Alright, so, one of my goals for next year was to reassemble something like a social life, and I'm getting a jump on that goal this weekend. There has been a Christmas concert advertised on the local classical music station, and they are performing a bunch of my favorite pieces, so I'm planning to attend. Especially since it's free! I've never been ( Read more... )

Well, after the fiasco with the last realtor, a friend of mine put me in touch with her guy, and he's already 10,000x better than the one before. We spoke for about an hour on the phone (he was horrified that I got stood up for the house tour), and I told him what I wanted and my budget and all that jazz. He set me up with an account on his house ( Read more... )

I am getting really, really sick of all this realtor shit.

I got stood up again by a realtor when we had an appointment to look at houses. Didn't respond to texts, phone calls, or voicemail. And this is a totally different person from last time, too! And I still get the same end result - a realtor who vanishes ( Read more... )

*breathing into paper bag*

Signed my first mortgage paperwork this morning.

M has been neck-deep in his last research papers and take-home finals, so I've been trying to create a positive study environment for him by leaving off the tv and not providing any distractions. Which means the last few nights I've either busied myself cooking (chicken dauphinoise, because I'm fancy as fuck), or I've had on the headphones and have ( Read more... )

I finally got over my anxiety and called the mortgage lender that was recommended to me, since he works with first-time home buyers. We talked for nearly an hour about all my options, and he said I was basically the poster child for some of these down payment assistance grants, so I had a good shot of paying almost nothing out of pocket. So ( Read more... )

This weekend was much less productive than I had wanted. Saturday was great - I finished M's waistcoat, which took much longer than expected, and ended up eating about half of the day.


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Went outside of my comfort zone last night and made Chicken Tikka Masala. Indian and Asian food always seems super intimidating because there are either a thousand ingredients or a million steps, but I was really craving some chicken tikka and I'm too broke to go out, so I dove in ( Read more... )

Guys.

GUYS.

I don't know if I'm late to the party or something, but do you know about this thing?!

It's a fashion periodical that seems to have run for many decades. The earliest one I've see was from the 1830s, and the latest was from 1881. There are only a few online, and the scans can be truly horrible, but there are men's patterns out the ( Read more... )

Well, no embroidery or sewing or...well...anything happened last night. A couple of hours before M was due to pick me up, I got a headache, which developed into a migraine by the end of the night. Ugh. I just ended up laying in bed with the lights off and trying to get to sleep so the pain would end ( Read more... )