I am Oblivious!

Ok,

Either I am completely oblivious and pay no attention to what is happening around me or my friends and family are very very good at keeping secrets! Now, I'm sure that they are very good at keeping secrets, but I'm even more sure that I am oblivious.

Why do you ask? Because I had no idea that they were planning a birthday party for me last friday night. I thought Jamie was having a candle party, and since she's come to a couple for me I was going to hers. My first clue should have been that the party was scheduled to start pretty late - 8:30pm. My second clue was that neither Jamie or Terry talked much about it before hand. The third clue was that Terry was entirely too excited about the party on Friday after work. She kept saying that she was so excited, and when I asked her why she said it was because she wanted to show everyone her new partylite bag. Yeah...I thought that was weird, but I made no connection to my birthday! Sneaky, sneaky people! Clue # 4 - Pierre came with us - they said to check out Jamie and Todd's new computer and then go shopping. Why I didn't question that since the malls close at 9pm I have no idea - again Oblivious!

Then we get to Jamie's and there are a bunch of people there already hanging out in the dining room. My first thought you ask? I'm afraid that the anal retentive side of me came out in full force - I only asked if we were late! For Pete's sake!

Well, Todd got a little video of me being surprised - if you ask nicely I might show it to you since he made a Tammy's Birthday DVD for me - there is an incredibly long video of us waiting for the sparklers on the cake to go out as well. Then we just hung out, had some cake etc.

Anyway, Happy Birthday to me! I've never had a surprise party before!

Thanks Jamie and Terry! And Everyone who could make it :)

Finally!

Finally I have something interesting to Blog about :)

I got the phone call about my possession date late week - actually my sister got the call since I was out shopping at the time!

I get the keys to the condo on Nov 23rd at 1pm - yay! I'll do the walk through on the 15th and they'll have the next week to fix up everything that needs to be fixed up.

The only problem with the move in date is that I go on holidays for a week starting the very next day! So I'll have to wait until I get back to move in - oh well! Terry and Pierre are going to keep an eye on the place for me - it's a good thing that they're only a 5 minute walk away.

Oh well - I'll have a good time in Orlando any way.

Now I just need to get all of the deliveries and hookups organized for the first few days that I'm back. That's a lot of phone calls!

I'll try to post a picture of the kitchen soon - they installed the cabinets last week. Unfortunately trying to get a good picture through very dirty windows isn't easy :)

Ice Cream and strange things that cars do

Oh the disappointment! I went to DQ at lunch today to buy a bunch of blizzards for people at work (since it's Miracle Treat Day), but once I got back to work I realized that they made me a Skor instead of a Kit Kat. Ick! So I didn't get to have my blizzard yet, I'll have to go back after work and exchange it for the right kind. Oh well, I guess it'll just be dessert tonight!

Now onto the strange things that cars do - it seems like whenever I use the emergency brake in my car for the next week or two it seems to think that the emergency brake is on even when it isn't. And yes I have checked to make sure I don't have it on! I'm pretty sure I'd notice that :)

I guess I'll just have to have that checked out the next time I take my car in.

Ok, that's it for now - I really don't have a very interesting life do I?

More House Pictures

So, I got to go on a walk through of the condo 2 weeks ago and I just finally got around to putting the pictures on Facebook. Check them out if you like!

Basically they had drywalled the entire place. I might see if I can go through again this coming weekend to see what else they've gotten done. I'm hoping that they have finished the taping and mudding (sp?) and are possibly painting by now. I know that's probably wishful thinking, but hey I've got to be positive right?

One thing that I know they have done is poured the garage floor - so I'm hoping that they poured the basement floor at the same time. When I did my walk through there were a couple of inches on water in the basement - not surprising considering the basement window wasn't in yet and we had gotten a fair bit of rain in the week before I did the walk through.

More to come as I continue the condo stalking! :)

Furniture!

I started writing this blog a while ago and never got around to posting it - I know I'm a terrible blogger! So anyway - here's what I was writing about :)

I am way to excited about buying furniture! My mom and I went shopping a few weekends ago (actually a month ago now) while my parents were in town and I ended up buying a couch, chair, ottoman, coffee table and end table for the condo from Leon's. The good news is that they will hold them until I move in- so that's more furniture that I don't have to move! So, I think that takes care of all the major furniture pieces that I need. I'll have a spare bed if anyone wants to come visit! Actually I'll have 2 since my parents are giving me the bunkbed set that they had in Fort Mac (single bed on top and a double on the bottom).

Now all I have to figure out is whether or not I want to paint a few feature walls before I move in!

Pedicures - the best way to relax...

Ok - I have discovered that I love pedicures! Terry and I went to Spasation on Saturday for a little pampering - pedicures and manicures! She got a gift certificate for Christmas and I used by KWB $'s from work to get myselft one as well. I was a little leary of getting a pedicure since I'm very very ticklish, but it was so great! You get a foot and leg massage, they put paraffin wax on your feet and wrap them up, get them looking all nice and pretty and paint your toenails...I think I may be addicted!

Then we got manicures as well - which also included a hand massage and paraffin wax. All in all it took almost 3 hours - but it was so nice! I'm not sure I could do what these women do, I don't think I'd like touching other peoples feet so much even if they do wear gloves!

Jamie told me that you can sign up for pedicures and manicures at Marvel college as well - and since it's students doing them it's not as expensive. I might have to have another "spa day" later this summer! Anyone care to join me?

Look at that Face!

Isn't he just too cute for words! I went to visit my parents last weekend and their new puppy is just about the cutest thing ever - his name is Gizmo and in the picture he is 2 1/2 months old.

He is absolutely tiny - maybe 8 inches long and 7 inches high, we don't think he even weighs 1 pound yet - he'll probably only be about 4 pounds when he's fully grown. He's scared of people when they're standing up - he's very aware of how small he is, but if you lay down on the floor look out! he feels the need to lick every square inch of your face - and he has a particular fondness for noses, especially licking all the way up them - ewww!

Of course the birds have picked up on all of the new noises in the house. Kara can bark, whine and cry just like him - trust me I heard her at about 6am on Saturday morning. And she loves to make squeaky toy noises as well. My parents had Poppy out of her cage one night and she left the dog alone until he fell asleep behind the couch, then she went up to check him out and must have scared him because he yiped and bolted right away. They don't think she bit him or anything, just startled him. Can you imagine waking up to see a bird who is pretty much the same size as you right in your face?

So, now I can hardly wait until my condo is finished - as soon as I have a fenced backyard with sod I'm getting a puppy! I'm not sure if I want one quite as small as Gizmo or not though. Also, I'm not sure how my cats would take it! Cleo would just run away, but Jewel gets cranky sometimes.

Anyway, check out my facebook account for more pictures of Gizmo if you like!