Happy Brif day!

I hope this year brings you joy and happiness (and thereby maybe it will bring me some too :) )

I love you B.

like bill says

Thanks to whomever sent us the beautiful bird feeder. If you did send it to us please let me know.

in and unpacking

thank you all for all of your well wishing and thoughts this weekend.

We are in the house and in the process of getting things unpacked and settled in. Hopefully, by this time next week we will have internet and I will be able to blog email a bit easier.

the weather has been typical chicago 80 for two days then down to 50 and rain. but i have been so tired and exhausted the weather and world events slip buy me...

hope everyone that reads this is doing well and doesn't feel snubbed since i haven't been able to blog as much. oh and if you haven't already go check out franks blog with his link to his walk and roll page. its a good cause and if i was in town I wish I could join him that day.

sarah young.....

Sarah Young...

floor scrubber?
carpet vacuumer?
box packer extraordinaire?
never-ending to-do list maker?

Sarah Young achy muscle, sleep deprived, scatter-brained home owner!

long week with no end.....

life has been beating down on bill and me lately... mostly in a good way, but still we are both exhausted.

we close tomorrow and we move on saturday. if you have ever done this you know why we are exhausted. the only thing that could be worse is having a baby.

out side of that we had brian with us for a night and it was good to see him. due to his exuberance in playing tennis, thought, i am thinking foam might be a nice addition to our basement ceilings :)

ok people wish me luck... i probably won't blog again for a bit.

dinner

finally got the car back....

...reward is this delicious dinner

from the top clockwise: humus, falafel and kibbeh, pita, and tabbouleh

gone about as fer as they can go....

Things are progressing nicely at this time. not much to report on the house... lots of packing being done... but seeing as I hadn't blogging anything substantial in a while an update is in order.

on the 2nd i dragged Bill along with me to go see Oklahoma on the big screen and meet Shirley Jones who was there for the screening of both that movie and the Music Man. That was really fun to see the movie on the big screen and to just ignore the impending packing that needed to start soon.

last week was a blur of packing and avoiding packing. i would say we're about 1/3 the way done now... and considering the move date is set on the 24th we are about where we need to be. oh and last week's Heros was great... i will be missing that show until it comes back.

This weekend I.... spent 5 hours of my live watching TLC's "what not to wear" on friday night. i had to stop when they started repeating episodes form earlier in the evening... so then i watched princess diaries (which i love). ...Sat we had a car appointment they stole our car made us get a rental and have not called us as of yet with any good news (if you haven't heard my tirade on the car don't ask). then we had lunch with Frank and got some of our pent up energy out playing tennis. of course we weren't outside in the beautiful weather but inside playing on our wii. ...Sunday we got to meet Bill's older cousin's new baby at a baby party in china town. The little guy is very cute with crazy amounts of hair and big fat baby cheeks. everyone told bill and me (but mostly bill since i don't' speak Cantonese) that we were next and we must hurry up..... lots of pressure.

this week so far has been a mixture of tired and tired. the time change thing has thrown my body for a loop and the fact that i haven't been getting to bed at decent times isn't helping.

anyway. i will up date you all (alana) when i know anything.

laterz

for jed...

tv guides review....

from Roush Review

The Donnellys are four Irish-American street punks dragging each other down
as they recklessly stir up violent clashes with the Irish and Italian mobs in
New York City. To say these guys are stereotypes does insult to the clichés they
clumsily represent.

in like a lion

thunder and lightning all night
pea sized hail at 4am
fog
rain
and now this....

taken at 3pm ... Bill's buliding as seen from mine

March has certainly come in like a lion

pass muster

(or mustard if it were a hot dog)

YEA!!!! we can now really start planing etc. because the house inspection went well. we still have the radon inspection results (come on friday) and then i think we will be able to really move onward with things.

rj: good job with the bust and i hope your surgery goes as easy as mine did. remember no straws and get a good waterpick. also don't double up on the painkillers (advil + codine leaves a very sad tummy). and go get some apple sauce, pudding snack or anything else creamy (i suggest the baby food peaches they taste pretty good.)