things i need very soon:

• a manicure
• a vacation
• a haircut
• someone to hand me $5,000
• more sleep
• more blood
• brock’s ear to stop smelling like death
• a drink

the hunt is on. kev and i have finally come to a point where we can actually afford to buy our first home. it has been a long road, but we’ve made it. last saturday we spent seven hours driving around with our agent (hi cody! sorry we kidnapped you) getting ideas for what we would like to buy. although we are stuck in our lease until february i still wanted to atleast get an idea of what is out there before we sink 30 years into a home. our primary target is crestwood, avondale, forest park, and crestline. i refuse to live any further from work than i do now, so that is the main reason we are staying within that area.

this week we were pre-approved for a loan so now i have a number to use when looking at houses. if you know of anything please give me a shout. it must have the following:

• 3 bedrooms, or 2 really big bedrooms
• atleast one fully functioning bathroom. and by functioning i mean something that has been updated in the last 20 years and not pink or flowery.
• the older the better. i love historic homes.
• a fairly quiet neighborhood and by quiet i mean no gunshots, steel mill, or quarry mining at all hours
• a fenced in back yard
• an updated kitchen

yes, i’m picky but i don’t have a whole lot of money to throw into something that needs repair. if i could do that i would just build a house. or continue to rent for the rest of my life.

i found this little gem on wikihow:

How To Dissuade Yourself From Becoming A Blogger:
1. Find five completely random blogs, and read them daily for a month. After thirty days, you will absolutely dread your self-imposed requirement to read all that dreck. Any blog you create will most likely be on par with what you’ve been reading. Don’t put anyone through that.
2. Consider that your voice, even if it is truly a good one, is a tiny peep against the massive wave of tripe out there. The odds of anyone you don’t already know finding your blog are low.
3. Write on a regular basis in Wordpad instead. If that doesn’t satisfy your urge, and you feel that you must post your blog online, then you might just be craving attention and validation–which you’ll never truly find in a blog. If you give up on your Wordpad journal after about three days, you’ll do the same with a blog that just takes up server space.
4. Ask yourself if you really have the time to commit to a blog. What about that treehouse you wanted to build? Or the book you wanted to write? Or the car you wanted to fix up? Or the restaurant you wanted to take your significant other to? Or the new career you wanted to pursue? Instead of writing about pretty much nothing, or whining about all the things you wish you were doing instead, start doing something that’d actually be worth writing about. And if it’s really worth writing about, you’ll be having too much fun doing it to tear yourself away from it.

apparently the person who wrote this was either a. seriously burned by a blogger on the internet and thusly wrote a seething How To on said internet, or b. attempted to write a blog but was disappointed with the lack of traffic which only confirmed his loser status.

my pet project The Destruction Of The Bathroom That Was A Backdrop To A Messengill Commercial is now complete. sadly (read: thankfully, because it would have taken all my strength to operate my camera) i did not take “before” pictures, but trust me, it was horrible. flowers exploded in my downstairs bathroom. they were everywhere. on the walls, on the doors, on the cabinets, on the drawer pulls…EVERYWHERE!

here is the semi-finished* product:

looking in from the door. the toilet is below the picture. and no, the walls are not orange.

surprisingly found at wal-mart

why yes, that is a picture i took. and printed. and signed like the wannabe photographer that i am.

the walls are red and the hardware is faux wrought iron. it is nice to use the bathroom and not feel like i need to shoot up testosterone just to level out.

*i say “semi” because i am still waiting to install a black granite countertop and an undermounted sink.