Happy Holidays

Well the Holidays are officially here. We have been ready for them for weeks. The tree is beautiful, all the gifts wrapped and goodies baked, exchanged and frozen. So why doesn't it feel like Christmas? Is it the lack of snow? Is it the fact that we have to start packing soon? Is it that we have to be sure of a place to live? Or is it the fact that we just got married and finally got all the Thank You's out? I am pretty sure that it is because Josh is working X-mas eve and the day after x-mas.

I hope that you all get what you want this holiday! I hope you spend time with your loved ones. May each of you share your holiday joy with all of those you love!!!!

There is hope

We are going to look at a place tomorrow. This is a place that I called on a couple weeks ago. I think that we will like it. It is just it is a little high priced. We were looking for something a little less expensive. Josh really balked at the idea of having to drive 1.5 hours to and from work for a while. Then he also balks at paying two rents. The question is which on makes him balk less. So anyway. Here is a link to the very nice apartment. Let me know what you think. It would be a lower level apartment.

I think that it looks really nice. Just reading the description makes my mouth water. What I wouldn't give for two bathrooms???? How sad is that? There are only two of us. I think that it would be good for when we have visitors OR potty emergencies!! Oh yeah and a 2 car garage would be nice. It just depends also on if there is a door directly into the apt or not. Jackson would have to learn to be a quiet dog though!!!!!!!!!!!

If I don't get back to you with an update, happy holidays!!!!!!!

Homeless

Well we are still looking for a place. The place that I liked fell through. The woman decided to let the man living there stay. We had a feeling that this would happen. What can we do, besides keep hunting? The paneling place is still on the market! Oh yeah.

I think that we will take a break for the week and continue the search next week. Besides no one is going to want to show us a place this week anyway. Unless of course if we see something that REALLY catches our eye. Then we will take it!!!!

Ho Hum, it's Monday!

Accomplishment!!

Well, I bought our last Christmas present on Tuesday! How many people can say that they are completely done Christmas shopping with around 10 days left to shop. There are some people who are getting wedding pictures as Christmas gifts. So we are waiting for those to come in. Otherwise I have EVERYTHING wrapped too!! That is until Jackson unwraps everything. He had one day where he unwrapped 3 gifts. Now he is locked into the laundry room while we are away. I felt so guilty doing it but he has been good in there. AND he has yet to have an accident. He didn't have many when he was loose in the house but he did have a few. That I consider a good thing!! The only problem is that his food and water are in there so we cannot shut the door all the way. So we have to listen to the furnace or the laundry going. We learned too that our dishwasher has a tendency to leak. We thought that the water in the kitchen was due to the sloppy dog drinking water. Well it wasn't it was because the dishwasher leaks at the end of the cycle.

Anyway!!! The house/duplex hunting is going. I liked the place I looked at on Saturday. Hopefully the rent issues can be sorted out. I also looked at a place on Tuesday. I really liked that place. There were 3 drawbacks. 1)the duplex is upstairs/downstairs. 2)We would have to share a garage and 3)the guy upstairs has access to the basement. That may be something that we would/could prohibit. I feel mean about it, but can you really blame me. Oh yeah a fourth. The garage isn't' attached. YUCK!!!

That is all for now!!!!!!!

The Chinese Carrot

Now I don't know what nationality carrots really are but mine is Chinese. My Supervisor,let's call her B, had a do-it-yourself bonsai plant kit. It was something that she had gotten as a gift or a prize at one time. It sat atop her filing cabinet for many months. Then one day her deskmate A mentioned it. Well B told A that she didn't have a green thumb so if she wanted to see if it worked she would have to go through the riggers of getting it to grow. So A perform the cold stratification and the process of germination. The kit contained 5 seeds. So they were split into 5 different peat pots. We followed the instructions as best we could. A kept 3 of the bonsai pots, I took one and another co-work, NV, took one. We watered, watched and waited for the plants to grow. I even named my plant, upon suggestion from J, I named him Huo Shing Ren Wang, which was translated from english. The meaning is The Great and Almighty Martian King. Again J's idea, I told him I wanted something a little more ethnic, so I just translated it.

Much to our dismay neither mine nor A's Bonsai broke ground. In fact we believed that it may have been washed down the sink during one of our waterings. We had to water the plant with warm water so it sometimes. I would let the water run all over the peat packet to ensure that the warmth was getting into the seed. Maybe this would help the plant to grow. I know it sounds silly but get over it!! ;). Well NV's plant did start to grow. It is still growing. Rather slowly but it IS growing.

So A and I were getting pretty bummed. When I took off time for the wedding/honeymoon I gave A what was probably an empty pot to take care of and maintain until I got back. You see I wasn't going to give up on it yet. I don't ever give up on things that is just how I am. When I returned from my vacation I took the pot back from A. In my absence something happened, there was a sprout coming up from the dirt. No it didn't look like a bonsai tree, but like grass. So B tells me while we were gone she, M and J played a little trick on us. She planted carrot seeds in our peat pots. So now instead of having a beautiful bonsai tree that I can prune and shape I have a carrot which someday not too far from now i will eat. Hopefully it grows to be big and yummy. Well as big as a tall glass will allow..... ;)