August 2009
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HGTV.
Ever since I have started looking for a condo, and now that I have found one, I am obsessed with watching HGTV.
Property Virgins, House Hunters, Curb Appeal, Design on a Dime. I have some good ideas on decorating and paint colors!
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Things to do this weekend.
Eric’s going away party and drinks with friends tonight.
Packing up stuff in my apartment I don’t need in the next 45 days tomorrow and Sunday.
Pull together all of my paperwork and statements for my mortgage loan application.
Grocery store run.
Spend a few hours by the pool with a magazine and my new book.
Start packing for New York/Atlanta trip next week.
Possibly a Home Depot...
“Eventually, everything will come together. Until then, live it up. Do what makes...”
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
July 2009
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I am waiting for it to sink in.
I am so close to becoming a first-time homeowner!
The seller officially accepted my offer this morning and I am signing the paperwork tomorrow. I close on September 15th and I “technically” move out of my apartment on September 29th.
I am waiting for all of this to sink in. I am waiting for the shock of the fact that all of my savings will be gone. I am waiting to cry, because I know...
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Condo update.
I have become more and more frustrated over the past few weeks. I have seen close to, dare I say it, 50 condos all over Dallas. I know exactly what I want. I know where I want to live. And I know how much I want to spend.
After another round this weekend, I found a really nice place in the same complex as the condo I made an offer on about a month ago. I would have to compromise, since it is a...
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Contaminated?
I bought a box of Wheat Thins today when I went to the grocery store. I just opened them up when The Bachelorette started and when I got through the box, I noticed that the bag was slightly open in the corner.
I gave Nabisco, and the creeps out there that like poison food, the benefit of the doubt and hoped that the bag opened when I opened the box, so I ate them anyway.
My tongue feels a little...
“There are too many inexplicable things around us - horrors, threats, mysteries...”
– The Queen of the Damned (via quotewhore)
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New computer.
My 10 year old computer from college seems to have officially bit the dust. It is a sad day.
Now, I am on the hunt for a relatively inexpensive laptop. I basically just surf the Web, edit photos, watch videos, etc. Nothing to crazy. Laptop prices have come down so much, but it’s been ages since I have bought a new computer, I want to be sure I am getting everything I need.
Any suggestions?
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PCMagazine's Top 100 Websites of 2009 →
PC Mag has a great list of Websites in almost every category you can think of. You can also download and install all of the sites to favorites.
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for...”
– Phyllis Diller
I might need a kitchen timer in my office and apartment.
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Leftover chicken broth or spaghetti sauce?
Since my grandma and I both live alone, she taught me a great trick.
Pour the liquid into an ice cube tray and then freeze. Pop out the cubes and put them in a freezer bag. Two cubes is about a 1/4 cup. Whenever you need some chicken broth or some spaghetti sauce, you have exactly the amount you need.
Here are some other useful ways to utilize your ice cube trays.
“Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it’s cowardice.”
– George Jackson
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The Men Tell All →
Lincee is on vacation, but her friends Jill and Catherine did a pretty good job recapping last night’s The Bachelorette: The Men Tell All.
“There are two types of people—those who come into a room and say,...”
– Frederick L. Collins
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Good weekend...except for Sunday.
This weekend was one of the best I have had in a long time.
On Friday, I spent the afternoon with my friend Ashley. It’s been a while since we have had some good girl time and shopping was the perfect idea! She was on the hunt for shoes and I ended up buying a sweet pair of Rock & Republic jeans at Nordstrom Rack for $65. Good deal! We ended up going to happy hour at Park, a new bar on...
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Stupid computer.
My stupid computer may have officially died. Attempting to be patient and letting it “warm up” and maybe it will come back to life.
*UPDATE: It’s working…for now, but I think it’s on its last leg. It’s probably not a good sign that it turns off and on by itself.
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Conversation with my eye doctor.
Doctor: I mentioned this when you were here last year. Your eye is most likely twitching because you are stressed out. Do you feel stressed out?
