Potholes!

For anyone who lives in Edmonton right now you feel my pain! I cannot believe the number of potholes on the road! They say it would take 57 Million dollars to fix all the roads in the city.

Anyway, last week I went to meet some friends for supper and hit a huge pothole on 82nd Ave, when I got to the restaurant I looked at the front of my car to make sure nothing looked obviously wrong, but then I forgot about it. Then 2 days later at work a co-worker came into my office to tell me that my tire was completely flat - gah! Thank goodness he was nice enough to put the spare on for me! Have I mentioned that I have never changed a tire in my life? I almost made it to ** years of age without that knowledge too!

Then since it was a Saturday I couldn't get the tire fixed right away, I had to wake up early Sunday and get to Canadian Tire as soon as it opened. Then I walked to McDonalds to get breakfast while I waited and it turned out that their restaurant is being renovated so only the drive thru is open - and me without a car! I think it would be funny to walk through a drive thru but I'm just not brave enough to do it! So I walked to Tim Hortons instead - long story short there was a crack in the sidewall of the tire so I had to buy a new one.

Potholes!.....

I Bought a House!!

OK - technically, it's a townhouse condo (here is the first picture of it!!)- but I still bought it! I wanted to make sure everything was going to go through before I blogged about it so now I'll start from the beginning.

I've been looking at places online for a couple of months and recently I went to a show home right by my sisters place just to see the plans and the price. Then I decided to get a mortgage pre-approval so that I would know what I could afford. I ended up putting myself on the list of prospective buyers at this one condo townhouse development just so that I had the option of getting one of the units. Then the salesman called me last Monday to tell me that the deal on a unit with the exact floor plan that I wanted had fallen through and the unit was mine if I wanted it! I have never been more excited in my life! Then, the terror set in! I've been waiting since Thursday to see if I would get final mortgage approval, and it came through today!

My new place should be ready sometime in October of this year - Happy Birthday to Me! I will of course have a housewarming/birthday party/Halloween party? if the timing goes according to plan so keep some time open for a trip to Edmonton!

So, now some details...It's a 2 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath townhouse condo with a front attached 1 car garage. On the main floor there is a kitchen (with an island), dining room and living room (with fireplace) and a 1/2 bath. Then upstairs it is a 2 master bedroom concept with one room having walk in closets and an en suite and the other bedroom having 2 large closets. Then there is another bathroom and linen closet off the main hallway upstairs. It's also an end unit (the complex has 38 units in 6 sets of buildings that are either a 3-plex, 5-plex or 6-plex). I've put a link to the developers website so if you want to take a look at the floor plan go ahead! The plans also show the alternate main floor with a U shaped kitchen and the 3 bedroom upstairs.

So, given my obsessive tendencies I think we all know what I'll be driving myself crazy with over the next 7 months! Hmmm...now I get to pick out cabinets, carpet, lino, paint colours! Then comes the furniture! Oh my - it's a shoppers dream! This definitely makes up for my flat tire on Saturday (and subsequent purchase of a new tire on Sunday) - stupid pot holes - anyway that's another story which I should have blogged about yesterday, but now I'm too excited about the house!

OK - I think that's it, I'd better get to bed since I'm sure it will take me a while to fall asleep tonight!

Obsession

Well, I didn't think people would be that interested in my newest obsession! Sorry to disappoint you ladies, but it's not a boy. Actually, that's pretty disappointing me to as well! I'm afraid to say it's something much more mundane - but very very cute!

A few months ago my mom mentioned that she wanted to get another dog. Since then I've been faithfully looking online for a new Pomeranian friend for her and my Dad. By faithfully, I mean checking websites every other day if not every single day. Now you see why I call it my newest obsession! If I could, I'd be contacting the people with puppies for sale for her and arranging when she could pick it up! They are just so incredibly cute! As soon as I find an old picture of Prancer (my family's last Pom) I'll put add it to the blog. If you want to see some very cute puppies check out the "Meadowlark Pomeranians" link in my websites list!

I think the reason I'm so obsessed with the idea is that I would dearly love to have my own puppy, but that's going to have to wait until I have my own place and get settled etc.

Luckily, that day might not be too far off! This will be the topic of my next post so stay tuned....

Hmmm, I think I may have watched to many soap operas in my lifetime - I seem to like cliffhangers way to much! Oh well, fun for me and frustrating for you!

No more T4's!!!!

OK - I realize that this post is a few days late, but I did just set up the blog right?

Being in charge of getting all of our clients T4's done and filed with the CRA by Feb 28th isn't the most relaxing part of my job but it's done! It seems like it was a lot more stressful towards the end this year, I'm not entirely sure why though. It might have been because we had so many new staff this year, which meant a lot of errors on the T4's they prepared. Or maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age? Oh well, either way it's over now so I can relax!

Now the fun of Personal Tax season can begin - actually we'll start preparing client tax returns tomorrow. I know that a lot of people think I'm very strange for liking to do tax returns, but honestly it's a nice break from the corporate work we do throughout the year. Some returns are pretty quick and easy, and even the more complicated ones aren't bad once you get organized. Although, I do find that if I don't get my tax return done in the first part of March it won't get done until the last week of April - hopefully the bank will send me the last couple of slips I need soon!

Anyway, enough boring tax stuff for now - I'll tell you all about my newest obsession in my next post...

My First Blog

OK - so this is actually the 2nd time I'm writing this post, I accidentally deleted the first one. What can I say, I don't really have a clue what I'm doing :)

I'm really really bad at keeping in contact with friends who are out of town so hopefully this blog will help solve that problem - at least you'll know what's going on in my world, although I'm not promising that you'll find it very interesting!

You'll notice from the name of my Blog and the one picture that I have posted so far that I really really like PT Cruisers. You might say I'm a bit obsessive about them. I know that everyone at work was very glad that I finally bought one a few years ago - then they didn't have to hear me talk about them anymore. I'm sure I'll be writing about other obsessions in later posts so don't be surprised if you see more!

Hmmm...I think that's it for now - I really better get back to work!