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    Little Martha

    A little delayed on the blogging (sorry!) but we finally got all our Christmas decorations up!

    The Griswolds we are not.

    (Sorry about the photo - it was really foggy the night we finished the house!)
    We decided to go simple with the lights this year. First, we realized that we would be flirting with disaster by attempting to get lights on the upper roof line of the new house. Hence, the first story lights only! Also, we figured that if we set the neighborhood expectations low so every year we could add to the house, slowly blowing their unimaginative minds!


    Handmade, bitches!
    I slaved for minutes days and days making my Christmas garland and wreathes. But really, I did put all those ornaments on myself!


    Look, Mom! I have a banister!
    I just about pooped myself when I realized that the new house has a real honest to God banister!!


    Awwww, so cute!
    The weekend after Thanksgiving, Mr., Baby Bee, and I went out to a neighboring "tree farm" to cut down a tree. We were gonna let Bee play with the saw, but someone told us it'd probably be a bad idea.


    'Cheese!'
    For some reason, anything and everything has become a camera to Bee. Here she is "taking a picture" with the tape measure.


    'Twee! Twee!'
    The final product! Bee loves sitting (or laying on her tummy) near the tree and gazing up lovingly at it. It's friggin' adorable! She often waves "Heh-Woh" or "Bye-ee" to the "Twee".


    This weekend we visited the local Nordstrom to get that special photo of the baby with Santa. We were hoping to get something like this:

    But instead, got something closer to this:

    The photo won't be available for pick up until the 20th, but don't worry - I'll definitely post the hilarity that is our belated Xmas card this year!

    Song title: Little Martha By The Allman Brothers Band

    'Tis the Season

    I Know It's Not Thanksgiving Yet...
    ...but I've definitely been swept up by the holiday spirit.

    Since I'm not terribly religious, the holiday season (or Festivus, as we lovingly call it in the Bee Home) consists of mostly decorations, presents and food. And since I ain't getting off my lazy ass to cook today, let's talk about decorating and presents!

    First of all, most of the "decorations" we currently have for any holiday are a janky ass collection of knick knacks. I'm slowly accumulating a collection of cute Pottery Barn items every year from the after-Christmas Clearance, but have yet to get more than one or two cute pieces per holiday. To make matters worse, having just moved in to a new home, I'm dying to decorate for the holidays! Even though we're pinching our pennies to see how all the finances will work out with the new and larger mortgage, I promised him sex somehow convinced Mr. Bee to let me buy some fun stuff at Joann's yesterday!

    I'm attempting to roughly mimic this photo from the P.B. catalog:

    'Cause everyone's house looks like this, right?


    So far, I've finished two small wreaths for our front doors.
    Suck it, Martha.
    But now I have at least fourteen (yeah, you heard me. FOURTEEN.) strands of garland to wire with ornaments.
    What the fuck was I thinking?
    I hope to be done by next Christmas. Hopefully.


    Besides being addicted to crafts, I love me some gadgets. So my goal for this Christmas is to ask for only pretty shiny new electronics. Here's what I have so far:
    ShinyDS Lite
    Ever since playing around with my mom and nephew's DS Lite's, I'm totally hooked! Mr. Bee is not sold on the pink and/or Susan G. Komen version that I'm asking for. He doesn't quite realize that the reason I want a pink sparkly DS is so that his thieving ass won't steal it! But seriously, I won't rest until I have one of these. I know, I know, like I need something other than raising my daughter, keeping the house, holiday crafts and watching 80 hours of television to keep me busy...


    FancyNikon SLR D60
    There's no chance in hell that I am actually going to get this $600+ camera for Christmas, but one can dream, right? I really want to be able to take some really great photos of Baby Bee and Future Cletus the Fetus. At least, that's the guilt trip I'm laying on Mr. Bee until I get this awesome camera!


