Me, I’m very exciting these days.
It’s Thursday night and I’m just now getting around to watching the Academy Awards. Wait, let me set the stage first: the Dork Lord is at school tonight, so I’m standing barefoot in the kitchen, my hair pulled up in a post-exercise sweaty knot, and I’m hovering over the counter eating rotisserie chicken off the bone. Glam-or-ous. In a perfect world, “I Feel Pretty” would be playing somewhere in the background.
And so pretty, that I hardly can believe I’m real!
I was going to go on about how the Academy Awards – which even as an adult, I watch primarily only for the dresses – is on the tube and about how I’m feeling so uncomfortable for the hosts, yadda yadda, but this stuff is days old. You already know. Because you watched it when it actually happened. It probably doesn’t get old to hear that Colin Firth is scrumptious, so I feel okay putting that out there.
Guys, I wish I had something riveting to tell you. You know, besides that I did fifteen whole push ups this morning – something I was pretty proud of until I told the Boy and he said, “Real push ups or on your knees?”
“Well, dammit. On my knees.”
Who decided those aren’t real? Considering I’m finding it difficult to wash my own hair after ten or so, that’s real enough for me, thank you.
The house news is that… there’s no news. The appraisal supposedly happened on Tuesday but all’s quiet on that front (is this normal?), so we wait and in the meantime, I have very vivid dreams about mistakes in paint colors. I feel like I should put up an Out of Order sign on the blog until something actually happens, until I actually have something to say other than, Nothing to see here! Otherwise, we’re left wrapping up here by covering my unreasonably elevated excitement over getting a haircut tomorrow.
Told you. EXCITING.
Please don’t break up with me. I’ll put away the chicken.
Oh, I hear you! Yes, it’s totally normal for the appraisal to take more than a few days. It took us from Thursday to at least Monday or so.
They have to come up with comps, etc. It’s really interesting to look at the houses they’ve compared. Our agent gave us the MLS listings so we could review them even closer — one was a house that I wanted but didn’t think we could afford.
I ended up emailing our lender and she worked some magic to get it emailed to me. (The one on my dad’s house took a week.)
I’m not worried about mistakes in paint colors – we (umm, I mean E) can always repaint if it’s not right. I can’t wait for you to regale us with paint colors!
My countdown — next Wednesday we sign the papers and Friday we get the keys. 29 days, start to finish. Oh. My.
Congratulations on the push ups (they’re real) and the flossing!
I love that you are in the kitchen eating the chicken off the bone. Also, since I couldn’t watch the Awards, I watched Joan Rivers make fun of the dresses. Got the same feeling but in half the time! I’m very busy doing nothing over here….
Why does the “n” disappear from word when it becomes dammit, who knows? When it comes to the appraisal, no news is good news. If it appraised for too little, you’d be hearing from your lender. Mistakes in paint colors are no biggie; you just paint again!
This is why I don’t break up with you. Because the snippets you give of your life are honest and real. You’re very easy to relate to.
Don’t be silly! We wouldn’t leave just because of a little downtime – we stayed through the ivillage days, didn’t we? =)
I’m trying to decide on a few paint colors myself. The previous owners did a great job on the kitchen [cider toddy!], living room, and dining room, but left the bedrooms and office very blahhh.
Mmm, Colin Firth. I’ve loved him since “I like you, just as you are.”
I also do “girl” pushups — 10 to 12 a night. With each “up,” I tighten my entire ab area so that my back arches, and I hold it for 2-3 seconds. I’ve been doing it for about 3 weeks & guess what? Tighter tummy. So *pfft* to the Dork. They’re real!
I think after a month of break-ins, funerals, house drama, and no sleep…nothing to see and eating chicken over the sink is AWESOME. Sometimes a little bit of boring is just what the doctor ordered.
Oh, and the push-ups were SO real!
Pushups on your knees are totally real pushups as long as you use full range of motion.
Ask him if you can do camel pose…
Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. were fabulous when they presented. They have my vote to host next year. And Sandra Bullock, just lovely. After all she has been through since the last Oscars she is just grace and dignity.
Regarding the pushups… boys have a different center of balance (center of gravity? I don’t remember what it was called – 8th grade science was a really long time ago.) Than girls. Theirs is in their shoulders and ours is in our waist. Which is why it is easier for them to do pushups. We did this exercise in science class where we stood in front of a wall with a chair in front of us, bent at the waist and put the top of our head against the wall forming our bodies into an upside down L and then tried to pick up the chair. All of the girls could pick the chairs up but the boys couldn’t. Those were some unhappy boys!
Anyway, my point is – pushups on your knees are still pushups! I just started The Biggest Loser yoga and the pushups are about to kill me!
When thinking paint colors, check out this blog… http://colourmehappyblog.blogspot.com/
She has a great eye for color and lots of good advice.
Puhleese…ANY push-up is a real push-up, in my book.
The entire house-buying process is a long one…patience is learned.
I’m getting a haircut tomorrow too! And I’m excited! Can you tell!!??
Go ahead, then, and be excited for yours’.:)
You crack me up! Sometimes life is just life – Nothing exciting to talk about and that’t that. And I think no news is good news seeing as you have had WAY too much news lately to deal with on your end. Sit back and relax and take it all in because once that house is actually yours, you won’t be sitting at all! Take a load off, kid.
For you, excitement lately = burglary and other shenanagins. So I think “nothing to see here” is actually a very good thing.
My trainer says on your knees pushups for women aren’t “cheating.” He says women just don’t have the natural upper body strength that men do. So your pushups – totally REAL.
I cant’ break up with you because we agree on Colin Firth’s scrumptiousness…And Elliot Stabler’s.
One more thing about buying a house (that we learned the hard way): Look at the drainage. Does (or would) water and snow melt flow down and away from the house? How does the landscaping look in that regard? Sometimes you don’t find out until you experience your first heavy rain.
The former owner of our house, as we found out after the fact, ripped out landscaping timbers so the pretty white picket fence in the backyard would be straight and flat. Straight and flat isn’t good for drainage, so after a big snow melt and a lot of spring rain, we had a lagoon in the back yard. It cost us A LOT in landscaping, French drains, dry wells, etc. Oh, and that white picket fence? He painted it without using primer on the wood.
Sorry, it’s raining, here, and I’m venting while trying to be helpful.
When you are under contract on a home, having nothing exciting to report is EXACTLY what you want!
Not to worry about the paint colors – we are almost at our 1 year house-i-versary. We have painted almost every room now, some more than once. Houses are always a work in progress and I quickly learned not to be a perfectionist!
I’m just excited that you’re excited.
And for a Monday morning, that’s a pretty darn good feelin’! Thank you!
I know it’s a terribly uninspired blog post, but it would be fun if you did this:
http://megandyanray.blogspot.com/2011/03/sometimes-i-write-with-pen-too.html
You share a lot already, this is just another fun little way
I just got your thank you note. And while it’s weird to thank someone for a thank you note, it was so cool to get, and the card was so fabulous, I wanted to anyway! So thanks for the thank you note! Also – you have AWESOME penmanship.
Thank you! You must have gotten one of the first ones, because I’m pretty sure that after 50 or so, my penmanship got a leeetle sloppy.
To those who haven’t gotten one yet – they’re coming! I just put about 30 in the mail this morning and I have another 20 or so to go.
One of my favorite movie scenes ever is when Diane Lane’s character chews out the butcher in “Must Love Dogs”:
“Look, listen to me, mister…
I eat alone,
usually standing over the sink,
I don’t want chicken
hanging around, okay?”
It’s just so real, and so are you, and that’s why we’ll stick with you, girl. Best on the home purchase (and congrats)-