AH! I am a bit fed up with the Green Moving company. They are, I am afraid, the WORST moving company around! First they said they would show up Wednesday June 3erd b/w 10 and Noon to pack us. They showed up at 3:15pm. The foremen then did a walk through of our house and said the total price to move us would be about $6,000, maybe $6,400...not the same number they gave us on the phone, but we decided to leave stuff behind to try and stay under $6,000. The foreman spent about 90% of his time at my house on the phone, talking to someone in another language. The other 3 guys did most of the packing...only 2 of them had never packed a house before and were getting instructions as they went (read:slow and they broke stuff. Yes, they did. They broke pictures.). Also, at least 2 of the 4 guys took a smoke break every hour(Um...GREEN movers?). When Dan asked them not to smoke in the house (DUH!) they moved to the front yard, where they LEFT THEIR BUTTS IN MY YARD!!!! Finally, at 1am, they finished packing us. That is when we were told to sign a paper agreeing to a price of 8,600 dollars. What? No thanks. I asked them to please start taking boxes off the truck, but the foreman refused. Instead he said he was sure this situation would be handled to our satisfaction in the next day. He told us our things would likely arrive in Colorado on Tuesday the 9th, but he couldn't promise anything in less then 10 days. The movers left, with most of our stuff, but not everything in the walk through by a long shot, in their truck, for Dallas.
The next day, after lots of time on the phone, they had dropped the price to 8,450 dollars and expected us to be happy. Yah, right. When all was said and done we agreed to pay 7,900 dollars for their services...which weren't worth it, but what choice did we have? They had our things in Dallas!
Now here we are on Saturday, June 13th. Unless our stuff left this morning, it is still in Dallas, waiting for "the next truck" to leave for Colorado. This is not cool of them. I feel like they are a bunch of lier's and cheaters. Which totally sucks, b/c I normally like people. I WANT to like people. Maybe individually these people are great, but when they call themselves the "Green Movers", who plant trees to move you, they suck hard!
Oh. And they won't tell us the weight of the truck. I am soo sure they packed us poorly..but that is more of some of the same from above.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Colorado!!
We are here! And so far, I am loving it. I lost my computer, the moving guys haven't called giving us an ETA on the arrival of or stuff, but I don't think anything could steel the happiness I feel over getting to live here. When we got here last night, I was wishing for a thicker sweatshirt and jeans. I am just in awe over this. It is June and beautiful out! Thank you God for Colorado!
The kids are loving our house here. It is 2 story and has a walkout basement. they just ran circle through the house for a full thirty minutes last night. I couldn't believe how excited they were and are. I will try to post some pictures soon...but being I don't have a computer at home right now, it may be awhile. Thank you to all of you for the prayers and emails. And THANK YOU to Mike and Raena for helping us clean out the house Monday!!!! You two are such great friends. we will be missing you a lot.
The kids are loving our house here. It is 2 story and has a walkout basement. they just ran circle through the house for a full thirty minutes last night. I couldn't believe how excited they were and are. I will try to post some pictures soon...but being I don't have a computer at home right now, it may be awhile. Thank you to all of you for the prayers and emails. And THANK YOU to Mike and Raena for helping us clean out the house Monday!!!! You two are such great friends. we will be missing you a lot.
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Rocky Hill Ranch/ Hells Hills- July 6,2009
WOO-HOO!!! I ran a race and did well. :) Going into this race, I did A LOT of personal research and preparation to try and improve how I felt during a race. I have felt "off" for about a year with my running in races, so this just feels GREAT! OK, here is the report... more detailed then most of my reports, b/c I want to put in my race day prep.
Daniel and I are in the process of moving to CO. On Wednesday, the moving guys came and packed up our house (mostly..but that and the stress of this move is another story for another time). We woke up at a little before 3am, rolled of the not too comfy comforter on the floor, and began getting ready to race. I made 3 English muffin, egg and cheese sandwiches (low fat cheese in 3 different flavors), ate 1.4 of them, and left the rest for Dan. Then I took a lukewarm shower to let my skin soak up water to capacity. I know this sounds funny. But Dan has been doing research and experimenting with hydration. This trick he read about worked for him, so I wanted to give it a try. Then I drunk some water and took 1 S Cap.
We left our house a little after 3:30 and headed to Smithvillie. About 4:45am, we pulled through a McDonalds drive through for coffee. I had a large nonfat mocha, 3 (not 6) pumps of chocolate and yes to the wiped cream.
