Wow- closing went really fast (except I had to go back and sign my middle initial on a bunch of pages)~ I am now officially a homeowner! :-)
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Signing Day! Well it's not exactly the NFL draft, but tomorrow I go sign all the closing papers and I will officially be a homeowner! Gulp! I've been testing my various pens tonight and I believe I've chosen the one with the best ink, so I'm set. My brain is quite nearly on overload. I am trying to decide betwen 60+ shades of blue paint, looking for just the right one, and then once I have that figured out, I have to decide between eggshell vs flat vs satin vs semigloss vs ??? And that's just for one room! I still have two different greens to choose and a red and a khaki. Don't even get me started on choosing carpet! I will be so relieved when the paperwork is done and I can finally order those new address labels I've been eyeing... ;-) Ok ok, I'm excited about painting and decorating too.
It's been enlightening to open rarely-used drawers and see what I've accumulated in the past 5 years! While I know better than to promise that I'll never buy any of the following things again ... I really should avoid any aisles that sell: sticky note pads (I've counted over 20 so far) Lotions and soaps Hair products (I'm not even admitting this number) Chapstick/lip gloss/ lip balm pens and markers boxes of cute little cards cleaning supplies - 5 nearly-full bottles of Windex says it all! Skinny magnetic tablets - nearly tied with number of sticky note pads Ugh! Friday - And to that list, add candles! Tealights, jar candles, in-between candles oh boy! I'm almost afraid to label the outside of these boxes for fear that those kind people who have volunteered to help me move will change their minds!! I can't help but think that if anyone were to break in and see all these drug boxes, they might think they're really going to get something good!! Won...
Welcome to the world, little Miss Emma Elizabeth! My friend and I had plans to meet for lunch after her doctor's appointment but apparently the baby decided she felt like having today as her birthday instead, so I quickly unreserved the table and headed to the store to buy flowers and a magazine for mom and a princess coloring book for the big sister, and then headed up to the hospital. Emma is just perfect and is already showing signs of having pretty hair like her mom and sister! Yay - another excuse to buy girl clothes!
Ok - here's the big news: I bought a house! Yes, I have made the brave jump from the carefree, irresponsible life of a renter and am in the process of becoming a homeowner! It still has to be inspected and there are rumored to be a ridiculous number of papers to sign, but once that's all over .... it's mine! Woo hoo! So yes, that means I'm staying in Yakima. I like the sunshine, I like the fruit, I love my job, I love the food at the hospital most of the time, I like my Safeway store, I like my dentist, I like my doctor, I like my coworkers - basically I pretty much love my life! The location is perfect. I can (theoretically) walk to work, although we'll see about that. I'm near a fantastic park, a pool, my gym, and a few restaurants. The inside is cottage style, which really appeals to me. It's a 1940's house but appears to have been re-done on the inside. It had all the things I wanted when I made my "What my dream house looks like"...
I just got back from a very fun weekend in Edmonton. I have never seen so much snow in one afternoon like I did on Friday afternoon-evening-night! It made it quite beautiful, especially when the sun came out as I was leaving today. The weekend started with a very fun twist -- a semi-blind date! A ticket to a hockey game (how great is that?!) was dropped off at Kirk and Shannon's house Friday morning. Shannon picked me up in the afternoon and I had some time to get a quick review of my date's winning qualities from Ayva. I had a slight advantage because I knew who the date was - Kirk's brother Jeff - , but it was still pretty suspenseful because I had never met him and the plan was that we would meet when we reached our seats! Pretty cool, huh? Shannon and Ayva were both pretty excited about the whole thing, so much so that Jeff apparently offered to buy them tickets a few rows back so they could be there to watch. smirk~ I didn't take any pictures, silly me, but ...
