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*

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.

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?

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.

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*

The wedding was great and I am exhausted. How do you people do this? Go out multiple nights? I didn't get home til after 22:00. That's two nights in a row!

*goes to sleep*

I kinda had one tonight. I actually went out. Didn't get home til after 21:00. Of course, because this is me who has no life, I actually went out with Matthias and Ashley (another coworker, who is fake dating Matthias. She decides whether they are dating or not. They break up and get back together multiple times a day.) along with a few others. We went to this Greek festival fundraiser type of thing. Very good lamb, I must say. *grin*

I'm really looking forward to tomorrow. It's finally Nikki's wedding. I'm thinking and hoping that it should be fun. I haven't gone to a wedding in quite a while, and definitely haven't had the chance to dance either. Anything I should know about in reference to going to a wedding for a coworker, so the only other people I'll know there is coworkers?

I quite like voting day. I've had civic duty drilled in to be since I was just a child, and especially since high school as I neared the age where that right and duty first presented itself. As I entered the polling and saw who I believe is my father's third cousin sitting at the desk, I approached and said "Future, Teska". I took my ballot, filled in my little ovals, and stuck it through the machine.

Now, I've helped to further the path to making a collected decision with thousands of others. I always had the mentality that those that do not participate remove themselves from the right to complain about what happens because of it. And thus, I have voted in very single election... federal, state, and local... since I turned 18.

This political season is turning out to be quite intriguing, I must say. While I'm fairly certain that my mind is made up at this point, I love reading the editorials in the paper discussing how candidates choices and speeches will make better or worse their campaign. I also love that my local papers allow for readers comments to be posted online. You get to see what actual people feel about it.

Hanna is certainly making things quite wet! Of course, my sister and I decided to go out and ended up getting quite wet. And stuck in traffic due to accidents. Come on, you can drive through a snow storm going 65 mph without blinking, but a bit of rain, and you're off the road.

I also discovered that I really need another storage compartment of some sort for my books. I've run out of room yet again. Thus, they are not looking as pretty as they once did. This annoys me. I like my books to look pretty on the shelves, and the shelves just won't hold them all. My mum suggested I put some of them in storage, but I can't do that... how will I be able to see them and grab them any time I want to reread passages or just look at how pretty them are on the shelves?!?! *sigh* I may be a bit obsessed with my books.

So.... I was wrong. I got to the eval and he was able to determine that one of my teeth was definitely dead. Very dead. It was the left maxillary first premolar to be exact. And a root canal had to be done. I asked how soon and if I could wait til January when I got more insurance money. He replied, "I don't think you'll last the weekend."

( cut for flist sake in case you don't want to hear about my experience )

This has been a very long day. Starting last night, my upper back teeth have been killing me. Off and on. Shooting pain, and then it stops. I ended up calling my dentist at lunch, and they wanted me in right away. They couldn't figure out what was wrong, so they sent me the root canal specialist (I can't remember what they're called).

He couldn't pinpoint it either, so I have to go back tomorrow morning for another eval. He did give me a prescription though. After some research (and finding out how much a root canal costs! My-lanta, I don't want one!), I'm thinking it isn't a real toothache. I think it's a sinus toothache. I get sinus pressure all the time, so I can totally see that happening. It hasn't even spiked in pain since this afternoon, just a dull one.

I'm thinking that I'm not gonna do a root canal tomorrow. Number one, even with co-pay with my insurance, it costs and arm and a leg; and second, I don't want a root canal if I and the doctor are not sure that it is caused by that.

I am currently on vacation yet again. Just for the weekend this time. I decided to go with my parents up to the North Country for Labor Day weekend.

And now, being the geeks that we are, my father and I have traveled to the local free library in which they have free wireless connectivity. The library itself is not open, but the wifi is available outside. So, I'm sitting in the car with the laptop while my father has his two setup in the backseat to search. Not surprisingly, my mother did not join us.

So far, it has been a productive weekend. I was finally able to get to the Army Barrack's store, which I can only find in the North Country and got a new bag. It's an army engineer's bag, so it doesn't look like a purse. 'cause I don't like looking like I'm holding a purse. Instead, my dad says it looks like a medic bag that's army green. I'm good with that. It's huge though. Definitely bigger than what I had before, so I'm gonna get made fun of at work again (since I also have an extra large L.L. Bean bag, which I take to and from work every day). Well, they may make fun of me, but they sure like it when it turns out that I have absolutely everything we could possible need, including snacks when they get hungry! *grin*

I also got a dress for Nikki's wedding. Nikki is the new name I am assigning to another one of my coworkers. We hit it off well working together as soon as she started. Which helped since I was the one that trained her. So, I think I have now mentioned Nikki, Matthias, and Shirley. Did I mention Shirley by name yet? Probably not. I've referred to her under a different name back when I was still calling Matthias, 'Promotion Boy'.

Anyways, Nikki is getting married in a couple of weeks, so a lot of us from the office are going to be there and thus I wanted a new dress, since all the people that I know there would have seen everything I have worn before. I don't know why, but I really wanted a new dress for it. So I think I have one.

Oh! And I got some more books! I went to what was rather like a flea market. Got two books for a buck a piece. Then went to this discount book warehouse store, where the new books were $2.99 or 4 for $10. Which meant I had to get four. *hehe* Now I have plenty to read tomorrow, even though I don't really have time. Tomorrow I plan on working on what I need to do for nursery since I will not actually be able to make it to church.

Well, that's about it. It seems so strange that I haven't really checked out livejournal for the past week. I feel so far behind. I'll definitely have to catch up soon since my shows start again. Starting Monday with Prison Break!

Today I realized that I'm not the same person I was five years ago when I graduated from college. I feel so much older, matured, don't care about the same things I did, wear dresses far more often, and have grown way more cynical, just to name a few.

I've also learned that the world truly takes on a different perspective and view when you wear three inch heels two days in a row. People are so much shorter, and one's feet hurt much longer. *grin*