Haiku Friday - The recap

Tuesday night snow storm
Caused a Wednesday snow day
Two inches of ice

layered with some snow
I just called off work, he, he.
Did homework and cleaned.

Still bad out today,
Messy roads, car accidents
plague my drive to work.

No word on the house
but maybe later today.
I must be patient.

Super Bowl Weekend
Can't wait to see Pittsburgh win.
First team with six rings!!!!!

Still no word on the house. Because the weather was so bad here the other realtors office (seller/bank side) didn't have power and couldn't get the fax from our realtor......ugh. I am hoping that we hear something today or Monday, all of this waiting is making me nuts! The roads were a little better on the way to work today, but not fantastic. It took me only 10 mins longer than normal to get here, which is a vast improvement from the one hour commutes I have been having.

My mom has had the last 3 days (including today) off work so she has been driving me nuts! But it is Super Bowl Weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I'm trying to only think about that!

Winter Photography

This is in my neighbor Laura's backyard....we have spent many summers on that swing and playing in that creek. I had some fun with my cheap Olympus photo editing software to make these black and white.

This is the lightpost at the end of their driveway....I think I might make a Christmas card out of this for next year....if I get around to it!

I don't know if I like the sepia on this or not, I might play around with this a little more.

Or maybe this would be a good Christmas card too!

We got about 4 inches of snow and a few inches of ice today. I didn't go to work because of it, they left it up to us if we felt safe to come in and I sure didn't.

Haiku Friday - Home, almost sweet, home!

As of yesterday
Offer number one is done
Now we sit and wait

Andrew is buying
a nice fixer-upper home
very close to work.

I have dreamed of this
so long now, it can't be real!
A home of our own.

Well the long process of offers and counter offers have begun with the house I talked about in my post a few days ago. I am just praying that it all works out and we can get this place for a good price and start fixing it up! I am really looking forward to picking out paint colors, decorating and everything else (oh and planting flowers in the spring). Andrew isn't really reacting the same way as I am about this house. I think he is excited just in a different way than me. He is looking at it as an investment because we probably won't live there more than 5-7 years. If we did get married in that time and had more than one child, we would need to move, its just not enough house for all those people!

I'll keep you all updated as the process moves along!

The waiting game......

Things are for sure looking up for Andrew getting the house in Pataskala. If you'd like to read about the house here is the listing information and below is a small picture. I know its not the most beautiful home in the world but I think with some time we can make it work!
Andrew has to go get pre-approved for a loan today and then from there we wait on the bank and then put in an offer. This place needs a lot of work but could sell for double the current listing price once the market picks up again. Its going to be a lot of work to make it totally liveable, but it will be a learning experience and we'll have our own place. One day down the road we will probably end up on the North side of Columbus, but for now I am hoping that we will call Pataskala our home!

The weekend was wonderful too! The Steelers won on Sunday which means we are going to the Super Bowl on Feb. 1st, I think we'll be having a party so stay tuned for details on that! Andrew watched the whole game with me on Sunday, I was so proud of him!!! Saturday was uneventful, Andrew worked another 14 hour day and we didn't get to hang out. I took him lunch at work after my class and did some thrifting and got some nice clothes. I chilled at home the rest of the night and did my PR homework.

Nothing too exciting going on this week, just playing catch-up with some stuff at work! All for now, I'll keep you updated on the house situation!!!!

Haiku Friday

Sick of the weather
It's too cold, snowy and gross
Winter is the worst

Work has been stressful
add in school, I have no life.
August please come now.

My haiku is short this week, I am totally unmotivated right now. Its about -20 with the windchill here today....my car didn't even get that warm and didn't really want to go anywhere this morning. I only got about 5 hours of sleep last night too and I will probably be here till about 5 bc I help the accounting department process billing on Fridays now. Did I mention that work is really stressing me out???? Everyone here keeps dumping things on me that they do not want to do and its getting to me big time. Add in all the time I spend doing stuff for school and well its not a good mix of things.

Maybe this weekend I can get some rest, but thats doubtful.......oh well, I will try not to be so negative next week :)