A New Life

Well, another big gap in my posts. Oh well. Anyway, a lot of things have been going on since my last post. The first big thing is that we are trying to move. Yes, move. After five years and three kids later, M wants to move. Where you ask? To Missouri I she says. Somewhere that has four seasons instead of warm, hot and fucking hot. Yes, folks after 38 years of living in this city on the face of the sun they call Phoenix, I am ready to move. I want my children to know what grass is and what trees are instead of cactus and rocks. I want them to be able to play outside without the fear of melting.

M wants to move in about 2-3 weeks when her mom moves to Missouri also. I just don't think that we can get everything done in time. We haven't packed a single room yet and since the air conditioning is out, we can only spend short periods of time in the house without fear of death. And the house is not ready to sell yet. We need to get the floors fixed, a new door put on, paint. I don't even know what to do about the air conditioning. Who wants to buy a house without air in Phoenix? Two places said with would cost about $6,500 to replace since the system is too old to repair. One place I called yesterday said that is a bunch if shit and will be out today to give me an estimate on replacing just the inside unit and not the condenser outside...

As for me and the family, We really do need to move. Missoure is not top on my list of places to move, but I am ok with it. As long as we get a house with a yard for the kids and the dog, I will be fine. Needless to say, this whole moving thing is not going as we would want. My stomach is getting in nots and feels sick all the time. Hopefully after we move it will go back to normal.

Also we don't even have a place to move to yet. I will give it the old college try though, but I don't think that we will make it in the time frame that she wants. I am sure that her mom will be able to move without us. But M's mom is supposed to be out of her house and move on the 8th I think and if we don't move with her, she won't move...I know, I don't get it either, but I am afraid that M is going to move with her and leave me here. I don't know why she can't understand that if we can't move, we have to stay until we can move. And to top it all off, she is pregnant again. I think that is one of the main reasons that she decided to move last month. That if we stayed here for the baby to be born, we would never leave. Which in not true. I would prefer that we stay until after the baby. I really like the hospital and doctor we have and would give us more time to fix the house and find a place that we would like instead of settle for whatever we could get. I am really excited about the baby, but for everyone else, it seems to be pushed to the side because of moving.

And another thing. A week or so ago, a woke up with a terrible pain in my side. I did not know what was going on. All I knew is that my side hurt to the point of bringing me tears to my eyes. After about a half our or so of me moaning, my wife drove me to the county hospital because I have no health ins. While there, the pain got so bad that I litteraly started crying. Finally the took me back and gave me a bed. When the doctor came back to give me the once over, she asked if I have ever had kidney stones. Kidney stones? No. I said. Well, that is what I think you have, she replied. They gave me a CT scan and it showed that was it. They gave me an IV full of nice things to take away the pain and put me in and out of conciousness. When we finally got back home, the pain started again so I took some more nice medicine and the pain went on vacation for a while. After that, it really didn't bother me anymore. I would only wish that kind of pain on my worst enemy. It was the most intense pain that I have ever felt and do not EVER want to feel again. But since then, my intake of fluid seems to far out weigh the output which comes few and far between. I hope there is not anything else going on in there because I don't have any health ins.

Intil next time....I say 'Good Day'