This story is perfect in the same way as the one that made me fall in love with public radio Haruki Murakami's On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning
Both
fit in some way with how I feel now; and how I feel now is a happier
lonely than I've been for a long time. I find myself thinking positively
about the simplest pair-wise things, such as someday talking with
someone and starting a sentence with "Remember when we...", and these
simple one line future stories make me smile like an idiot.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Monday, October 8, 2007
Minimal standards
Last week in the veggie box, I got more green beans, so today I finally
got around to eating them, or most of them. Unfortunately, I sort of
carmelized them because I decided to play on the computer while they
steamed. Fortunately, it actually tasted carmelized instead of burnt. I
made some version of a honey balsamic sauce to put on them, and that
turned out fine though I erred on the side of vinegar. Zozo came over to
smell what I was doing and had a really funny sneezing fit after
smelling the vinegar. Jaxby also tried to help cook by curling up in the
frying pan while I was trimming the ends from the green beans. Super
cute, intensely unsanitary, and of course he got up before I got the
camera to take a picture of Cat: Pre-Saute.
If I ever cook food for you, I promise I will have washed out the pans before cooking in them and will not let my cats sneeze into your food.
If I ever cook food for you, I promise I will have washed out the pans before cooking in them and will not let my cats sneeze into your food.
Saturday, September 8, 2007
First 5K!
I slowly jogged all but a teeny bit of a 5k today with much
encouragement from a friend who was visiting from out of town, but
decided to spend 40 minutes of the day sweating with me. :) The weather
page says it was only 85 degrees, but it sure felt hotter. I think I've
almost never been that sweaty before.
Dinner was tasty sushi, and I'm excited to have a new place to recommend.
good day, now i'm tired.
Dinner was tasty sushi, and I'm excited to have a new place to recommend.
good day, now i'm tired.
Monday, August 20, 2007
What's your daemon?
I got my hair chopped off yesterday. I've been having some angst so I
tried ridding myself of it by losing 12 inches of hair. It didn't quite
work, but at least I will spend less of my near-term life with wet hair
now.
I saw Stardust yesterday and found it sappy, beautiful and charming. Not as far out there on the beautiful scale as Mirrormask, but that would be hard to do.
My parents are coming to visit this week so I've finally called the plumber to deal with the fact that my bathtub has water under it (slosh slosh) and am looking forward to being able to freely bathe in my own house, though it may mean that I will go to the gym less compulsively now.
The jogging went super well on Saturday, especially since the weather was unnaturally perfect for summer.
Zozo got goopy eye over the weekend, and spent Saturday evening and Sunday following me around being snuffly and sad, but was completely recovered by like 4am this morning when he and Jaxby decided to play endless amounts of chase. awww, kitties :)
I also bought the His Dark Materials trilogy and plan to read those obsessively for a while. I want a daemon.
I saw Stardust yesterday and found it sappy, beautiful and charming. Not as far out there on the beautiful scale as Mirrormask, but that would be hard to do.
My parents are coming to visit this week so I've finally called the plumber to deal with the fact that my bathtub has water under it (slosh slosh) and am looking forward to being able to freely bathe in my own house, though it may mean that I will go to the gym less compulsively now.
The jogging went super well on Saturday, especially since the weather was unnaturally perfect for summer.
Zozo got goopy eye over the weekend, and spent Saturday evening and Sunday following me around being snuffly and sad, but was completely recovered by like 4am this morning when he and Jaxby decided to play endless amounts of chase. awww, kitties :)
I also bought the His Dark Materials trilogy and plan to read those obsessively for a while. I want a daemon.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
'No one belongs here more than you'
I heard a great short story on a podcast of Public Radio International's Studio 360. There's an excerpt here.
Besides that, life is sort of busy. With the new kitten, I have a lot more incentive to come home promptly at night, but I'm also greatly enjoying my current jogging and generic exercise fit. Yesterday and today it finally stopped being disgustingly hot which was super. I discovered that if I'm not out running on the hottest day of the year (which was Weds) I can in fact meet my goals for minutes of jogging/walking. Today was (10 min jog + 1 min walk) x3.
Jaxby and Zozo are getting along great. Cutesy photos will be on flickr tomorrow.
Besides that, life is sort of busy. With the new kitten, I have a lot more incentive to come home promptly at night, but I'm also greatly enjoying my current jogging and generic exercise fit. Yesterday and today it finally stopped being disgustingly hot which was super. I discovered that if I'm not out running on the hottest day of the year (which was Weds) I can in fact meet my goals for minutes of jogging/walking. Today was (10 min jog + 1 min walk) x3.
