Getting to know you

I'm bored, got this from a friends blog.

1. What is your occupation right now? Homemaker/Homeschooler.

2. What color are your socks right now? Not wearing any.

3. What are you listening to right now. Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss(movie)

4. What is the last thing you ate? A couple of saltines.

5. Can you drive a stick shift? No.

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Jason.

7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes! She has a wonderful, inspiring blog.

8. How old are you today? 23

9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? None.

10. What is your favorite drink? Sweetend ice tea. I'm not much of a alcohol drinker, but when I do drink I like straight up Vodka, double shot normally.

11. Have you ever dyed your hair? Yes, I put blonde streaks in it once but I hated that look. And, I dyed my hair a dark brownish red around the time I got pregnant with Pete, but it made me look washed out so I got rid of it after a few months.

12. Favorite food? Dark chocolate.

13. What is the last movie you watched? The mummy, last Saturday.

14. Favorite day of the year? Easter.

15. How do you vent anger? I take a long walk/drive while listening to my favorite "angry music".

16. What was your favorite toy as a child? My unicorns, and barbie's.

17. What is your favorite season? Spring.

18. Cherries or Blueberries? Blueberries. It's too much of a struggle to depit cherries.

19. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back?

20. Who is the most likely to respond?

21. Who is least likely to respond?

22. Living arrangements? 2bed/1bath/den apartment that we grew out of quite a while ago.

23. When was the last time you cried? Monday afternoon.

24. What is on the floor of your closet? Jason's clothes, and some shoes.

25. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? Maggie.

26. What did you do last night? Cleaned, got kid's to bed, scrapped, and got to bed myself.

27. What are you most afraid of? The unknown.

28. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? Cheese, please.

29. Favorite dog breed? Basset hounds.

30. Favorite day of the week? Friday.

31. How many states have you lived in? NY, NC, and VA.

32. Diamonds or pearls? Depends on the occasion, and the piece of jewelery.

33. What is your favorite flower? Lilacs, Lily of the valley, Casablanca Lillies

34. Favorite Hobby? Reading, driving, scrapping, crocheting. No particular order there.

35. Have you ever tried singing Karaoke? Not unless I was so drunk at the time that I don't remember it.

What we're reading this week

Cath and I are reading "Charlotte's Web" at nighttime to get her used to chapter books with not too many pictures, and she is loving this book! I have been very surprised by how attentively she is listening to this book while I'm reading.



Both kid's are reading "Goodnight Moon" with me this week. We will be talking about the different phases of the moon, planets, clocks/telling time, memorizing "Hey diddle diddle", and reading "Goldilocks and the three bears" as a supplement.

Now for my reading list:
We can all use some help with our budget sometime, especially when trying to buy a house!
















And here's the new picture if me:

Waiting....

I've been wanting to post all week, but I only really have one issue on my mind lately, getting a mortgage for a house. We have turned in all our needed info to the mortgage broker, and now we have a 2wk wait until we hear back from the lenders. And, apparently a VA Loan doesn't always mean a guaranteed mortgage like we thought, especially not in this economy! I feel so stupid for letting people know that we may be buying a house, now if we don't get the mortgage having to explain to them why we're all of a sudden not buying will be adding insult to injury. I'm tryting to stay positive, but am of course extremely nervous/anxious and driving everyone nuts with this issue.

We took a break this week. Everyone was sick at some point this week, and I wasn't feeling too motivated so we stayed home and did nothing all week. We'll get back into the swing of things sometime next week, probably after the holiday/inauguration mess is all done.

And, my last bit of news. my hair is now short again. I'm sure that comes as no suprise to most as I love short hair and I also change my hair at least a few times a year. Long hair bores me, and I've never looked that great with even medium/chin legth or so hair, so I may have to stick to just short for a while now. I love my hasirstyle now, pictures will come when Jason wakes as I'm horrid with cameras... my only issue with it is now I look identical to my dad! It's always something....

Car troubles...buying a house... shoes?

We haven't heard back from our car insurance guy whether the man Jason grazed with the car will settle or sue, obviously we hope he will settle. Everyone is in agreement that he was in the wrong so if he decided to sue it really wouldn't amount to much more than a major annoyance, and those lovely legal fees. But, that wasn't the end of our car troubles last week, I ended up popping 2 tires while trying to avoid a pothole! Of course, even if I knew how to change a tire it wouldn't have helped me here since I only had 1 spare, albeit a full size spare not a donut. We had to be towed to the nearest car dealership, and bought 2 new tires and got the alignment checked out. The other 2 tires we'll replace next month, the downside of having a AWD car is when 1 tire goes they all must go, joy.

Our lease will finally be up at this horrid apartment in June, so we have decided to buy a house, finally!! I have been bugging Jason badly about this for a while and he's finally caved, we should be applying for a VA Loan in the next few days. Until then I'm having quite a bit of fun house hunting online while kid's nap, I already have a list of potential dream homes I bug Jason about quite frequently. I'm actually in shock that we can buy a single family home in Woodbridge/Manassas area for around $200-250,000, I never thought I'd see that!

Cath's shoe saga is finally over, she got new shoes over the weekend! As most of you probably remember she has held on to her favorite shoes for months now and refused any other shoes, shopping trips for shoes... Finally when my mom was here we took her shopping and I explained she must get new shoes because someone else needed her old shoes, she got extremely upset with me but reluctantly picked out a new pair when Jason bribed her with ice cream. Now she has a shiny new set of brown Mary Jane's with butterflies on them, and I'm seriously dreading having to relive this again 6mos or so from now.