    Spiffy CoolWacom Drawing Tablet
    I've been told this tablet is the shiz for drawing with your computer. Here's a little known fact about Mama Bee: I fancy myself an artist. I've been rambling enough for today, but I promise a future post with some of my artwork. A drawing tablet like this would open up worlds of new techniques and fun to me!


    So, what are you asking Santa for Christmas?


    Song title: 'Tis The Season

    Midnight Train to Georgia

    I was really excited upon discovering that our new home is about a mile away from the train tracks. No, really. I was excited because now that cool, folksy sound of the train whistle is going to be part of Baby Bee and Not Yet Conceived Baby Numero Dos's childhood!

    That is, until I realized that the said train whistle is really fucking loud at one o'clock in the morning. Thanks, Burlington Northern, for that lovely wake up call. Every. Single. Butt crack of Night.


    Song title: Midnight Train to Georgia by Gladys Knight and the Pips

    The Grass Is Greener

    This is what I looked like a few days ago, after moving in to our house:




    And this is what I looked like after mowing our 0.25 acre lot by myself for the first time:




    Song title: The Grass Is Greener by Brenda Lee

    Catch Up

    OMG, I have so much to catch up on.
    So, obviously, the biggest recent news is that we're now living in our new home. Here are a few shots of the view from the backyard on our first night here:
    Despite the beautiful surroundings, the house looks like Hurricane Gustav hit it. Specifically, my kitchen. And my bedroom. And pretty much every other room in the house.

    We met one of our neighbors on moving day. Yeah, awesome. Thanks for coming over on the day that I look like shit, haven't done my hair or makeup, and have been sweating from carrying boxes for hours.

    They are a forty-something-ish couple with a 9-year-old little boy who Baby Bee is already giving googly eyes to. The mom seems pretty cool but the husband? What a piece of work! Almost directly after his wife introduced the both of them, he starts going on and on about the past owners and how they never stopped the gravel in the side yard from seeping on to their property, under the fence. Really though? That's your opener? Good job, doucher. The guy also starts spouting off about how our house was the first one built of Phase Two (his house was the last of Phase One), and, apparently, our house has the biggest lot on the street. Okay, cool for us. But this guy has "Keeping Up With The Jones'" seeping from his pores. Little does he know that we could give a shit. I assured him that we'd take care of the gravel asap. Or more like ASAIGAS (As Soon As I Give A Shit).

    This week we're having the inside of the house painted so that when we invite the Friends over, they won't vomit from disgust/over-saturation of pukish green. Because of all the painting, Bee and I are banished to the master bedroom and the bonus room (aka: the only two rooms slightly baby proofed). But, of course, all the crap that needs to be unpacked and put away is in ALL THE OTHER ROOMS. Sigh. Is the painting done yet?

    How about now?

    Now?

    Le sigh.

    And to top it all off, I don't have cable and/or internet. Seriously fooked up. If you know me (or have read enough of this blog), you know that about 2 hours in to not having cable television or an internet connection, I was suffering from a bad case of the shakes. AND...all my goddamn responsible neighbors have security-enabled Wi-Fi. Bastards.

    We should have it all hooked up by this evening if the cable guy decides to grace me with his presence. I've already warned my family that if, for any reason, said cable guy is unable to successfully provide both internet and cable television by this evening, some one will be punched in the Nards. Capitol N. Hey, cable dude? You've been warned.



    Song title: Catch Up by Ludacris

    Now That We're Done

    YAY!
    We officially have the keys to the new house! Baby Bee and I went over straight away and danced in the kitchen together singing, "This is our new house! This is our new house!" Okay, well I sung and danced around, but Bee had a pretty good time, too! Yeah, the neighbors probably think they have Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs next door (and they'd be right), but we had a blast!!


    Song title: Now That We're Done by 112

    Waiting For The Day

    Today we signed the paperwork on the new house!! Now we are in "Waiting to Exhale" mode.

    Otherwise known as the "Give me the fucking keys to my pretty new house because I hate the crap hole I live in and the douche bag who blows cigarette smoke in to my open screen door even though it's a billion degrees in here and I have to keep the door open or I will die in my own feels-like-early-onset-Menopause-sweating, you stupid douche" stage.

