The girl with kaleidoscope eyes

7.24.2003

Sorry about the lack of updates. I've been very sick and I don't remember much of what's been going on for the last few days. We started moving on Monday after our closing. This was all supposed to be so exciting. We had our final walk through and the refrigerator didn't work.And then we got to the bank to get the certified check for our downpayment, and Jon's car died. So we had to have someone help us with that before we could go over to the closing. The seller kinda threw a fit about the fridge, and after the closing we had to meet him to check it out. The whole time we were at the closing I was like hoping and praying that the car would start. It did. And when it did, I had a feeling the fridge would be on and working when we got there. It was.

So then we started moving, and we're still not done, and I miss having a couch to sit on. Hopefully this situation will be remedied soon. I am sick and desperate and I need a couch! I am also pissed about the ikea (I-CRAP-A) table and chairs I bought. They're so puny and lightweight that my 2 year old can slide them across the floor. It's just not very safe, considering that hot food and stuff will be resting on there from time to time.

I'll tell you what I love and what I don't love now:

I don't love that the washer and dryer are small, and therefore fill up fast, and i feel like i am constantly washing clothes. I don't love that the coat closet door broke after the closing and i have no idea how to fix it, because it doesn't just go back in the track. I don't love that there is a big dead tree outside. It's right in the middle of an otherwise awesome view of the woods. I don't love my table and chairs, as i mentioned before.

What i love is that it's ours, all ours. I also love that there is lots of security. I love that there is a gas stove and it's awesome and so much better than those coil things. I love a lot more stuff than this, but I'm sick and i want to lay down.

posted @ 2:03 PM

7.16.2003

I have been good about updating this lately. I'm trying my best. And good news: We're closing on Monday at 10am. I got a call from the lawyer and the real estate agent this morning and they both confirmed it. And awesome news is that Jon's been way on top of things so everything should be set up by the time we move in. Cable, Phone, DSL, POWER, umm.. what else?

I have so much to do and I don't feel like doing anything but surf the net, or read a book, or sleep or play the Sims. I have to reinstall the sims at some point, but I haven't yet, mainly because I really should be doing the other stuff I have to do and that's one game that will keep me sidetracked.

Last night I had this thought that I should paint the living room red. Not blood red or fire engine red, but sort of a dark, muted red. I am so confused about colors. It's not only the walls that I have to think about , but some key furniture, like the kitchen table and chairs, which are a plain, light, untreated wood. I don't like that, so I was thinking of staining them or something. But then I saw on this decorating show about color that you should always have something black in a room, because black makes all of the colors around it pop! I can't believe I just said pop, but since that's what they said, i thought I might as well repeat it. So because of that show, I've been thinking of maybe doing my tv stand/ entertainment center in black. But i thought I might distress it, or prime it with a red, and then sand away a little of the black in certain spots to make the red show through, so it's not totally black.

But then that makes me wonder if I should paint the table black, or maybe paint the table RED! or maybe paint the table white, like a whitewash. The table concerns me because there is a sideboard that goes along with it, and I don't really want to paint them both the same color. I don't know what to do. This is frustrating. It's only really frustrating because I have to actually get off of my slob-ass and buy the paint and primer and get this going. We don't have the whole week like we would have if we moved on Friday to paint things inside and set them up, so I might have to paint stuff outside here and leave it in peices til we move in.

This is seriously the most boring post ever. Or should I paint my walls a light brown? I like greens, reds, golds, browns, black and white. The only resistence i have to brown, is that we painted our apartment living room a light brown with white trim, and had a black couch and black frames with black and white photography and muted lighting and I liked it a lot, but I want this to be a seperate and different space.... (sorry about this, i guess you could say i am a little obsessed.)

posted @ 1:59 PM

7.15.2003

*poop* Well. Unfortunately all of my wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin' didn't get me anywhere. We are NOT, I repeat, we are NOT moving this weekend. (unless some sort of miraculous miracle happens). I'm totally sad and destroyed and depressed and disappointed.

my devan is jumping on my back and being cute. too bad i am in a terrible mood.

posted @ 6:17 PM

Just to let you know, half of this post is going to be a rant that I didn't put any thought into at all, and don't feel like revising for grammatical or spelling mistakes. The other half will be me bragging and giggling and "ooh-ing" and "aww-ing" over my birthday presents that I got last night.

Ok. Here goes the rant:

When we put our offer in for our condo that we're buying, we were fairly certain that the fact that we wanted to close LATE! like, really late, a week before the loan approval expires, was going to deter us from really being able to buy said home. We thought they'd be like, ok we'll take your offer, and then they'd take the next better offer that came around because those people might want to close a month or so earlier. Well, good for us, they took our offer and it stuck. Now here's the problem and I'm having a bit of difficulty wrapping my brain around it: Our closing is scheduled for the 18th. Being that we had such a late closing date, doesn't it seem like we'd have no problem getting everything settled prior to that date?? I don't understand lawyers or anything at all, and I'm not pretending to. I have no idea why everything has to be done at the last minute, but it's really starting to worry me and screw up my PLANS!!

