Squeak-Hope you have a WONDERFUL time in California!! Wouldn't it be great if ALL the alternachicks could crash his party? He'd NEVER live it down!! ("GEEZ, your mom and her friends are wilder than YOU are!!") But then he might try to out wild us...have to rethink this!!!

Ellis-I wondered how that was working!! Figured there had to be pros and cons to the move!!
I'm feeling GREAT!! Just wish that I didn't have to deal with all the mundane crap now that I'm home!!

Hannah-HI!! I once was here, but then was gone; am back as you can see.
(Think Amazing Grace)

Hi Den! I've not been around that much this summer, but in a few weeks I'll be back in full force.

I'm leaving town again tomorrow. This time it's a road trip. DBF and I are driving out to the East Coast for a Bar Mitzva. On the way we'll stop for a week at my dad's, a couple days at my mom's, a day at my g-ma's, a few days at historical Jamestown/Yorktown, a few days in Chincoteague, then finally a few days with my aunt and her family for the Bar Mitzva. The next day we'll drive all the way back here and start school again.

It is going to be so fun! I love road trips. We have eight books on tape and tons of CD's to listen to. Stuff like this is the reason we got a new car. Woo Hoo!

Yay! We got a mortgage! I talked to a real estate agent that comes highly recommended by two friends of mine and we meet with him on Sunday to discuss details!

I can't wait to start looking - I'm so excited!

Hope you all have a great weekend on your trips!

My dear Den, come and change places with me for a week and I will gladly take over your "mundane crap".

Hannah, have fun on your road trip! Don't EVER have children, because those days will be OVER!

Mauvais, I'm so excited for you!! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow!!

I'm looking forward to tomorrow too ellis!

Hannah, I really like your new avatar – it looks like you’re roughing it out in the wild! Hope you have a nice road trip.

mauvaisroux, congratulations on the mortgage! Good luck on the house-hunting too!

I don’t have anything exciting to report. I’m still not getting anything done – the weather is too nice and I’m spending all the time I can outdoors. Think it’ll rain tomorrow so maybe I get to organize books and stuff then.
Have good weekends everybody!

Thanks everyone! We are meeting with a real estate agent tomorrow to go over the house buying process and discuss what our need are. We need to have a place that will house DH and I and my parents plus our respective cats We are going looking for a duplex or a house with an in-law-suite.

mette- good for you! - Life is too short to be doing housework while the sun is shining- enjoy the good weather

mauvais, congrats on the mortgage.
just a quick run through hello. good morning getting ready to go grocery shopping. so i am here to check out the newly revamped fab food section,.
life has just been work, work, work. but i am not gaining weight. in fact i suspect i am still slowly losing. between the three scales at work and the one home scale not a one is the same as the other. lol so who knows what i really weigh. of course i will take the lowest. lol

How is work going Heather? Did your DH find anything permanent yet?

We walked around Chinatown this afternoon and found a couple of places for sale. On the way back we thought we would pick up some Chinese BBQ since this one place had a 2 item special dinner box. So we go in and DH orders and the woman starts piling on BBQ pig feet, beef belly an some other unidentifiable item - which is kind of freaking me out since I was looking at the a la carte menu which listed things like duck tonges, duck innards, beef innards etc. God only knows what is in our dinner boxes!

Moral of the story.....When in Chinatown ask questions BEFORE you order

Oh, well I will try some of it anyway- could be good, could be horrible, but if I don't try it I will never know

Oh, Mauvais!
(hey, as far as I'm concerned, ANYTHING is better than eating a Canada Goose!)

Yeah well we also bought steamed pork buns from Kowloon Market so I think I will be loading up on those instead

I am PREGNANT! I did it without the fertility drugs. Which I had already purchased but never started. Irronic. I guess I focus on maintaining and eatting healthy stuff.

WOW!! Lots of congratulations in order!!!

Mauvais-Have fun house hunting!!!

Flower-Congratulations on being pregnant!! If you HADN'T bought the fertility drugs you probably WOULDN'T be!! (The universe is really perverse sometimes!!!)

Ellis-I had the day from **** today. DS14 made up for being so calm and agreeable in the UK...ALL IN ONE DAY!!! (At least 2 weeks worth, plus a tad extra just for good measure!!!)

HI HANNAH, HEATHER, AND METTE!!

We are leaving for Guelph tomorrow. Just hope DS the younger shapes up or we may come back with one kid!!! (That's right Ellis, I'm going to mail him to YOU!!!)

Congratulations Flower!

Den- have fun in Guelph!

Mette, organizing books sounds heavenly. I've GOT to get a bookshelf made on our second floor landing. I've at least a thousand books sitting in boxes on the third floor waiting to be "organized".

Heather, it's good to hear from you! Sorry that life has been so busy lately.

Flower, congratulations! Take good care of yourself, sweetie!

Den, have fun in Guelph! Hey, I'll take your sons ANYDAY! At least one of them has got to be suitable to marry my DD.

Mauvais, it would be too cool if you got a house in my neighbourhood. I REALLY wish I'd bought that doormat yesterday.