I've really got to get my shit together

So, I just played my horn for the first time since mid-November. whoops.

I think I played four Kopprasches before I had to give up. Not because my lips were tired, but my body is tired. I forget what a physical act playing a musical instrument truly is. When I'm tired, I have a tendency to engage my stomach muscles more to get to the top of my range...so, in conclusion, my stomach hurts.

I've started playing DDR for at least 20 minutes everyday, just for activity AND now, I'm going to try to play my horn for at least 20 minutes (I can hear all you college kids cringing...and maybe wishing a little bit?) I really want to try to get a spot in the MFSO when the third horn player leaves next year, and I might try to get into a few other things. At least get my name on the list. Just something a little more permanent.

So, I'm trying to set goals here.

I also had a job interview at Kohl's corporate office. The position is the College Relations Assistant, and the position is much more HR than I first realized, BUT, that's okay, but HR is an area that I have wanted to get into. Even in college, I was trying to work out a way to do a minor or something. I think/hope the interview went well. The other college relations manager is flying up from Texas in two weeks for the final round of interviews. I was the first one today. I don't know if that's good or bad. We'll see. I tired to be enthusiatic about the position, but I don't know if I came off that way or not. If I don't get called back for a second interview, I will probably ask what I could have done differently to be more successful. So, I'm hopeful that they liked me, because I definitely liked the girl that would be my boss, and that they will call me back. I've GOT to get a new job. I really wish that we weren't buying a house right now for the mere fact that I would have probably just quit as of Friday and taken a breather. Or I would have just worked at some goofy job and went back to graduate school full time.

I'm pretty certain that there is a mouse in the apartment, because I found a packet of oatmeal bitten open and the little cat has been sitting and staring at the oven all night long every night, but I can't find any other evidence of one. Nothing else has been broken into, so.... I don't know.

I wish that we had that house right now. Because I'd be over there every night, painting or cleaning or whatever to fix it up all shiny and nice. And then we would move the heck out of here. *roll eyes* STUPID PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!!!!!!

Okay, that's all I've got. Until another day. :)

I wanna get out of this place....

if it's the last thing I ever do.

Due to the snow today, the people across the hall forgot that they only get to park in one parking space and parked in theirs and part of ours. Jake was pretty mad. I wrote "you suck at parking" in the snow on their rear window. If it were the first time this happened, I'd probably go knock on their door and ask them nicely to repark their fucking car...but, since we've been jamming their doors and I scratched their bumper, it's better this way.

The people upstairs are making a fuck ton of noise too. Gosh, I wish we had found a house that we could have moved into immediately.

We spent the day at my parents, since the blizzard was really not. Watched the Badgers lose to Ohio State because one guy tried to be a hero and drive the lane, which was a) unavailable, as there was a guy there and b) the badgers had basically nothing in the paint all day. So, instead of kicking it out to someone who had the shot, the drive was stopped, the shot blocked and the game ended. Oh well.

Watched Serenity in HD, which was some sweet action.

Watched some of the Oscars.

Have no desire to go to work in the morning. Work can pretty much go to hell. If I didn't have to work because we needed the money, I would probably just have worked until Friday and said, well, I'm done. I kind of want to call in sick. Oh well. Then, I left my cell phone at my parents by accident, so I have to run and get that in the AM and THEN go get gas and THEN go to work. BLAH!

Anyway, that's all that I've got. Nothing to fancy or fun. :)

Things that have happened this week

Monday:

Worked only 3 hours, it was warm AND I had a job interview at The Equitable Bank, which is about 2 minutes from the apartment.

Tuesday:

Found out that they think that I'm pretty much crap at my job, and to be honest, the way that things went down at that job, I never really had a chance to be successful at it and I had no support at it. So, I'm currently looking for a new job, but they didn't terminate me. We have just determined that that it not the job for me.

I had a pretty crappy day and crappy night. But, I turned in the $500 Earnest Money for the house.

Wednesday (being today):

Set up the home inspection for tomorrow morning at 8am. I will take pictures tomorrow morning and post on the line. I'm pretty excited to get back in there. However, it's $275 for the inspection which sux.

So, the deal with the house is that it is essentially accepted, but the seller's bank (who owns the mortgage that they are close to foreclosing on) has to decide that it is what they want to do. So, we proceed like we are definitely getting the house, but there is an outside chance that we might not get it.

So, that's all I've got. Until later


EDIT:

I updated the ole bloggy links, because I had some people on there that haven't updated in a while. And while I care about them, they just don't update enough. OOoooo, that reminds me. I have to go back and add another.

However, Colin's stays because I personally like to click on his blog link and see "Welcome to Indiana!" I can still taste the sarcasm dripping off the title.

Anyways, that's really all I've got. Soon, Scrubs will be on the CW and then I will probably head for bed, since I have to get up earlier tomorry.

