Confessions of the Obsessive Compulsive Anal Retentive...
Topic: on the way to... marriage
Now I know that being obsessive compulsive is a condition that has specific characteristics, and I do not have those. But if there was a contest to see how close anyone could come to being obsessive compulsive without having the actual disorder... I think I might win. This is further underlined by what I am about to share, which I am disturbingly proud of, enough to put it out there. This is what having 101 degree fever for 8 days in a row does to a person who is normally out and about doing something all the time.

A certain someone has been using our laundry room for a giant toolbox. I brought order to the disorder, and now, for lack of other achievements outside of my job, I will be sharing them for your viewing pleasure.

Yup (the missing label was replaced after the picture was taken).

we are in the new house
Topic: on the way to... marriage
well, we are in the new house!

Imagine this: switching my insurance from suburbs to city... SAVED me money! How weird is that? Like, about $15/month! Sweeet!

I love the new house! I can't believe I'm writing this, but: I HAVE ENOUGH CLOSET SPACE. I never thought this was possible. But it is. Even for all my shoes!!! single layer!!! Someone pinch me!

These are our projects for later:
-remodel sliding doors to the outside - right now it's a pain to lock them
-remodel fireplace - not enough room in the built in cabinet around it for a TV
-install a projector screen somewhere in the house.
-build a grill/hang out area upstairs.
-Redo the master bathroom
-Redo workshop in guest room
-install lighting in bedrooms
-run ethernet cable throughout the house and hide the wires. (wireless loses too much bandwidth for what I do for work)

I got a duvet cover... that's too small for a duvet. They are both King... but the duvet cover looks to be the size of a queen. Now we'll wait till people buy us stuff for the wedding to get a new one. Because the one I want is like $300.

only 11 hours till we live in our new house!
Topic: on the way to... marriage
yeeehaw!

and then
Topic: on the way to... marriage
scheduling the maid, buying sheets, adding things we need to the wedding registry. aaaaaaaagh!

1000 things to do
Now Playing: throw down your arms
Topic: on the way to... marriage
Okay, marriage means:

- flying in to town on the weekends to look for a house
-keeping the current house spotless for showings with A SHEDDING DOG, and baking cookies for that enticing smell that apparently induces people to buy - either that or our Realtor really likes cookies and found that an effective way of creating a supply, an endless one if he wanted it to be since he could talk people out of buying the place so that we would have to keep making the cookies. thank god for commission, which makes me think he'll forgo the cookies to sell the place - just kidding, I'm sure he doesn't like my cookies that much.
-negotiating contracts while on business trips in between helicopter rides
-and making arrangements for: gas, condo association, electric, dsl, cable modem (for redundancy), phone, cable, satellite, mail, movers, painter, picking paint colors, searching for furniture and boy is that hard if you are so damn picky like me, buying furniture and arranging for delivery of it, carpet cleaners... and everything has to go in a specific order...

Now trying to pick colors for my office and desperately wishing I spent more time on design when I was in art school... not just painting. I am thinking about picking colors out of a famous painting, like the SCREAM or something, and using it as a pallet. TBD

The Ex
Topic: on the way to... marriage
My future husband and I have discussed how we want to decorate our new home. We settled on "excentric" or "eclectic" whatever you'd find more pleasant. I'm not talking about 'house on the rock' type stuff, just not all boring and like mute.

so in the spirit of that, I allowed him to buy this product.... that just... arrived. It's sitting in our all white kitchen right now. I love it.

my life
Now Playing: sad sad violins
Topic: on the way to... marriage
poor me. my life right now is:

1/2 ironman training
sleep
eat
take care of pets
work
drive to and from the various activities
plan wedding
house hunting/moving

yeah... that's about it. It leaves ne with about 1-2 waking hours of free time... and that's going on 6 hours of sleep max... Heeeeelp! It'll be like this until after october 9th... possibly longer.