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We rented out our old house today!! So happy that our plan worked. The renters want to move in on sunday..which gives us very little time to get all of our stuff out and clean the place. I am overwhelmed at the moment and waiting for the dish network guy to come hook us up. He will be here between 12 and 5...gotta love that. I have a few new pictures, but only of the living room. I won't post anymore until I'm done with each room...

This week, my friend and co-worker, Olga, passed away. She had a stroke a few nights ago and that was that. She left behind five children and a husband that hasn't worked in two months. They haven't paid rent in two months and I'm sure their are other bills too. It is so sad, so terribly sad. I went to the viewing yesterday at their house. I have never gone to anything like that before. It was actually pretty normal feeling being that Olga was just laying there in the living room. They couldn't afford a casket or embalming, so there she was, on a gurney, with everyone sitting around on the sofas. It was like she took the place of the T.V. for the day. Very few people there speak english and all were praying in spanish. Her sisters and brothers all came in from Texas and California. She would have loved to have comforted them...thats what Olga did, she took care of everyone. She was always beyond her limits which was frusterating to watch knowing that she didn't keep anything, time, energy or money for herself.
Pinche Olge, you will be missed

My sisters blog......

I was down and out on the computer world for about a week, about a week ago......I am back on now and I have some tome this morning to wander.....so I checked out one of my fave blogs. Sarah, my sister, wrote about childhood memories. My memories do indeed match hers. Using chunky peanut butter when we were out of tape to hang my cool posters in our room is a top one. Sarah also had a tape recorder which we used almost daily for a while. We would record ourselves, our cat purring and our dad snoring...which would always make us giggle and our laughter would drown out the snores and eventually wake our dad. He never thought it was as funny as we did. We also had a radio flyer wagon that Sarah would talk me into taking down the big dead end hill that we lived on. I would also take "the nerd mobile", my small big wheel type trike, down the same hill. I would get so scared that I would bail half way down every time. I still have the same reaction to speed and fear....probably why I have never been able to ski or snowboard.
Pistachio pudding facials I remember very vividly...do you remember how mad mom was at us?? She had a client over to look at wedding rings and Sarah and I were in trouble for being bad at dinner.....punishment was to sit at the dining room table and finish dinner, which included the pudding. Sarah told me to do it so I did. Our mom came in to introduce this woman to us and there we sat, laughing, with pistachio pudding dripping from our faces. There are so many more too...making perfume in our fort...climbing our trees and getting yelled at from my elder siblings for climbing THEIR trees....mine was the smallest and you couldn't really even climb it. They were our space ships.

Paint, paint, paint

We are going to start painting the interior of our new place on monday!! Jenna, the current owner, is a great lady and feels that the house is ours and we can do whatever we want with it. We brought all of the dogs over yesterday for the first time......they loved it. We hung out there for about 5 hours. We had our first guests stop over too...Steph, of course, was there and our new neighbors a block away that are good friends of mine. They have a 12 yr old and a 1 yr old...Turkey let Jade, the 12 yr old hold her and then chose to sit on her lap.....amazing!!! Akai barely even freaked out when they came over. We are so excited.
Tonight Steph and I are going down to Telluride and Ouray for a running race she is in. We are bringing Zucca and camping out tonight and hotspringing it tomorrow. It should be a lot of fun. We are going to stop at a friends house that just had sled dog puppies.......so steph may be coming home with a new baby!
I got offered a great job in town yesterday. Our local coffee shop proprietors offered me the job of general manager......seems to be my place to be these days......We are getting together on monday to discuss the details. I am pretty excited about it though. It is a block away from our house, it would be a day job, they are talking about benefits, paid vacations and bonuses! I just really feel like both Sam and myself are living the lives that we want....FINALLY!!!
Sam moved out here to work in the ski and food industry...and now he is running the food and beverage department at Ski Cooper. I moved out here to............well, I always wanted to live in a small mountain town...and I've been figuring out the rest along the way.

Patience......

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1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2. an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay: to have patience with a slow learner.
3. quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence: to work with patience.

This is a word that has never been used to describe me by anyone that knows me. The 15th of September...close? yes...but yet so damn far away.
I am so excited to move into our home. We finished picking out all of our interior colors last night so now I want to get in there and paint NOW. I can't wait for you all to see the place...so beautiful.
Akai is a funny one...every time we have driven by the house she gets excited and starts sniffing like crazy...she smells the place on us...so she and I spent a few hours there a couple days ago. We threw the ball, marked up the yard, drank some water, did some people watching and even took a short nap. She likes the house and yard...she is the decider in the family.
First thing we will do to the house is add on a prison-style top to the fence. Ottis has multiple scars on his stomach from years of escaping fences. The only thing that has worked is to have a top that is bent in with chicken wire and posts. That should scare anyone from building on the empty lot next to us.
We are going to leave the exterior of the house the way it is until next summer. We have a few ideas for paint though....duh. I have a friend that is a Leadville history buff and she is going to check on the historic paint of this house...if we like it then we will do that..if not...reds, yellows and oranges...Casa De Fuerte. The House of Fire.
Must get ready for work now...the dogs are about to eat me.