It’s Just Me

Wow, it’s nice to have a 90% clean house (still have a little ways to go, but we’ll get there).  The cleaning crew came in today and got this place into shape.  The realtor comes by tomorrow and then WHAM.  The house will be on the market.

I’m scared and excited and emotional, and it hasn’t even sold yet.  This is such a great house.  We’ve been here 11 years.  I’ll be sad to leave it.  Lots of good stuff happened here.  Waaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!

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Let’s talk Jim & Pam, shall we?  Last night’s episode (Chair Model) sent me flailing back into my couch cushions in happy shock!!!!!!  Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!  An upcoming engagement?  Happy happy, joy joy (should it actually happen….)!!!!  The whole OFFICE episode was hysterical – one of my faves ever.  Emmys Emmys Emmys Emmys Emmys.

And more TV – - LOST starts up again next week.  And David Cook on Idol is freakin’ AMAZING. 

So – did you get your new Entertainment Weekly in the mail today?  The one with the SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW?  As always, I devoured it practically on arrival.  Movies to be excited about this summer: Iron Man, The Happening, Get Smart, The Dark Knight, Step Brothers, and everything with Colin Firth in it (Then She Found Me & When Did You Last See Your Father & The Accidental Husband & Mama Mia — even if ABBA music makes me wanna hurl).

I’ve been reading up a storm – - I have fallen in love with the books CROW LAKE and THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BRIDGE, both by Mary Lawson.  I couldn’t put either one down.  She is an author to adore.  Stories of families in a fictional town in northern Canada (yes, both of them) – and both books alternate back and forth in time -  and are heart-wrenchingly beautiful.  I will be reading these again.  Just started WINGED CREATURES – (which will be a movie later this year about 6 people’s lives after they survive a random fast-food restaurant shooting).  I love reading books that are going to be movies.

SPIDERS – so far this week, one landed in the jelly jar while I was making a sandwich, and I have approx 6-8 spider bites on me and only me (because spiders never like anyone else in this house except ME). Oh, and WHO was a spider crawling on last week while all us girls were watching American Idol?  Oh yes, that would be me.  On MY shirt sleeve.  Freaking ME (and Annie and Heather) out.  Gadz.  It’s horrific.  Yick.

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May you have a happy and spider-free week.

It’s April. That means the following:

1. April means two more months til Annie is out of high school.  Two more months of getting up early, making lunches, and driving her there.  Two more months til we can sleep past 7:20.  Neither of us can wait!!!!!!

2. April means there’s approx 2-3 months til we actually move (for real this time).  (yah, right… you’ll all believe it when you see it).  I have GOT to get my rear in gear.

3. April means the it’s RASCAL FLATTS CONCERT TIME!  YAY!  We see them on the 11th!  We are SPAZ level excited!

4. April means new episodes of THE OFFICE (is it nuts to be so excited about a TV show?) – - I’m pretty much in a constant state of skipping, I’m so excited!  (on a side note, April also means more episodes of LOST coming up in late April. Put on your seatbelts, it’s gonna ROCK!)

Eric got home from an almost 2 week trip to Singapore/Malaysia on Friday – he’s still pretty tired, and today woke up with a horrible pain in his ear.  A trip to the doctor revealed nothing, but he’s feeling better.  We do love Advil at our house.

Fun news for me – - I am now a member of the Peppermint Creative Design Team (a digi-scrapping site that I adore) – go see all her cute stuff!  I’m beyond thrilled!  www.peppermintcreative.com

Layouts for Peppermint Creative and a few pics to share -

Jeff with cousin Oakley. She wasn’t too sure of handing out “high fives” that day.

Cute Cousins!! Hailey, Megan, Annie and Eryka.

Pancake decadence.

HAPPY APRIL!