Kicking it into 6th...

O... M... G... have I been busy. I do believe this is the longest I've gone w/o a legit post. Sorry folks... Let's see. Classes start on the 20th, we bought a house and escrow closes on June 8th (more on that in a bit), I will find out tomorrow if my entire department will survive past June 30th.

Ok.. I suppose I should explain some of this. I'm finally going back to school to get that pesky Bachelor's degree. Working for peanuts isn't cutting it for me anymore. It will be odd being a student again. I actually have to go get 'school supplies' for myself. Weird. I'm switching from the previously insane major of Electrical Engineering (so what i'm a geek !?!?!) to Business Administration. Which is great except for I was through my 3rd year as an EE... all that math and science means squat in a business major. *sigh* All that work... I know for sure that this is what I want to do. I've been giving it a lot of thought for the past oh... 3 years or so. Thinking to myself, should I just grit my teeth and graduate EE (another 2 1/2 years) or change to a business major and for the most part start over. I realized that I'd be miserable and wouldn't do well in my classes if I went back to EE. Not to mention the stifling working environment of an EE firm would just kill me. SO.. i'm finally getting off my butt and finishing school. ^^

"We bought a house..." yep.. it seems as if everyone is moving or buying a home lately. My family has been in the market for a home for some time now, but they are rather picky. Not so much that they wanted a huge home. Rather, they wanted a quiet, well kept neighborhood, away from freeways, not on a major street, good sized back yard, decent floor plan. This turned out to be rather difficult to find. So the house we finally got is a cute little home close to where I live currently. My sister won't have to change schools so that will be nice. It's 3br, 2bath, and it has a new pool and jacuzzi in the back. ^^ heh... I'm going to have BBQ's all summer long w00t! Seems as if we ran into the same obstacle as Brian did. "There's the possiblity that apprasisal of the property can jeopardize my financing." Well, the lender crunched the numbers and the seller was asking for about 20G over the market value of the home. The housing market being as insane as it has been around here and getting worse, we didn't care. The lender apparently did. Well, between finding an appraiser who would be willing to stretch the value of the home a few grand... the seller getting wind and dropping the price 10G.. and us offering to add another 5 grand to the down payment... it's a go. Problem is.. we didn't have another 5G to add to the down payment. So, we have been stretching, asking family, etc to come up with that 5G asap. I think we finally got it. Except, now i'm FLAT broke for the next oh... i'd say 5 weeks or so. I paid all my bills already so that's ok.. but dang.. I guess I won't be going out for a while *sigh*

Sabby, congrats girl!! .. and I've started scannning the pics of yuki and from my vacation... i will finish and attempt to assemble them in a somewhat organized manner. sheesh.. this was a long post. I shouldn't wait so long between blogging... >.<