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Weekend Update

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First off, I’m reposting the search box now that my last one has moved off the page:

   

Hopefully I won’t have to do that forever.  Yet another LJ annoyance!

Okay, so now to what has actually been going on in our lives lately!

Two weekends ago we went to Purdue for the Alpha Phi Omega 75th anniversary.  We had a good time, it was a good weekend.  Unfortunately not many people turned up from our “era.”  Most of the people who came were recent graduates or from a really long time ago.  I was hoping to see some of the people I was friends with while I was there.  The weather was a little crappy…okay it was a lot crappy!  So we didn’t go around Bug Bowl very much.  We did a couple of service projects and went to a dedication ceremony for Professor Teaford.  That was one of my favorite parts, it was really good to see him again.  I would have trouble believing there could be any individual that could be more devoted to an organization or be a better adviser, not to mention the most entertaining professor that could possibly exist.  The highlight of the weekend was the banquet at the renovated stadium.  Some of the highlights included a past national president speaking, a presentation about our chapter (Alpha Gamma) through the decades including research on some of our traditions and how they started, and a short speech by a guy who pledged in the ’40s and talked about keeping the chapter alive through WWII.  So anyway, it was a good time and too bad for all you guys who didn’t show up because you missed out!

During the week after that I was supposed to go to a conference in Detroit, but that fell through.  So Sara had invited her sister to come and stay here in the meantime.  It was a pretty low key visit, we didn’t really do much.  It was nice to have her here, but unfortunately she got sick towards the end.  That weekend we visited a friend of Sara’s from grad school who recently moved to Chicago.  The highlight of that trip was playing with the parachute!  Remember like when you were in grade school and you played with the parachute?  Well, they have one to play with their son and it was good time. 

We also spent money like it was going out of style!  Behr paint was on sale, so we spent $400 on paint and paint supplies!  On Sunday we went to a store to look at chairs and we ended up buying a chair AND a crib!  We had been looking for a crib for a long time and hadn’t found anything, so we just stumbled onto the perfect one.  For the chair, we were looking for a rocker/glider for the baby’s room, but we ended up buying a little more substantial one that we can use in the living room one day.

Sunday night my mom and brother showed up.  Nathan was just there to borrow the car to continue on to WI for job interviews.  Mom got her passport fixed on Monday (after many trials and tribulations) and then left for Japan on Tuesday!  She’s there now.  Unfortunately I had to wake up at 5 a.m. to take her!

So this weekend, we had the final walk-through on the condo today.  There was nothing really to report about that, it went pretty smoothly.  Tuesday is the big day!  After that we will be a couple of homeowners.  Today I watched the NFL draft for about 8 hours and tomorrow we will go visit Dabu and play games.

Aaaaaand I think that actually brings us up to the present!  I expect that updates are going to start being few and far between since we are going to be this busy for the foreseeable future.

Rough Week

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So I’ve been meaning to post a lot more in here, but this week was a little rough!

I was up for about 5 (early) hours throwing up Tuesday morning.  Obviously I didn’t go to work.  I felt miserable but I managed to sleep on and off from about 8:30 a.m. until about 2:45.  I had to get up then because we had our house inspection!

The house inspection went really well, in terms of the property.  In terms of my health personally, the house inspection went pretty bad.  I felt so bad I couldn’t even stand up.  Sara had to go around with the inspector while I spent most of the time sitting on the floor in a different room sipping water and feeling sorry for myself.  I apologized to everybody but I think they understood because I think I was looking a little green.  But, the good news is that there were absolutely no major problems with the condo.

So we got back to our place and I went directly to bed.  I slept fitfully from about 6:30 p.m. until 6:00 a.m.!  The next morning I got up on time to go to work, fully intending to go.  But standing up was not good to me.  So after I shaved and stuff I was like “forget it” and I called work and then went back to bed.  Wednesday was a little better, but still not great.  Actually, every day since Tuesday has been better but I’m still not completely 100%. I did go to work Thursday and Friday though.

So things are going good with the condo and everything though.  It was appraised already, but we don’t know the results of that yet.  I’m really curious to see what the result is!  The deadline to know about financing is Thursday, but it sounds like that won’t be a problem.  After that I think it’s mostly just waiting for May 1st!  Also today we looked at some fabric shops for ideas on curtains.  Hopefully Sara’s mom is going to come and help us make some curtains or roman shades which would save us a bunch of money!

I keep meaning to make a post about more baby stuff, and I promise I will some day.

Success!

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So I’ve been really busy lately, and I haven’t had a chance to post about it yet, but our offer was accepted for the house!!!  Perhaps we offered to little because they accepted all of our terms!  But really we’re very happy because we offered $7,000 less than the asking price in addition to the $5,000 closing cost credit they were offering.  Also, we got them to run a 220 volt line for our electric dryer and give us an $800 credit for using our washer and dryer rather than having them buy one.  Since ours are pretty much brand new, we are very happy with that.  Our realtor didn’t really want us to try to get both the credit and the lower price because he didn’t think they’d accept, but we sort of overrode him and look how it came out!

You can see some pictures of the place on your snapfish account.

One of the reasons we were so busy was that this weekend we went to a 1st birthday party followed immediately by a 50th birthday party! Opposite ends of the spectrum there.

On a completely unrelated note, as an addendum to my post about coyotes at our new place, here is an article about airplanes being unable to land at O’Hare due to coyotes on the runway! 

Stressin

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So we put the offer on the condo in on Saturday.  Here it is Tuesday night and we still don’t know!!  From everybody that I’ve talked to, they said it usually only takes a couple of hours until you hear back!  I’ll give the the benefit of the doubt over the weekend since they probably weren’t in the office, but they promised on Monday that we would know by today.  And to top it off, the seller’s lawyer/realtor is sort of rude.

In the meantime, you can occupy yourself with this submarine game.  You have to time your depth charges so they hit the subs and avoid their torpedo things.  My high score is 13,800 on level 12.

Endangered Ugly Things is another good time waster.  Basically it is a blog about all the endangered species that are too ugly to be the front-men for conservation efforts.  Take, for example, the long nosed Saiga Antelope:

Not exactly pulling in the big donations!

Life as a House

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So I think we found “the place” as far as our condo search is concerned.  Very exciting!!!  I think we’re going to put an offer down, so I guess we’ll see what happens.

In the meantime, if you’re looking for a condo/house in the greater Chicagoland area (and I know that neither of you who read this are), you should check out Chi-town Living.  It’s very good general information about realty and the housing situation in general, as well as useful links.  It may be of interested to anybody searching for a house.  Anyway, mad props Chi-town Living!