How cool is this?

I so want to do this... anyone want to join me??

San Francisco Ghost Tours

emotional highs and lows of buying a house

after pouring over the disclosure notices, we have decided to hold off on this one particular house. It sucks. It was such a cute little place. However, it being the same age as my grandmother and like my grandmother, the house is not so stable..this is not the type of project we need to take on as first time home buyers. So we are back to square 2. After talking with my MIL who is also our realtor, I shared with her my sadness of letting this house go. She understood but offered such great insight that made me appreciate her more and more. She said to me that her desire is to put us in a home where she can look my parents in the eye and with out a doubt say that we have a home that she feels and knows that we are safe and secure in. This particular home she could not. I respect that view point. Especially as we are embarking on Eli's career change. Which means, I will be without him more then I am with him as he begins his new career as a commerical pilot.
On Thursday, during her broker tour, she came across this cute thing of a house. She was so excited to tell me about it. When I got home Thursday eveing, she showed me the listing. I instantly fell in love. We called eli who was in Vegas to tell him about it. He was so excited to hear my excitement that he gave me full permission to write an offer if I was still in love with it after I go and see it on Saturday. Now because it is a new listing it is safe to say that we can wait for Eli to get home on Monday to view the house himself before we make any plans on offers. ahhh, the saga continues.....

Let's try some pictures..shall we

my new "do"



little rae rae making eyes at her uncle eli



Raelyn watching football with her uncle eli and daddy

Happy Birthday to me!!

Today I am 32. Hard to believe I am over 30. It feels like yesterday I was turning 25. I am getting closer to mid 30's! Wowser! I love being in my 30's. Though I could seriously do with out the hair on my head turning gray. I have seen a few hairs and made a vow that I would not pluck them out. I will however, pluck out my gray eyebrow hairs that have been growing in lately. I mean seriously, gray eyebrow hairs. Does that really need to happen?!?!?!
My birthday weekend was great. Eli and I were able to spend the whole weekend together..minus the time he was at work on saturday. While he was at work, I got my hair cute (5 inches cut!!) and eye brows waxed. Ah, I love a day beauty. The apartment hunting has now turned into house hunting. And, we found one we love! I am trying very hard to keep my emotions under control. We've filled out our loan papers so we are waiting to get pre-approved. We are also waiting for the disclosure papers to become available which will happen on Tuesday. Thinking all goes well, we could be making on offer by Wednesday or Thursday of this week. Of course, Eli is leaving tomorrow for his cross country flight for 8 days. He gets back next Monday.

This should be an interesting week! Stay tuned!

Here are a couple of pictures for your viewing pleasure.

The first picture is of the necklace eli bought for me for my birthday. It is a smokey quartz stone and I have the matching earrings.

oh well, it looks like blogger won't let me upload pics today. I will upload them tomorrow.

Acts of kindness go a long way

Here is a blurb about Eli in another blog.


www.tangodiva.com



Be kind to one another......

Awesome Autumn ***updated***

Inside you will find:
A- Autumn Candles & A pumpkin Holder to warm your home
U- Ultimate bag of my favorite fall goodies as a treat
T-Tale of Autumn to keep you entertained when it's cool outside
U-Ultra cute Autumn socks to bring the season into your closet
M-mmmm Apple cinnamon tea to make you warm & toasty the whole season through.
N-Nice pearberry lotion to bring the scents of autumn to each Fall day.



This is the cutest thing! I hope I find a place to live before Fall comes to a close!!


Missing: The jelly bellys are being held for ransom by Eli and I devoured the chocolate covered strawberries by Godiva the first night I received my package


I can't wait to start reading this! Especially now I have a 30 minute commute to work on public transportation everyday. The title is covered, it says: It happend one Autumn.


The socks are tooo cute! They are going to be so fun to wear.


This is perfect for the chilly bay area mornings and evenings!


I have already started using this!

As you can see Jenny created such a wonderful package. I love the level of detail she put into each of the goodies. I really hope we find a place soon b/c I want to be able to use the autumn decorations she used on each of the goodies. Then I will have a little bit of Jenny in my new home.


My awesome autumn package arrived yesterday. I walked into my bedroom at MIL's house and saw the package sitting on our bed. I was so excited to see that my partner was Jenny!! I had such a crappy day apartment hunting on Sunday that this really brightened my day! I still need to take pictures of everything-my camera cord is packed somewhere in boxes. Jenny really out did herself. I haven't felt so special in a long time--Thank you Jenny. I am hoping I can upload pictures on saturday and share with you the thoughtfulness, creativity, generousity that my awesome autumn partner has.

Afraid

I just got home from work and I see chicken defrosting on the kitchen counter. Now we all know what happened last time my MIL cooked chicken. Eli is not even here this weekend to save me.

I need a back up plan--FAST!

**** update***
crisis adverted!!! Nothing like a bottle of wine and fake craving for chinese food to save you from chicken nightmares!!!