We got to Rocky Hill Ranch at 5:50, and I took another S Cap. Being the race started at 6am, we hurried through check-in and a potty stop. I grabbed 2 Hammer Gels and the race began. Aid stations were at 5.5miles, 10.5, and then the start/finish area at 15.5 miles. My nutrition plan was to carry my S Caps and gels, but drink the water only at the aid stations. At the 1st station, I ate a Hammer Gel and drunk 2 cups of water. My running plan was to start at a comfortable pace that didn't feel slow. I knew from my current long runs this would be under 7mph, but over 6.5. I figured I would pick the pace up to hit 14 in about 2 hrs and then take it from there based on how I was feeling. At the end of the first hour, my Garmin 405 said I had run 6.9 miles. :) I was feeling great, and ready to pick it up. Just before the next aid station, I ate another gel and took another S Cap. At the station I drunk 3 cups of water. I finished the first 15.5 mile loop in about 2:08, and I was feeling great!! It was getting hot, but I was feeling ready to take on the heat. I ditched my soaking shirt, grabbed 3 more Hammer Gels, drank lots of water and started loop 2. Shortly after starting this loop, my legs started feeling heavy, so I followed my instinct and downed a gel. I reached the 1st aid station in just under 3hrs, took 1 cap, another gel, and 3 more cups of water. At this point I was supper excited. I was over 21 miles into this 50k, running in the heat, and still feeling great! For the next 10 miles I just run as hard as I could get myself to run with out getting out of breath. I walked the 2 mondo hills in the last 3miles, but really pushed the end other then that. I finished in 4:20:41. First female, second finisher. But the more exciting part for me was getting to set a new course record. :) I've never done that before. :) :)
Also extreamly exciting: Daniel finished his 1st ultra!!!!! GO DANIEL!!!!!!!!!! I love my hubby.:)
Daniel and I are in the process of moving to CO. On Wednesday, the moving guys came and packed up our house (mostly..but that and the stress of this move is another story for another time). We woke up at a little before 3am, rolled of the not too comfy comforter on the floor, and began getting ready to race. I made 3 English muffin, egg and cheese sandwiches (low fat cheese in 3 different flavors), ate 1.4 of them, and left the rest for Dan. Then I took a lukewarm shower to let my skin soak up water to capacity. I know this sounds funny. But Dan has been doing research and experimenting with hydration. This trick he read about worked for him, so I wanted to give it a try. Then I drunk some water and took 1 S Cap.
We left our house a little after 3:30 and headed to Smithvillie. About 4:45am, we pulled through a McDonalds drive through for coffee. I had a large nonfat mocha, 3 (not 6) pumps of chocolate and yes to the wiped cream.
We got to Rocky Hill Ranch at 5:50, and I took another S Cap. Being the race started at 6am, we hurried through check-in and a potty stop. I grabbed 2 Hammer Gels and the race began. Aid stations were at 5.5miles, 10.5, and then the start/finish area at 15.5 miles. My nutrition plan was to carry my S Caps and gels, but drink the water only at the aid stations. At the 1st station, I ate a Hammer Gel and drunk 2 cups of water. My running plan was to start at a comfortable pace that didn't feel slow. I knew from my current long runs this would be under 7mph, but over 6.5. I figured I would pick the pace up to hit 14 in about 2 hrs and then take it from there based on how I was feeling. At the end of the first hour, my Garmin 405 said I had run 6.9 miles. :) I was feeling great, and ready to pick it up. Just before the next aid station, I ate another gel and took another S Cap. At the station I drunk 3 cups of water. I finished the first 15.5 mile loop in about 2:08, and I was feeling great!! It was getting hot, but I was feeling ready to take on the heat. I ditched my soaking shirt, grabbed 3 more Hammer Gels, drank lots of water and started loop 2. Shortly after starting this loop, my legs started feeling heavy, so I followed my instinct and downed a gel. I reached the 1st aid station in just under 3hrs, took 1 cap, another gel, and 3 more cups of water. At this point I was supper excited. I was over 21 miles into this 50k, running in the heat, and still feeling great! For the next 10 miles I just run as hard as I could get myself to run with out getting out of breath. I walked the 2 mondo hills in the last 3miles, but really pushed the end other then that. I finished in 4:20:41. First female, second finisher. But the more exciting part for me was getting to set a new course record. :) I've never done that before. :) :)
Also extreamly exciting: Daniel finished his 1st ultra!!!!! GO DANIEL!!!!!!!!!! I love my hubby.:)
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