Bring on the 4 dollar churros

Tim and I have set our vacation date. We are going away from June 13-20. And where are we going? DISNEYLAND! Where else? =) We are going to spend 3 days at Disney and them come home and go to Monterey for a few days. I can't wait. It's on my calendar and I'm going to start a countdown. Mickey here we come!

Sad

Tim's car was broken into. They stole his radio and jammed something in the ignition so we think they tried to steal it. This all took place outside our condo complex. Boo. I only hope they were desperate for money so that they could feed their family. I don't want to pass judgement because you never know what situation people are in. I'm just trying to remain positive.

Drama!

A car just crashed into the bottom condo in our complex at the intersection of Saddle Rack and Meridian. We called 911 and a firetruck and 6 police cars were at our place within 2 minutes. Tim and I were saying how nice it is to live so close to downtown San Jose. PG&E is down there right now fixing the light box that was leveled. I hope that everyone involved is ok.

We are watching the Calgary/Detroit hockey game in the hopes of figuring out who we will be playing in the next round.....Fingers crossed not Anaheim! =)

The man in the box

Go out and rent/Netflix "The Prestige". It's an excellent film. It was directed by the guy who did "Momento", which is not my favorite movie, however, The Prestige is excellent. Go get it.

Addiction

My addiction to coffee is becoming overwhelming. It is now taking over my weekends in that my first thought after I wake up is......When can I get coffee? Today I had 2 coffees. I sent my insurance girl out to get something for me about 1 hour into my shift as I thought I was going to fall over onto the patients. How odd. It's funny too because I don't use coffee for caffeine. I just love the warmth and the taste. That first sip....yum. I drink non-fat latte's by the way. Just in case any of you are by a Starbucks and wanted to nip in to give me a treat. HA! I think that I should probably put a designated amount on my Starbucks card every month and then not go over that limit. Good in theory, however, I think probably not very likely. It's probably not a good idea to deprive myself. =) God forbid I should start to have withdrawls. I may wind up at Promises like Britney, Matthew etc.. Although, now that we have a house payment, I think I can't afford the $40,000 per month charge. Too bad.

Exhaustion, yes indeed

Hello gang. I am typing this now as I sit on my couch watching Tim play God of War 2 on our new TV. It is large and shiny. It frightened me when it first came out of the box. Of course that was the one that had a dead pixel on the screen, so we had to take that one back to Best Buy. We got a new one right away. It's kinda nice to buy things in the "Magnolia" Section of Best Buy. They didn't give us any hassle.

The "rack", as I affectionately call our new home, is coming together nicely. The den (aka Bee's room) is still a mess of boxes, however, once Tim starts wall mounting TV's, all that stuff will come off the floor. Yay.

This whole experience has been great, but exhausting. Tim and I are at the end of our ropes and just need a really good night's sleep. This is all very surreal in that I can't believe that we actually own this piece of property. It feels like we are staying in a hotel and soon we will have to leave.

I am fortunate enough to be off tomorrow. First order of business, sleep. Then, I'm off to try to buy rugs. Oh yeah, this has also been the most expensive thing I have ever done. i just paid the credit card bill. If I wasn't so exhaused, I'd need drinks. However, I can barely drag my tired ass bones off to bed, let alone over to the bar cabinet. (yes, we now have a bar cabinet). Housewarming party to follow!

One week to go

Only one week to go until Saddle Rack is officially ours. I can't wait! We are going to spend the first week cleaning and then moving. I'm hoping to take a few days off to get organized. I'll post pics along the way so that I can chronicle the excitement of our first place. =) Yipeee!!!

Cue theme song to Friends..

I got my hair cut. I accidentally have "the Rachel". 10 years late. Go figure

Part deux

The master bedroom....It'll be pretty big without such a giant bed in it.

The master bathroom....you can see the reflection of the walk in closet in the mirror. I chose not to show you all the full view of the bathrooms as we are going to replace the tubs. You can come and experience the new ones!

This is the den/office/guest room. I love the french doors that open/close this room off. We are getting a new desk, small futon/couch for this room and all the non-essential game stuff will go in this room.

So that's it. Of course the pictures don't really do the place justice and I can't wait for you all to see it. We are right next to McDonald's, BK, Safeway, Quiznos, Starbucks, Walgreens and nail salon. This place was meant for me. Oh, and we're only 5 minues from Valley Fair as well. LOVE IT!

Before the masses beat me....

Here is our new kitchen. Tim is most excited about the ice machine in the fridge
Here is the view from our balcony. We can see the hills!
This is the entryway when you walk in the front door. I love the little round ceiling.

So I tried to post more pictures but Blogger is being cranky so I will put them in a separate post.

This place will be ours on March 13th. Countdown is on!

