First Post From the Land of Cheese!

Yes, I finally feel like I am back to living once again. It's been about a month and a half of slowly losing my connections to the world (ie internet, household goods, recieving mail) in preperation for our move and then slowly getting them back. And that's a heck of a L-O-N-G time to be without. But today offically marks the end of it (at least for the next three years), as my internet got connected today. Yipee!
We made it out here to Wisconsin in about ten days. We took two days to stop in Montana and North Dakota to visit Ryan's family. The stops were much needed after several days in a row of 8+ hours of traveling. It was a good trip and I'll post pictures when my camera arrives back here at the house (Ryan took it underway with him). We or I should say for the time being "I" am finally settled into our new home. You don't realize how much you love your bed, good sharp knives, and a washer and dryer that are quiet and work awesome until you have to do without! I am in a whirlwind around here most every day making this house our home and filling it with our dirt. There's something about dirt being your own and not someone else's that is so much comfort when you have to clean it up. And what is the best thing about a new house? White walls of course! All the endless possibilities of color I could splash on them and the hours of furniture arranging making it just right. It all make me so giddy. I took about a days break after putting most of the house together and then I decided that the master bathroom must be re-done. Ahh the smell of fresh paint!!! I believe it might possibly be better than the smell of fresh sheets. (Don't worry I checked with the dr. and it's zero VOC to boot.) Saturday I am off to Green Bay with a friend to go check out fixtures to complete "the look."
So far I really like the town. It's very charming with a lot of old houses which are immaculently maintained. Did you know they fine you if your grass gets too long? So on any given day you can drive past and see at least a handful of people out doing yard work. The locals are really helpful, well unless they are in a customer service postion but that's a whole nother story.
Well that's a start. There's so much to say but I'll wait until I get my camera so I can add pic to go along.

BTW- Does anyone know what "Soup to Nuts" means? I know what it means, in essence something that is from start to finish but what relevence does soup and nuts have to the meaning? I thought about making soup from scratch and then the final touch would be to top it with nuts. But I've never seen people use nuts in place of crackers. Any thoughts? ...maybe I do need to lay off the painting a bit.