Jaxby and Zozo are getting along great. Cutesy photos will be on flickr tomorrow.
Sunday, July 22, 2007
CSA adventures continue
Yesterday was awesome. I went out for week 3 of the jogging slowly
group. One of the many running groups in DC is doing a beginner's series
culminating in a 5K in September. It's going a lot better than when I'd
tried on my own, but then again, I'm still only on week 3 of 10. It's
been great to meet new people though, and it's good to have a reason to
get up and get going Saturday mornings.
Then I went out to the farm with some friends. We picked blackberries (and ate a lot) and peaches. The peaches weren't as good to eat fresh off the tree, but will ripen quickly.
After two outdoor in the sunshine activities, I discovered that I'd only missed a small rectangle on my arm with the sunscreen, which was a third good thing for Saturday.
The fourth was going out to mexican tapas with a different couple. The restaurant used to be located near work and near where I used to live, but it relocated into DC to be fancier (and a pricier) but at least not less tasty, and in some cases tastier. So we won't go there as often now, but it's good to know it's still out there.
Then the fifth good part of the day was staying up late reading a book that I borrowed from a co-worker. Not Harry Potter, but the 6th book in a series that I'd been looking forward to borrowing from her for a while, so I'm having a little bit of sympathy Harry-Potter-ism.
Today was more frustrating, but ended ok in the end. I really wanted to make apricot preserves, but had a terribly hard time finding a store that carried pectin and then an even more awful time finding jars to put the preserves in. It was even hard to find a spray bottle to use to deter the cat from being curious about my boiled and sanitized (hopefully, if it worked) jars and lids. I think there is a chance that the stuff worked ok. At least all the lids popped down, so that's one important thing. I guess the next test will be whether they solidify at all, and finally we'll have to see how it tastes. There were only a couple small problems. Like I boiled the empty jars for a while, and then set them on a cookie sheet in a warm oven to dry them out and keep them warm until the fruit mixture was ready. But then once I'd filled the jars and put the lids on, I put them back in the same water which (duh, archimedes had figured out what would happen) I over flowed the pan and spilled boiling water onto my stove top. Thankfully I had a whole bunch of towels at hand just in case I did something that needed a lot of cleaning up. Then I got quite a bit of fruit goo burned onto my stovetop while stirring frantically for the minute of pectin-ing. I think I'll make the fruit in a larger sauce pan next time.
Over all good though. All 8 jars' lids popped down so it might be ok, and the fruit tasted great naturally, so hopefully it will taste good.
Then I went out to the farm with some friends. We picked blackberries (and ate a lot) and peaches. The peaches weren't as good to eat fresh off the tree, but will ripen quickly.
After two outdoor in the sunshine activities, I discovered that I'd only missed a small rectangle on my arm with the sunscreen, which was a third good thing for Saturday.
The fourth was going out to mexican tapas with a different couple. The restaurant used to be located near work and near where I used to live, but it relocated into DC to be fancier (and a pricier) but at least not less tasty, and in some cases tastier. So we won't go there as often now, but it's good to know it's still out there.
Then the fifth good part of the day was staying up late reading a book that I borrowed from a co-worker. Not Harry Potter, but the 6th book in a series that I'd been looking forward to borrowing from her for a while, so I'm having a little bit of sympathy Harry-Potter-ism.
Today was more frustrating, but ended ok in the end. I really wanted to make apricot preserves, but had a terribly hard time finding a store that carried pectin and then an even more awful time finding jars to put the preserves in. It was even hard to find a spray bottle to use to deter the cat from being curious about my boiled and sanitized (hopefully, if it worked) jars and lids. I think there is a chance that the stuff worked ok. At least all the lids popped down, so that's one important thing. I guess the next test will be whether they solidify at all, and finally we'll have to see how it tastes. There were only a couple small problems. Like I boiled the empty jars for a while, and then set them on a cookie sheet in a warm oven to dry them out and keep them warm until the fruit mixture was ready. But then once I'd filled the jars and put the lids on, I put them back in the same water which (duh, archimedes had figured out what would happen) I over flowed the pan and spilled boiling water onto my stove top. Thankfully I had a whole bunch of towels at hand just in case I did something that needed a lot of cleaning up. Then I got quite a bit of fruit goo burned onto my stovetop while stirring frantically for the minute of pectin-ing. I think I'll make the fruit in a larger sauce pan next time.