The one where time passes very quickly

The weekend is already over and I feel like I didn't do shit. I still have to go and put all the clothes away in the bedroom because I sat on the lappy for the past two hours, doing absolutely nothing.

I should probably get on that. My head is starting to hurt, so I really should put the compy down.

The little cat drinks out of the bowl that we have set up for them by dipping her paw in and then licking the water off. If she finds said water to her liking, THEN it's okay to lean over and drink.

Weekend: Jack and Betsy (the in-laws) came down Saturday in the morning and we drove them past the house that we have the offer down on and then to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, where I had the most AMAZING lunch -- Orange Chicken -- it was SOOOO good. And a piece of cheesecake, of course. We walked around the mall and Best Buy a little bit and then went to the apt. Later on, we went to Potawatomi Casino, which is really kind of sucky. Then, we ate a really late dinner at Uno's and we ALL crashed and went to sleep.

Today, Jack and Betsy left real early and Jake and I drove out to Johnson Creek and did a little bit of shopping. I got some shirts and a pair of cute yoga pants. Then, we came back, watched the Dayton 500 and here I still sit. I did all the laundry...well, most of it.

I have a work only 3 hours tomorrow and then I have a job interview at 3pm, but really nothing else going on. and that's okay with me.

I feel like I had another reason for writing or I was going to say something else, but I really don't remember and my head is starting to hurt. So, adieu.

EDIT: I remembered as soon as I hit publish.

July is going to be OC! July 4: Jakey's birthday/holiday, July 7th: Playing for OMB's wedding (i think), July 13th: Nancy's wedding (maybe -- I'm not fishing for an invite here, it's just an event that I am aware of) and the 5th Harry Potter movie comes out (look, we ALREADY know that I'm a big HP dork), July 21: Last HP book is out! and finally, July 27th: THE SIMPSONS MOVIE, which I'm sorry, looks fucking amazing. I'm really excited for it. I don't care if people think that it's lost it's charm or whatever, it's still funny. I rarely catch it nowadays and I remembered how funny it still is after all these years. Plus, it's something that I connect very strongly to Branden still (you know, like when I couldn't even OPEN my copy of Season 6 or 7, much less WATCH right after he passed away), so it makes me happy that they are still trying to do a sweet job.

So, in short: July = OC. I have to feed the big cat now. Adieu, part deux.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So, we have an offer that has been accepted by the seller, but we are waiting for the final approval from the bank, but everything is looking really really positive.

I'm very excited and I'm hoping that it's not too long before we know for sure. My mom and dad took us to Saz's tonight for din-din, which was sweet.

I'm just glad that we can stop looking for a house and that we'll have one that we both liked, a lot! There is a sweet deck in teh back too. If we win the game, we'll have to have a party in the summer to use the deck and so forth.

I'm just so glad that things are looking so good for this. It's really exciting for me. I'm going to be so happy to have my own home and I don't have to live below and across from the psychos....

YEAH!

Because I gave up

So, because I said that I didn't want to look anymore, a house dropped in price to something that was manageable for us. So, we have another offer out there. It's supposed to take five days for the bank to make up it's mind, etc., so there. It's almost in foreclosure, so the bank is involved and the seller's so there's lots of people to please.

It's a pretty cute house. It's also the first house that Jake and I have both liked and haven't had to discuss it for a while first or say, it's got this, it's got this, blah blah blah to convince each other that we are doing the right thing...or something like that.

There are definitely things (if we do get the house) to fix up, but it's not a terrible amount of stuff. And we would have to buy all new appliances, because there are none with the house. Which doesn't bother me.

I'm trying not to think about it or fret about it right now, so I'm not so disappointed when we lose again...but, that will probably not be the case.

Well, I'm off to pack my stuff to go to work and then I'm headed to work!

Misc Things

After a second review of the house, it was not as sweet as we thought and needed WAY more work than I realized, so we decided it was not worth it. I have a bunch more houses to go look at, but I'm really tempted to take a small break and let some more things come on the market and see what happens. So, I think maybe we'll not be as active, at least for a little bit. My enthusiasm has waned at this point. A break from looking at things would be nice, I think.

To answer your question there Rachel, no, we're not coming up for V-ball. It was sweet when we could go for free (or get paid) and stuff, but to spend $70 on tickets, $50 on food/drinks, $50 on gas and possibly have to take a day off from work is just not worth it for us at this point in time. I'm sure V-ball weekend will roll around and I'll have completely changed my mind and it will be too late, but there we are. I'd rather save the money at this point.

We'll come up some random weekend and hang out. That's always better for us anyway. Unless something TOTALLY sweet is going down. :)

So, I'll probably keep quiet about the house stuff for a while. I have also decided that I am really really tired of weighing as much as I do and I should probably start exercising. Which, I will attempt to start this week. I figure that if I can lost 20 pounds by the wedding of a childhood friend in STL at the end of May, I will probably be a very happy girl. We shall see what happens. I say this now, but next week could be a different story. More so, I would just like to fit into my clothes again. I have probably 20-30 skirts/pants that I can't wear currently. I would like to wear those again. I would, as Marky put it, "swim in my tux from V-Ball last year"...well, in my case, we'll call it a dress. Maybe.


