All Things Charlee Chase
Posted: September 17th, 2017, 11:15 am
Hey everyone! Rather than trying to find all the specific threads that were active in my section I figured why not just have ONE section for all things me!?
Things have been FUCKING NUTS lately! As I'm sure the majority of you know Hurricane Irma just came through, but first, let me back up just a tiny bit.
Our family situation has changed slightly. Hubbys mom is moving in with us. She has Parkinson's (has for some time) and to make a very long story short, she needs a place to be where there are people around her all the time .... so .... yeah.
That being said, though our house is large and has several rooms, it's only SO big. Every room was accounted for already and it's safe to say I cannot WORK anymore with her in the house. It's been difficult enough over the years working around school schedules, sicknesses, holidays, etc... but this throws a MAJOR kink in my day to day operations. So, after searching for about 2 weeks, we found a house to move the "office" to. Now by office, I mean the ACTUAL office (the room she'll soon be staying in - that houses Both of our desks / computers / inventory for our other business, etc) as well as ALL things for THIS side of my work as well. I won't be able to CAM at home any longer, so Monday mornings, I'll have to go to the office to prepare myself and the office, etc. Everything is currently in major upheaval.
We received the keys, had electricity, water, and internet turned on (skipped cable bc hey, it's just a place to go to work), moved over SOME of the work stuff, bought some of the basic essentials, like water, toilet paper, bath mats, ya know, basic shit and then BOOM ... Surprise, Hurricane Irma is headed RIGHT FOR US.
Well, with everything being what it is and with us having spent a week running around like lunatics moving shit (still no actual furniture at the office except computer desks), the last minute turn of the stupid hurricane threw a major monkey wrench in our lives just that much more. We had to go stock up on water, non-perishable foods, batteries for the bazillion flashlights we thankfully already owned, gas, bread, hand held battery operated fans (knowing that electric goes out at our place - just because it's Tuesday sometimes) ..... so fully expected that to go.
Sounds easy enough, only ALL stores were sold out of EVERYTHING. Our entire county didn't have water ANYWHERE for days on end. Now, normally, that wouldn't be an issue, because I always buy quite a bit of water every week when I go shopping anyway, because it's ALL I drink .... However, we ended up hosting, which meant there was a total of 8 people, 6 cats and a pit bull who eats cats for fun in our house. Obviously the dog had to remain crated.
While we had custom made boards to cover all but 2 of the windows (each weighing over 100 lbs), we apparently DIDN'T have PlyLocks ... which are required to actually install them, and of course, no stores for 100 miles had any available, so in order to attempt to protect our house, we had to cut down pieces of wood and hammer them into the wood, wedging it between the house and the plywood. So what should have taken maybe a couple hours, took ALL day. By then, as we were finally packed and ready to leave, all gas stations were sold out of gas (again), and we were told if we'd not yet left, not to bother because we couldn't safely make it out of the state. Alrighty then.
12:20AM ... power went out (as I expected). It was a long sleepless night as we could hear trees going down, on the roof and elsewhere, transformers blowing left and right.
We are all safe and sound. That's all that truly matters. There's some damage, plenty of uprooted trees, portions of the fence are completely missing, and of course it's not wooden fence which you can have replaced for next to nothing ... obviously lost all food in fridge/freezer, (we'd just stocked up BEFORE the dumb hurricane decided to head our way), we JUST got power back yesterday... so it's been a long week. An adjuster will be contacting us to set up when they can make it out in a few days to come up with a total damage estimate. There's still a huge hunk of tree that's completely broken off but stuck up in the tree. It's a giant Oak tree and if it falls, it will cause damage or death depending on the direction it goes, so that needs to be removed ASAP. Needless to say, I'm not letting anyone outside until it's been professionally removed! School closed all week. Spent the days putting things back where they belong, for maybe 2 hours at a time, but it's just too hot to be out there for too long without reprieve , so hit the mall, fun kids stuff and have pretty much eaten out every single meal for a week now.
I can honestly say I've had zero idea what day it is for days now. It's all been kinda surreal to be honest. I'll post an update shortly playing catch up on all the movies I've seen lately, etc. In the meantime, just working on getting things back in place, setting up the new office, getting things there so I can actually WORK again (I won't be able to cam tomorrow) ... there is ZERO furniture there ... and I'm not sitting on the tile floor for an hour ... sorry guys! and getting the old office set up to house someone else.
