tax time

I love doing taxes.  I still remember the first time I had to do my taxes, all handwritten on paper, and all so fun.  The excitement of filling out tax information and waiting for the final calculation of how much I over payed is sheer joy!

laundry

I woke up this morning in a panic when I realized my dream was not real.  I imagine the 10 minute dream that my laundry was completely finished had me smiling in my sleep.  I woke up without an alarm at 10 am feeling well rested and happy, but then it dawned on me that I had to do three large loads of laundry without the aid of Philip.

Bailey is so needy today.  When I was washing the dishes she would not leave me alone, forcefully pushing her head against my leg.  She must need food or water, I thought to myself, but those were both full and her litter box was fine.  Even the usual splash of water couldn't keep her away for more than a few seconds.  Crazy Cat!  She must want a puppy to play with :)

8:21am

I got a call this morning while still in bed (my day off) and all I remember is that there was a man of asian descent on the other line yelling at me, "you left your pillow here, at cleaner".  I know of no pillow, but in my daze I said, "oh, from a long time ago?", and he was like "yes, long time".  So naturally I said I would come pick it up.  When I went to the cleaner that I always go to, to pick up my sweater the woman there had no idea what I was talking about.  so no pillow there.  Then I just know figured out that I left Philip's pillow at the dry cleaner up north of here around two years ago.  Good to know they are on top of things!  I don't want it anymore, so they can keep it.

sale

J.Crew Rocks!  I got some sweaters, some ties, and my favorite patchwork tartan sleep pants.  So warm and fuzzy.

24 days till closing...

24 days and counting till our closing date. When we made an offer on this place we did a 60 day close, because we can still use our apartment through the end of March, but now we are just getting eager. In the first week from when we saw the place we made and offer, went under contract, gout our loan finalized, and even saw the first bit of our title work... and now we just have to wait till the week of closing do some more last minute things.

We were able to go see the condo unfinished another time to choose paint colors a bit ago and below are fun photos from that day. Notice how busily I am measuring the space to start shopping in my head for all the fun things we will need!

This first pic is of the actual kitchen (unfinished)...


and here is what it will look like when it's finished.


View of the living room from the kitchen...


Kitchen pantry hallway...


Hallway leading to 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and a parking spot :)