Over all good though. All 8 jars' lids popped down so it might be ok, and the fruit tasted great naturally, so hopefully it will taste good.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Unsuccessful but surprisingly good
I lost my keys Thursday. Chaos ensued. It is turning out to be an expensive error.
As part of trying to remedy it, I rode the Metro out to near a key shop this morning that said they could do the secure key for the building. Turns out he couldn't (grr!) It was a beautiful day though, and I enjoyed my 6ish mile bike ride back home, especially because I took a break for a great hamburger in the middle.
Then I got on the Metro again and rode off in the complete opposite direction to try to register for the 5k for tomorrow, which I should've registered for ages ago. oh well. I got to that shop about half an hour after the race people had left. Grr again.
It was still beautiful though, and I'd packed some water bottles in my bag, so after stopping for a morale boosting milkshake about 3 miles into this route I continued on, riding through this huge protected foresty area (where Chandra Levy's remains were found a few years ago) that goes from Maryland into DC. It was by far the biggest bike ride of my life, and if I hadn't cleverly picked about the only way to go 20 miles essentially all down hill, I'd be dead now. As it is, I'm a little worn out and my butt is mad at me for sitting on the bike for that long, but it could've been Much Worse.
For a day where none of my errands worked at all, it turned out surprisingly good.
As part of trying to remedy it, I rode the Metro out to near a key shop this morning that said they could do the secure key for the building. Turns out he couldn't (grr!) It was a beautiful day though, and I enjoyed my 6ish mile bike ride back home, especially because I took a break for a great hamburger in the middle.
Then I got on the Metro again and rode off in the complete opposite direction to try to register for the 5k for tomorrow, which I should've registered for ages ago. oh well. I got to that shop about half an hour after the race people had left. Grr again.
It was still beautiful though, and I'd packed some water bottles in my bag, so after stopping for a morale boosting milkshake about 3 miles into this route I continued on, riding through this huge protected foresty area (where Chandra Levy's remains were found a few years ago) that goes from Maryland into DC. It was by far the biggest bike ride of my life, and if I hadn't cleverly picked about the only way to go 20 miles essentially all down hill, I'd be dead now. As it is, I'm a little worn out and my butt is mad at me for sitting on the bike for that long, but it could've been Much Worse.
For a day where none of my errands worked at all, it turned out surprisingly good.
Friday, May 11, 2007
"Life Soundtrack" meme
The rules:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every prompt, type the song that's playing
5. To fill in the next prompt, press the next button (or stop and groove to the song before going to the next prompt, whatever). Keep going like this till they're all filled in.
6. Don't lie.
opening credits: Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year
From the Transatlanticism album -- imagine my mom lying about how pregnant she is in order to fly home from Switzerland
birth: The Decemberists - A Cautionary Tale
uhhh. This is just distressing. "She's standing in the harbour and waiting for the sailors in the jolly boat"
first day at school: Hem - Not California
No, really, it was California!
falling in love: Mike Doughty - Unsingable Name
"I want to be your absolute ultimate, I want to be your only one now" is perhaps a leeeetle extreme.
fight song: Aqua - Turn Back Time
What a lame fight song.
breaking up: The Decemberists - The Chimbley Sweep
oh my, "'O lonely urchin!' the widow cried,
'I've not been swept since the day my husband died.'
Her cheeks are blushing, her legs laid bare
And shipwrecked there, I'll shake you from your sleep "
school dance: They Might Be Giants - I've Got a Fang
Having a fang would be a good way to be unpopular in high school.
life: Track 9 - 5 year reunion mix from Taryn
aka Lisa Loeb - Do you sleep
My songs are all lonely. how sad.
mental breakdown: Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!