And they said you couldn't predict the future! If the 9-question Facebook quiz I just took is to be believed, I will be getting married in 4 years and 1 month! Who knew?! Would it be sooner if I had chosen a different season as my favorite? Oh well, I think it's a lovely timeline because it will give me time to finish up my goal of visiting the 6 main continents (sorry, Antarctica) before settling down, find an outfit, and whatever else goes into it. In college I saw a picture of a wedding cake with some particularly striking flowers, and I foolishly commented to my best friend about how cool it looked. He patted me on the head and told me not to get my hopes up because those flowers might very well be extinct before I got married. hmmph! Sorry, it doesn't give any info about the future groom. I can only hope he likes silver hairs! ;-)
Opinion time!! Okay - so here's my debate .... daybed vs twin bed. It's for my extra room that's currently an office/sporting good storage/second closet. I hear daybeds are hard to make - any opinions or tips on that? Just thinking that maybe my lack of extra beds is the reason why visitors are so few and far between. If you have any other opinions or ideas as to why that might be - keep those to yourself - this is just open forum on which kind of bed to get! ;-) smirk
So I've been blog-jumping, following links from one friend's blog to another, to another, to another, until I'm looking at blogs of people I don't know, and I was seeing this recurrent theme of "all about the kids." Rather than having my blog be entirely about the wonder-nephews, I'll try to spice it up for those of you who live vicariously through my adventures. So my latest profound discovery about myself ... I hope you're all sitting down .... SHOES AREN'T MY GREATEST WEAKNESS!! Nope, I have come to realize that bags/purses/wristlets/?? are my greatest weakness! I really don't even want to add them all up and put the number out there but ... last week I went into the hospital gift shop for some candy and walked out with a purse instead! Maybe I'll take some pictures of purses and post them :-) Next trip, unless something else comes up before then ... Edmonton!
Greetings from Montana. I enjoyed my first skiing day of the year although I am once again going through this frustrating, painful routine of "Which socks are the ones that don't hurt?" Darn bony legs! Anyhow, it was great to ski with Debbie again and to realize that I didn't forget all the neat stuff she taught me. Day 1 is done, now I need some drugs and some sleep!!! Day 2 and 3 update - the drugs didn't work.... ow... this is so undignified!!
So after all that rah rah be happy stuff ... let me follow up with the details about my best Valentine's Day EVER (so far)! I GOT ALL SORTS OF HUGS AND KISSES from some hot little blonde guys (I think one of them may have had a fever) :-) I got a call from Jonathan telling me they were heading this way and would be in Spokane on Friday. As luck would have it, I had Friday off, so I took off after work, lickity-split, for Spokane and we met up just east of Coeur D'Alene at a timeshare place. It was so fun to see the boys and see how big they've gotten, and hear all the words Bowdrie knows. Over breakfast Bowdrie told me I'm funny, and this afternoon he told me he loved me. Awww ... I am loved!
Musings and thoughts.... It's amazing how many thoughts can go floating through your head while frosting cupcake after cupcake. That's how I spent part of my evening ... thinking about why I love holidays so much and thinking about Valentines Day tomorrow. I had great plans to bake all these cupcakes and then spend some quality time curling my hair with my magic curling iron. Unfortunately I fell asleep while waiting for the cupcakes to cool so I am now out of time for the hair so I have to get up really early tomorrow and get curling. I celebrated Valentines Day a day early ... doing all the self-indulgent things I wanted to do. I'm most delighted with the eyebrow waxing lady I just went to today after work. She's definately an artist! She did a wonderful job and it was a wonderful way to kick off the next few days! One of my thoughts was about holidays and if maybe I missed my calling as, oh I don't know, an elementary school teacher? I just love holidays, ...
Dad update: Dad had surgery today to try to fix the damaged vocal chord and whatever else is causing him to choke so frequently. He made it through surgery just fine and here's mom's update: Jim had his surgery today and the Dr thought he should spend the night but Jim wanted to come home and I think he'll feel better if I'm around. The nurse gave him some juice to see how his swallow was and he choked up and the juice went flying.........so guess things aren't quite fixed yet, but at least we hope for a good recovery. He didn't panic so that was a very good thing. The cut is right in the front of his neck and is probably about two inches long, but it looks great........he has a neck collar on and a little drain which will come out tomorrow when we got up to see the Doctor.........Dr Edmond is a great guy and Jim seems to like him so that is half the battle. Anyway, we hope this will help him with his talking and swallowing and we'll have good things to ...