Well, today is the big day for the closing on our house. We are so excited. We close today at 2:00, but we are doing a final walk-thru at 1:00. I will be so glad when we can just start moving and unpacking. No more worm tunnels.

F-1 race yesterday was okay. Not as fun as the first year. This time it rained, hailed, then rained some more. Yuck. Thankfully, Eric though it was necessary to buy this expensive Mercedes umbrella when we first got there, that I sorta fought him over. I mean, we had plenty of umbrellas, but it ended up I was glad we bought it! And of course he let me know how great he was b/c he bought it! Well, I suppose he is anyway! ha ha

Have thought of Jennifer & Eric numerous times this weekend. My heart breaks for them. I know it must be hard. They have a ton of support and I'm sure that helps, too. You are in our thoughts!

Well, we will be leaving shortly. I probably won't blog again until Thursday when I get back to work, so enjoy the week!!

I've been at work for a while now. Faculty members aka Professors never cease to amaze me. Some of them are the greatest people. Then you have those who think they are better than everyone and have the "World owes me" type mentallity... Sometimes I just want to tell them to "Kiss it", but I don't. I'm too nice and I just suck it up and smile. Inside I'm telling them though.

Eric & I are now going to the F-1 race. Don't get me wrong. It is special between us. It was our first date 2 years ago, but call me whiny! It's going to be like 50 degrees on Sunday and on top of that we have a TON of packing still left to do. Oh well. I'm sure we need a break away from the house.

Survivor Fans.... What about this Osten guy? What a whiny butt! I mean talk about everyone feeling sorry for him. Skinny Ryan may not have looked like he had the strength, but I think he had a better game attitude. And can I just say, give it up for Blackbeard, from my home state Indiana! GO RUPERT! Drake would not be as far if it weren't for him! Survivor is one of the few reality shows I watch. If I get time I watch Fear Factor, but ONLY for the middle stunt where they have to usually eat something or do something really disgusting. I don't get into the physical stunts.

Well, I'm going to play around with my site again. Hope I don't mess anything up again. Maybe more after lunch!

Well, I'm sitting here playing with my blog (doesn't that sound funny) this morning. I'm working on changing it. Still learning though! Been up for a while as Eric had a meeting, so he had to get up early and of course once the alarm has sound, there is no returning to sleep for me. I don't mind though. I've been feeling kinda yucky all week. I suppose its nerves. I hope I'm not getting sick. We have to do some major packing this weekend to get everything ready for Monday. I can't believe we are finally getting our own home. We are both so excited. Unfortunately neither one of us has been overly motivated to pack more stuff up, but at least know we don't have a choice. As I look back, we probably should have done some this week. Eric has breakfast club tomorrow morning and I have Ashlee's soccer game to go to. We were going to go to the F-1 race on Sunday (our first date 2 years ago), but decided we better stay home and pack instead.

More later. I have to go to work now....

What a morning.... It's raining and has been all morning since before I got out of bed this morning. I guess I shouldn't have even got out of bed.... I just got some news that there is a good possibility that my youngest sister is pregnant. I don't know anymore of the details, but can I just say STUPID! Ever seen that show on lifetime "Fifteen & Pregnant"? Well, she is right on! Now, I haven't heard the words directly from her mouth, but I'm sure she is ashamed to tell me. I'm buying her prenatal pills and giving them to her, b/c I'm sure no one is guiding her in the right direction through this ordeal.

Anyway, why is it that I only have motivation to exercise when I'm at work? Is it b/c I really can't? For some reason have this motivation to NEVER use elevators during the times of 8:00 am - 5:00 pm. Needless to say, today I climbed 5 flights of stairs and it is just lunch time. What will this afternoon bring? Hopefully no more stairs. And on my way across campus numerous elderly men were standing around passing out new testaments. Of course I picked myself up one. But many people were not. It amazes me that people are so rude. I mean seriously, just take it and if you don't want it, throw it away. I'm not doing that with mine, but well..... Nevermind...

Still packing everything up. Nothing new in that area. Eric, however, has agreed to let me hire someone to dig a hole for my pond, so I am EXSTATIC about that. Now all we have to do is put a liner in and move all the rocks, which isn't as bad as the manual labor of digging. Ugh.

Worms.... My life/house has become very similar to that of a worm. As we pack more of our belongings up, more of these tunnels form throughout our house leading us from room to room. I will be so glad when all this is behind us and we can enjoy our new home.