I guess imagining (knowing?) that there is a predatory wasp out to get you could be some sort of indicator of a mental breakdown
driving: They Might Be Giants - Your Own Worst Enemy
Seriously now, I am not the best driver ever, but I am not my own worst enemy
flashback: Blues Traveler - Run Around
"once upon a midnight dreary, I woke with something in my head. I couldn't escape the memory of a phone call and what you said." I think that counts as a great flashback lead in.
wedding: Blues Traveler - Just Wait
This is more of a song about the concept of a wedding than a song to be played at a wedding. A coworker got "F your sister" for this category. That was funnier.
birth of child: Sufjan Stevens - The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders
OK, so far my movie is a lot of loneliness, and now apparently the worst child-birth scenario in the history of the world.
final battle: Belle & Sebastian - The Rollercoaster Ride
"The rollercoaster ride of all the trouble kept her inside" -- yeah, I'll be sitting out that final battle.
death scene: Death Cab for Cutie - Death of an Interior Decorator
well, at least it's not my own death. Since I am totally not an interior decorator. But, "Can you tell me why you have been so sad?"
funeral: They Might Be Giants - Experimental Film
"I already know the ending. It's the part that makes your face implode"
ending credits: I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
I think the opening credits and ending credits were the most cheery of all of these.
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every prompt, type the song that's playing
5. To fill in the next prompt, press the next button (or stop and groove to the song before going to the next prompt, whatever). Keep going like this till they're all filled in.
6. Don't lie.
opening credits: Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year
From the Transatlanticism album -- imagine my mom lying about how pregnant she is in order to fly home from Switzerland
birth: The Decemberists - A Cautionary Tale
uhhh. This is just distressing. "She's standing in the harbour and waiting for the sailors in the jolly boat"
first day at school: Hem - Not California
No, really, it was California!
falling in love: Mike Doughty - Unsingable Name
"I want to be your absolute ultimate, I want to be your only one now" is perhaps a leeeetle extreme.
fight song: Aqua - Turn Back Time
What a lame fight song.
breaking up: The Decemberists - The Chimbley Sweep
oh my, "'O lonely urchin!' the widow cried,
'I've not been swept since the day my husband died.'
Her cheeks are blushing, her legs laid bare
And shipwrecked there, I'll shake you from your sleep "
school dance: They Might Be Giants - I've Got a Fang
Having a fang would be a good way to be unpopular in high school.
life: Track 9 - 5 year reunion mix from Taryn
aka Lisa Loeb - Do you sleep
My songs are all lonely. how sad.
mental breakdown: Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!
I guess imagining (knowing?) that there is a predatory wasp out to get you could be some sort of indicator of a mental breakdown
driving: They Might Be Giants - Your Own Worst Enemy
Seriously now, I am not the best driver ever, but I am not my own worst enemy
flashback: Blues Traveler - Run Around
"once upon a midnight dreary, I woke with something in my head. I couldn't escape the memory of a phone call and what you said." I think that counts as a great flashback lead in.
wedding: Blues Traveler - Just Wait
This is more of a song about the concept of a wedding than a song to be played at a wedding. A coworker got "F your sister" for this category. That was funnier.
birth of child: Sufjan Stevens - The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders
OK, so far my movie is a lot of loneliness, and now apparently the worst child-birth scenario in the history of the world.
final battle: Belle & Sebastian - The Rollercoaster Ride
"The rollercoaster ride of all the trouble kept her inside" -- yeah, I'll be sitting out that final battle.
death scene: Death Cab for Cutie - Death of an Interior Decorator
well, at least it's not my own death. Since I am totally not an interior decorator. But, "Can you tell me why you have been so sad?"
funeral: They Might Be Giants - Experimental Film
"I already know the ending. It's the part that makes your face implode"
ending credits: I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona
I think the opening credits and ending credits were the most cheery of all of these.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Bike Commute!
I got new inner tubes for my bike yesterday and today I rode my bike to work!
It was pretty easy, even though I haven't been on a bike in more than a
year. I think it was also faster than the lazy bus/metro/walk route
that I would usually take. yay bike!
If I ride it a lot this year, then next year, I might get a cooler bike.
If I ride it a lot this year, then next year, I might get a cooler bike.
