Anyone that knows me knows that: 1. I do stay up late on school nights (okay, work nights now) and 2. I do not go out in public often. I'm breaking both of those tonight to go to the midnight showing of Harry Potter. I'm not even a Potter fan, I just have to see each one once so that I know what my sister is talking about. Plus, it's British, so I have fun understanding the lingo that I sometimes get to explain to my sister later. I remember asking years ago if there was any snogging, and she didn't know the word... until she finally read it in one of the books! *grin* I hear there may be some in the movie as well.

Has anyone seen it yet? Any good?

Let's see how I do tomorrow. *grin* I already have everything set that I'm going into work late tomorrow and staying late for a meeting (that worked out beautifully), so I don't even need to use too much of my vacation time. I think I'm going to try to take a nap before I need to go.... highly doubt it, but I'll try.

I have to talk about one of the greatest inventions, ever! *grin* Well, at least to me. It's the 3m Command Picture Hanging Strips. I'm not trusted with tools... so I had to keep waiting for my brother to have time to hang stuff. And after months of waiting, I discovered, I can put stuff up without having holes in the wall! I'm so excited and decorating all over the place!

Well, that was all I wanted to say about that... my post looks so much shorter than I thought it would. *laugh*

Hello, internet denizens! I've come out of hibernation for the moment, testing the waters, so to speak. *grin* We'll see if I can keep up the trend or if this is a rare occurence.

What has brought me out of my den? Well, for some strange reason, I feel compelled to discuss my embarrassment with the world. I'm not sure why. Maybe I'm hoping to find another such odd soul as myself. You see, I got suckered into watching a Hannah Montana marathon last night. *sheepish grin* Yes, last time I checked I was 27, not 12, but thus the embarrassment of liking this little show.

( spoilers for last night's episode )

In other TV news, now that it's the summer and shows are on hiatus, I've been able to continue my quest of having my father watch Farscape. I think we'll be done before the summer is up. We're up to Prayer now, so only 5 episodes and a movie to go! I wanted to watch a few this weekend when I vacations with my folks, but as my mother is not a fan of the "farting alien show", I didn't want her to watch the ones even more twisted then normal. *hehe*

vanriot84 also gave me some lovely spoilers about upcoming Doctor Who specials, so I've been thrilled beyond belief. Feel free one and all to spoil me to their hearts' content since I have been lax to research as of late.

Well, my new kittens are asking for attention and trying to walk on the keyboard, so I shall leave you for now. *grin*

I have nothing to say, however, my mother has become an avid reader of my blog as of late and keeps reminding me that I haven't updated.

Lately, I've just been working on the house so much and it's just tiring. I like having my downtime and so far, that house is just sucking all my time away from me. This is so not helping me like the house. I know that I'm this complete oxymoron of someone buying a house that doesn't want to move. The only reason I want to actually move in at this point is to finally be done with all this planning and buying and working on said house.

In better news... new episodes of my TV shows are back! I've definitely picked up Psych now. It's hilarious. And Scrubs is looking like a good year already!

And now the last half season of Battlestar Galactica has begun! ( cut for spoilers for BG )

We lost a coworker on Sunday. He had a heart attack while snowblowing during the storm. He was only 60. We found out Monday morning and they had us have a work meeting anyway. They offered the counseling and whatnot... but really, it would have been nice to push the meeting off at least an hour, ya know? It was a meeting that he even was supposed to be at.

We'll all miss him. He was like a teddy bear with the gruff exterior, but the cuddly guy underneath (that you couldn't hug, of course. *grin*). I wanted to post on him, but it's still too new at the moment. It's like I still don't quite want to believe it, even though I've seen the obit. Maybe I'll post again after the service later this week.

Saturday was a pretty exciting day, though we could have done without it. My parents and I were begrudgingly shopping for my house. We really just wanted to take a nap, but it needed to be done, so we forced ourselves to do it. On the way to the store to buy doors, this car in front of us starts weaving all over the road on both sides.

My mum thinks it's a drunk driver and wants to call 911. The car turns the corner up another street and my dad pulls over to the side of the road. My mum starts yelling at him to follow the car, however, my dad doesn't want to with two women in the vehicle, anything could happen. (Sidenote: They were both right.)

( cut for size for flist sake ) I was wondering about what would happen in a situation like this when I saw the show about "What would you do?" I guess I know now...

I'm still a lot older than I look. The furniture store proved that. *grin* My parents, brother, and I went out shopping to find my brother a new bed. He found the one he wanted, but it was a bit too expensive at the moment, due to all the other expenses of the house.

The sales lady jumped right on that and offered the 0% plan for a year. My brother can definitely do it in that amount of time so he starts going through the process.

As she is going through the process, my father comes up...

Dad: What's going on?

Bro: I'm checking to see if I'm preapproved to get credit for the bed.

Dad: We have an account here, we could always put it on ours and you pay me back.

Furniture Lady: Well, it's good for him to be able to establish credit himself.

Bro: Oh, I have plenty of credit already. My credit score is in the 800s.

Me: *whispers to my brother* My credit score was in the 800s til I bought a house.

Furniture Lady: *whips around from her computer* You bought a house?!??!! How old are you?

Me: Uh... 27.

Furniture Lady: Wow, that's really good for you. You look so young.

Me: Yeah, I know.

Dad: Yeah, the bank didn't even believe her downpayment was hers.

Me: I had to show at least 6 months of bank statements so they knew no one gave me the money.

Furniture Lady: Well, yes, when someone comes in that looks 18 wanting to buy a house, must want to make sure.