    Oh, and trying to sign legal paperwork with a very tired and due-for-a-nap toddler is sooooo not fun. Take my word, get a babysitter.


    Song title: Waiting For The Day by Bachelor Girl

    Write It Down

    Holy crap balls! I just scheduled our signing for the new house for Monday morning!

    Is this really happening?! Is the house really going to be ours?!?! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!


    Song title: Write It Down by Bleach

    Home Sweet Home

    Remember this place?




    Well, I just got a call from our RE agent and...

    IT'S OURS!!!!


    The bank approved the sale and now they want to close by the 27th of, wait for it, THIS MONTH! HOLY CRAP BALLS! Our inspection is tomorrow morning!!

    I'm kind of shitting my pants. And have a stupid giant grin on my face!



    Song title: Home Sweet Home by A Human and His Stds

    At Last

    If you are new to the Bee Hive, Mr. Bee and I have been house hunting since, well, March or earlier. We've gone through some trials and tribulations trying to find our perfect home and since we plan on staying in our next home 15+ years, we really want it to be perfect.

    Enter: Our new (hopefully) home:
    Mr. Bee really wanted this style home on the only street we have really been hunting on for the last month or so. Well, you got your wish, sir!

    This house is a pre-foreclosure, so the price is ridic. And it's bigger than we wanted and has a valley/Cascade Mountain Range view!! Pretty much as close to perfect as they come (for us, anyway).

    We put an offer on the house first thing Monday and word on the street is that the paperwork has been approved and signed by the home owners and is on its way to the listing agent as I type! UPDATE: Paperwork has arrived and is now headed to the lien-holder (aka: the Bank). However, with a pre-foreclosure/quick-sale that is only the first hurdle we must overcome. Meow meow*. The listing agent will now forward it to the bank who has to approve the deal. This could take...wait for it...up to a couple months!!

    That's right, friends. Mama Bee and Family may be in their apartment until, gasp, OCTOBER! Oh yeah, threw up in my mouth a little right then.

    But don't worry, even without the deal sealed, Mama has been busy designing the furniture layout and future paint colors to her almost-but-not-really house! Gotta have something to help me waste the next three months stuck in this shoebox of an apartment (gag).


    *I realized that anyone reading this (besides Mrs. J) probably has no idea what "meow meow" means. The birthplace of "meow meow" (or mwmw in shorthand) is from Saturday Night Live. Remember Debbie Downer? Well, it comes from this sketch. I triple-dog-dare you to watch it and not laugh. Note that Amy Poehler spends practically the entire sketch staring down in to her food eating so that she doesn't break character like everybody else! Anyways, so now Mrs. J and I say it roughly 8 billion times a day! For those of you that don't like it...meow meow. Oh, and suck it.



    Song title: At Last by Etta James

    Where Did You Go?

    Where you at son?
    The drawback with having a blog that strangers stalkers people read is that they actually notice when you don't blog for a few days! Mama Bee has been crazy busy this week, but don't worry my little honeys, I'll be back and blogging before you can say "WTF, there is nothing on television tonight..."


    Home Sweet Home
    We have a possibility for a new home but I'm trying really hard not to jump the gun. But...I've pretty much already decided where all our furniture will go and which rooms to paint. *sigh* I'm kind of a retard that way - I simply do not have any patience.

    We found this new home in a new-fangled tube of internets kind of way. While obsessively searching websites for any new homes on the market, I found Zillow. It's a great website for searching for homes on the market but they have an even cooler feature: the Make Me Move price. How it works: a home owner who hasn't put on their house on the market can list a price that they would move for.

    So the house we found has a Make Me Move price listed. Now this "asking price" is totally over market price (but not far off from what we were expecting to pay). I emailed them through the site and we've been exchanging emails ever since. We toured the house this week and really like it. An added plus is that the homeowners are super cool too - we actually ended up chatting for more than a half hour after we toured the house! I don't know if they are sold on our offer, but we'll see how things go in the next few weeks...


