we have a house!

well, after countering the seller's offer, we have a house! we just got the news tonight that they accepted it so that's good. we're paying full asking price but they'r paying $2500 in closing cost. I have to sign paperwork tomorrow and set up a home inspection so still lots of work but I should not be homeless when my lease runs out.

newgen hut

andrea and I went out looking at houses again today. it's our second trip in as many weeks and I think we found one that we both really like. it cost a little bit more than I was prequalified for but upon calling the bank, I found out that it was actually in our price range. we actually could've gone up a little higher if we had to. well, in any case, we're probably gonna put in an offer on it in a couple of days. it's a pretty nice starter home. 2 bed, 1 bath, with an optional bed room in the attic. 2 car garage with an unfinished basement (finally, a place to put my air hockey table...). its about a five minute walk from downtown olathe and is close to her family and about half an hour east of lawrence so not too bad. it also has a pretty large covered front porch which will be really nice when it rains outside. it needs a little bit of work but other than that, it's pretty much ready to be moved in to. well, that's it for now. we'll see if they accept the offer.

thar be pirates!

but not yet. the trailer doesn't come out till March 19th.

a blast from the past

I was cleaning out the file cabinet tonight to make some more room and came across something some of you may remember:

Boyabus kissabus pretti galorum
Girlabus likabus, wanta somorum!
Poppabus hearabus bigga smakorum,
Kickabus boyabus outta backdorum.
Boyabus limpabus alway homorum.
Swearibus kissabus girli nomorum!

:)

weekend plans

I've got the next three days off and andrea's out of town so what am I gonna do? clean, clean, clean, clean, paint, wii/ what a wonderful life for me.

food pills: way in the future or here today?

what could this be?

let's add water and find out...



it's a ball of tea with a flower wrapped inside!

Pirates of the Great Salt Lake Trailer

"it's that damn Johnny Depp"

Spiders On Drugs

poke Jesus!

well, I finally joined the 21st century and started a facebook page and myspace page. it doesn't have anything on it yet but I'll work on it eventually. anyways, I was looking at pickle's facebook and saw that jesus hernandez was on there and I just couldn't help it. I just had to poke Jesus.

stop kicking the copier...

you just never know...

Wii Sims

it was just too cute. I just had to...and it's coming to the wii!!!

evil monkey

I was in a nostalgic mood tonight so I popped in my transformers movie dvd. after the movie, I had to do some research about the live-action movie they were doing to see who they got to do the voices for optimus and megatron. if you'll look it up in imdb.com, you'll find that Frank Welker, the guy who voiced megatron in the old cartoons and is supposedly voicing megatron in the new movie also did the voice of George (the monkey) in the movie "Curious George" thus proving my theory that monkeys are pure evil. that is all.

I love fresh ingredients

andrea's coming down to lawrence tonight so I thought I'd make us dinner. didn't really know what to make so I thought I'd throw a couple of ingredients together and see what I get. apparently, we're having bowtie spaghetti with italian sausage and bacon in a four cheese sauce. of course, I'm cooking so that means that I'm snacking on the ingredients as well. just got to say raw fresh basil is the best. also, you might want to try raw minced garlic too if you haven't done that before. it tastes totally different when it's not mixed with anything else. there's a peppery/citrusy taste to it. also, asiago cheese and regiano parmeggiono are good. that is all. next time you cook, you should try the ingredients by themselves. well, enough babbling. on to see if anything's burned on the stovetop.

don't mess with optimus

G'Nockthar foolishly rushes the mighty Optimus Prime...




Unfortunately for G'Nockthar, the end result was inevitable...

Narnia? II

just got back inside from being outdoors. here's a little poem I wrote to commemorate the event:

little pellets of ice
falling from the sky
sharp as razor blades
slicing skin from bone
ouch!

on another note. when I got back inside, the power was out...for the second time today (it's back on now). I'm off now to find some candles and matches in case I need them for tonight.

Narnia?

yes, like other Kansas cities within the past month, Lawrence, being the petulant child-city that it is, is also getting its own winter storm (hopefully nowhere near as bad as the ones in western kansas). I think it's supposed to be in the mid 20s today so for my last day of "vacation", I'm gonna be staying indoors, painting, having some sweet fruit tea, cleaning, and playing gladius on the pre-wii (gamecube). if you have to go outside, bundle up.

did you know...?

well, I have my week off this week so I'm here doing laundry and watching the food network. there's a show on right now called world's freakiest food and they're having a segment on muskrats. apparently, according to the show, the catholic church allows you to substitute muskrat for fish on meatless days (i.e. lent). ahhh....it's good to be catholic.

Urban Ninja

This guys is my hero.

Like Scrubs? Like A Charlie Brown Christmas?

Well my friend, this is the video for you. A Charlie Brown Christmas voiced over by the cast of Scrubs.

teavana

I'm back in lawrence now. been busy cleaning up the apartment and putting the christmas tree up for its annual siesta so I thought a nice hot cup of tea sounded good. here's a picture. the tea is sweet fruit garden from teavana. the red stuff is the actual tea diffusing from the tea ball. its fruity and sweet and full of mmmmm-mmmmmm-goodness.