& that's the way life goes

Here’s a short little note for all you wonderful bloggers.

I hope you have a happy and safe start to the New Year. I look forward to reading your blogs. You guys are awesome and I can’t remember my life before blogging.

xoxo
Ria

Happy New Year!!!

I finally got some time to get some work done.  I was able to take December 21-22 off with the promise of me working from home.  Yeah.  With the move, Christmas and the furnace going out on both December 21-22 I didn’t get all that much work done.  I’ve been stressing about it.  The power was supposed to be back on in our new house but it is not yet, so I’m still at the house we rented.  It works out well since I feel somewhat accomplished since I packed some boxes earlier.  I felt comfortable sitting down to work without having the other rooms nagging at me.  I’m hopeful our power will be back on tomorrow but we are getting ANOTHER wind storm tonight.  Keep you fingers crossed this won’t affect us.

Anyhow I’m very nostalgic today.  I keep having clips of memories flit through my brain.  It’s very distracting! It makes me go back to my journal and reminisce or look at old pictures (mostly I’m making the most ridiculous faces!  *blush)

Is everyone ready for New Year’s Eve?  I don’t have any major plans, just hoping to be unpacking and setting up my office.  I know I’m so exciting.

I’ve caught up on my google reader.  It sounds like everyone had a pretty good Christmas. 

Holy Crap People!  Seriously this is supposed to be my winter break.  Break meaning I should be sitting on my ass watching tv, reading books, walking my dogs, shopping, getting to go to the black belt class.  Instead I’m moving boxes and being so exhausted that all my days are blurring together.

So the news people.  We bought a house.  You might remember that this house hunting started back in February and there were many heartachesand horrors with losing houses to higher bids and then finally a mortgage falling through one week before closing.   Then there was a house that we put a bid in on and we later pulled out.  I wasn’t ready to buy a house.  That was six months ago and the truth?  I still am not ready to buy a house.  But this house that we purchased was perfect and it kind of miraculously fell into our laps.  It was everything we had on on WANT/NEED list.  It’s 3 bedrooms, 1.5 bathrooms, basement, 2.5 car attached garage and the best part?  .5 acres.  That’s a perfect sized backyard for our 3 doggies.

When we put our bid in on it even our realtor told us not to get our hopes up.  There were other offers and it was move-in ready in a really nice neighborhood.  It’s wooded and quiet.  A lot of bang for our  buck.  (Did you get the reference to Property Virgins on HGTV?  No?)

So we moved this weekend.  But guess where I am right now, and not because I don’t have internet at the other house.  I’m at the rental house, my dad’s house.  Why?  Well because of the severe wind storm we had on Saturday the power went out along with like 230,000 people.  And it’s still not back on. DTE estimates that we should have it back tomorrow evening by 11:45pm.  But possibly not since we are under another severe wind alert.

Truth be told I’m scared shitless of owning a house.  Most people would be excited.  Me, not so much.  Not yet anyway.  Maybe it will change.

So that is the news.  I own (at least partly) a house and we can’t stay there because there is no power, which means no heat.  It has a fireplace but it doesn’t warm up the house enough and we have to worry about the temperatures for the (guinea) pigs.

I hope your Holiday break is much more relaxing than mine! (and I know I don’t sound thrilled, I sound ungrateful, but that’s how I am when big things happen)

xoxo

Ria

I’m so not ready to write my christmas post or am I ready to tell you why the hell I’ve been so busy.  Mostly because I have no pictures yet.  So my hope is next week since tomorrow is a BIG day.  If you’ve been paying close attention to my tweets you might kind of know what’s going on.

Anyhow…

I’m not a huge “YAY it’s Christmas” person.  I try and it’s usually halfhearted.  Mostly because Christmas really makes me miss my mom.  But I LOVE Christmas Eve.  I especially love the cheesy christmas carol tradition and singing the 12 days of Christmas.  So I’ll leave you with the video I took.  It’s quite short and very unfocused.  You can blame that on all the wine I drank.

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the traditional carols from ria leilani on Vimeo.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday!!

xoxo