Friday, March 23, 2007
Thanks, work, for sponsoring this trip to CA
I had an awesome vacation in California. Work shouldn't let me go on
long vacations to CA because then I want to run away to there and live
in the wonderful sunshine. As usual, after finishing the vacation I
don't feel like I have the energy to describe it, but I'll make an
effort, even though it's mostly a list:
Sunday - A marvelously action-packed
day that got started with drooling over stupid-expensive cookware at the
Le Crueset outlet store. I don't need any more pans... but they are
pretty and shiny... and pretty ... and shiny. Then we went to a stealth
brewery where the food descriptions tasted better in my head than the
food did. The room was amazing and I'd be happy to go back there, but it
would be nicer if they had less fancy food done better. Then, we were
most of the way to the Wild Animal Park!! So we went and watched
pregnant elephants lumber around for a while and then squinted at
giraffes. There was a super huge line to ride the train around, so I'll
have to go back again some other day to be on a pretend safari. Also,
next time I have to remember not to rub waterproof sunscreen into my eye
during brunch. Apparently it takes many many hours of watery squinting
for my eyes to be happy again. After Wild Animal Park, we went up to
Temecula to have port in a chocolate shot glass
which I remembered as being slightly better than it was, but I was very
happy to have gotten to go back there. Then Andy (graciously and
kindly) drove me all the way up to my parents house through the evil
freeway terror of Riverside.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - I lazed around my parents house. There was much sleeping. The cats were happy to see me, and I was happy to be in the sunshine. I ate two Rosa Maria's burritos, which are some of my favorite food in the world. Here are some pictures of me and Fatso (the cat) enjoying the sunshine, and some flowers in my parents backyard:
I guess that wasn't such a brief summary. Now I'll probably not update this thing for another few months :)
Except to be joyful about figuring out how to set up a git server (versioning control system) at work and how to instruct other people how to work with it. go me!
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - I lazed around my parents house. There was much sleeping. The cats were happy to see me, and I was happy to be in the sunshine. I ate two Rosa Maria's burritos, which are some of my favorite food in the world. Here are some pictures of me and Fatso (the cat) enjoying the sunshine, and some flowers in my parents backyard:
Thursday
- I took the train to meet up with my friend on the other side of LA.
We road-tripped up to the fancy hotel in Pebble Beach with a stop in
Santa Barbara for lunch on the pier. Surprisingly, there was a small
whale splashing around in the harbor! I hope it went further out to sea
eventually. I really enjoyed riding up PCH with her, but it got dark
before we got to Big Sur, so it was a little scary riding around all
those curves and cliffs in the dark. The hotel was truly amazing. We had a fireplace in the room!
Friday - I had a day of official meetings that were the main reason work paid for my flight out to CA. It wasn't too bad, and my friend and I were able to go over to The Inn at Spanish Bay to watch the sunset bagpiper. I was surprised at how enjoyable I found it to sit in the evening sun listening to the distant bagpiper watching the sun go down. I'm sure that the Raspberry Lemon Drop martini had nothing to do with it :) Friday night was a big fancy dinner with lots and lots of drinking. At the dinner they announced a special award to two employees who had made a difference in our corporate community work, and I was one of them! Yay big check! Part of it is totally going towards my new and exciting mortgage. Then I ended up staying out with some coworkers until 3am. Good bonding time, and lots of fun.
Friday - I had a day of official meetings that were the main reason work paid for my flight out to CA. It wasn't too bad, and my friend and I were able to go over to The Inn at Spanish Bay to watch the sunset bagpiper. I was surprised at how enjoyable I found it to sit in the evening sun listening to the distant bagpiper watching the sun go down. I'm sure that the Raspberry Lemon Drop martini had nothing to do with it :) Friday night was a big fancy dinner with lots and lots of drinking. At the dinner they announced a special award to two employees who had made a difference in our corporate community work, and I was one of them! Yay big check! Part of it is totally going towards my new and exciting mortgage. Then I ended up staying out with some coworkers until 3am. Good bonding time, and lots of fun.
Saturday
- After staying up late, it was very satisfying to show up to the
morning meeting at 7am bright and perky and to giggle to myself at the
people groaning and holding their heads with hangovers. Meetings got out
at noon, so we had lots of time to go sightseeing around the peninsula.
I maxed out on social time sometime in the afternoon and greatly
enjoyed sitting in the lounge on my own with a tasty cappuccino and
chocolate/pistachio biscotti. For dinner, a lot of my coworkers met us
over at the bagpiper hotel for drinks and outdoor fireplace-time. It was
very very nice to have so many people come over to hang out with me; I
just told where I was going and then left them to decide what they
wanted to do, and apparently, seeing the bagpiper beat out sitting on
their own, or coming up with something else. It was not a late night; I
was pretty exhausted by 10.
Sunday - I took a shuttle from Monterey up to the Bay Area to meet up with Rachel. It was great to catch up, cuddle her cats and to get In-N-Out for dinner.
Monday
- I entertained myself joyfully with a Tivo and some Gilmore Girls for
the morning, and then we went out in the afternoon to walk around SF for
a while. Golden Gate park was pretty even though it was cloudy and the
Haight was very satisfyingly San Franciscan. Then to Berkeley for my
favorite deep dish pizza. mmm i love food.
