Today, more than a month after our original closing date, we finally got approval for our loan.  We should be closing probably on Wednesday next week.

I can hardly believe it.  I am so relieved. 

So after 7 months of bupkis, I am finally employed.  I have been volunteering at Give Kids the World (a non-profit resort that helps grant the wishes of children with life threatening diseases who want to go to Central Florida attractions).  On Saturday, I volunteered at a new area called Katie's Kitchen.  It is run with employees, food, and ( Read more... )

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Does anyone else read Cake Wrecks?  Brian found one at the local Walmart and he totally got on Cake Wrecks!  Awesome.  His is the last set of cupcakes.

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2008/12/totally-cheating.html

We adopted our kitties today!  I am so excited.  We ended up getting two entirely different cats that the ones we had planned on.  Here are there links:  Boma and Jiko.  (as we renamed them, Boma is the boy and Jiko is the girl).  When we arrived, one of the cats we had originally planned on adopting had become an outdoor cat.  I'm not sure if this ( Read more... )

Brian and I are going to adapt two cats next Saturday!  Here they are: Callie and Carly.  I was thinking about renaming them, but I'm not sure yet.  Perhaps something literary?

I very excited and a little nervous.  We still need to find a vet and get some supplies.  I'm not quite sure where to put the litterbox.

I've rather been enjoying my downtime from not working.  I've been setting the alarm clock and waking up at about 7:00 to a nice leisurely breakfast (sometimes including some Tivo catch up time).  Then I get on the elliptical (six times a week; what a good girl) while reading a book.  I've been reading a book a day at least.  I really missed having ( Read more... )

 Today I went to the airport to drop off my rental car and pick up another one.  This is the third day in a row that I have rented a car.  I hope Budget doesn't think I've been committing some sort of complicated scam :)  The actual reason for the three rentals is that Brian found a Delta miles promotion in which we could get 9,999 miles in return ( Read more... )

This weekend we went to New Jersey to visit Brian's family.  We flew out early Saturday morning into the Philadelphia airport and went straight to Brian's favorite pizza place, Rizzo's.  It is a dumpy looking place in a strip mall with assorted Italian themed posters (Sinatra, Ferrari's, etc). They greet Brian by name everytime.  It really is quite ( Read more... )