Good night!

The House Hunt

So, we looked at this one today, and it's pretty promising. I'm waiting to hear back a little bit from the realtor about the activity on the house -- it's been on the market 30 days. I went and saw it with my dad, but Jake and I and my mom and dad (I would assume) are going first thing tomorrow morning to check it out again. I want to look it over again, just to make sure that it's what I want. The kitchen is pretty large. The bedroom is upstairs, and it's fairly big. The bathroom is nice -- I think that I would redo her a bit, but it's okay. The living room is nice, there is a huge closet in the entryway, big backyard, big driveway, garage, basement. I mean, this one is probably the best that I've liked. I have a positive feeling about it. It's pretty good.

I'm waiting to hear on the activity, because if there is an offer coming in on it, I would rather get an offer in on it right away.


EDIT:

Heard back from the agent. There have been a TON of showings on this house, but no offers or anything. I can think of TONS of things that we can do to the place to fix it up if we get it, but we shall see... :) We're going tomorrow at noon. I really hope that we get this house. That would be pretty sweet.



In other news, my battery on my 3 year old laptop (man, I can't believe it's been THAT long) has decided that it will run about an hour and then shut off with no warning that I am running out of power. Which is really irritating to say the least. So, Jake and Josh are here farting around on the compy AND they discover that my battery is under recall for potentially starting on fire. So, basically I get a $130 battery FOR FREE!!!!!!!! YEA!!!!!!! I'm all about that shit. Thank god for really old laptops. woot.

that's all I've got. More on the house later tomorrow, I'm sure.

This Weekend

Josh, The Joe and Jake are going to a concert. I am chilling alone, which will be sweet. Looking forward to it.

Going to look at houses tomorrow with the realtor and my dad at least. Hopefully, we will find a good one that we can go back and look at Sunday (with Jake). I'm not getting my hopes up too much. We'll see what happens.

Well, the Joe is here, so I'm going. Later.

In case you were not aware

we lost some more houses this past weekend. And I sure pasted my displeasure at said fact in my facebook status. I'm just so frustrated. I mean, I don't really care that we didn't get the houses, because it just means that we are not meant to live there, but the arbitrariness (is that a word?) of it all frustrates me.

Anyway, after the rash of losing out on houses in the West Allis area, I've decided to turn a focus to Waukesha for two reasons. the first being that maybe we are supposed to be living out there (for whatever reason) and so we keep losing houses in West Allis for some grand plan that is taking place. The second is that for a little more money, we can get something the same out there. The higher priced house plus less escrow means equal value to me. Plus, there are really no more houses out on the market for us to look at, and I will feel defeated if I stop looking for a week.

So, onward and upwards (as Doc would say). I'm going with the agent (who has been very accomodating about all of this, because I'm sure she has plenty of other things going on right now too) out to Waukesha tomorrow to look at 4 houses and see if any of them grab my fancy. My boss said that I could take an hour during work tomorrow to go look. Plus, since Jake has to work until 8:30ish tomorrow, I can stay an extra hour at work to make up for it. Well, maybe. We'll see. :)

There is one that is looking pretty sweet -- totally redone. We'll just have to see what that entails priscely. The rest are mostly just to look at. But, I'm getting frustrated looking with my mom and dad. We're getting too many opinions. I'd rather Jake and I just talked. Instead, we just panic. Because I think that we made a bad tactical decision this weekend and didn't go for one we both wanted because there was miscommunication all around.

Anyway. I'm pretty tired and Scrubs will be on the CW shortly. More updates later this week, I'm sure. Stay Warm! :)

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I'm also gearing up this morning for going to look at houses with Jake and Dad.
I'm pretty excited about the first one. There are two that are starting to be shown this weekend and I would really like to put offers on both. One is right down the block from the first one that we bid on. I know that I am repeating myself over and over and over and over...but I'm excited.

woot.

July 21, 2007

I really really wanted 7/7/07, but alas, it didn't work.

However, it is the tenth anniversary of the release of the first book, which is pretty cool.

I'm SUPER excited for July now.

woot.

More houses to look at tomorrow. Didn't care about the one on 95th in West Allis anymore, not for $136,000. I didn't feel like countering something that would just get rejected anyway.

And, my dad got his HDTV box from Time Warner yesterday -- SUPER BOWL'd'd'd'd!

I still remember 2004 (?) watching with everyone at the house and having Adam Boll yell out all of a sudden, "I SAW A BOOB!". Oh, Janet Jackson. Was that 2004? Correct me if I am wrong.