Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Bursting at the seams!
And no, I ain't talking about my newly gained love handles :-P
I put this announcement off because Jeff and I wanted to be sure, absolutely sure of this before telling everybody else!
Jeff and I are going to be ....
HOME OWNERS!!!
(Hahaha, how many of you thought that was going to say parents?)
A few months ago, we started our house search because we were just tired of living in an apartment building and paying somebody else's mortgage. We looked at some townhomes in the town, Columbia, that we were dead set on. Jeff's parents sent us some links for new housing projects and we found one right next to Columbia in Elkridge that we decided to go look at.
These are new condominiums, that'll be done by December or January. We picked the one on the ground floor because we are tired of the 3rd floor and we also would like to blast our subwoofer without somebody downstairs coming up to tell us we're affecting their "quality of life." Seroiusly, that was said in a letter penned to us by the lady downstairs.
Ryan Homes just called me today to say our building will be started in 2 weeks and we get to meet the project manager on Wednesday. We are SO EXCITED!!! We are in the second condo building and we saw the foundation for it being put in. I can't wait now to follow our house beign built from beginning to end. We'll try to keep up a photologue of the process.
You can see the floor plan of the Hampton Court, which is what our building is called.
I put this announcement off because Jeff and I wanted to be sure, absolutely sure of this before telling everybody else!
Jeff and I are going to be ....
HOME OWNERS!!!
(Hahaha, how many of you thought that was going to say parents?)
A few months ago, we started our house search because we were just tired of living in an apartment building and paying somebody else's mortgage. We looked at some townhomes in the town, Columbia, that we were dead set on. Jeff's parents sent us some links for new housing projects and we found one right next to Columbia in Elkridge that we decided to go look at.
These are new condominiums, that'll be done by December or January. We picked the one on the ground floor because we are tired of the 3rd floor and we also would like to blast our subwoofer without somebody downstairs coming up to tell us we're affecting their "quality of life." Seroiusly, that was said in a letter penned to us by the lady downstairs.
Ryan Homes just called me today to say our building will be started in 2 weeks and we get to meet the project manager on Wednesday. We are SO EXCITED!!! We are in the second condo building and we saw the foundation for it being put in. I can't wait now to follow our house beign built from beginning to end. We'll try to keep up a photologue of the process.
You can see the floor plan of the Hampton Court, which is what our building is called.
Jeff's 31!
Jeff turned 31 on April 6th. We had a surprise party for him yesterday. Our friends from my work Dorrie and Anjuli offered to help decorate the place while I dragged him out to Best Buy. Dorrie's friend Elena and Anjuli's husband Mike helped them with getting the house ready. Drew, Phil and Ken from work were at the house too.
And, they were all playing the Wii when Jeff and I walked into out apartment. I wish I'd managed to take a picture of Jeff's face when everyone yelled "surprise!!" He later said he was scared at first.
I think Ken boxed the heck out of Phil:
Everyone was complaining of pains after the tennis doubles:
Group photos for when the cake came out (note the Pirates of the Caribbean tablecloth):
Apparently, the knife wasn't big enough for Jeff to cut the cake with:
Sunday, April 15, 2007
Jeff is a genius and Noor went linedancing
Yes, a weird combination of titles but that's waht it was last weekend.
Jeff was in Cupertino, CA for the first 2 weeks of April, training to be a MAC Genius. If you ever have or ever do walk into an Apple store, you'll notice a Genius bar. That's where he'll be from now on.
Y'know you're paranoid when you think somebody's trying to break into your apartment because your cat's just sitting there staring at the door. Even when you know the cat's not a very smart cat. The first night Jeff was gone, I probably slept a total of 3 hrs and that too in shifts. After that, it got a little easier. I only woke up every time the cat, the neighbors, somebody outside made a sound.
Where, hold your breaths, Noor and Olga joined us after a bit. We couldn't get Olga to leave her chair but Nate got Noor to show some moves. Jeff and Nate also showed some of their mad Bhangra skills they learned in India.
Jeff was in Cupertino, CA for the first 2 weeks of April, training to be a MAC Genius. If you ever have or ever do walk into an Apple store, you'll notice a Genius bar. That's where he'll be from now on.
Y'know you're paranoid when you think somebody's trying to break into your apartment because your cat's just sitting there staring at the door. Even when you know the cat's not a very smart cat. The first night Jeff was gone, I probably slept a total of 3 hrs and that too in shifts. After that, it got a little easier. I only woke up every time the cat, the neighbors, somebody outside made a sound.
But, in the middle of those 2 weeks, I went out to CA to visit Jeff and see the Apple campus. I got there Friday afternoon and we drove up to Davis to visit his sister and brother in law. We ate some really good Mexican food (I miss tghat here in Murrland). The next day, we drove back down and met up with Tim and Nate and had dinner at P. F. Changs.
I think we might be addicted to their Beef a la Sichuan and Kung Pao Scallops. I also love their plum wine.
Where, hold your breaths, Noor and Olga joined us after a bit. We couldn't get Olga to leave her chair but Nate got Noor to show some moves. Jeff and Nate also showed some of their mad Bhangra skills they learned in India.
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