30 November 2008

Slightly Single

I dropped off Nick at the airport today. He is in the air on the way to Washington, D.C. where he will be in a work class for 2 weeks.

So, it's just me and the dog. Today it's cool. I'm enjoying it. And I'm sure I will like it tomorrow. But by Tuesday I will definitely be missing him. However, I am looking forward to leaving my scrapbook stuff, and other craft stuff out, without it being in anyone's way but mine. And having whatever I feel like for dinner (I think Hawaiian Haystacks are on the menu!).

29 November 2008

My "will be funny later" story

Not much has been happening lately. We are trying to get into a lot of debt, but it's not working very well! By that I mean, we are trying to buy a house.

Our future home must have:
1. a minimum of 2 bedrooms
2. a kitchen with a real size stove, not an apartment sized one
3. washer and dryer hookups

We consider it a huge benefit if there is also a small yard, off street parking, and a dishwasher.

We have looked at a few. And this is how it goes:

We find a place that meets our criteria. Then 1 of 2 things happen: It goes under contract, or we go see it.
We arrange to go see it. Then 1 of 2 things happen: It goes under contract, or we go see it.
We like it, and decide to put on offer on it. It goes under contract.

We have never made it past this step. This has now happened with 4 or 5 houses. Actually only on 1 have we made it to the seeing part so far.

Therefore, we would like to offer our services to anyone selling a house. We are happy to feign interest in your home, and even go see it. For this appears to be a guaranteed way of selling to someone else, regardless of it being on the market 7 days or 240 days.

And yes, this will be a story we laugh about someday. But not yet.

I've been Tagged!

I've never been tagged before, so we will see how this goes...

RULES
1. Post rules on your Blog.
2. Answer the six "8" items.
3. Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving them a comment.

8 Favorite Shows:
There are few shoes that I religiously follow, but here are my favorites for background noise and watching in no particular order
1. Pushing Daises
2. The Office
3. Top Chef (Love the train wreck factor!)
4. The Amazing Race
5. Simpsons
6. Law and Order SVU
7. Peoples Court
8. The Office

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1. Went to Salem on a car ride
2. Watched the Macy's Day Parade (yes, I tivo'd and watched it today)
3. Laundry (I hate laundromats!!!)
4. Dreamed about a house
5. Shopped
6. Made a Thank you card
7. Slept in
8. Took the husband and dog for a short walk

8 Things I Look Forward to:
1. Seeing people self destruct on television
2. Hanging out with friends
3. Buying a House
4. Catching up on Blogs
5. Rainy Days when I don't have to work
6. Lazy Afternoons with Nick
7. Christmas Music
8. Being a stay at home mom

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Del Taco
2. Micheal's Place in Wilmington ( I love their Buffalo Chicken Fingers!)
3. Outback Steakhouse
4. China Pearl- but only their lunch buffet! Otherwise, too expensive
5. Uno's Pizza and Grill
6. Artu's in North End (almost any North End Italian actually!)
7. Tony Romas- Their Baked Potato Soup is delicious!
8. Longhorn Steakhouse

8 Things on my wish list:
I am content and happy. However...
1. I wish for more motivation to work out everyday
2. I wish people would stop buying the houses I want to buy
3. I wish to not close myself off from others
4. I wish for my sister to have more confidence
5. I wish to expand our family
6. I wish to develop all my relationships more
7. I wish to use my washer and dryer, and not the laundromat!

And of course...
8. I wish for world peace :)


8 People to Tag:
I don't think I know 8 people, so I guess this ends with me...

10 November 2008

Randomness of today

So today, we met with a real estate agent. When we walked into the office, she was finishing a phone call about a property at 666 Main Street.

So of course later my curiosity was peaked when I read that the numbers 6-6-6 were the winning numbers in Illinois the day after the election. The article went on to be very rude and derogatory, so I didn't finish it. But I find the emphasis that is put on certain combinations of numbers to be interesting.

Oh, and on that note, did you know that on September 11, 2002 the winning numbers in New York were 9-1-1?

It's interesting to me how much faith and/or significance that people put into inanimate and completely random circumstances.