Rants, Recipes, and Running

36 house showings. 1 year. Probably 1,000 different homes viewed on Zillow, Trulia, and TARMLS 3 different realtors. 4 offers. Hours of looking through home magazines, perusing around Home Depot, touring model homes, watching HGTV to really pinpoint what we value in a home. And we have a winner, folks!!! As you may know, we've been in the process of a brutal house hunt for a few weeks. I kind of quit talking about it, since so much was changing. Everyone calls this a "buyers market". And yes, it is throughout the country. But I will say in the area we are looking it is a sellers market. Every house we placed an offer on, had at LEAST 4 other offers we were competing against. When I felt like giving up.... Our realtor called. A house we had wanted to look at back in July we chose NOT to look at because it was under CAPA. (it's a short sale). So we said "Let's not waste our time" Well, those buyers got antsy, and cancelled their co...

Some of the questions I ponder. Some of these questions have direct answers. Other's don't. 1) Why does my husband insist that in order to watch football.....it has to be accompanied by "football food". (meaning guacamole, chips, wings, beer). Is it not okay to watch a football game while having Tilapia and grilled veggies? 2) Who even invented "football food"? Next tailgating party, I'm showing up with a tofu and steamed broccoli. 3) Why does the "self check out" at the grocery store only have room 2 bags? What if I have an entire cart I'd like to "self check out". You shouldn't discriminate just because I'm anti-social and don't want to make small talk with a cashier.... 4) Why do plane tickets have to be so expensive? It would be so nice to just quick make a trip to Chicago to meet my niece/nephew who will be born today! (Okay...I kind of know the answer to this since I've seen the breakdown of a plane...

I want to take a quick pause today to remember September 11, 2001. It was a day that our lives were changed. Maybe there wasn't a grave and evident change your life saw that day  -- but from the moment those planes crashed into the World Trade Towers in NYC, NY:  our safety and freedom was compromised. Many lifes were lost that day. People who just going to work, going about their normal lives. The question of " why " cannot be explained. It's difficult for me to write about the event -- for there is so much that saddens me about 9/11/2001. But what I can say is that my heart aches for everyone who's lives were drastically effected by this event. My heart feels honor for the hero's who put their own lives at risk in order to save lives. And my heart feels proud for the US military who have deployed to dangerous areas of the world in order to fight and protect the freedom. God Bless America! :)