Author: Jennifer Kuntz

(Cool kids book, btw)

So we met with our seller last night and signed many papers.  We’ve settled on a price and are now just trying to figure out how to get the closing costs paid and set up the various inspections and etc.  Tiernen is dropping the paperwork at the bank today.  

Here’s a link to the site on Google maps, in case anyone’s interested.  The place from SPACE! 

Not really, but you’d think it from the crazy behavior at OUR house this week.  

We have finally gone ahead and signed the myriad pieces of paper that have set the homebuying wheels in motion.  We’ve been looking at the place for a LONG time.  It belongs to friends of ours, they want a bigger place, we want our own place, so we finally took the step to get the loan.  The nice bank lady got us our pre-approval and we brought her most of the papers she wanted.  The other papers will be here by the end of the week and then we’ll get the contract put together with the sellers.

I’m genuinely excited.  We’ve been more or less lucky renters for many years, but I’ve always felt uneasy in a rental.  I know owning a home is a HUGE responsibility, but I also feel that having a place that is yours, that you can alter and mold to suit yourself is one of the things that connects you to the world.  It’s probably some kind of female hormonal nesting thing, but I’m enjoying the anticipation while it lasts.

Tiernen, bless him, is somewhat more apprehensive.  He’s concerned about the expense and the responsibility, and I really can’t blame him, but I’m too jazzed to be down for long.  

So watch this space for updates and images.  I’m hoping to document this process for those who might be interested.

On other fronts, my health is pretty good.  Tiernen’s is still fluctuating.  I’m trying to get him to the Dr., but he resists.  We’re both busy with work.  The kittehs are doing well.  The giant robots endure and their forces are enhanced weekly by new arrivals (including Happy Meal toys *squee*).  WoW continues well on Alleria server, although we are currently on hiatus due to a down cable line in the yard.

That’s it for now.  Hope all remains well out there on the tubes.

 I will preface this post by saying that if you are reading this it is probably not about you…Exactly…and if it is…kinda…about you..sorta…just chalk it up to my limit being reached due to recent widespread events and go on your merry way.

WARNING:  RANT BEGINNING

I’m a three day bachelor-ette this week as Tiernen is  away for a work trip, and I managed to get the majority of two of those days off.   

Yesterday, I dropped the man off at the car rental place, then headed back home for some videogame playing before settling down and actually getting some sewing done.  I know wonder of wonders, right.  Fortunately (or un-) I’m working on mending and renovating some ready to wear stuff I’ve had sitting in the mending pile for a while, so nothing new is being made.  However, I did come up with a scheme to salvage all three pairs of the overalls I’ve been wearing for a few years now, so that made me happy.

Today is work, then visiting the other post library to drop off and pick up stuff, then a quick dinner before the SCA meeting.

Tomorrow I’ll be doing storytelling at one of the post schools in the AM, then back home for a bit before evening gaming.  We don’t know yet what time Tiernen’s expected back, so plans for tomorrow may alter at any point.

We have a local demo on Sunday.  I hope we get good participation from the group.  With the rise in gas prices, SCA stuff has been falling by the wayside in favor of staying close to home.  I hope an influx of new people will hope to inspire us to get more active again. 

 We had a lot of fun this weekend.  Friday night was gaming as usual with Charie and the boyz.  Saturday was rainy, so we ran errands instead of having fighter practice.  My Revoltech Megatron and Prime toys arrived from China (they are BEAUTIFUL.  I’ll try to get pics of them up here soon.)  And the Family Dollar had a new case of TF:Universe toys, so we got the collection of those.  They’re fun.  

Saturday evening we went out to Docks, the local “arcade for grown-ups” ala Dave and Busters with our friend Gavin.  The selection of games was average, especially if you’re not interested in “gambling” for tickets.  But they did have a Dance Dance Revolution machine and lots of shooting games for the Woobs.  Afterwards we went back to Gavin’s place with him and played Rockband.  We had a blast.  Rockband is easy to learn and has a wonderful selection of music for the aging X-er.  I sang and the Woobs played drums.  We had an awesome time.  We’re waiting until the game comes out for the Wii, and then we’ll probably pick up the console and the game at the same time (if they ACTUALLY have them at that point).  So that was our weekend and now, back to work, you! 

