in your world

a lot of people make a lot out of their day.
i'm simply content with getting by right now. vying time before
i hit the hay.

my parents came up this weekend and cleaned out the condo.
now my brother has a nice little place that's cat and dog free.
it's almost like we were never there... except the painted room we
were staying in. (light green with blue trim).

work has been slow but continually stressful. i dream of having a cubicle.
no chance of that ever happening. i always feel like i need to be working ever single second of the day. but honestly, i think people are more productive when they get to take a minute or two to un-focus. otherwise, they drift on into this "numb" stage where productivity sinks to the negatives. sometimes i work so long that i enter my zombie stage, at which point i'm blankly staring with no real consciousness.

my parents came over and stayed at our new house. they loved the second floor porch. they said it was like being on vacation. they gave us a house warming present, a set of new silverware. they also gave jeremy his bday present from last week. it was a new dvd player. that makes four dvd players we have now.. and only two tvs!! heh.

we still want to have a garage sale. the formal living is completely packed with garage sale items.. which is okay for now since we have no furniture to put there. we've decided to stop buying stuff for now until we can recoup.

other than that, we've been spending most of our free time playing FF11. I'm a white mage tarutaru..and jerms is a female human warrior. my brother is a mithra red mage..but he's many levels ahead of us since he started a week or so before us. it's the first MMRPG i've ever played. i really like it a lot. you seriously can get lost in this world. i can see how people could lose their jobs and loved ones.. heh. it doesn't seem to be as bad as everquest but i've never actually touched that stuff before. i'll stick to the small drugs. :)

it's also a very smart game. by smart, i mean, you actually have to apply brain power to play the game. that's the great thing about video games that a lot of people don't understand. some of these games are immensely complex and require a good amount of research. i don't equate video games with tv. TV is what you do to relax. gaming is what you do to have fun. and sometimes fun is work.

but i'm quitting early tonight because i need to wake up early tomorrow. i need to start getting to work a little earlier. by bosses are really flexible but every now and then i think it's good to show you do have some respect for their rules.

da house is on fire

wow. i can't believe how easily your life gets sucked away from you when you're purchasing a new home. i think this whole process would have been easier if i was a house wife or something. but managing work and house hunting, then buying, then loan stuff.. then appliance/furniture stuff/ and moving stuff... and painting/ and prepping/ and moving some more/ and cleaning/ and more work...etc.. is just a lot a lot a lot of work.

but finally, i'm starting to see the light and the bottom of my wallet. :)
yup. i think we've tapped ourselves out. but now i'm sitting in the new office in my new home and it seems pretty great.

we found a nice house three weeks ago. we made an offer... mounds of shit and turmoil later... we're here.

so far the only thing that looks remotely complete is the living and dining area. it's the only room(s) that got painted. i didn't want a while kitchen. it looked too clinical and too much like a rental. so we got two gallons of mocha-colored paint and went to work the day after we closed on the house.

we closed on tuesday of last week and have been moving/packing/unpacking all week and weekend. this friday, the appliances came in. we had ordered all stainless for the kitchen set to replace the white or actually bisque colored appliances that came with the house. the washer and dryer also came in on friday. jeremy and eric went to go pick up the sofa from the furnituer store that night while i packed up our bedroom at the condo.

we still have two more trips back to the condo before all of our stuff is moved out. everything is still in boxes at the house. it's going to take a few weeks to sift and sort through it all. i'm going to get rid of most of it. i'm planning on having a huge garage sale to get rid of it all.

so far, i'm so happy with the new place. the dining table set we got is awesome and so is our sofa set.. it's totally pimpin' comfortable. it's also so NICE to have a large fridge that fits all of our food..and don't even let me start on my kick ass walk in closet. it's a dream come true. i'm turning it into my dressing room/vanity area. i feel like i don't ever want to leave my house...which is good because i can't afford to. heh.

my parents might be coming up next weekend to bring up their extra lawn mower. i want to have my mother help me with a few sewing projects.. i have room to sew now too. heheh. i can finally pull out the sewing machine my mom gave me back in october!

we don't have our office furniture yet. we're trying to find tables that fit the room nicely. jerms wants a corner table set so we're still looking. we thought we had found a set at EURWAY but the desks were too big for the room.