    Are You Really Sure You Think You Can Dance?
    I have to start this segment by saying I really really am a fan of this show. I even took Nana to Everett last year to see the tour. Did you catch that? I went to Everett for this show!! I think that speaks for itself.

    But really? Seriously?! Since when have we interpreted "dance for your life" as "turn in a bunch of circles snapping your fingers and try to incorporate about 8 trillion random leaps"? At least Comfort brings it every time she has to "dance for her life." And speaking of, as far as I can tell, when the dancers fail their solo, not one has been put to death! I'm not necessarily complaining, but false advertising, anyone?

    And, while I'm not a huge fan of Cat Deeley, I don't really have anything against her. With that said, can she please learn how to say "girl" correctly? How many times must we hear about "One Guy and One GULL" being eliminated? Really, Cat? Are water foul really participating?

    And dear God, STOP HAVING THE PRE-TEENS IN THE AUDIENCE YELL "JUDGES"!!! I'd rather hear you talk about "gulls" all night that hear you pronounce "jew-gez" and then giggle after the thoroughly rehearsed audience says it with you. I would buy each 13-year-old in the audience a new Walkman or Hypercolor shirt or whatever the hell kids like these days just to have them react with complete silence the next time Cat plays Simon Says with them.


    Ding! Dong! Ding!
    Yep, those are wedding bells you're hearing! My work season has officially begun tonight with the first wedding rehearsal of the summer! Things went super well - I'm always shocked when everyone shows up relatively on time.

    Tomorrow is a full day of wedding and I think this one will be really great. The bride and groom have always been so easy-going and organized so I can't imagine anything will go astray (excuse me a second while I go find some wood to knock on in my laminate-covered apartment).

    Oh yeah. Did I mention that tomorrow is supposed to be in the mid-80's, maybe even mid-90's inland? While some of you enjoy sitting in your air-conditioned house or even in the shade somewhere, please take a minute to think of yours truly dressed to the nines and running around like a headless chicken in the bright sun for 8 hours...


    Song title: Where Did You Go? by Boyzone

    Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

    Tonight I cried while rocking Baby Bee asleep in her room. Surrounded by the pink walls we painted after we found out that we were having a baby girl, I broke down knowing that this was going to be the last night that I rocked Baby Bee to sleep in this room.

    As I cried, Baby Bee lifted her head off my shoulder and stared at me. She gently lifted up her hand and patted my tears on my cheek. I felt like she was saying, "It's okay, Mom. We'll make new memories in our new home!"

    As I smiled at my sleepy baby and reacted to her pats, she then proceeded to start slapping my face as hard as she could (with a giant grin on her face). I'm pretty sure that she was now telling me, "Okay, woman. Enough is enough. Snap the hell out of it already." Needless to say, I left the room with a smile on my face.


    Song Title: Don't Cry For Me, Argentina by Evita - the musical

    All Good Things (Come to an End)

    Call me slow, but it just hit me today that tomorrow will be the last day that we will be living in our F-Dub home. We're going to start our move on Saturday and hopefully be living in our Hills Shoe Box by Saturday evening. But now I don't want to go!

    For years our F-Dub home was nothing special. It was built in the early 1970's and boy did it look like it! But the crappy place grew on me. We fixed it all up (unfortunately, not in time to really enjoy it) and it slowly grew from crappy first home to our comfy home.

    I'll always remember the day we got the keys to Mr. Bee and I's first home together. It was the weekend that Mr. Bee proposed...