Life is nonstop!
Things have been FUCKING NUTS lately! As I'm sure the majority of you know Hurricane Irma just came through, but first, let me back up just a tiny bit.
Our family situation has changed slightly. Hubbys mom is moving in with us. She has Parkinson's (has for some time) and to make a very long story short, she needs a place to be where there are people around her all the time .... so .... yeah.
That being said, though our house is large and has several rooms, it's only SO big. Every room was accounted for already and it's safe to say I cannot WORK anymore with her in the house. It's been difficult enough over the years working around school schedules, sicknesses, holidays, etc... but this throws a MAJOR kink in my day to day operations. So, after searching for about 2 weeks, we found a house to move the "office" to. Now by office, I mean the ACTUAL office (the room she'll soon be staying in - that houses Both of our desks / computers / inventory for our other business, etc) as well as ALL things for THIS side of my work as well. I won't be able to CAM at home any longer, so Monday mornings, I'll have to go to the office to prepare myself and the office, etc. Everything is currently in major upheaval.
We received the keys, had electricity, water, and internet turned on (skipped cable bc hey, it's just a place to go to work), moved over SOME of the work stuff, bought some of the basic essentials, like water, toilet paper, bath mats, ya know, basic shit and then BOOM ... Surprise, Hurricane Irma is headed RIGHT FOR US.
Well, with everything being what it is and with us having spent a week running around like lunatics moving shit (still no actual furniture at the office except computer desks), the last minute turn of the stupid hurricane threw a major monkey wrench in our lives just that much more. We had to go stock up on water, non-perishable foods, batteries for the bazillion flashlights we thankfully already owned, gas, bread, hand held battery operated fans (knowing that electric goes out at our place - just because it's Tuesday sometimes) ..... so fully expected that to go.
Sounds easy enough, only ALL stores were sold out of EVERYTHING. Our entire county didn't have water ANYWHERE for days on end. Now, normally, that wouldn't be an issue, because I always buy quite a bit of water every week when I go shopping anyway, because it's ALL I drink .... However, we ended up hosting, which meant there was a total of 8 people, 6 cats and a pit bull who eats cats for fun in our house. Obviously the dog had to remain crated.
While we had custom made boards to cover all but 2 of the windows (each weighing over 100 lbs), we apparently DIDN'T have PlyLocks ... which are required to actually install them, and of course, no stores for 100 miles had any available, so in order to attempt to protect our house, we had to cut down pieces of wood and hammer them into the wood, wedging it between the house and the plywood. So what should have taken maybe a couple hours, took ALL day. By then, as we were finally packed and ready to leave, all gas stations were sold out of gas (again), and we were told if we'd not yet left, not to bother because we couldn't safely make it out of the state. Alrighty then.
12:20AM ... power went out (as I expected). It was a long sleepless night as we could hear trees going down, on the roof and elsewhere, transformers blowing left and right.
We are all safe and sound. That's all that truly matters. There's some damage, plenty of uprooted trees, portions of the fence are completely missing, and of course it's not wooden fence which you can have replaced for next to nothing ... obviously lost all food in fridge/freezer, (we'd just stocked up BEFORE the dumb hurricane decided to head our way), we JUST got power back yesterday... so it's been a long week. An adjuster will be contacting us to set up when they can make it out in a few days to come up with a total damage estimate. There's still a huge hunk of tree that's completely broken off but stuck up in the tree. It's a giant Oak tree and if it falls, it will cause damage or death depending on the direction it goes, so that needs to be removed ASAP. Needless to say, I'm not letting anyone outside until it's been professionally removed! School closed all week. Spent the days putting things back where they belong, for maybe 2 hours at a time, but it's just too hot to be out there for too long without reprieve , so hit the mall, fun kids stuff and have pretty much eaten out every single meal for a week now.
I can honestly say I've had zero idea what day it is for days now. It's all been kinda surreal to be honest. I'll post an update shortly playing catch up on all the movies I've seen lately, etc. In the meantime, just working on getting things back in place, setting up the new office, getting things there so I can actually WORK again (I won't be able to cam tomorrow) ... there is ZERO furniture there ... and I'm not sitting on the tile floor for an hour ... sorry guys! and getting the old office set up to house someone else.
Life is nonstop!