What a great weekend! It was one of those weekends that was so fun and busy and productive that my alarm went off this morning and I rolled over thinking, "You idiot...way to turn your alarm off last night for a SATURDAY morning"........I just want to relive it!
But I DID actually set my alarm on Saturday morning........for about the first time since college, when I worked Saturday mornings at the bank. Except this time was to be at Old Navy when they opened since all of their tank tops were on sale for $2. (Yes, I'm realizing as I type this how pitiful that sounds.....). Well, I got there and they had actually opened at SEVEN and clearly all of the normal sized people were up around then......since all that was left was EVERY SINGLE COLOR YOU COULD EVER WANT in XS and S.....in real people sizes, I had a great selection of brown, black, white and gray. Oh, and navy. At least there's nothing wrong with basic colors! I then trapsied over to Kohl's where I found the very last 2 chairs that I've had my eye on for awhile....had been $130/ each and marked down to $55, THEN I had a 30% off coupon! WHOO!
The rest of the day was spent lying by the pool (ahhhhhh), getting ready, seeing Billy Gardell (HILARIOUS), 2 for $20 at Applebee's (delish), and going to a strip club.
Yup. You read that right. Let the judging begin.....after 8.5 years of being together, Chris finally convinced me. Very interesting experience, felt a little weird, but not as bad as I'd thought. Check that one off my bucket list ;-) Two observations. One, if you're a girl, you might as well be gold in there. They treat you like a princess in those places! Two. Forget happy hour, their drink prices were awesome! $3 jello shots, $2 Skyy vodka drinks. Yum! Frankly, it was about the fastest 2 hours I remember in recent times!
Yesterday, we slept late and then headed to the east side of town to go to an open house of a 4-level split we saw online and really liked. We had actually grabbed a paper and stopped by another open house of a bi-level house that we really liked.....then we spent 2 hours driving around the neighborhoods we'd like to be in, and wrote down addresses. I talked to a realtor today and we're good to start looking whenever - WHOO!! Fortunately for us, this is a FANTASTIC buyers' market, so if there's one thing we don't like in a house, we just move on. We're not completely 100% sure that we'll buy a house, but we're leaning that way. I'm never going to convince Chris to move any closer to Terre Haute besides St. Louis, so why move all the way over there just to be an hour closer to home? So we'll see. I don't see that we'd need to move in the forseeable future (5 years at least)............so, we're going to take our time, look around, learn everything we can, and make the best decision. There are definitely lots of good things out there!
Last night my cook of hubby grilled out THE best cheeseburgers EVER on the grill and we just enjoyed winding down the weekend.
I do heart summer.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Random Randoms
Its been awhile since I updated last. My apologies. I have no idea what I accomplished in the time since I've written last. How is it already June 24? Does anyone realize that on the other side of 6 months from now, it'll be Christmas EVE!?!?!
Work is insane and tedious and exciting and busy and slow all at the same time. I can't believe I've been at my new branch for almost 2 months now. I guess time flies when you're still trying to figure out what happened at your branch for the prior 8 months since your predecessor did NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING. Seriously - still paying salt and snow invoices. Fortunately, I ADORE my boss and (98% of) my new co-workers. There's always that ONE PERSON.....
Lots of things are being discussed and decided and figured out and planned in the King household right now. Our apartment, which we've lived in since October of 2009, 's lease ends 10/31 of this year and we won't be renewing our lease. Not that we don't like our apartment.....we don't LOVE it, but it just doesn't have enough space. Whether we rent another apartment, rent a house, build a house (although I think that's now the bottom possibility) or buy a house, we'll definitely be moving later this fall. I actually lined up an appointment for us to talk to a mortgage lender the week of 4th of July to see what our options are. Surprisingly enough (ha), we don't just have 5% of house sitting around, so we'll have to get creative with a down payment. And from my brief discussion with the lender on Wednesday night, we probably make too much money (insert rolling laughter here) to get any help from the government. We'll see.
Our 3rd anniversary (?!??!??) is coming up in a few short months, and with that, EVERYbody (and I mean EVERYbody) is interested in our baby plans. Trust me, folks, it is almost a daily discussion, and it doesn't seem like we really know when a little King will make its way into the world. We are in that mode of talking about it but then taking a step back and panicking at everything that would change, at everything that would be different. I know everyone says that you just adapt and your life only changes for the better, but I admit that I know Chris is scared, and so am I. I feel like I should still be in college. How did I get to be almost 28?!?!??? At any rate, plans are in the works. I don't know how concrete they are, but we're already thinking ahead. I'll leave it at that.