Tuesday - I
almost missed my connection in Phoenix, but thankfully only had to go
over a few gates. Other than that, it was a nice, uneventful trip home.
Now I'm home and still worn out from all that vacationing.
I guess that wasn't such a brief summary. Now I'll probably not update this thing for another few months :)
Except to be joyful about figuring out how to set up a git server (versioning control system) at work and how to instruct other people how to work with it. go me!
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
C25K (again)
I can't believe that in One Week I will own a mortgage and in 8 days, I will have moved there.
If the mild winter from December and January had continued, I'd be able to start biking to work right away, but since there are piles of ice and snow around, I think I'll start off riding the bus.
I'm also terribly excited that I've made it up to jogging (slowly) a whole 2 miles without a break in my most recent adventure with the nifty couch to 5k program. My new place is 3 miles from work along a trail, so I have been day dreaming about being so ambitious and organized as to jog to or from work some times.
I started packing yesterday and I own a whole lot more stuff than I did when I moved out here a 2 years ago.
If the mild winter from December and January had continued, I'd be able to start biking to work right away, but since there are piles of ice and snow around, I think I'll start off riding the bus.
I'm also terribly excited that I've made it up to jogging (slowly) a whole 2 miles without a break in my most recent adventure with the nifty couch to 5k program. My new place is 3 miles from work along a trail, so I have been day dreaming about being so ambitious and organized as to jog to or from work some times.
I started packing yesterday and I own a whole lot more stuff than I did when I moved out here a 2 years ago.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Bike Commute?
The house stuff is going ok. I'm petrified of screwing something up about the mortgage.
I made a spreadsheet to figure out how I should split up any extra money I can put towards payments in order to minimize the long term interest accrued, which made me feel smart for a while.
I've also figured out how long a bike-commute to work would be. There's a bike trail that goes along the river, so it would be pleasant except when it's hot or cold (which leaves about 2 months of the year)
I made a spreadsheet to figure out how I should split up any extra money I can put towards payments in order to minimize the long term interest accrued, which made me feel smart for a while.
I've also figured out how long a bike-commute to work would be. There's a bike trail that goes along the river, so it would be pleasant except when it's hot or cold (which leaves about 2 months of the year)
Friday, January 5, 2007
Ownership??
I'm making an offer on a condo! It's entirely conceivable that, soon, I could be the proud owner of a mortgage.
My productivity at work has gone Way Down since I started seriously pursuing this idea. Hopefully it will perk up again for a while soon.
I also finally have a local bank account -- inspired by the fact that I just used my very last check from my California bank account to give an earnest money deposit on the condo. Gah. Realizing that I was out of checks right before I have to start writing them made me spend part of the afternoon worrying that I'm too disorganized to try to own a house (or condo, whatever).
I hope I get it! I'd been planning to wait a bit to convince myself that I really wanted this one, but then someone else made an offer today! So I had to rush! I hate rushing! Gah! It's been a very exclamation filled day.
Maybe this year I'll also get a car. And a tv. The idea of buying house then car then TV totally cracks me up since it's so backwards of how anyone else would do it.
Update! They've accepted my offer! Apparently I provided a nice amount of ernest money, had a good desired closing date, and wrote a nice letter about how excited I am to live there in the future. So next up is home inspectoring and more detailed talks with the mortgage company.
PS Here's a link to the condo.
And when I live there, I can get a kitten!
My productivity at work has gone Way Down since I started seriously pursuing this idea. Hopefully it will perk up again for a while soon.
I also finally have a local bank account -- inspired by the fact that I just used my very last check from my California bank account to give an earnest money deposit on the condo. Gah. Realizing that I was out of checks right before I have to start writing them made me spend part of the afternoon worrying that I'm too disorganized to try to own a house (or condo, whatever).
I hope I get it! I'd been planning to wait a bit to convince myself that I really wanted this one, but then someone else made an offer today! So I had to rush! I hate rushing! Gah! It's been a very exclamation filled day.
Maybe this year I'll also get a car. And a tv. The idea of buying house then car then TV totally cracks me up since it's so backwards of how anyone else would do it.
Update! They've accepted my offer! Apparently I provided a nice amount of ernest money, had a good desired closing date, and wrote a nice letter about how excited I am to live there in the future. So next up is home inspectoring and more detailed talks with the mortgage company.
PS Here's a link to the condo.
And when I live there, I can get a kitten!
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