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Before I go and get all grouchy, let me amuse you with cuteness:

Well, we were all gung-ho for a house the last time I posted. Here’s what’s happened since then:

• Down payment program for teachers said yes to helping us.
• We had an offer in on a house.
• Same program said no to us because we now make too much money (somehow they couldn’t figure that out the first time).
• Withdrew offer on house.
• Was ok with the offer withdrawal because I figured it just wasn’t meant to be/wasn’t the right time.
• Had conversations with the husband (who admittedly pissed me off a bit).
• Found out that he doesn’t really want to buy after all, because he doesn’t want to be tied down to this town. He wants to get out of OK. I do too, but I didn’t think that was going to happen in the next 2 or 3 years.

This all left me with this:

“Why the hell didn’t you tell me this before we spent hours and hours at the bank and with a realtor. I could have used that time to get a pedicure/take a nap/clean house/figure out the meaning of life/eat cake/insert other fun pastime here!!!!!!”

Vent over.

*Disclaimer: I love my husband more than you know and I generally gush on here about him, but sometimes he has to go and act like a dumb boy and rants like this are warranted. Please don’t think I’m against my husband, but he is still a boy. 

Rusty and I are starting our journey into home buying. A question for you: Do you care to hear about our journey or will it bore you to death? I’m seriously considering splitting this blog with general life-stuff and adding a book blog. I’d like to hear your thoughts.

Okay, so I have SOOO much to post about, but it just isn’t in me. I’m like the walking dead today. I promise to post sometime in the next century or two.

It’s that time again. The time when I have nothing to say, so I inundate you with poorly shot photos from my Iphone. Here goes nothin’…

Chels and I at the bookstore. I was listening to John Mayer and doing homework. She was listening to John Mayer and online window shopping. We were both consuming copious amounts of caffeine. A productive brood, aren’t we?

A sampling of mine and K’s libations from St. Patrick’s Day. We had to help the waitress win the drink-selling contest, after all. Let’s not talk about the fact that it was only 12:30.

My friend, B, eating her Orange Leaf frozen yogurt (which is AH-mazing by the way) in front of the OSU bball team. It’s important to bond with those that your tuition goes to support (in the form of frosty deliciousness, apparently), you know.

The decorations I came up with for K’s shower. Jaime & Belinda helped, though! Here’s the link to the Martha Stewart tissue poms, if you’re interested. The banner is just cardstock circles layered and glued together. The names were cut using a Cricut. I was pretty proud of it.

Our school has a door decorating contest for the book fair each year. I’m a little competitive. Our theme was the “Book Fair Carnival.” Leave it to me to center my decorations around food. If you can’t tell, my door is an old-time popcorn box. On the yellow pieces of paper, students created book covers for favorite books. The smudge is so that you can’t figure out my school and come to stalk me. I have to retain some shred of privacy on here, yo. P.S. We won. Of course!

Rockin’ my PB&J bracelet!

My dog’s a fatty and couldn’t finish the walk. She gets it from her momma. Thank goodness she found a handsome guy to pick her up and carry her the final 2 blocks home. She might have been stranded there forever, the poor girl. Can you believe her owners…making her walk 1/2 a mile? Geez! The nerve of some people.

Well that’s all she wrote.

An awesome blogger (and sometimes my only commenter, yay!) just got signed by an agent. The lovely Carolina Valdez Miller just got signed with Vickie Motter. I haven’t read Carolina’s stuff, but I can’t wait. Her online persona is so funny and awesome that I’m sure her writing is, too. Congrats to her!

P.S. She’s holding a contest and would love for you to enter. Go here.

P.P.S Carol, I stole your picture from Facebook because I sort of love that picture of you. Keep rockin!

This is proof that I shouldn't write posts at 2:30 a.m.

I have a confession: sometimes I get confused by online identities. Unless your username is similar for the various sites I visit (the Nest, Twitter, Facebook, blog comments, etc.), I’m probably going to get you confused.

There are a core group of like 10 people that I’m friends with on all of these places and I know who they are. There are quite a few though that have really confusing names (different on every single site) and I have a really hard time keeping them straight.

This means one of 2 things:

1) People should just keep the same username all over the place (I’m guilty of not doing that!)

2) I have entirely too many online friends and not enough friends in real life.

To celebrate New Years, the Swagbucks team has a code for 8 swagbucks over on the blog. Not a member of Swagbucks yet? Click on the banner below to sign up. It’s free and so easy!

I already won a $5 Amazon giftcard that I used to buy this:

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Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or Festivus, here’s to a happy day!

To see the rest of our pictures of this holiday weekend, check out my facebook album by clicking HERE.

For 2010, I set a goal of 75 books for myself. We’re about a week away and I’m just a few books from finishing. I’ve been trying to decide whether or not to set a goal for 2011. I think I’ve decided on no.

I’m starting my grad classes for School Library Media in January on top of my busy work schedule. Unfortunately, I think my beloved books will have to take a back seat. It doesn’t mean I’m not planning on reading. I still plan to blog about what I read and even have a tab dedicated to my 2011 books, but I just don’t want to attach a number to it.

I have to say, I am a little sad to bid farewell to this guy:

Are you setting  a reading goal for 2011?