now my real question is this. Obviously people at Microsoft are not retarded. I know a person who works at Microsoft and he is, from what I can tell, Intelligent and above all very good at thinking things through. So why, WHY would they do that. Is it not obvious that if I have an issue with the internet I can NOT access it to get help and as such I need that sort of information saved on my hard drive. Furthermore, how did it even happen? Why can't I control my computer. So what if that means I need to read a manual! I will read it. BTW I don't even think I got a Windows XP manual with this computer...

Anyway, that is my rant. I think I have fixed the internet, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this is not the last of my woes where this particular problem is concerned.

BTW Comcast still sucks harder than anything.

8 days

8 days left.
Not much else to say today. I guess I have just been really tired.

9 Days

9 days to go.

My brother left today and the house is so empty. This will most likely bring about a different atmosphere in the house, much more quiet. The calm before the storm...

Comcast

Ok so just to update comcast picked up the phone!!! Amazing. All I needed was a small password. I have it now and so hopefully if this happens again I will be able to fix it! YAY, it only took like an hour and a half. Better than I anticipated.

10 days and broken internet

I have 10 days till Seattle!

Oh and Comcast sucks. I have been trying to get my Internet to work for the last hour!!! I have actually been on hold with them for that long. I think I am going to listen to Tom and look into the Fiber optic Internet in Seattle. I swear the Internet is always broken here and it was the same in San Francisco. Grrrrr... anyway, it turns out that if the Internet connection resets at the Internet site then they reset the user name and password. As such I am locked out of the system. Note to self, should the Fiber optic Internet not be available in your area, get your own wireless router!! I have the site I need to go to in order to reset my name and password, but since my user name and password reset, I can't log into that, even from the hard line connection. Of course this happened to everyone so we are all probably on hold for the same reason. This promises to be a very exciting Sunday afternoon... Oh wait, did I mention that I have to be connected to the wired Internet... which is in my brothers room. Not too bad except my brother is a chain smoker and I of course have a sensitivity to cigarette smoke, of which his rooms reeks. Yay!!!!

BTW I have been on hold the entire time I was writing this post... comcast... SUCKS!

11 days

I only have 11 days till I arrive in Seattle.

On another note I FINALLY found a good Japanese restaurant in Miami where the sushi is not only fresh, but at an adequate temperature. The other dishes were also quite good and I think, as good as their sushi is, I am going to try the dinners next time. So if you add to the this the Chinese restaurant we found that is really good, all I need now is a good Indian restaurant. My brother has been searching and it does not seem likely. But one day we will find it, and Miami will be culinarily complete!