In addition to the poison ivy fiasco yesterday, I forgot to mention that I didn't spray myself with bug repellent before venturing out into Nature. Bugs like me, they like me a lot. My body doens't seem to appreciate my generous feeding of the mosquitoes, and reacts by swelling up each bite to nickle or quarter size welts, and that's without ( Read more... )

Nick and I went walking around the trails by the house we're buying and came upon an area that was being cleared out, possibly for a cell tower. We wound up going off the "trail" that was buried in branches, trying to pick up the main trail again. We came upon a marshy spot with long, tall grasses that was quite pretty, but mushy, so we headed out ( Read more... )

Tomorrow we have a couple of appointments with mortgage lenders, then...the home inspection! I'm excited. We'll be spending upwards of three hours in the house that could one day be ours. I'm tempted to bring a measuring tape along to measure and map out rooms so I can play with furniture arrangement. I'm scared to though, in case I get too ( Read more... )

Counter-counter-offer accepted! Now I'm excited.

they counteroffered! YAHOO!

The offer's in. They have until Thursday at 5pm to counter or accept or tell us to rot in hell. I think it's a very good offer, not insulting at all. I'm hoping for the best!

Nick and I are hopefully getting together tonight with our real estate agent to pound out an offer for a house ( Read more... )

my granny! She's 101 today ( Read more... )

I'm back in the GTA for two weeks for a couple of weddings and to visit some friends, and of course there's the obligatory family gatherings over dim sum and congee. The true way to bond with my family is like this:

Dad - Talk about books, current affairs, his latest top secret military inventions, and how I could have possibly have moved to the ( Read more... )

One of the major expenses to a wedding is the reception, and more specifically, paying for the amount of alcohol people consume. When Nick and I planned our wedding, we worked with our coordinator Laurence, and conservatively budgeted for the alcohol, knowing that most of our guests don't drink, or don't drink much. Laurence was a little hesitant ( Read more... )