Me: Well...I was sitting in a meeting the other day and my boss was listing out a whole bunch of things I needed to work on this week and my eye went crazy. So yes, I think I might be stressed out.
Doctor: OK then.
Me: I also live in a noisy apartment building and I don't sleep very well. I have called the on-site police officer twice in the last month because of loud music at 3am.
Doctor: Oh, that's unfortunate.
Me: Yes. I am hoping to move soon.
Doctor: In the meantime, I think you should go buy one of those gel eye masks that you put in the fridge. Relax for about 10 minutes every night with that on. I will also give you some drops on your way out. I also think you should see a general practitioner for an overall physical. And hopefully, work will calm down and you will find a quieter apartment soon.
“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of...”
– To Kill a Mockingbird (via littlemiss)
“If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that...”
– Sharon Cook & Graciela Sholander (via littlemiss)
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I have eye problems.
I had some serious eye twitching issues over the last 10 months or so. My right eye started twitching again about a month and half ago.
I attempted to ignore it. Took Tylenol PM on occasion to help me get a good night’s rest. Bought some eye drops and kept them in fridge and put them in my eye when it started twitching, something the eye doctor told me to do last year. Nothing is working.
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ihategreenbeans.com →
The best Bachelorette recaps on the Web and some other funny stuff too. Thanks to Brittany for introducing me to this site.
“I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how...”
– Kate Winslet, Holiday (via kari-shma)
“A firm belief in yourself is all that is needed to alter your life. No one...”
– M. K. Soni (via littlemiss)
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“Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear,...”
– Dorothy Thompson (via kari-shma)
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Bad habits.
I have developed some very bad habits lately.
I don’t wear my glasses every time I am on the computer and then I get a raging headache that doesn’t go away for hours.
The other is looking up condos on Realtor.com and then getting in my car and going to drive by them. That being said, I am off to drive by three more condos.
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Honest Scrap Award.
My co-worker/friend/fellow blogger, Brittany, posted this earlier this week and I just happened to come across it. I never do these things, but it’s a Friday night and I staying in because I am completely wiped out from this week, so I am giving it a whirl.
The rules are: 1. List 10 honest things about yourself that your blogging friends do not know about you. 2. Give the award away to five...
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It's a digital world.
I officially made an offer on a condo today. I am so anxious and nervous, I can’t stop eating and I know I won’t be able to sleep tonight.
I have been trading e-mails and phone calls with a mortgage loan officer from Chase, which is my bank. He splits his time between Dallas and St. Louis, but I have been talking to him for a few months now and he hasn’t been in Dallas once. And...
“Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.”
– Jim Horning
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Creativity in the kitchen.
My goal of eating through the food I currently have in my apartment and only buying perishable items, has inspired me to be creative in the kitchen.
Tonight I made whole wheat pasta with pesto (I had a tube of pesto paste that you mix with equal parts olive oil that I bought at Sprouts a while back) and low fat ricotta cheese (from my recent attempt at a low fat, non-fried eggplant parmesan) with...
“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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She works hard for the money.
I am so close to making an offer on a condo. It’s been months of searching, making appointments for showings, attending open houses and being so frustrated that I didn’t think I would find “the one” and now I am days away from making an offer.
I think I might puke.
I just looked at my finances for the billionth time and I seriously can’t believe I spend so much...
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Mentally exhausted.
It’s been a physically relaxing, but mentally exhausting weekend and it is now coming to a close. I wish I had just one more day off!
Friday I went to look at condos…for the millionth time. I found one that I REALLY like and made plans to go look at it again today. More on that later.
I spent the 4th with my family eating and drinking too much, lounging by the pool, setting off...
Re-
We spend our lives rereading and rewatching and relistening and relearning. We eat the same things over and over. We end up loving people who remind us of other people. We perform these rituals, this spacetime origami, because the basic fact of our n-dimensional existence is this: Most things can be recalled and some things can be revisited but precious little can be relived.
do new things....
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to...”
– Blaise Pascal
