TGIF

Hi all!

Yay! It's Friday. This has seemed like a really long week. I'm not sure why, work has been OK. Maybe it's just that it hasn't been crazy busy. Oh well, enough about work.

S and I went out last night for some sangria. Yummmy! We has a fun girls night just chatting. Among other things, I got some good info about the areas we're looking at houses since she teaches in B.

I'm going to check out some houses tomorrow morning. Two are in B and one is in Q. Nothing much has been coming on in C yet. Dad is going to come with me since Michael is working so that will be nice to hang out. I'm psyched to actually go see three at a time since usually we only catch one or two. Also, it's good that it will be during the day so I'll be able to actually see the yard since mostly we've been looking in the dark. It's too bad though, that it's supposed to be pouring tomorrow, but at least we'll be able to see if anything is leaking, LOL.

I also have another appointment with my acupuncturist, JS. I'll head to that before the showings. JS is really nice so it will be a good way to start my day.

I'm in desperate need of a fill-in on my nails so I think I'll do that tonight after work so I'll be good to go for the weekend.

Well, that's all for now. I'm starving so I need to figure out what's for lunch. TTYL!

It's Wednesday

Hello everybody.

I'm so annoyed with myself. So the other day I said I'd take some pics to post of the new pillow covers and such. Well, I pulled out my trusty camera last night and snapped away. I arrive into work today ready to upload them and realized I forgot my transfer cable. Grrr! Anyway, I took some lovely pictures of the living room and also of my snowglobe collection that I set up in the dining room on my MacGyver console. They looked so pretty, and alas, I can't share them with you. :( Oh, well, I've already left myself a message at home to remember to bring it in tomorrow, so stay tuned.

I found out yesterday that the house I wanted to look at tomorrow already has multiple offers on it and will most likely be sold. Bummer, it looked really nice on the online listing. I emailed R this morning to set up showings of three other houses so hopefully I can get in Thursday after work. These look good too and are comfortably in our price range, so I'm optimistic. I was watching Chronicle last night and they were showing the best places to live in the area. I'm so jealous of the people who are willing to deal with a long commute. You definitely get more bang for your buck out there, but Michael and I just aren't willing to move that far out just yet.

Let see, what else. Oh, I have a hot date with the tax guy tonight. Hopefully he'll find lots of money for us this year. We still be probably do the standard deduction since we don't own property and have no children yet, but a girl can dream. I'm sure by next year we will. Think positive!

You know how they say that if you bury a St. Joseph statue upside down in your yard that it will help you to sell your house? Well, can I get one and put it on display in my living room to help us find a house to buy? I may just give that a try. :)

Well that's all for now. TTYL!

I've been slacking

So I realized today while checking out some other blogs, that I have not been doing so well with keeping up with my goal to blog more. Whoops! So I'm back.

The reality is that there hasn't been too much going on, but I'll try to catch you up on the little things.

Well, we're still on the house hunt. I'm feeling more optimistic as we are approaching spring. I'm seeing more houses hit the market and it also seems that the ridiculous bubble is finally bursting around here and we should be able to afford something bigger than a shoebox now. Yippee! I've seen lots of the listing that I've received from our realtor having price reductions so I think folks are getting the point that we're not going to pay $400k for a 900 sf ranch with no basement. I mean really, we're not looking for a mansion or anything, but let's be reasonable. Things are looking up!

Let's see, we went on another trip to Foxwoods with the yacht club on Saturday. Sadly, I think the casino is going to gradually collect back the money I won on our last visit. ;) Oh, well. We still had a blast. As usual, the party back at the club after was really fun. Plenty of food, beer and dancing to make the loss a little more tolerable. =)

I went to a baby shower on Sunday for our friend W. It was really nice. It was at a restaurant for brunch. W's husband, C, was there too. They got lots of nice things for the new baby. I can't wait to meet their new addition. Some of the little nieces that were there thought they were going to get to meet the baby at the shower. How cute!

On the baby front for us, this cycle is chugging along. We had our preliminary tests done and now are just waiting to see what happens. If we catch it this time, Michael may be sharing his bday! Oh, well, I'm trying to not think about it too much because then I'll just start going crazy. So we're just going along and we'll meet with Dr. O later in the month for a follow-up to see where we are.

What else...oh, Michael sent me some beautiful flowers for Valentine's Day. They are so pretty and came in a pretty pink vase with a little picture frame. The smell fantatstic! I got him some fancy Swiss chocolates and we enjoyed our traditional pepperoni pizza for dinner. It was a nice night. I have the best hubby ever!

I can't really think of much more right now, but I'll be back. I promise! Talk to you soon!