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Monday Morning Musings

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Here’s what inspired me/made me smile over the weekend:

  1. Sunshine. I finally got to spend a day in the sunshine after working during the day for the past few weekends. Yeah, I still had to work in the evening, but my white, pasty body appreciated the Vitamin D from the sun.
  2. Getting closer to closing our deal on the house. Wednesday is THE day we find out FOR SURE that the place is ours. We’re excited!
  3. Cleaning out some of the clutter that we don’t need to keep when we move.
  4. Waking up next to the most amazing boyfriend ever after barely seeing him during the week. (He’s been working the early shirt to beat the heat and is usually in bed by the time I get home from the 2nd job around 10 p.m.)
  5. Bacon fried-rice. My specialty!
  6. Planning a camping trip for the weekend after the long weekend.
  7. Being with amazing people :)

What inspired YOU over the weekend?

Waiting for it to Settle

Posted in Growing Up, House Hunting, Kara and Kyle, When Anxiety Attacks by

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Ever since Kyle and learned that our house offer was accepted, I’ve had nothing but horrible anxiety. Usually, it’s crazy butterflies, but now … now it’s chest achiness. And it’s HORRIBLE. It feels like someone’s punched me in the gut and is pressing on my chest.

It almost feels like indigestion. But it’s all. the. time. I just want all of the paperwork to go through, have those keys in my hand and move it. But I can’t. I have to wait a month. We still have, what I can assume to be, piles of paperwork to go through.

Of course, I’m still crazy excited to have my own house, I just didn’t think the anxiety would be this bad. But, when you think about it, it makes sense. We’re signing our lives away for 35 years. We’ll be almost 60-years-old. I’m still waiting for that idea to settle in.

In the meantime, enter my giveaway, help me keep my mind off the craziness that is house buying and have a great weekend! For the first time in weeks, I don’t have to work all day Saturday. It better be sunny, because I want to rid myself of my pasty white skin!

What are you weekend plans?

I’m a Slacker

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I was feeling lazy/had a bad case of writer’s block last night and didn’t write up a blog post for today.  So, for today, I’m just going to pose to you this question, brought to you by Plinky.com.

“Describe the worst teacher you ever had.”

For me, university-wise, it’s a toss up between my 2nd year PoliSci prof. and one of my journalism teachers. The PoliSci prof. once made a girl cry (Melissa probably knows which teacher I’m talking about) and one of my journalism instructors was OBSESSED with apes and monkeys. (Melissa and Amber know who this is!)

That is all! I’d have something better for you, but I got called into work early and don’t have time to write anything good! In the meantime, keep your fingers crossed for me around 3:00p.m. because that’s when Kyle’s going to have the home inspection done on our new place. Once that’s done and approved, we’re good! Yay!

It’s almost the weekend! :D