Thank God it's Friday!!! We get to go see Billy Gardell (Mike off of Mike & Molly) tomorrow night in downtown Columbus, and I'm stoked. Not only is he HILARIOUS (we've seen him live before), but Chris and I have been working such long and hard hours it'll be nice to do something a little different than dinner out and then in bed by 10 on Saturday night.
Oh the exciting life we lead..................
Work is insane and tedious and exciting and busy and slow all at the same time. I can't believe I've been at my new branch for almost 2 months now. I guess time flies when you're still trying to figure out what happened at your branch for the prior 8 months since your predecessor did NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING. Seriously - still paying salt and snow invoices. Fortunately, I ADORE my boss and (98% of) my new co-workers. There's always that ONE PERSON.....
Lots of things are being discussed and decided and figured out and planned in the King household right now. Our apartment, which we've lived in since October of 2009, 's lease ends 10/31 of this year and we won't be renewing our lease. Not that we don't like our apartment.....we don't LOVE it, but it just doesn't have enough space. Whether we rent another apartment, rent a house, build a house (although I think that's now the bottom possibility) or buy a house, we'll definitely be moving later this fall. I actually lined up an appointment for us to talk to a mortgage lender the week of 4th of July to see what our options are. Surprisingly enough (ha), we don't just have 5% of house sitting around, so we'll have to get creative with a down payment. And from my brief discussion with the lender on Wednesday night, we probably make too much money (insert rolling laughter here) to get any help from the government. We'll see.
Our 3rd anniversary (?!??!??) is coming up in a few short months, and with that, EVERYbody (and I mean EVERYbody) is interested in our baby plans. Trust me, folks, it is almost a daily discussion, and it doesn't seem like we really know when a little King will make its way into the world. We are in that mode of talking about it but then taking a step back and panicking at everything that would change, at everything that would be different. I know everyone says that you just adapt and your life only changes for the better, but I admit that I know Chris is scared, and so am I. I feel like I should still be in college. How did I get to be almost 28?!?!??? At any rate, plans are in the works. I don't know how concrete they are, but we're already thinking ahead. I'll leave it at that.
Thank God it's Friday!!! We get to go see Billy Gardell (Mike off of Mike & Molly) tomorrow night in downtown Columbus, and I'm stoked. Not only is he HILARIOUS (we've seen him live before), but Chris and I have been working such long and hard hours it'll be nice to do something a little different than dinner out and then in bed by 10 on Saturday night.
Oh the exciting life we lead..................
Monday, June 6, 2011
P!nk Says it Best!
"Made a wrong turn
Once or twice
Dug my way out
Blood and fire
Bad decisions
That's alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss "no way, it's all good"
It didn't slow me down
Mistaken, always second guessing
Underestimated
Look I'm still around..."
Nothing else to add - sometimes music just says it best!
Once or twice
Dug my way out
Blood and fire
Bad decisions
That's alright
Welcome to my silly life
Mistreated, misplaced, misunderstood
Miss "no way, it's all good"
It didn't slow me down
Mistaken, always second guessing
Underestimated
Look I'm still around..."
Nothing else to add - sometimes music just says it best!
Sunday, June 5, 2011
May
June 5th already? Are you serious?
Chris and I celebrated our 9th high school graduation the other day, on Thursday. Okay, we didn't celebrate anything; as a matter of fact when I told him it was our 9th anniversary he just muttered (for the 890754123rd time) that we will NOT be attending our 10th reunion next year. Yes, dear.
May was a whirlwind, to say the least. I'm finally settled in full time at my new branch and it has been a LOT of early mornings and late evenings....but I think we're getting there. March's close was almost two days long (whereas my longest at my old branch was 6 hours, my first snow) - last month's close was almost 8 hours....we considered it progress :) I'm hoping that we start our close this Thursday at 12:30 and it's over by the time I need to leave at 4. I hope!
Well, I'm still alive but am still getting over some kind of sickness that hit me out of nowhere on Thursday. Bedtime for me. More tittalating updates to come. :)
Chris and I celebrated our 9th high school graduation the other day, on Thursday. Okay, we didn't celebrate anything; as a matter of fact when I told him it was our 9th anniversary he just muttered (for the 890754123rd time) that we will NOT be attending our 10th reunion next year. Yes, dear.
May was a whirlwind, to say the least. I'm finally settled in full time at my new branch and it has been a LOT of early mornings and late evenings....but I think we're getting there. March's close was almost two days long (whereas my longest at my old branch was 6 hours, my first snow) - last month's close was almost 8 hours....we considered it progress :) I'm hoping that we start our close this Thursday at 12:30 and it's over by the time I need to leave at 4. I hope!
Well, I'm still alive but am still getting over some kind of sickness that hit me out of nowhere on Thursday. Bedtime for me. More tittalating updates to come. :)
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