    I was awoken early (6:30am-ish and to a professional student at the time, that's early) with a phone call from Mr. Bee. He was too excited and couldn't wait any longer for me to wake up. He told me to wake up, pack a bag (he gave me a few situations to pack for), and head down to our new home. About a half hour later, I was on the road and got another phone call from the Mr. He told me to look underneath my driver's seat. I pulled out a travel guide for San Francisco! Sweet!
    I met Nana (back when she was just called "Mom") at the new house with the keys and gave her the first tour of the house. That weekend the Mr. and I went to San Francisco where Mr. Bee popped the big question on a romantic bluff on the ocean after the sunset. *sigh*

    We got back in town late Sunday night and just couldn't wait to start our new *engaged* life, so we raided my parents house for sleeping bags, towels, toilet paper, the works. We created a little nest in our living room and started living in the house that night! (We also learned the hard way that apparently the utilities had been shut off prior to closing...Thank God for parents living two minutes away! Houses without running water suck.)

    That was five years ago. This house has seen us through the end of law school, starting a business, job promotions, our first (and psychotic) dog, our first pregnancy and, of course, our first child. And now we have just sold her off to some douchebags like she's our red-headed stepchild. How do we know that they will love her (and hate her) as we have?

    But now we're moving to greener pastures. And to celebrate, we're feasting tonight on my favorite local Chinese food (and pretty much the *only* Chinese food that delivers to our crappy neck of the woods). It's really the only restaurant in the area that I'll miss - except for Panera and Great Harvest Bread Co. (but god knows I'll be back to visit those places like every single day).

    On a super, happier note, Sissy and Family moves home tomorrow! I'll be loitering around Seatac at noon tomorrow to pick them up, but it still hasn't hit me that they are back home (Western Washington) for good! They've been gone about four and a half years now and I'm pretty sure my mom is pooping herself with excitement tonight. Maybe I should bring some Depends with me to the airport...


    Song Title: All Good Things (Come To An End) by Nelly Furtado

    Try Again

    Oh yeah, and remember that house we were going to put an offer on? It's in pre-foreclosure. Back to the drawing board...


    Song Title: Try Again by Aaliyah

    I'm Gonna Miss You Forever

    Today has been full of moving-related appointments here in the F-Dub house. The first appointment of the day was with Nielsen TV Ratings. Now that we are officially no longer a Nielsen Household, I can finally publicly discuss it.

    For those of you that don't know, Nielsen TV Ratings is the huge company in charge of telling the big boss guys at say NBC, ABC, CBS, etc. what shows people actually watch. They put something in your TiVo (I imagine some sort of tiny little man with a clipboard and a cell phone?) that keeps track of the programs you are watching. You also have a little box that gets mad at you every 40 minutes or so and makes you press a button so they know you are still watching a program and aren't totally distracted writing a pointless blog post or something.

    Needless to say, I loved participating. Being a hopeless (and somewhat disturbed) television addict, I love knowing that my television preferences actually mean something. I think just our house represented approximately 11,000 people in the area. I want to watch The Hills? Suck it, Federal Way! I represent YOU! Muuuaaaahahahahaha!!! But I digress...

    We got approached by the Nielsen people a little more than a year ago, but because they only care what people with children watch, we had to wait until Baby Bee made her appearance before we could participate. And since they choose households randomly by address, now that we are moving to what I will call "The Hills Ghetto," our little black boxes (or "Neil" as we call him at home) can't come with us.

    Mr. Bee is probably relieved. He constantly is freaking out when he sees me watching The Hills or something like Celebrity Circus (I missed it last night! Will someone tell me what it was about?!). He starts arguing that because we represent so many people and we are influencing what stays on the air, we can't encourage crappy tv shows. I, on the other hand, proudly take full credit for keeping that crap on the air! There just aren't any other choices!! Sure, I'd rather by watching Pushing Daisies or How I Met Your Mother, but thank you Writer's Strike for screwing up my television/life schedule. Mama needs some new tv!!


    I Could Write A Book
    No, I really couldn't write a book, but am I like one of the only bloggers in the blogosphere that isn't a professional writer? "What?! You aren't a professional writer?!" you ask? Shocked? Surprised? Yeah, I didn't think so...


