Life has gotten rather good lately. Friday Jamers and I found out that we could get a loan for almost twice of what we've been looking in the range of. It took such a huge weight off my shoulders knowing that I don't have to hold myself to X amount if we find a house that happens to cost X plus a little. We've also began narrowing our search of where we think we would like to buy which is good. I think we've decided that we would rather buy more acreage and live further out in the country than buy closer to town and have less property. Overall I think that we'll be pretty set on what we are looking for when we go to get a realtor. ebegrl (because you had offered :) ) or anybody with house buying knowledge: I have a question: Our mortgage broker told us we should go for a loan about two months before our lease here is up, which would be around March 17th or so. He also told us to start looking at houses now. When should we get set up with a realtor? After we already have the loan in two months or should we sit down and talk to someone know? That is the last worry I have for know and any info anybody out there could provide me would be appreciated in a super fantastic pickle way!

Work is going, well the same. My boss continues to have issues dealing with . . .people and appears to our department to be failing miserably at his job. None of us can figure out why he hasn't been let go yet. Everyday is a bag of mystery as to whether he is going to talk down to us, ask us to do yet another piece of his work, or if he is going to take us out to lunch. I've summed up his ability to deal with his department like this: he is the abusive boyfriend that after he beats the crap out of you is remorseful and buys you things to try to make up for it. After the last incident where he berated me (erroneously so even) he called me into his office a few days later and kissed my ass. I guess he overheard me telling the other ladies in my department that I didn't need this job, that Jamers makes enough money to support us and I don't need to be treated like that. Anyhoo, point is my boss is probably the only truly bad thing about my job :(

My mom sent the money that she is giving us to help with the down payment. We went ahead and put it in the bank on Saturday along with the money James has been saving. Looking at the little printout from the bank I somehow feel rich. I don't think I'll ever see this much money in any account we have ever again and I'm relishing the fact that I can feel semi rich even if only for a short while.

No news on the baby front. I've started using an online webpage that Xine had directed me towards. I haven't been using it very long so I don't think it really has "my" timing right yet. I'm hoping that in the next couple of months it will really help to pinpoint my optimal day for conception and we'll be able to do so. Course it doesn't help that I only see the man on the weekends, but we are making due. As I believe everything happens for a reason, I'm accepting the lack of babage as a good thing. I think that the stress of house buying and moving is enough at one time and I think that once we are all settled into our own home that things will look up on the baby front.

I'm counting my life in milestones right now. Next big one is our trip down to Disneyland at the end of Feb for Alisha & Ryan's wedding. After that we have loan processing, house hunting, house buying, packing, moving, and finally house setting up. I think that the next 6 months of my life are going to be pretty awesome, regardless of problems at work.

I've been working more on my fairie story. Well more in the sense that I'm working on the world, the races, and the history/background of the world. After that is all done I'll be able to begin the actual story. I still haven't decided what age group I'm going to gear it towards which is proving a little difficult. I have some great ideas and pictures in my head though and I'm very excited about it. As Jamers pointed out in the car the other night when I was describing the montage of Firefly clips I wanted to put together to Paper Flowers, I have a lot of creativity that I haven't tapped into yet. Guess the accounting life has pretty muched glass ceilinged it. Well I'm getting ready to shatter that thing and move on up. Oh, I won't even get started on all the things I want to do to my house!

Anyhoo, I've rambled on and on and I'm not quite sure if any of you out there read me since I hardly ever post. I'll be toodling off now onto less interactive things, like watching South Park or looking at homes online or something. I hope you are all faring well, though by briefly scanning your entries I see some of you have very hard times ahead. playmayt I just wanted to let you know I'm sending happy vibes your way lady. I know life is crappy and I can honestly say I understand what you are going though right now or pretty much so. Til next time Pickle's relished ones!