*hehe* I'm 18 now! That's a whole year older than the most. And yet, I wasn't annoyed, I just thought it was funny. Guess I'm getting used to it now. Oh, but the look on her face when I mentioned to my brother that I bought a house... priceless.

How did I have the time before? I used to have hours and hours to spend online, and now, I don't even have time to post once a day, let alone check my flist. Homeownership is too much work!

I don't know how I had time to be on here so much. Then again, I haven't had so many problems all at once taking up all my time. First my car doesn't pass inspection last month so I kept trying to get it fixed. Finally, yesterday, I am able to take it back... when I notice that sometime while I was working, there was a HUGE 2 foot crack in my windshield! *sigh*

I, of course, was on my way to a dentist appointment, which always makes one cheery (not), and had to find a way to get this in the shop asap so that I can get it reinspected asap before I get pulled over for not being inspected.

2009 is looking so wonderful, eh?

First some of my flist talk about Livejournal's issues and backing up their site, which I'm grateful that I could find out about. Then today, I tried to get on and there was an error and I couldn't get anywhere! Yikes! Made me think twice about archiving it. And then I realized that doing so took at least 1.5G. Eeek! My little ancient laptop doesn't have that kind of space to spare. I think I'm gonna have to risk it. And that makes me nervous...

I wish there was someway to magically archive it without having to use so much space for a program. I have around 845 entries, so I figured that would take a wee bit of space as well. Hmmm...

I have two of my favorite shows on tonight. First up at 8pm, one of my new favorites is NCIS. Now, I was a JAG fan and watched the episode that launched this show and then kinda forgot about it... Until its sixth season, and *poof*, I'm hooked!

It's one of my dad's favorite shows and for some reason, I along with a lot of other people it seems, have discovered its awesomeness. And thanks to the USA channel, I've caught up on the other five seasons. Three episodes a day five days a week is a lovely thing, plus marathons over the holidays! I totally ship McGee and Abby, even if Abby doesn't. And I might even ship Ziva and Tony too. *grin* Anyone else love this how?

The other piece of greatest tonight is Scrubs is back! And moved to ABC. And they are having two episodes tonight! This is a good thing, 'cause the last episode last season was horridly out of place.

Ah, gotta love public television. I'm stuck at a meeting again and just figured out that my father is watching at home. How do I know? 'cause he started emailing me about the meeting. *hehe* Definitely helps with the boredom when someone is talking to me. How did I manage to not write boredom posts for the past few months? Oh, I think I was just reading more news.

I need to write and keep my mind off things as I'm quite annoyed with some of the things they say. Gotta wait and not talk when one is annoyed. You show emotion when arguing and no one listens to the argument, just the emotion. I'll have to formulate my debate and bring it forth at a later time. One things these people don't know... don't mess with me when I know what I'm talking about. I'm the mild mannered quiet girl when learning, but if I know what I'm talking about and know that I'm right... watch out! Anyway, I don't expect anyone to read this anyway. It just helps to send out to the wide world all the things I can't say allowed.

I've been gone for a while due to real life issues (buying a house and fixing it up is time consuming), but I had to make a bit of a mention on today's news...

( um, spoilers )

I know I've been absent from the online world for at least a month. Blame all the changes: buying a house, trying to get a new job, quitting nursery (okay, I haven't quite done that last one yet), but in any case, I just found out of the news, and surprisingly enough, I'm not really feeling that bad...

( surprised reaction )

25 days ago, I put in a bid for a house. I lost it... twice. Today, I signed a P&S to buy it. I'm buying a house. Eek, I'm buying a house!

So that house I wanted... turns out that it went back up for sale on Tuesday. The buyers backed out, but at least we found out what the problems were with it. The bank lowered their price even!

Thus, I was excited and went to see it again and planned on putting in a bid. However, someone offered cash for it. The bank went for the cash offer due to what happened the last time.

*sigh* And then in the next breath, the realtor said that the new owner was seeing if anyone would buy it at a certain price with the things mentioned fixed. Turns out, the price they were asking was a couple thousand more than my high bid earlier... but with the things that were bad fixed!

I now will have a new offer put in tomorrow morning with the new owner of the house who is just flipping it. This leaves just two worries... how many people are willing to do more than this guy's asking price... and... is the guy who bought it someone I don't want to have bought it? There's a particular flipper that on an unrelated note I ended up having to pay a whole lot of money in fines when I caught him doing something he wasn't supposed to (love gov't work). I'm really hoping it's not him.

Any case, as my co-worker keeps telling me... Inhale. Exhale. Repeat.

Someone else offered higher. Though mine will remain on the back burner if case the other falls through. Guess we wait for the next house I'll like!

Still no word on the house. Grrrrr. I've already uped my bid and provided my preapproval... but the bank hasn't made a decision yet. Stupid bank, just pick a person so I know whether or not I can buy it!

I've found the one I want. Bank owned. Priced right. I put in an offer. Now... we see if they'll take it. And if the home inspection comes back alright and the financing works out, though I'm not worried on the latter since I know what I can afford.

Oh my-lanta, I actually put in an offer! Both my sibs like it and have picked out rooms they would want. It has wood paneling in the bedroom that I like. It has a partly slanted roof. It's white with blue/green shutters (those would have to be changed to green). It has a pink kitchen (really has to be changed!!!) And built in shelves for a library/dining room! And I put in an offer for $15,000 less than my max, so that leaves wiggle room of money to help fix up those pesky paint issues.

Oh... and I forgot to mention, we figure out that the former owners were growing pot in a little locked room off the house! We informed the realtor about that one. *laugh*

Playing One on Hard as Base on Co-Career on Guitar Hero... hurts. I can't even type right! *crashes*