    Song Title: I'm Gonna Miss You Forever by Aaron Carter; I Could Write A Book by Ella Fitzgerald

    Money For Nothing

    Douche or not a Douche, That Is The Question...
    Just when we thought all the house drama was over, it keeps on coming! Late last night we get an email and phone call from our agent who has been contacted by the buyers' agent...and they are asking (randomly, I might add) for an additional $500.

    Seriously?!

    No explanation. Just an addendum that says, "Um, yeah, give us more money because we're greedy bastards." And all this after they switched their financing on us, too (which doesn't make a huge difference, but would have made a big difference in the original negotiations). Arg.
    (Extra points if you recognized Greedy Smurf above)


    Tiny Love Space
    On a more positive (?) note, we found an apartment yesterday. One apartment. Apparently this is the only apartment in the entire South End that will do a month-to-month lease (and that's with an extra $100 tacked on to the rent each month!) We were searching for a high end apartment in the area to stay while we find our new house, but all of them practically laughed at me when I asked if they would accept a month-to-month lease. *sigh*

    The new place will be close to our future home since it is in the Hills. It will be nice to get to know the area and get used to the neighborhood. The bad news, you ask? Well, the apartment is approximately the size of Baby Bee's pinkie toe. And...it's on the 3rd floor. So much for an easy move. We already weren't going to bring all our furniture in to the new apartment, but holy crap monkeys, we're only going to be able to bring like 7 pieces of furniture! And that's not going to include our super fantastic California King bed (which, if my calculations are correct, is the same square footage as the entire apartment).


    Offer
    Speaking of not wanting to live in a shoe box for a very long time, we got the ball rolling on an offer last night on a house! It's the right house on the right side of the street on the right street in the Hills, but we had to low ball an offer since the owners of the house are frickin' delusional with their asking price.

    They put their house on the market 100 or so days ago and their beginning asking price was $100,000 MORE than what they paid for it back in 2006 (i.e. the peak of the market). Welcome to the recession, assholes. You will not be getting that much for your house. And it's not like they made any improvements or anything.

    They have since lowered the price but are still asking what we think is way too much. So our offer is like $50,000 below asking! LOL! Part of me (a teeny, tiny part of me) hopes that they will realize they are crack smokers and come to terms with the realistic price of the house. The other part (99.9% of me) has a feeling they are going to tell us to suck it. More updates to come later today, I'm sure...


    Song Title: Money For Nothing by Dire Straits; Tiny Loves Spaces by Jewel; Offer by Alanis Morisette

    In The Ghetto

    Now that we're officially going to be homeless in (eek!) less than 2 weeks, Mr. Bee and I have been trying to figure out where the heck we're going to live! Originally, we were thinking we'd save some cash and stay at Nana & Poppa's Lake House in Shelton.

    For those of you unfamiliar with the Seattle/Puget Sound area, to get to Shelton, drive a billion miles, when you get to the middle of no where turn left. You are now in Shelton.

    This was originally enticing because we'd have almost no bills to pay and we'd be living on a lake when the weather gets nicer (that, of course, is if the weather ever gets nice...). But we finally came to the conclusion that with my wedding season quickly approaching and Mr. Bee's commute going from 40 minutes per day to roughly 2 or 2 1/2 hours per day, it just wasn't going to be worth the money saved.

    So, we decided to live...

    ...wait for it...

    ...in an apartment. That's right, faithful readers/stalkers. We're going from the ghetto of the F-Dub to the super ghetto of living in an apartment! We'll be living up at the Hills and we're hoping that will make the second move in to our eventual new home even easier, but I reeeeeeally hope that the apartments are nice and not full of annoying apartment people. Since my last apartment was about the size of a postage stamp, I figure this new place can only be an improvement.

    We're going to tour the Hills apartments this afternoon, so I'll report back soon.


    Song Title: In The Ghetto by Elvis

    I Am A Lonesome Hobo

    Well, after all the crap and negotiating for weeks, our house is officially selling!! They accepted our "This or Suck It" offer (they chose "This," not "Suck it") and now we're just waiting for closing. Except I discovered that, being the retard I am, I accidentally scheduled our closing to be Wednesday.

