Mountain Time

Hello from Colorado!

This is weird. Maybe it's because K has been busy for the past 2 days, so I sit at home car-less, tv-less, and jacked up on iced tea. I wake up every day (so far) at like 8 or 830. Really? Who am I? Maybe it's because I'm not used to mountain time yet, so my body really thinks I am waking up at 930. Also maybe it's because I'm sleeping on the world's most uncomfortable air mattress.

It is freaking hot in Colorado. It's freezing at night (K likes to sleep with the sliding glass door open) and then it's like two thousand degrees of just pure hotness during the day. I'm used to Iowa where it's humid and hot and you feel sticky instantly when you go outside. But here, instead of sticky I feel dehydrated and like I am starting to shrivel up. I'm sure it's all in my head.

I am trying moderately hard to get settled here, which is difficult because we don't have all of our stuff. Thankfully we will have it by Thursday night, but then comes the unpacking part which makes me tired just thinking about it. Living on the second floor is so great because there is a gorgeous view and it makes me feel a little safer, but carrying all that stuff up the stairs makes me want to ask our downstairs neighbors if they'd like to trade apartments. Mostly everything that we brought with us in our cars has been unpacked with the exception of clothes. I have become mildly obsessed with our Keurig (chai tea!) and iced tea maker. I didn't even like iced tea two weeks ago and today alone I have finished almost a whole pitcher. K bought a router for our internet yesterday which I am extremely grateful for, because I spent a good hour sitting in our closet where the ethernet is hooked up so that I could be online. Cable doesn't get hooked up until Saturday, so the router has been especially wonderful today. My cousin Gretchen and her roommate came to visit me yesterday, which was awesome because it kept my mind off of moving and being alone. I am excited to go visit her in Denver soon (they have a Tiffany's there!) and for our outing with the boys to a Rockies game.

That's all for now. I'll post again after we get our stuff!
xoxo e