Preparing for 2012

As we approach the new year I can't help but think about the things I should have done this year and what I want to do next year. I have so many plans for 2012 I hope that I am able to get them all done. Here is a brief list of what I hope to accomplish in 2012.

Athletics:
Run a half marathon (hopefully more than one)
Run a full marathon with Team in Training
Run a Ragnar Relay
Race an Olympic Distance Triathlon

Adventures:
Colorado motorcycle riding trip with my mom
Learn to Surf

Home life:
Keep my house clean and organized
Entertain at home a minimum of 8 times
Cook at least 3 nights a week
Start an herb garden

Professional:
Get a Per Diem job
Begin bachelors in nursing program at CSUF
Get my CEN

Miscellaneous:
Complete my wedding and honeymoon scrapbooks

I hope you will join me as I attempt to accomplish these things in the upcoming year. I will do my best to post about them as I accomplish them.

Its been a while

Well its been a short bit since I have updated the blog here. So update on the house for the moment, my future brother in law has been busy scraping the popcorn ceilings before my fiance moves in. We found out fortunately that the ceiling is not asbestos which is a great relief. Jon and I have been working in the yard digging up the flower beds, sifting the dirt, and putting in new flowers and fertilizer. We have discovered that using the kitchen sink causes the bathtub to back up so we are going to see what we can do to fix that. Jon has a lime tree planted in the back yard and pepper plants in a planter box on the side of the house. Our peach tree is starting to produce peaches which are tasty but a bit firm, once the tree stops dropping fruit we are going to move it from the planter it is in right now so that it won't outgrow the planter. I still haven't really done anything about the wedding but am trying to set up my appointment to sign contracts. I also really need to get back to triathlon training because I am so unprepared and I really want to do the race in September. So I will keep you posted on all these things.

Its official

Well we are officially home owners. We got the call from our agent at about 4:30 this afternoon stating that we are now the owners of a home. My fiance picked up the keys so we shall be heading down first thing tomorrow morning to get to work. It's kind of confusing to figure out what we should do first. Look for appliances (we need a fridge, a washer, and a dryer)? Start cleaning? Start thinking about what colors to paint the rooms? So yeah I have no idea what I am going to do tomorrow but I am sure I will figure something out. I shall be posting pictures soon!

Final walk through

So today we did the final walk through of the house. If everything goes according to plan we will be getting keys tomorrow. We were reassured by our agent that its not just that we are noobs and don't know what we are doing that caused yesterdays document signing to be so stressful. According to our agent the escrow company are really not doing a good job of getting things together and telling us information about wireless routing and stuff that we should know. So the walk through went well the appliances are installed, there are new smoke detectors, a new heater, the kitchen door is fixed, so yeah, basically its ready to move in. So its looking like we are going to spend the Fourth of July weekend celebrating in the independence of our own house. We are planning to go appliance shopping this weekend, we need a refrigerator! We might not starting moving in much stuff until after we get the feelings scraped because we have popcorn ceilings. We might move a little bit of kitchen stuff in though (the kitchen doesn't have popcorn ceilings. I also went and picked up a bunch of cleaning stuff (murphy's oil soap, bleach, simple green, windex, rags) so that we can start cleaning the kitchen and bathrooms if nothing else. I also want to paint the kitchen, every room of the house is the same beige color, I don't want a beige kitchen. I think I am going to just paint the kitchen white. So yeah super excited about getting the house. So yay maybe even tomorrow night we can be sitting on the bare floor of our own house sipping champagne celebrating having our very own house (I am actually hoping to kind do some sort of celebrating especially considering we didn't really do anything when we got engaged cuz we had to drive home so I could go to work)

Well hopefully tomorrow I will be posting pictures of us with the keys to our new house!

Almost a homeowner

So it appears that we are going to be closing a week early on the house. Meaning we are going to be closing this Friday!. EEEKK I am super excited! I am really glad because that means our first weekend of being homeowners I will not be at work (which would have been the case the following weekend). Tomorrow we are going to do the final walk through of the house with our agent, then go to escrow to begin signing the millions of pages of documents. We are hopefully going then take keys on Friday. There is so much to think about... utilities, trash service, finding a refrigerator, all kinds of other crazy stuff like air conditioning and getting the ceiling scraped, quite a lot to think about. Plus I really should start doing something about having a wedding next year, which I really have not done a lot towards getting anything done.

Well much to be done, off to bed for a good night's sleep to be ready to tackle the busy days ahead.

Random Stuff

So have been doing a lot of thinking about all kinds of stuff lately (6 hour car ride each way to and from Sacramento gives you time to think) I suppose funerals have a way of making you think about your life and who you want to be so I have done a little thinking about who I want to be have come up with this:

The Woman I Want To Be

Wife:
I want to be a wife that respects and honors her husband, who does not belittle him, who's opinion he respects, who's cooking he adores, who does nice things him just because she loves him not because she wants something, who keeps her home in order and good repair, to be the helper God created her to be, who takes care of him when he is sick, the person he prays with, to be goofy and have fun with him,

Mother:
Someday I want to be the mother of children, to teach them respect and manners, to lead them towards God but allow them to make their own choice, to cook for them and teach them how to cook, to help them with school work, to teach them skills for life, to teach them the value of hard work, to teach them responsibility for their actions, to make Halloween costumes for them, to take them on family vacations to see interesting places and learn new things,

Adventurer:
I want to take on new challenges, try new things, learn to ride my motorcycle better, rock climb, river raft, explore many places, try new food to cook and eat, learn to surf, race triathlons (maybe someday even an ironman)

Artist:
I want to create beautiful things, I want to be able to make my own dresses and other clothes, I want to use my talents to make gifts to give to people I love, to glorify God through art,

Christian:
I want to be baptized, I want to pray to God daily, in private and before meals with my family, I want to pray together with my husband, I want to read the Bible daily as a way to better understand God's work and to use it in my life...

So yeah still a work in progress but where I am at for the moment.

In other news I have figured out roughly when escrow should close which should be close to the middle of July, so yeah that sounds about right really, give us some time to get a few things in order, then take possession of the house, and get started on working on it.

I worked on cleaning up my storage unit today, preparing to move. I sold my bunk beds, started a pile of stuff to sell in a yard sale, put like items together so I can put them in the house when we get it. I still have a bunch of stuff to sort through but I will get to that soon. I am at least in a mood to pitch things which helps when trying to clean things up.

Not much to report in the wedding planning at the moment, its kinda on hold due to going out of town for the funeral and with all the house buying madness

Think thats about it for now, sorry for the long post.

Endless Paperwork

Ok there are piles of paperwork concerning the house that I am trying to read through and most of it is just mumbo jumbo.

However I am at least pleased that we are making progress towards getting the house. I can't wait to be able to have a place free of crying children, my own kitchen, and my own space.

We finally picked a date and a location for the wedding. I am reviewing the contract for the location before I sign. Then at least we get to think about all the fun little details of the wedding.

Today I am off to get a quote on home owners insurance and pack because we are going to dirt bike school this weekend. That and pay my endless parking tickets, I really can't wait to move so I can have a place to park my car that won't earn me tickets every other day. Alright off to do my errands, see you all soon.