The weekend was good. My parents came up on Friday and helped us move a load from our current house to Eric's promotion storage. Then we took them to peek in the windows of our new house and finally got some Penn Station before parting ways. Saturday, we did some packing in the morning and then had a wedding to go to. I actually went to both IBC & Northwood with Lindsey. We don't really know Nathan very well. Very nice wedding though. Yesterday was major packing. We almost cleared the entire basement. All we have left is the liquor and some glasses to finish wrapping in paper. Unfortunately we ran out of boxes though, so we had to stop.

can see that this week is going to be quite hectic already. Tuesday and Friday I have receptions for school. Tonight we have errrands to run. Thursday is Survivor. Fortunately it doesn't start until 8. Besides the home football game this weekend (promotion Friday night, Saturday morning and night), we should get it knocked out pretty easily. On top of that, I'm ovulating late this week into the weekend, so in between loading boxes, we have to try making a baby. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.....

Well, the week is almost over.... My cousin Jamie leaves today to go to a place in Michigan to hopefully straighten herself out. I have some mixed feelings about it. I'm really glad she is going and I hope it knocks some sense into her. I guess it really hasn't set in with me or something. I mean I haven't really even talked to her many years anyway, so I guess it won't really affect my seeing or talking to her. I know Danialle and several people on "that side" are pretty upset about it. Don't get me wrong I understand. I mean they see her more than I do and they really won't get to see her for a year. They can visit her, but Michigan is quite a long haul to visit someone for an hour or so. I actually really enjoyed being around Jamie when we got together for Danialle's birthday. She seemed better. I think. I just hope she isn't pulling the wool over everyone's eyes again. I guess I've become pretty hard towards her. She has hurt me quite a bit. I mean we used to be best friends and it's upsetting to see what she has turned herself into. I hope she is going to Michigan for personal reasons and not just b/c she HAS TO. Jamie and I used to be best friends. Drugs ruined that. I hope when she gets back/better, we can be friends again. Although I am pretty sure they can NEVER be like we used to be. Sad to say.

Ok. Enough about sad stuff. It's happy days. I just keep saying that Jamie is going there for the right reasons and they will help her get better and more she wants to get better. Let's just hope I'm not lying to myself. ha ha

House---The packing is progressing. Decided to get a storage unit, which Eric got today, for all of his promo stuff. That will save us some room in the garage AND its a tax write-off, so we aren't really spending much. It's also close to our new house. We got our home insurance taken care of today, too. So far everything is running VERY smoothly. I have actually been very calm during this ordeal. I was REALLY stressed at first and Eric & I fought some, so I relaxed and now it's going smoothly. It's amazing how stressfull house hunting can be. Ugh. I'm so calm now Eric is almost worried... Hmmm.....

We found out today that we officially close on our house September 29 at 3:00 pm. Yay! I just hope everything goes smoothly.

Check out the pictures link (on the right) periodically. I think I figured out how to get some pics on here. We'll see if it works... I copied the idea from Jennifer. (Thanks!) Good idea though. Why not take advantage of EVERYTHING that is free!

Well, it's short today. I gotta finish up stuff from work. More later!

WE FINALLY GOT APPROVED FROM THE LOCAL BANK!!! (Huntington Mortgage)

The weekend...
All in all it was good. I think we both finally got a little sleep. We found out on Friday that the sellers made a counter offer, but it was still an awesome deal, so we accepted it. Now is the fun part.... The closing. And better yet, the moving... We are pre-approved with one place, but we were talking to a local bank that has better everything. We are already pre-qualified with the local one and should have been pre-approved on Friday. Now, here it is Tuesday morning and we still don't know anything. The guy says there won't be any problems, but what the heck is taking so long? We are supposed to close on September 29, so keep your fingers crossed. I hope its not as messy as the first part... Ugh... Last night we went to HH Gregg and ordered all of our appliances for our new house and of course the much needed 57" big screen projection TV and then of course the new entertainment center... Boys and their toys?!?! Although secretly I will enjoy it, too.

In-Laws....
Eric's parents came over this weekend and purchased several things for us for our new house. Much thanks to them!! We very much appreciate it!!

On the baby subject....
Well, you may or may not know, I did start my period this month as I suspected I would. So, here's the good and the bad of trying this month. We are going to try by all means. The bad part is that I should be ovulating somewhere between the 24th-29th, right in the begining of the moving process. So during breaks, we have to attempt to conceive. The good part is that besides building a pond, I won't be doing a whole lot of moving (ie, lifting heavy things, etc.) I should and I do mean should know the results by GWO October 17-19. Unless my body is like Jennifer's and won't tell me until several weeks later.

Nothing more to report... More later!

Well, Danialle has talked me into starting this. Hopefully I will be able to keep it up....

Things going on in my life.....

House----We made an offer on a house Wednesday, Sept 10. We were supposed to hear something last night, Thurs, Sept 11, but didn't. We hope to hear something today. Ugh. I hate waiting. I'll let you know what we find out though.

Babies----Well, this is our first month trying. I was supposed to start this week (Sept 11), but haven't. I don't think I'm pregnant as I'm not having any symptoms. I figure two things....
1) My cycle isn't on track yet.
2) It has been a stressful week with the house hunting stuff.

I'll keep you posted on that, too. More later