another year older...and maybe a bit wiser

happy 30th birthday, jamie!

dave & jamie
she only wore the sombrero
for the fried ice cream

although today is jamie's birthday, the fam celebrated jamie's 30th friday night at

Que Pasa Cantina. the food was fantastic as well as the beer-yum, margaritas and the sinful sopapilla.

two long time family friends, tammie & lisa decided at last minute to join and crash the bash. it was wonderful catching up with them and hearing the latest with their children and families. even though it was jamie's 30th, i was feeling quite old. my first paying job was babysitter to tammie's and lisa's families. it made me feel quite old hearing how their children are finishing up their high school career, in college and graduated...oh, the memories!

once again jamie, happy birthday wishes from your favorite sister. i hope 30 treats you sweetly!

dave, stacy, kristin
kelly & jamie

honey, i'm home

i am finally moved in! it's been quite a long week and needless to say, i am thoroughly exhausted. thank you to all that assisted with the move, unpacking and furniture assembly. i could not have done it without you guys, thank you!!

slowly, room by room things are coming together and the new place is finally looking like a home. i must admit, as sick and twisted as it is, i think my favorite room is the main floor laundry room. i can't stop doing laundry! my new washer and dryer, the whirlpool duets, are just to die for and are such sexy beasts!

really, the only thing left to finally make my house a home is sweet little marshall. kelly has been gracious enough to keep marshall entertained at her house this past week while i've had every possible tech known to man in and out of the house this week. i know lux is enjoying the extra time, but deep down, i think marshall's ready for some down time. hang in there marsh, you're coming home this weekend!

check back soon as there will be pictures posted for your viewing pleasure.

it's finally gonna happen!

oh my god - oh my god - oh my god

the house has electricity! can you bloody believe it? i know, it only took two of the longest weeks of my life, but it's ready to go!

i'm officially moving in this weekend!! any and all who are interested in helping, which i know there are tons of you out there, feel free to give me a call. i know you're all dying to help. inside, the house is beautiful, spacious and smells so new. outside, aside from needing sod and a bit of landscaping, a fenced in yard for marshall and a weatherized deck she's one sexy beast.

i'm taking a much anticipated field trip to lowes this weekend with jamie. i'm going washer and dryer shopping! i've been scoping them out and think i have a new pair picked out...i'm sure it will be love at first sight when our eyes meet across the aisle.

there's soo many things to do and soo little time. let's see if putting in all those 70-80 hour work weeks paid off this summer and if any of those little ingrates will cover a few shifts for me now...

karma plays dirty

here i sit, 11 days post closing and still house-less. there's no greater feeling than having a beautiful brand new home that you can't move into, but must pay for.

i went by the house this morning for a brief update. the bloody electric company has still yet to send out an engineer to affix the meter to the house. literally, that's the only hold up. the foreman was hoping the electric company would make it out there sometime today or friday; sure buddy, wishful freaking thinking. he also informed me that two of my appliances have a few dings in them. i should have expected something like this by now, right? needless to say, new refrigerator and dishwasher doors are on their way. with the pace of things, i estimate their arrival around christmas, 2009.

the only good news to come from today is that i have no cavities and a brand new toothbrush from the dentist.

better house-less than home-less, i think

in my previous post, all were informed of how closing on the new house wasn't supposed to happen as initially scheduled this past monday. so, in keeping with things not going scheduled as plan, i did close. confused yet? you should be, and don't fear, you're not alone.

i am officially back to being a home owner; however, i just can't live in the bloody thing. in order for me to have kept my super stellar interest rate, i needed to still close this past monday; otherwise, it'd take another 3 weeks for a new loan program and all of the processing that goes with. now you're probably asking yourself, well if you closed, why aren't you living there? it's called electricity baby...the one thing the house is still missing. the electric company and the county people can't get their ducks in a row and somehow don't have the paperwork meshing with one another. "they" have alluded to the fact that tuesday of next week, the house shall be completely move-in-ready. i for one am not getting my hopes up. i've learned in this daunting process to believe and trust no one. sad, but ever so true.

on a lighter note...i have successfully purchased a new living room set, woo-hoo! after searching the greater st. louis area furniture stores (seriously, i went to like 7 stores) for the last week-plus, i opted for the contemporary styles of the durapella - celadon. while roaming the furniture store for an accent chair to go with the collection i had initially selected, i stumbled upon the durapella. had it not been for erin's encouraging words and push to take such a bold step, in 3-4 weeks, i'd have the arrival of what i now think is grandma furniture on my doorstep. so dear erin, i thank you!

anyone who dared walk in my path on furniture shopping day was not safe. i sheepishly pull my tail between my legs and offer my apologies to all i encountered last tuesday. i was a raging mess and peeved at the world because i've been so diligently furniture shopping without prevail and never thought it was going to end. helping to aid my mass frustration was a fabulous little deli my friend jessie and her husband, joe, opened in late spring, pulizzo's deli. thank you jes and joe for the scrumptious food that helped to settle my tummy and make me less of an irate bitch than normal. as usual jes & joe, the food was deli-cious.

while i am still house-less, i at least have a sweet set of furniture on the way, yippee!