Finally posting....I know it's been awhile

Finally posting. After a long time. So much has been going on I don't even know where to really start.
I know! The baby room!! OH MY GOSH!! I am so excited. The painting and the all the stuff on the walls is DONE!!! (: Now, we have changed out theme about 10 times or more. It's kind of ridiculous actually. I drew out plans on paper, colored them, everything. We brain stormed, and brain stormed. Finally we picked a theme. Wanna know? ok, I tell you...but only with a picture. (: Cause I love pictures.
AMAZING??!! I know...it is. We painted the walls. Put up murals. Bought a new dresser and am going back to IKEA to buy those flower lights they have for kids rooms. You know...these...
3 are going over the closet. 2 white ones and 1 pink one. Then with a white one replacing the old, gross one on the wall. The room is pretty much done, but I won't be posting pics until I have all the furniture in the room.
We also bought this... I love it! It's going to go over the cradle, so she will be my little Tinkerbell princess.
So yeah. As soon as the room gets completly organized I won't put up pictures. So I guess everyone will just have to stay tuned to see the finished product. (:

Baby showers...

oooh how I love baby showers. They are so exciting and fun. Of course when you are being given the baby shower it is ten times more exciting and fun. Right? (:
Colors that I love for the baby shower: hot pink and orange

I mean how awesome are those colors?!!? They just really make me happy in side. (:

I went to lunch with my mother-in-law and 2 sister-in-laws at Ikea and after we ate we went and looked around the place and I absolutley fell in love with some of the things there!
I love this mobile. It goes perfectly with out theme for the baby room. We are doing an under the theme sea, so all of our stuff is sea things. I love that theme. It seems like everything is zoo of the wild animal theme. It's nice to see something different.

I also fell in love with this:
I think it is a perfect dresser to put underneath the baby changer and storing her diapers and so on. It is also a perfect height and length to place our fish tank on it. Ikea has some great things.

Just 9 weeks left til I am full term. To think that I could have a baby in 9 weeks is crazy. Although I don't think that is possible she will probably be late. Which kind of makes me sad cause I want her to be here already. But soon enough I guess, soon enough.
Baby Alexandra we are so excited to meet you! You are dearly loved!

The beginning of the month

is always the busiest and hardest for us. This is when people move out, rent is due and everyone complains about everything at the same time.

This month we have 3 move outs. Which mean the following
*lots and lots of paperwork ):
*doing walkthroughs with the tenants and letting them know what they need to do to get their deposit back
*doing the final walkthrough and letting them know what they are going to get charged for (if anything)
*calling the painters, carpet cleaners/replacement guys, cleaning guys and getting a maintenance guy to come and do rehab for the apartment, all so they aren't overlapping and it gets done within 3 days of the tenant moving out
*then filling out a closing statement that is due app 14 days after the tenant moves out determining whether they get some or all of their deposit back or have to pay the company more money for leaving their apartment a mess
*if the tenant owes money, getting angry phone calls of why they got charged with bills
this whole process, including all paperwork lasts about a month before things are back to normal with that apartment. Now that isn't including trying to rent out the apartment. Having to put up marketing posters and ads everywhere and then scheduling times for people to come and view the apartments is a whole other story. And then trying to sell people on the apartment is hard as well. I can show an apartment, but then getting them to come back with the application is a problem within itself.

Plus not to mention having rent due the first 3 days of the month. I have to copy all the checks in order of the apartments. We have 44 units. They don't all have the same rent. The tenants don't always pay with just one check, sometimes one, sometimes 3. I can only put 3 checks on a page to copy. You can only imagine the amount of checks I have to copy. Then, after coping them, I have to write on the back of each one the account number. I then have to add them up with their total and put it on the deposit slip. While doing that I have to imput them into an Excel page called "rent roll" which lets me know if the tenant paid all their rent or is short some or over. I then have to go deposit the checks on the 3rd to pay the mortagage, which sometimes means that I don't have all the checks yet because people have until 8 am of the 4th to give me checks. So I have to make multiple trips to the back and to long beach to turn in these checks. IT'S A HASSEl!! Hence, why no one hardly sees up for the first week of the month.

Now writing this out it doesn't seem like that much of work. But it gets overwhelming sometimes. I have to keep track of everything and can't lose anything either. If I do, it's my butt of the line and we could lose our apartment and our job. Pressure much!? Not to mention we only have 1 car so that makes it very difficult to go up to long beach and the bank when I need to. Busy, busy busy.

I just had to get my frustrations out. I will post a more happy post later tonight about the baby and baby showers and all that jazz. Thanks for letting me rant.