Happy Spring to one and all!  Spring is my favorite season (mostly) for flowers and birdies and not being too hot yet and damp windy days.  I can live without the pollen, but I’m an advocate of love in all its forms, so far be it for me to begrudge the plants a little action.

In the RL, things are fine.  We actually cleaned up the house a bit to have the hubs’s ghosty friends over for a meeting.

In the imaginary life, we perservere.  We’ve rejoined our old gaming group with Charlie and Anthony on Friday nights.  This frees up some spaces at the other table.  Maybe I’m getting old and cranky, but an RP table with more than six players just seems too full.

The giant robots are doing well.  I’ve been picking up the Alternators figures when they’re affordable on e-Bay.  So far I have Sunstreaker and Hound.  I’d like to get some Classics, especially the Decepticon jets, but they’re not my first priority.  The hubs has been playing a fair amount of WoW and we’ve started Horde characters on the Alleria server to be able to play with the CiD folks on Sunday nights.

SCA meeting tonight and an event next weekend.  I’m going to have to go through the garb and make sure we have something suitable to wear.  Tiernen will be running the fencing and who knows what I’ll do (probably kitchen help).

In any case, froliche Fruhling to one and all!
 

I’m posting, here I am look at me posting.

Seriously and for real, though.  Lately things have been pretty good.  I’ve been doing a lot of free form online roleplaying with the nice folks from the Comics in Disguise forums.  We explore the deep and meaningful lives of giant alien robots torn by a milennia old war, and then we blow stuff up.  It’s very satisfying.  

The computer at work is still being lame.  I hope to have it fixed by next week and then I’ll be able to catalog stuff again.

The hubby is experiencing work growing pains.  He still likes the job, but they’re asking him to do stuff that makes him learn and stretch himself.  It can be daunting.  I have confidence in him though.

We had a lovely time at Ymir, the local Viking themed SCA event.  Tiernen fenced and I cooked and we were both tired by the end of the day.  It was nice to see our friends and meet the new folks who were there as well.

The guy in the new icon is Transformers: Animated Optimus Prime.  He’s my new crush.  The text is from a 2002 Moby single of the same name.  Lame text and formatting by me.

 And we have heat again, too.  Our heat went out over the weekend and the repair guy came over Monday to determine that the system needed a part that he didn’t have with him.  He was back on Tuesday with the right part, however, and now all is right with the world (hooray!).

On the personal front, we’ve been kind of hermit-y lately.  I guess there are a lot of reasons for this and I don’t want to go into all of them here but this year is starting to feel like one of those periods of inward looking where you make some changes to the way you’ve been living your life.  I don’t know yet if this is good or bad.  I’m just trying to let it happen. 

Our home phone’s back on.  Apparently some water got in and shorted out the line.  So the repair guy turned off the affected line and re-routed the signal to the other phone jack in the house.  So we can rejoin the world again. 

So I realized last night that we have been without home phone service for most of the week.  The interesting thing is that I might never have realized this, except the hubby and I were both out at after work meetings last night and I got home before he did.  I was trying to do the good wife thing and call his cell phone to tell him I was home and safe, but when I picked up the phone I didn’t get a dial tone, just a echo-y, static-y noise.

So, I checked the connection, but the phone was still kaput.  When the hubby finally got home he also checked the connection as well as the other phone in the living room.  (Which I had forgotten about, but the cats do frequently knock it off the hook in their attempts to order pizza.)  Still nothing.  I had the guilty feeling that perhaps I had missed the bill (It has been known to happen), so I went online and paid the bill anyway (it was not late, as the bank’s autopay had taken care of it about a week ago, but better safe than sorry, I think).  And while I was at the phone company website, I filed a problem ticket with the phone company.

They’re supposed to call back on the cell phone today before lunch.  I hope it’s something simple that can be fixed without someone having to be home waiting for a repairman.  I honestly have no idea what it could be. 

The upshot of this is, if you need us for something, call the cell phone or e-mail.  I’ll post here when the phone’s back in working order.

As Geoffrey Rush says in Shakespeare in Love “It’s a mystery.”