I want to post some lyrics, so I gotta come up with a blog post to go along with it…
I just had dinner at Plucker’s with Al:
Good times as usual. Thanks, Al!
In other news, I need to replace my roof after the hail storm a while or whatever ago. Thankfully, that’s what insurance is for! It actually works out pretty well, since I’d probably need to replace it in a few years anyways. Should I look into getting a metal roof? 
I likely would have figured this out a while ago had a solicitor not assumed I was an adolescent child, which made me not listen to her at all. Anyways, inspector said it was pretty scratched up but I didn’t have any immediate risk of leaks or anything, so I’ll get around to getting that done soon.
I’m prepping to get some other contract work done on my house, like removing a wall or two and tiling some floor. I’ll post pics when that happens (maybe even this coming week)!
“I’m lying alone with my head on the phone
Thinking of you till it hurts
I know you hurt too but what else can we do
Tormented and torn apart
I wish I could carry your smile and my heart
For times when my life feels so low
It would make me believe what tomorrow could bring
When today doesn’t really know, doesn’t really know” -Air Supply
I think I’m going to start titling all my weekend posts with “The ____ one.” Sounds like a TV series episode naming scheme. 
This weekend was very much dominated by me listening to music at my house, sleeping, waking up with random website ideas, and then throwing together what you see here now. I’d call that a productive weekend. On Sunday night, Chad, Nancy, Ochs, Sam and I watched the first few episodes of season two of Weeds. I also managed to make my way to Town Lake and ran and kayaked a mile-ish.
I bought a water hose and stuff to give my lawn some loving, but never actually put it to use… well… maybe tomorrow…
I also printed out a bunch of photos and put them on my wall with magnetic photo rope I purchased from Photojojo:
“Maybe I’m wrong, won’t you tell me if I’m coming on too strong
This heart of mine has been hurt before, this time I wanna be sure
I’ve been waiting for a girl like you to come into my life
I’ve been waiting for a girl like you, your loving will survive
I’ve been waiting for someone new to make me feel alive
Yeah, waiting for a girl like you to come into my life” – Foreigner
So I’ve had one of those Citi credit cards that give you cash back ever since 2005. Apparently, I’ve never actually claimed the cash back that I’ve earned throughout these four-ish years. I logged in to my account recently and noticed that I had accumulated over $600 that was just waiting for me to press a button to claim.
Haha… so I went ahead and did that. That, combined with the extra $500 from the new First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit is going to go a long way in me actually getting a washer/dryer… now I just need to wade through a ton of reviews to actually find one…
“It’s gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There’s nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had” – Toto
My family’s always filled the garage with… things not cars, so my new house was pretty much the first time that I’ve actually used a garage for my car. I drove from my apartment to the house in pretty heavy rain today and man… having a garage is awesome.
In other news, I also got my sectional in today. Yay! Lost at my place tomorrow?
Updated checklist:
“Oh mama I’m in fear for my life
From the long arm of the law
Lawman has put an end to my running
And I’m so far from my home
Oh mama I can hear you a crying
You’re so scared and all alone
Hangman is coming down from the gallows
And I don’t have very long” -Styx
Tomorrow, I have my final walk-through of my soon-to-be-house before closing. I’ll bring my camera and film some. Will post on YouTube!
Earlier today, I went to Denny’s with Carolee, Eric, Heather, and Tiff and we had our free Grand Slam breakfast. Woo! I then worked worked worked and prevented disaster here and there. I still can’t find my gate card, so Andrew has to let me in to the apartment. I will be leaving him soon. Poor Andrew.
In other news, Sam has a girly “satchel” that he keeps the following in:
- keys
- phone
- fashionable pocket mirror
- vial of blood he jacked from work
- “the pill”
- a rubber bouncy ball
- a scrunchie
- herpes cream
In response to this discovery, he claims he was just being nice and carrying the herpes cream for Ochs and the bouncy ball “just fell in there” somehow. Uh huh…
I’m going to pick back up something I used to do and end my posts with parts of songs now. To the following, I dedicate to Mark who watched much more of this Avril concert with me than we should’ve. I confess I am drawn to horrible TV.
“I can see the way
I see the way
You look at me
And even when you look away
I know you think of me
I know you talk about me all the time
Again and again (and again, and again, and again…)
(So)So come over here
Tell me what I wanna hear
Better yet, make the girlfriend disappear
I don’t wanna hear you say her name
Ever again (And again and again and again…)
Cause
She’s like so whatever
And you can do so much better
I think we should get together now
And that’s what everyone’s talking about!” -Avril Lavigne
Man, that song is so horrible but so awesome in a terrible terrible way too… it’s hard for me to express the mixture of horror and awesome that is the line “she’s like so whatever.”
No, not that House. Three/four more days until I own a home (or rather, start paying a bank for it)!
It’s a bit crazy seeing my living expenses sky-rocket, but at least a chunk of it isn’t going completely to waste.
New house checklist (phase 1):
Anyone want to live with me for a while? =p
