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!!!

Balance and randomness

OMMMMMMMM.... cue in the the yoga relaxation music..ommmmmmmmmmmmm
Oh internet. I am in need of some balance and a home...can you help me with that? please?? I will seriously be your best friend.

Prayers to Rusti and her family. She lost her mother in law this morning after a long battle. Sending many hugs and prayers.


Crap--I have to hit the shower for work. Work is going great, the people are chill, the client list is fantastic and I can't wait to get my hands dirty. My trouble is getting back in the groove of getting up and getting ready for work. All last year, I just had to roll out of bed.

The housing market here SUX! The rental market is a joke. We had a would be landlady call us at 3 minutes till our scheduled appointment to tell us she is renting the place to someone else. Um, didn't we confirm with you the appointment 5 hours earlier??? So annoyed.

Funniest thing--we got it on in the car last night at the local make out joint for highschoolers. We figured if a cop caught us, we would have a great excuse. "officer, we are married and living with our mother in law and we need to have sex" In all my life I have never had sex in a parked car.

Back to reality

Sorry I have been MIA---I am back at work! I am in Seattle for training and heading back home tonight. I will write more when I get back!

La 'Shana Tova

Happy Jewish New Year! Tonight at sundown marks the Jewish New Year. Jews all across the world tonight will be celebrating with the sound of the shofar and apples dipped in honey. Eli and I will dip hallah into honey since it is still our first year of marriage. It symbolizes a sweet first year of marriage.

We will go to synaggouge tonight, the same one he grew up in; went to hebrew school and had his bar mitzvah. I love going to temple with E as it reminds me that we have so much yet to explore together as husband and wife, especially when it comes to religion.

Shana Tova!