i'm the middle of organizing the master bedroom closet. i have a huge pile of "garage sale" stuff growing. i'm not sure what i'll tackle next. what sucks is that i need to be at work by 6:30am or 7am tomorrow morning. bummer. i wish i could take a few days off to get settled in. tomorrow, jerms has the day off. he's going to do some more unpacking. tomorrow evening our bed, chair and ottoman set will be ready to be picked up.. so i'm excited to get that.

i haven't met either of our neighbors yet. i know one of them has three dogs and at least one cat. we think two women live there. jerms met the other neighbor. his name is greg. we haven't established who he is living with yet. the homes on our street are two big for singles so we are assuming most of the people living here have significant others. the only other person we've seen at his house is another man. at first i thought it was a really ugly woman and then i realized she was a he and it made more sense. jerms said greg is a really nice guy so i can't wait to meet him. i'm planning on making "hi, i'm your neighbor" baskets to give to each neighbor. just a quick and easy way of saying hello and here's who we are.

i'll post pictures when i can find the camera that got packed up. heh.

p.s. you should see all of our toys/ stuffed animals. i sware if you were to walk into our place right now, you'd think we had three kids.

fluffy stuffy

so now that i have an idea of when we're going to be moving into a house, i have started thinking of all the things i will want to keep and discard.

i have too many stuffed animals. i don't know what to do with them all. should i give them away or sell them? i have huge ones and small ones. some are just toys and others are memories of old friends and family.

i've got this huge ass stuffed gorilla. i'm not putting that in our new home so i'm not sure what to do with it. i paid 70 bucks for it. i was crazy back then. i also have a huge tiger my mom bought for me at a garage sale. it takes up four feet of space.

i could do games on my site and give the winners my toy stash or i could just donate it all to the salvation army.

all i know is that it's going to be very hard to part with some of these fluffy critters but they HAVE to go. they must go. must resist cuddly wuddly feelings....

where's my teddy bear?

daisy girl

no dream house but at least j bought me a house warming gift. :)

there goes my martha

i've had such a crappy few days. and now my idol martha stewart has fucked herself. great. i was okay when she was a liar, cheat, and greedy freak. but not a convict. no amount of branding can help erase the bars from your image.

geez. if they can let a looney pop star molest kids and get away, why can't they let a billionaire get away with a few hundred thousand dollars. no?

heh.

gawd. we're in the process of buying a house and it totally sucks. i'm never going to find anything we can afford. we made a bid on a house this weekend but there's no way they can come down to our price range. it's my total dream house but buying it would mean living in an empty dream house for a long time. i had all of these great ideas on what to do for each room and how i was going to decorate this and that part of the house. but that's the problem with dream houses... they're just for dreaming.
if i didn't have to work and worry about taking time off, i'd probably enjoy house hunting more. we would like to close on a house as soon as possible because interest rates are really low. i would post pictures of my dream house but that would be like pouring salt on an open wound.

and then there's stuff at work that's been really urking me. but i can't talk about it here so i'll just bitch about it to myself in the car or to qtpi on a walk.

sigh no more

pissed off. frustrated. depressed. pathetic self-pity.

yup. that about sums up my week.

dreary Sunday

i never mean to watch the oscars. i usually just like to catch the red carpet to see what people are wearing but this year, the red carpet pre-show left me unsatisfied. joan rivers is a loon and i'd not only pass her on for m&ms, i'd skip her for dog ass.

eh. so i got sucked into watching the bore-fest. i kept having to switch channels during the acceptance speeches and billy crystal monologues. they made me cringe.

after watching the show, i looked up at the clock and said, "oh good, i wanted to waste three hours of my life."

:)

sigh. i'm so tired and yet restless right now. i know i should go to sleep but i also want to climb a mountain, have a six hour conversation, drink a mexican martini, read a book, write a story, anything, everything, and nothing. i hate it when i feel like this because then my head starts realing with a million emotions.

churn churn churn

p.s. why is it not okay that janet's boob was exposed for a milli-second and yet it's okay to see an old naked man holding his wacker and dancing around like a bafoon? gross gross gross. keep your clothes on billy.