Mary Jane's Last Dance

Hay guyz I owns a house now! It's an awesome feeling, having my very own place now.

As soon as this storm blows over (gotta love Florida and its daily afternoon storms), we're moving some of our crap in.

Yeah, just ignore this. If I put these into bookmarks, they will be lost forever. Now I'm not saying I'm getting ALL of this stuff...think of it as a wishlist. :P

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=8054677
Patio set at Walmart; table w/four chairs

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=6449583
Smaller patio set at Walmart; table w/ two chairs

http://www.uncommongoods.com/item/item.jsp?source=family&itemId=15816
Toilet handles, you say? That are cool shapes? My word!

http://www.frigidaire.com/products/cooking/ranges/free-standing_electric/prod_FEF455B.asp
Un-standard size oven -- jeez, these things are hard to find. (The oven in our potential new house is not a standard size and is ancient haha)

http://www.orientalfurniture.com/oriental-furniture/CBLSS.html
God knows if we'll have enough room for it, but it doesn't hurt to dream does it. (Oriental screen with cherry blossoms)

Woot! We've found another house! Let's hope it's for real this time: It's got hardwood floors!

Hah, I'm excited again. If everything goes smoothly (crosses fingers) we'll be moving out of our apartment in July. :D

Welp, looks I get to start ALL OVER with house-hunting -- from square one. It fell through -- the listing agent is a dumbass and a weasel and the sellers aren't going to pay for the extensive repairs the roof needs. It's a damned shame. I fell in love with that house too :(

We think that the listing agent is going to try and cheat another person. It's a good thing we found out about all that bullshit and that it's not us. Methinks someone's watching over us. It hit me hard yesterday (I almost cried at my desk), but I think my anger about it has come full-circle.

I promise I'll post a detailed wedding entry this weekend! :)

YAY WE'RE GETTING A HOUSE!

We expect to close on it a couple of days after we get back from our wedding, which is May 16th.

We feel poor now. Poor but excited.

There's a good possibility that we are getting the house we like. I'm stoked. I love it. I feel like I'm at home in it.

So, now we have to look into stuff we need to get for the house, look into moving companies, and all that jazz. It's a little earlier than we expected. We were expecting this to come sometime in the summer, but we're afraid if we wait around too long, that house will be gone. Houses sell quickly in that area, because it's a solid, nice neighborhood.



On the work front, I have this to say: People suck at writing. People also suck at grammar, and people suck at spelling. We're not asking for a Pulitzer Prize-winning entry, but for godsake, write decently. Keep the article relevant. We want to read about the food that the restaurant has. We want to know what's in it for a young, modern adult crowd, because that's our target audience. We're sick of hearing about family-friendly crap. We're fed up with poorly-written articles that refuse to stay on topic. We don't want to hear about the owners' kid and other trite stuff such as that. If I wanted to hear about someone's kid, I'd talk to somebody at church.

ARGH YOU PEOPLE ARRRRGHH. I can feel myself going Super Saiyan or something. My hair's turning gold, people. Step out of the way.

We went and looked at a couple of houses today after work.

We found one that may be a winner. It needs a little work (we're 99% sure that the previous resident was elderly) but what house doesn't, really?

I'm so excited!

Welp, I got a new job. And we're looking for houses. And my wedding is two months away.

Fuck, I'm nervous as hell. You know that kind of nervous when you are totally stoked and excited, but bewildered and somewhat frightened at the same time? Yeah, that's the kind of nervous I have.

Everything is just so brand new. It's both mesmerizing and scary.

I should be going to sleep but instead I'm looking at houses on the internet.

Not only that, but I have that "Montage" song from Team America stuck in my head.

Even Rocky had a montage!

I hate this Daylight Saving crap. It throws off my entire sleep schedule.

Today Chris and I drove by the house we were looking at on listingbook that we were amazed by.

In person, it was less than spectacular. Isn't that how it always is? Also, I wasn't too fond of the neighborhood. Kind of white-trash, rednecky, run-down. People don't take good care of their houses there. I could feasibly see toilets with flowers growing in them and beat-up, non-functional cars on cinderblocks in the front yard. :(

So that was a bust, but there are plenty of houses to look at here, so all hope is not lost! This is just the beginning! :D


Also, today we rented out a storage space near our house that is brand-new. We pretty much got dibs on the best location of storage rooms. We moved out some of our junk today and we're going to drop off more tomorrow.

Yay! Now we can actually get into our closet again!

I think Shadow (our cat) is kind of unnerved by us packing up some of our crap. She was an abandoned cat after all, so maybe it's triggering bad memories or something along those lines.

Hoo boy. I'm on nail polish buying binge. I haven't had this much nail polish since I was eleven. (I had close to sixty bottles then, which is around what I have now.)

This time, the colors are BETTER.


I'm seriously stoked about life right now. I'm about to get a job working as a freelance writer for Tampa's Metromix (it's not up yet, don't worry if you don't see it!), and also doing data entry for MM as well (that is temporary but pays well)

I go to a training session on Thursday at noon, and I should start the temp part of the job on St. Paddy's Day. :)

My fiance and I are also looking at houses! Ah, this is so exciting! On the site where we are looking for houses in the area, I stumbled across a 1400 square foot house, with a NICE backyard AND in-ground pool, AND close to the interstate, for $169,000. I want to go look at it soooooooooo bad. SOOO BAD. I'VE GOT THE ITCH. BAD.