    THIS Wednesday.

    Yeah, that's not going to really work for me. So first thing tomorrow I will be kissing someone's butt trying to get it rescheduled for a few weeks out. But the good news is: We will officially be homeless in 17 days! Oh wait...did I say good news?...


    No Sleep Tonight
    Last night, my lovely lady friends hosted a bridal shower for Brain Twin, and afterwards we had a good, old-fashioned (but with copious amounts of alcohol) slumber party. It was so much fun that I literally came close to peeing myself about five times due to laughing ridiculously hard (the alcohol probably didn't help much either).

    The highlights of the evening were (in no particular order):
    **Each of us saying the word "vag" approximately 8 billion times
    **Brain Twin's slow clap
    **T-Money being attacked by an ironing board
    **Playing Presidents and Assholes for the first time and getting to hear everyone say "Jealous?!?" and "meow meow" about a billion times

    We also played Loaded Questions, which is a game where you answer questions and one person has to figure out who said what answer. Some of the funniest question/answer combos have got to be (and these are only the ones I remember; I'm sure there are better ones that got lost in my Bellini-induced coma):

    If you were mayor, what would your city be called?
    Transyldouchia, Vagatopia

    If you were going to be on a game show, which show would it be?
    Wheel of Vag, Price is Right (vag edition), Jeopardy (vag edition), Vag or no Vag, Douche or No Douche

    Are you starting to sense a theme yet?

    And I think the question/answer that could possibly be the best/most memorable for the night (and has since become our group's tag line) is...

    Wait for it...

    What three words best describe you?
    My. Vag. Awesome.

    Have I mentioned how much I love my friends recently?

    {slow clap}


    Writer's Note
    Oh, and I don't recommend Googling "Slumber Party" unless you are specifically looking for porn...


    Song Titles: I Am A Lonesome Hobo by Bob Dylan; No Sleep Tonight by The Faders

    I Want To Stab You With Something Rusty

    Can you believe that's an actual song title? LOVE it!

    So here's a house update...I swear to God will this ever be over...

    Last Sunday we had our home inspection which came back with five items the prospective buyers would like us to do:

    #1: Replace the furnace. Cost: $3000+
    Now the furnace is original to the house but works fine.

    #2: Clean all the heating ducts. Cost: don't know. don't care.

    #3: Plumb the master bath sink.
    We tried to have this done before the inspection. We obviously knew it had to be done; we just lack any sort of plumbing skills...

    #4: Replace handle on valve under garage sink. Cost: Like $0.99.
    Seriously? It's like a buck to buy the plastic valve handle. Whatever, we just had the plumber do it.

    #5: Replace the entire electrical panel in the garage (i.e. like the whole circuit breaker thing). Cost: $2500+
    We didn't initially realize this would cost so much! WTF!


    Before we knew the cost for #5, we responded to their requests with:
    #1: We'll service the furnace.
    #2: No.
    #3: Yes.
    #4: Yes.
    #5: yes.


    THEY come back and say:
    Yes on the above PLUS $3500!!!!!!


    WHAT. THE. FRICK?!


    So our new offer to them is:
    #1: We'll service the furnace. Suck it.
    #2: Suck it.
    #3: Done.
    #4: Done.
    #5: We'll either replace it or give you $2500 cash.


    Oh...and SUCK IT!


    This is pretty much our final offer because I'm tired of all this bullshit. They are getting such a great remodeled home for way less than it's worth and since we don't need to move anymore (thanks douche bags that gave our Hills Home to someone else!), if they tell us to suck it, then we'll just take the house off the market.

    It's such a shame after all we've (read: I've) done to get the house on the market, but oh well. I just want to know one way or the other so that I can either sigh a huge breathe of relief and chills out OR get off my ass to cancel all our utilities, get more moving boxes and basically work 24/7 for the next 20 days.


