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SOme people have inquired about what the pool will look like that is one day going to be across the street from our house. We walked over to the pool the other day and I snapped a couple pictures! This is the shade area in the pool area. This is what it looks like when...

I have found a new favorite font! I love it and want everything to be written in this font! It reminds me of the way I write. I would love to get my blog posts to write with it. I may be the only one that will be able to see it, but I'll be...

So last time I wrote about the house next door they had poured the foundation for the house. Since then, they have taken off the molds and insulated some of the walls. If you have finished a basement before, you will know that you need to put up wall studs and then insulate the walls....

After lunch today we stopped to get a tasty treat at DQ. That's what you do on Friday's right? I love getting a twist cone (because I too full after lunch for a blizzard) and today they had chocolate and vanilla, but in different machines. So this is how they made it for me. 🙂...

It's time for an update on the house being built next door. After they popured the footings for the house they filled it in with “class 5” (I think that's what Chuck said it was called) AKA rocks. Then one night a big truck came by and dropped off the forms to pour the foundation....

Nothing in particular has gone wrong or been bad today, but it hasn't been good either. Do you have those days where things bother you more than normal and the littlest things set you off? For me, today is one of those days. I don't feel cranky, but when I get asked how to do...

I have been busy lately with my Calculus class. It appears I am a bit out of practice in the area of math! So I am spending every waking moment on it. Thankfully I live with the best tutor! 🙂 So I'll get around to making a longer entry soon. I have to do an...

They have started building the house next door to us. There is one partially finished two houses down, but on Tuesday (5/26/09) they started digging out the house that will be next door. I saw at the model which house will go there and I am so excited to watch its progress. Plus, I am...

“SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES. THEY'RE NOT REALLY GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE STAIRS.” –author unknown

I realized I was writing a lot of things on here about various products I have received/bought and wanted a better way to search for them. So I made a new Products category on the right side of my site. It's under Books and Food. I also added slightly better descriptions to them. This way...

I have a Swiffer Wet Jet that I used a lot in our first house with all the hard floors. In our second place we had mostly carpet and just a couple hard floor areas, so it didn't get much attention. (Plus, I really shouldn't spray wet things onto my hardwood floors.) Now that I...

I love D*Brian's. I love their soups. My old favorite used to be Loaded Baked Potato. Until I tried the Spicy Chicken Tortilla! YUM! I could eat this stuff every day! And, it's only 230 calories for a bowl! You can't go wrong! If you have never been to D*Brian's…Go! If you haven't been there...

My fortune cookie today said “Fear is just excitement in need of an attitude adjustment”! I love it!

Three years ago we planted this adorable little flowering crab apple tree at our house…the old house. This little bugger WOULD NOT flower. I think the first year we planted it I maybe saw two flowers, but now I can't remember. The following season…NOTHING. I was going to be so upset if that darn tree...

Ok, well, I'm not as much of a trekkie as some of the people that were at the movie with us, but still! I love Star Trek! We went to the Imax (which isn't too far from our new house) last night and saw it. I had never been to the Imax before. That was...

Many people have asked about the new house and how moving went. So I thought I should write about it. Friday Friday went well. We had the trailer and cars mostly packed Thursday night except for some clothes we were putting in at the last minute. So we jammed as much as we could in...

I looked online today to check my application status and saw that I was accepted to the University of Minnesota! Yay! I know what I am doing tonight…having a celebration drink starting my Calculus class! 🙂

This is the second book in the “Shopaholic” series. They are really cute books. There's always something dramatic that happens to the main character that then gets resolved by the end of the book. It astounds me that one person can get themselves into so much trouble! Then again, it is just a story, so...

I was thinking about the song Closing Time by Semisonic when I wrote the title to this post. Today is the big day. We close on the old house at 11 and have until 11 tomorrow to be out. At 3:15 today we close on the new house. And we're bringing a full suburban/trailer/jetta load...

I was at a jewelry party at Katie's this past weekend and she had these adorable cupcakes! A friend of hers made them for the party. They are made out of french vanilla cake mix, the white is white chocolate and the yellow and green are frosting. And they yellow part has glitter on them....