We could live in a mansion in South Dakota

Tim and I are in the process of buying a place. It is very nerve-racking and I have a lot of anxiety. All of you who own can attest to this feeling. I am truly looking forward to actually owning a small piece of this great area and I'm excited that I can do whatever I want with it.
Tim keeps on looking up places for sale in really random places outside of this area saying constructive things like "we could have 6 bedrooms and goats if we lived in (insert random state not on a coast here)...
What he says is true, however, we wouldn't be in the bay area. This has become my home and I couldn't leave it.
The one sad thing about leaving Oakwood is leaving the squirrel army that we have amassed. I am worried that they will become weak and feeble without our nourishing distribution of peanuts already de-shelled for their convenience. I asked Tim today if we could trap a few and bring them with us to the new place. He said the HOA might have a problem with that. I think he is right.

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to my best friend, my husband!

As promised, the recap

This is our hotel. When we first arrived in Park City, we unpacked quickly and threw on our long underwear. Can I just say that long underwear is the greatest invention for cold weather. We headed down to the box office on the bus and tried to get tickets. Everything was sold out, but someone offered us some tickets to a movie so we took them and then went for lunch. We went to Zoom which is Robert Redford's restaraunt. The food was great and we had a really nice meal. The first film we saw was called The Unforseen. It was about environmental change in Texas.
Here is Bianca and I while snowshoeing on Sunday. We hiked all the way up the side of a mountain and then had a chance to slide down a little way. It was a blast even though we lost a shoe or two in the process. (They were found) Park City is absolutely beautiful and just like a postcard.
Here is a picture of the famous Egyptian theatre on main street. The theatres are all spread out around the town so you have to take the bus in between. Bianca and I were the bus experts after the first day. We certainly saved ourselves some dough by taking the bus instead of taxis!
You can see how deep the snow is here. It was my first time in the snow and I really loved it. (I know, shock and awe. Lisa had fun in the outdoors)

Let it snow!

Hello boys and girls,
I have returned safely from Sundance, cold but happy. =) We had a wonderful time and saw 6 films. I will do a long post with pics as soon as I get them loaded onto the old laptop. I also need to warm up my core temperature. Ha!

Watch out Robert Redford. I am coming for you.

I tried to buy tickets for movies at Sundance today. By the time the website starting working (30 mins past my assigned time) all the shows were sold out. What a shoddy system. I protest. When I see Robert and Paul Newman tootling around town in their hybrid truck or whatever, I will give them a piece of my mind. And also take a picture of them as I am a star stalker/lover. 7 days to Sundance!

Happy New Year

I hope you all had a safe and sound New Year's Eve. My liver is still recovering. I need to take a lot of vitamins this week as I think I did a pretty good job of pickling myself. =)

In other news, things are still up and down at work. I'm not sure what is going to happen but I'm sure it will be okay.

Tim and I took down the Christmas decorations yesterday. The dried out tree is still hanging out in the living room because we haven't thrown it over the balcony yet. I'm afraid to do it at night because we may hit someone walking a dog or something. Hmmm....it really will have to be a day operation.

I'm looking forward to 2007. Tim and I will be buying ourselves a nice cozy place. We'll be married for 2 years. I will have been at my job for 1 year in March. And in 2 weeks I will be off to Sundance with one of my homies. Watch out celebs...I'm coming for you. =)

Party combo Disney

Gorgeous!

Partners for life

Random picture of the snow at Disneyland that Blogger put in the wrong place!

It doesn't get any better than this. The most photogenic people EVER!

The fam in front of the white water rapids at California Adventure.

Sharks Win! Sharks Win!

WOOOOOOOOOOT!

When you wish upon a star

Only 1 more day til Disneyland! Waaaaaaah! This whole week has flown by for me as all I can think of is Disney. My parents are already down in southern Cal and will pick us up tomorrow afternoon. My favorite part of the trip is the fireworks and then at the end they shoot "snow" out of special machines. For fake snow, it sure does get me right in the gut =) I have yet to decorate the apartment so this will be a great start to the Christmas season.

As a side bar, Tim and I now know our price range for our new place...we'll start looking as soon as we are back from Disney. Put your feelers out there people...find us a place! =)

Viva Pinata

Hello boys and girls,
Once again please excuse my absence. The past week has been weird for me. I think that I mentioned in prevous posts that I've been working a lot over the past few weeks. By last Wednesday night, my body was so close to shutting down. I thought a few days of rest would pick me up but by Sunday I didn't really feel any different. On Monday, I was so stressed out that I felt like crying all the time. The smallest things would make me so mad. I still couldn't figure out what was going on with me. Then, Dr. W and I had a long talk on Tuesday and everything became so clear. This has really been a transition time for me both personally and professionally. Professional stuff I won't dwell on here because it is not right to do so. I don't want to end up like Heather B. from dooce. =) In terms of personal stuff, Tim and I are going to buying a place after Christmas and starting our lives again in a new place. It is exciting but scary at the same time. However, I noticed that after I let everything out I had so much more energy and would up cleaning like a mad person last night. I got really organized and feel great.
Tonight Tim is playing Viva Pinata which is a game about pinatas living in a garden, or something like that...=) There is a video game for everything now.
Anyway, I'm off to the bath as it is colder than all get out in the apartment. TTFN.