The lawyer we originally hired moved to florida or something and let some Ginger chick take over her practice. We've yet to actually speak on the phone to Ginger, because she seems awfully busy. We're always leaving messages with the secretary. Anyways, I am totally running in circles around the problem. The problem is that our closing is set for the 18th, but not really, since the secretary told Jon that it probably won't be the 18th. So that means we can't move over the weekend. That sucks, but that's not the bad part. The bad part is that we're supposed to be going to the beach for a week next weekend, and not only that, but our loan offer expires on the 24th. So we'll probably end up not going to the beach, and having no one to help us move. Worse than that though, this whole damn thing could fall through if the lawyer doesn't hurry up.

I'm having a bad feeling about this, but I can't tell if my bad feeling is just disappointment because I am so excited. I hope everything goes okay, because seriously, the only thing that's keeping me from floating into the sky with excitement, is that I am horribly obese.

Part Two.

My birthday party was last night, which is/am/are/was/were a week after my actual birthday. I'll tell you what, it was totally worth the wait. I got cool stuff. Jon bought me the Sex In The City season 1 dvd, but it's not arrived in the mail yet. Jon's mom and aunt Dee and Gockey all got me beautiful paprika colored Longaberger pottery. I got mixing bowls and canisters and I'm psyched about them. who knew I could get psyched about Longaberger?? I always considered Longaberger to be an evil cult but now I guess I'm a member, and I don't feel evil yet, so I guess everything's cool.

Jon's grandmother (that's Gockey, if you didn't know) got me 2 beautiful pairs of earrings and these cute metal (i think it's lead or something) hearts from Robert Redford's Sundance Catalog. What's so great about sundance catalog, is that in the actual physical catalog, they have all these delicious looking cupcakes and cookies right next to the jewelry. Seriously what is better than looking at handmade jewelry and dessert at the same time? I don't know anything better than that.

I also got 2 really pretty potholders from Jon's aunt Dee, and some shirts from Jon's grandmother and some $$$, and I can't remember what else, because now in my head there's these blinking sparkly lights going "dominos, dominos" and I just can't get past that. So i guess my brain is telling me to tell you about dominos. We got Dominos last night and it was really good. We don't have any chain pizza places around here and Domino's just opened up like 2 days ago, so that's what we got. I saw this kid that was in one of my classes and I said "hey" to him. I see that kid everywhere though. Like at walmart I saw him, and it surprised me and I hid behind Jon. I don't like the kid like that or anything, but it is just so weird to actually recognize someone in this state because I am such a loner that I still don't have any friends.

I bought some books yesterday and I am excited about them. I wish some kind stranger would stumble upon my journal and from there stumble upon my amazon.com wishlist and from there become my sugar daddy and buy all of the things in that wishlist (and also all of the things on my marthastewart.com wishlist - that would be awesome. Seriously, perspective sugar daddies - It's not that much money, I think $200 would cover it.) So again, for my future sugar daddies or just "special internet friends who want to buy me stuff": my wishlist is listed under the name Jonathan DePue, with July 7 as my birthday.

posted @ 3:49 PM

7.14.2003

I thought I updated this the other day. honest.

Today on my way to the mall I drove right through a red light. That scared me a little. I was thinking about how it would be NICE IF MY FAMILY WOULD VISIT ME WHEN I MOVE! I was deep in thought about that when I realized the light I went through was RED.

We're moving on Friday. If all goes well. Jon has some details to tell me when he's off work. He's still at some client somewhere, and will probably be late for my PARTY. that's tonight. My birthday was last monday but I got the STREP THROAT, and so did pat, so that was a fine BIRTHDAY PRESENT.

It's weird, really. I'm not meaning to capitalize whole words and sentance fragments but it's just happening because I think I have ALIEN HAND. It's funny how my ALIEN HAND is capitalizing key words, maybe my ALIEN HAND is trying to communicate something??

I 'm watching sponge bob square pants, and devan is sitting next to me. WE ARE CUTE. We're just waiting for our lovely guests to arrive and give me LOTS OF PRESENTS!!!

I have updated my AMAZON.COM wishlist, and bought a couple used books today. I am excited about them. my amazon.com wishlist is under the name Jonathan DePue.

Devan just looked at herself in the in the mirror and said "I LOOK CUTE"

I made a blanket, that I've been compulsively showing everyone because I can't believe I sewed it. I also can't believe that sewing is so easy. I've been afraid of sewing ever since 8th grade when I used to give my friend Michelle a dollar to thread my machine during Home Ec. I also failed the test where we were supposed to draw a line showing where the thread goes on the machine. Here is a pic of my blanket:

This blanket was made with 8 pairs of blue jeans that I scoured a thrift store to find. Yes, I washed them first. But because I am a young chick, I didn't know anything about quilting, and how quilters have all this fabulous stuff that helps them make quilts more efficiently , like a ROTARY CUTTER, 6 inch square fabric template thingies, self-healing mats, etc. I missed out on all of this, and spent an entire 2 nights cutting squares of denim (that I traced from a cardboard template with an orange marker)with crappy scissors. Now that I know, next time I'll do better.

posted @ 5:38 PM