    SIDE NOTE: Seriously, will whoever please stop emailing me offers to "upgrade my penis"? Really? I'm kind of okay not upgrading at this time. Geesh.


    Song Title: I Want To Stab You With Something Rusty by Against All Authority

    Happy Birthday Blues

    **Warning: What follows is a selfish diatribe on the suckiest birthday ever except for maybe Asian Brain Twin's gay boyfriend dumping her. She definitely wins that contest!**

    {{sigh}}

    Here begins the long ass story of how we lost our Hills house...

    Once upon a time, in the Dirty Dirty South, we found a house unlike any other. Well, okay, there may be approximately 8 trillion other homes on the same street that look exactly like it, but we liked this one, okay? Geesh, get off my back already.

    Any who, we found this house and after attempting to put an offer down, we found out that they wouldn't accept contingent offers. So we immediately put our house on the market (after two weeks of excruciatingly exhausting work packing up all our really cluttered crap and staging all the remaining crap in a fashionable way) and low-and-behold! We actually get an offer on our house after it's only been on the market 10 days! TEN DAYS! In *this* market?! Crazy talk, I tell ya.

    We are just thrilled. We plan on making an offer on our Hills house as soon as the inspection on our house is completed. But wait! Someone is already putting in an offer on "our" home in the Hills?! How dare they?! (In fact, I believe my actual reaction was, "Oh, fuck.") So we scramble with our buying agent and get an offer on the table...

    Saturday: Find out someone is trying to buy the Hills house

    Sunday: Tour the Hills house and neighboring houses for sale. We determine that we do love the house and want to buy it tout de suite (thank you for the French lesson, Sex in the City).

    Monday: Sign paperwork for offer on Hills House

    Tuesday: Submit offer. We're told if we make it non-contingent on the sale of our house, then the house is ours. We do make the changes! We have a house!

    Tuesday Evening: Oh, wait. They want to allow the other people to up their offer if they want the house. How about you come back with your highest and best offer Wednesday morning?

    Wednesday Morning: We say, "Pound sand, assholes. That *was* our best offer." We think we've lost the house.

    Wednesday Midday: Guess what?! The other people said "Pound Sand!" too! We're still in this!!

    Wednesday Afternoon: Oh wait. Ha ha! Remember when we said you were still in this? Yeah... not so much. They gave it to the other people. Even though we offered $$ over any offer of theirs. They just gave it to the other folks anyhow.

    So in approximately four weeks, we'll officially be homeless.

    Suckiest. Birthday. Ever.

    OMG, did I mention that my email was down all day too? Jesus Christ, Kharma's not fucking around today. I must have been Ghengis Khan or Hitler last time around or something...


    A Little Help From My Friends
    Besides my family, the redeeming part of today was ending it with my closest friends drinking Cosmos and watching the final season of Sex and The City. It was a nice send off for our F-Dub house and it was really weird thinking that tonight will be the last night that all the Lovely Lady Friends hang out here.

    And OMG, how much do I love the Lovely Lady Friends? Anywhere I can comfortably say "Fuck," "Jesus Christ," and "vag" without anyone blinking a beautiful eyelash is heaven to me! It's so amazing finally (finally) having a set of wonderful female friends that are soooo honest, and so FUN, and so dependable! Fingers crossed that I'll never need it, but I know these ladies would be at my side in a heartbeat if I needed them for anything!

    And don't even get me started on how much they love Baby Bee! It was just about the cutest thing in the world to see Bee snuggle up with her Auntie Mrs. J! And Mr. J's ovaries would have just about popped if he would've seen it (um, PS: Mr. J, can you knock up your wife already?! I don't want to pull out the "shooting blanks" jokes, but I'll do it. You know me. I'll do it.)

    Anyway, that's a little (novel) on how I spent my 29th birthday. Only one more year in my 20's...But 30 is the new 20, right? RIGHT?! Oh dear God, I need another Cosmo...


    Song Titles: Happy Birthday Blues by B.B. King; A Little Help From My Friends by Joe Cocker