Aaaauugh! I mean… Happy Birthday!
So... first off. Happy birthday to my wife. She's another year older and doing well. We went out to Macaroni Grill for her birthday dinner. We both got Fettuccine Alfredo, mine with chicken and hers with shrimp. Delicious all around. Came home from that and her presents had arrived in the mail today. So, hoorah! She got a CamelBak drinking container with straw, a case for her new iPod Nano, and some breast-feeding friendly pajamas. All things she wanted and I think she was happy with them.
After getting home and opening gifts, Chelsea decided to wash Olive's bedding. Olive is our dog, so her bedding can get rather stinky. Part of her bedding is a fairly large pillow. Chelsea put this in the wash as usual. Except this time the washing machine decided it wasn't 'as usual'. Jerk. So, I'm in the bathroom when all of a sudden I hear, 'Jonathan! Water is dripping from the ceiling in the living room!' Oh joy... The pillow had gotten stuck against the top of the washer and started forcing water out of the washer. So, after pulling both the washer and dryer out from the closet and drying/mopping up the water, I'm sitting here 45 minutes later writing this blog.
But, I think things are back to normal. We'll have to check the ceiling tomorrow after it dries to see if it needs any immediate repair. I hope not, because that would be a pain. Anyways...
Happy Birthday to you, Chelsea! And it can't get any worse than this evening's episode.
House Hunting
The house hunting continues. We went for a second visit to our top two houses at this point. We arrived with 4 (+2) others in tow. While the munchkins ran around we had another look around Wickersham. The multiple eyes really helped out and now Wickersham is off our list. It's small, which we knew, and has some other flaws we didn't notice beforehand. Some rough ceiling work, little to no room lights, and price/sqft. So, it was a good trip and a disappointing trip.
We then headed over to a house on Emmit. This house fared better than Wickersham. It's still a small house, but feels bigger. Chelsea is a bigger fan of it than I am. She loves the open living room and the garden tub and skylight in the bathroom. We both dislike the kitchen. So, while it fared better, it didn't come out unscathed.
So, we're down one option and not 100% sold on another. We just finished looking through a few more suggestions and searched for a few more. We'll hopefully go look at another round of 11 houses this Saturday. We may ask the family that's available to tag along if they want. We shall see.
So, while it was a slightly disappointing night, Chelsea and I appreciate all of the input. This is our first house, so I think we're sometimes shell shocked the first time we see a house. We're like, 'We can afford to buy this!?' and we may overlook some flaws initially. The second round and new eyes helps out a bunch.
We'll keep you informed as the search continues.
Again!? So Soon!?
Look at this! I'm updating again! It's almost like this might be a real blog!
So, things are going pretty well here in our little world. We've got multiple things on our plate right now:
1. Baby B
Chelsea is currently pregnant. Has been for about 33 weeks. She's doing well, I think. She still gets sick occasionally, has terrible heartburn, and can be quite pathetic at times. But, I love her and I'm proud of her for doing so well.
2. House Hunting
We are currently in the process of procuring a house. We've looked at 12 so far. 1 or 2 have gone under contract since we looked at them. 2-3 were completely not what we were looking for. And 3-4 are currently vying for love. We'll be going tomorrow night to re-visit a few of these. Adrian, Abby, Amy, and Josh will be accompanying us to give us their insight as to what is wrong with all of the houses.
3. Work, Work, Work
I've been working for Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. for the last year and half (about). It's been good. They're a civil engineering firm and I work in their Firmwide IS department. Luckily for me, unlike most IS, I tend to do little technical support. A majority of my work is coding websites to facilitate the workflows/processes for the rest of the firm. I just recently completed an online version of our Career Development Review, our annual job review. It's pretty awesome, if I do say so myself. I'm enjoying the work I do and they treat me well. Can't ask for much more.
4. School
Chelsea is still in school. Surprise, surprise. I swear she's never going to leave. She claims she will in 2012, but we'll have to wait and see. She's learning School Psych stuff and helping in the clinic. These keep her pretty busy. I don't know how she does everything.
There's the rundown of current affairs for us. We're still here, alive and breathing. Most of you will know this from Chelsea's blog, but now I'll be adding a slightly different perspective on things. I'll also probably discuss other things, like video games. So, occasionally you may find something that bores you, but greatly interests me.
Enjoy my new blog!
Welcome Back!
Well, I'm back... sort of. I gave up on creating my own blog because, frankly, I didn't take the time to do it (work, family, and video games take up too much of my time). So, here's WordPress. A quick and easy solution to your self-hosted blogging needs. For a while it will look very bland. I need to learn how to modify the style of the pages so I can make it my own. Until then I may mess with a few of the settings here and there, switch out some pre-made templates, and mess around with the sidebar to the right. So, this page will be in a state of flux, but hopefully you'll see me posting here more often than I used to.
Anyways, just got this setup and though it would look silly without some sort of new greeting post. Talk to you in the near future and we'll see how things go.
I Said What?
- @Lucky_ksu Same here. We'll have to give co-op a try sometime. 2012-02-02
- Gideon Oliver has been born. Photos to come. 2012-02-01
- @grogg but then how will we ever inhabit another planet and ruin its ecology!? 2011-07-09
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