Tick Tock Tick Tock

Even with the house only 50% packed, I feel at peace about all the work left to do. At least I do today. We’ve mapped our last meals here, so I know what dishes we need, and I can take care of more kitchen stuff. So long as the bank people are doing their thing to make the loan money ready for Friday, everything will go smoothly.

We did some house shopping this weekend, and we bought furniture for the living room. We are really happy with it, and it will get delivered after we move in. Here’s a picture of it, sadly you can’t feel how soft the material is.

I’m going to the eye doctor tomorrow. I’ve been wanting to get new glasses for a few years, and I wanted to take advantage of the eye doctor being across the street from us. Wednesday Mary and I are having lunch at the museum. Martin (Mary’s husband) has been told by his work they want him to move. They offered 3 different cities, but really they want him in a specific one, L.A. Mary refuses to move to L.A., saying she does not want to raise her kids there. Plus, the company would not pay for a cost of living increase. She said he may just leave altogether and get a job with a different company. It wouldn’t pay as much, but they could stay here. She said once they (the company) asked them to move to Alberta, and Mary considered it. Martin is a geologist that works for an oil company. So yeah, Alberta would be a good place for him. Time will tell what’s going to happen, but Mary won’t make an decision until the school year is over.

I didn’t watch the Emmys, but I flipped to it a few times. I LOVED Felicity’s dress, but then I always love her dresses. I was thrilled to find out she won, she deserves it (I don’t watch Desperate Housewives, I’m a die hard Sports Night fan). I was also lucky enough to have flipped at the right time to see Zach Braff present with Hugh Laurie. I thought they made an good pair. In other tv news, I have convinced Geoff to give a new show a try, so we’ll tune in to Kitchen Confidential tonight. Hopefully it will be a good show. I only get to adopt one new show a year, but this looked okay. I realize I’m taking my chances by picking a Fox show. They are so quick to axe shows, so who knows how long it will last.

I’m going to close with a quote from Blackadder.

Captain Darling: I’m as British as Queen Victoria!
Captain Blackadder: So your father’s German, you’re half German, and you married a German!

I downloaded my 100th song from iTunes today. I half expected there to be some big celebration. Now before you start making comments on how much money I’ve spent, let it be known that I did get some songs for free, some were won on bottle caps, and yes some were bought. My first song (bought on 12/1/03) was Unchanging by Chris Tomlin. The 100th song (bought 9/16/05) was Love Shack by the B-52’s.

Incidentally, I’m at 113, since along with Love Shack, I bought the latest Michael Bublé album, It’s Time. Now we just need to get an AirPort Express for the new house so I can listen to my music downstairs while the computer is upstairs.

It’s the same old song
But with a different meaning
Since you been gone

It’s a day to crank up the Motown and play some classic 60s music.

My allergies started acting up today. A year ago tomorrow, I had the worst allergy attack ever (Heather was here, we went to Garden of the Gods, and something in the September air set me off). It’s not as bad as it was then, thank goodness. Today, I was fine, I left the house to run errands, and I haven’t been the same since. I hate spending the day with a box of kleenex. At least I’m not pregnant, I have more drug solutions than I did then.

While we are furniture shopping, we have been discussing about what we want our home to be. That way we know what kind of furniture we want to get. We really want our house to be a place to entertain, a place for our small group to meet, and a place to kick back and watch movies. We love having guests over, and our place here hasn’t allowed for that (location and space). We are also prioritizing the things we need and want for the house. There is one luxury decor thing I want, and I asked Geoff to see if we can set aside some money for that. We’ll see where things are at after we move in.

Well, I have to go fight off my allergies, so I’ll close with a quote from That 70’s Show.

Michael Kelso: Well, that’s Canada… Yup, good ol’ Canada. They don’t make generalizations about people because they’re too busy playin’ hockey or gettin’ drunk or puttin’ maple syrup on their ham.

We did a lot of nothing this weekend, but at least it was warm. More window shopping, some packing, and watched a ton of HGTV. While I was at the mall on Saturday, we stopped in the Apple store to get our mitts on the iPod Nano. Man it’s even better in person. Super lightweight, and slick. My current iPod is the 2nd generation, they stopped making updates and selling accessories for it months after I got it. I broke the belt clip on it within a few months, the remote broke a few months after that. So yeah I sometimes covet a newer model. It still serves me well for walks, but the two features I want a Nano for are storing pictures of Elijah, and making on the go playlists. It’s fun to dream (right Lisa?).

With the buying of a house here in CO, it has solidified for me that Colorado is home. Until now, I’ve been holding onto a dream of moving back to CA and being amongst those there I love. But we could never afford a home like this in CA. God lead us here for a reason, His hand has been on the whole house buying experience, this is where He wants us to be. Pastor Jim’s message yesterday confirmed it, and I feel like I’m okay with it. Besides, this country isn’t so big that traveling across a few states is so hard. 🙂

I’m getting close to 9 hours sleep each night, but I sure don’t feel rested when I wake up in the morning. I’m having bad dreams, or some little sound will disturb my sleep, or my mind is racing with house stuff. I can feel that I’m carrying tension in my shoulders. I’m hoping this phase will pass.

Well, speaking of sleep, I’m going to try to have a nap. I’ll close with a quote from The War Of The Roses.

Gavin: Oliver, my father used to say that a man can never outdo a woman when it comes to love and revenge.

I just had to post this article written by Ben Stein.

Yesterday we drove Geoff to work, then I took the car to go to Mom To Mom (which was great). After it ended, I got in the car and drove to Social Security, taking the extra long way because I was in the wrong lane and ended up heading toward the new house. Once I got to SS, it was a 125 minute wait for a 1 minute process of them verifying my identity on paper to give to the home loan people. Argh! Now I was very annoyed, but I have to realize there were two factors that made the visit to SS longer than it should have been. #1. I went at noon, so half the workers were on lunch. #2. Another portion of the employees were out at Lowry helping out the recent LA evacuees who have come to Denver. Ideally, there will be no reason for me to ever return to SS. But I can look forward to a long wait when i have to renew my driver’s license in March. Joy!

We’re cat-sitting for the next couple of days for Paula, Simon’s mom died. She doesn’t know how long she’ll be gone, she is helping Simon with the funeral arrangements. Paula seemed okay, she said she just spoke to Simon’s mom a few days ago. I’ll have get to Hallmark to get a card for Simon.

No plans have been cemented for the weekend, which is nice. We may try and get some boxes, I might convince Geoff to take down the spare bed to make room for boxes, or we may do a whole lot of nothing. A flexible weekend is a great thing.

I’m going to close with a quote from The Simpsons.

Rainer Wolfcastle: [singing] Mein bratwurst has a first name, it’s F-R-I-T-Z / Mein bratwurst has a second name, it’s S-C-H-N-A-C-K-E-N-P-F-E-F-F-E-R-H-A-U-S-E-N.

Gotta get it in black! When is Christmas? And I have my birthday in January? Sweet! Lisa wants one too.