The house on which we made an offer--you may remember from the last blog post that it was a short sale--has "anti-miraculously" gone off the market. We will probably not get it, although there is a non-zero chance we still could. Thus we have our first gloves-off encounter with the wild and crazy world of real estate. Also known as competitive back-stabbing.
Bird was crushed. We have self-medicated to some degree. Katie went on a shopping spree for Evi; true to Bird form, however, she got everything like 75% or more off the retail price. The clothes are super cute. She is also in planning overdrive for Evi's 2-year birthday party. As for myself, I convinced my good friend to drive down from Seattle and accompany me to Newport, OR where I was playing with the local symphony. After rehearsal, he and I went to Local Ocean and ate a GREAT locavore seafood dinner and then spent some quality-time at the Rogue Public House where we tried many, many samplers of their draft beer and spirits (such as hazelnut rum--delicious if a bit too sweet!), most unavailable at stores up here. We bought two gigantic Dungeness crabs and took them back to the fam. Katie's sister, Courtney, and I cracked the crabs and we had a seafood feast that night. I plan on using leftovers to make crab bisque tonight. Okay, enough obsessing about self-medicating through food.
Now it's back to house-hunting and preparing for Baby Girl #2, who is scheduled to arrive in early January, but who, if she displays her mother's penchant for financial wizardry and economy, will be born on Dec. 31 to take advantage of the tax credit that parents get for having children.
(Wow, only a week between posts...who knew we'd be so quick to post again after the last one? Not I!)
Monday, September 20, 2010
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Oh Crap
Man, we just never post here any more. Luckily, we are very diligent about posting new stuff to our flickr account every couple of weeks or so for the three or four of you who actually care enough to check in on us from time to time (or have an RSS feed). But I feel I have to write SOMETHING, since my cousin just started a blog about her Spanish study abroad and put a link to our blog on hers. D'oh. All her friends are going to think we're totally lame....if they even click through, which they probably won't, since they are all busy college students and majoring in either Applied Apathy or Comparative Anatomy and too lazy or busy, respectively, to actually follow the link on her blog.
Anyhooo...we just had a very pleasant visit from some NYC friends. We never miss the city itself, but we DO miss our friends. It is great for them to visit us here, especially since it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to travel. Especially since Katie is pregnant. Now, there are two reactions a person can have after reading that last sentence. If yours was "HOLY CRAP!! HOW LONG? WHEN'S THE DUE DATE?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?!?" then I am sorry that you had to find out this way. We are bad friends. But you'll be happy to know we are having another girl and everything is going well so far. We both read a hilarious (an hilarious? ...what's the proper article here?) book recently called "Waiting for Birdy" about a woman with a kid who is pregnant. Witheringly funny. But raises some good questions about how to prep the current kid, who is at the moment the center of the universe, to become something like Pluto AFTER its demotion to not-a-planet. I hope Evi likes TV, because she's probably going to watch a lot more of it come January. She'll probably also have a subsistence diet of flat Coke and day-old mac and cheese.
Our cat, Ringo, is becoming quite the porker. Recently, we learned from our Chinese neighbors that "Ringo LOVES Chinese food." Evi says this like a mantra now. It's pretty cute, but slightly socially awkward at the mall when we are around other Asians.
I am playing several symphony concerts in the next few weeks. Yay. My multi-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars graduate degrees are paying off! Time to start debt repayments! Katie is working a lot (refer to last sentence). And, oh, we're buying a house. Oh wait! You didn't know that either?! Go back to the last paragraph and re-read the sentence that says we are bad friends. The house was a short sale, which means we get it as is, so there are a few cosmetic things to do to it before we move in, and it took the seller's bank like 3-4 months to get back to us. So, we're looking at a fun few months where we buy and renovate a house while simultaneously flying to Hawaii for my brother's wedding (lemme guess...you didn't know about that either?) and then have another kid. FUN TIMES. I'd hate to see what busy people's lives are like. If I never post again, you'll know it's because Katie took a heavy-gauge nail gun to my ocular cavities during home renovations.
So that's the current post in a nutshell. The rate we're going, regarding our sporadic blog posts, check back next time for a report on Evi's high school graduation and the latest news about our state-of-the-art, laser-guided pig farm. Did I mention the pigs will play symphonic music while harvesting hazelnuts? Oink.
PS. After reading over this post, I now firmly believe I should always post after drinking a couple glasses of wine (as I have just done). Stream of consciousness blogging is so much more random and spontaneous. All hail the unfettered authorial Id.
Anyhooo...we just had a very pleasant visit from some NYC friends. We never miss the city itself, but we DO miss our friends. It is great for them to visit us here, especially since it is becoming increasingly difficult for us to travel. Especially since Katie is pregnant. Now, there are two reactions a person can have after reading that last sentence. If yours was "HOLY CRAP!! HOW LONG? WHEN'S THE DUE DATE?! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!?!?" then I am sorry that you had to find out this way. We are bad friends. But you'll be happy to know we are having another girl and everything is going well so far. We both read a hilarious (an hilarious? ...what's the proper article here?) book recently called "Waiting for Birdy" about a woman with a kid who is pregnant. Witheringly funny. But raises some good questions about how to prep the current kid, who is at the moment the center of the universe, to become something like Pluto AFTER its demotion to not-a-planet. I hope Evi likes TV, because she's probably going to watch a lot more of it come January. She'll probably also have a subsistence diet of flat Coke and day-old mac and cheese.
Our cat, Ringo, is becoming quite the porker. Recently, we learned from our Chinese neighbors that "Ringo LOVES Chinese food." Evi says this like a mantra now. It's pretty cute, but slightly socially awkward at the mall when we are around other Asians.
I am playing several symphony concerts in the next few weeks. Yay. My multi-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars graduate degrees are paying off! Time to start debt repayments! Katie is working a lot (refer to last sentence). And, oh, we're buying a house. Oh wait! You didn't know that either?! Go back to the last paragraph and re-read the sentence that says we are bad friends. The house was a short sale, which means we get it as is, so there are a few cosmetic things to do to it before we move in, and it took the seller's bank like 3-4 months to get back to us. So, we're looking at a fun few months where we buy and renovate a house while simultaneously flying to Hawaii for my brother's wedding (lemme guess...you didn't know about that either?) and then have another kid. FUN TIMES. I'd hate to see what busy people's lives are like. If I never post again, you'll know it's because Katie took a heavy-gauge nail gun to my ocular cavities during home renovations.
So that's the current post in a nutshell. The rate we're going, regarding our sporadic blog posts, check back next time for a report on Evi's high school graduation and the latest news about our state-of-the-art, laser-guided pig farm. Did I mention the pigs will play symphonic music while harvesting hazelnuts? Oink.
PS. After reading over this post, I now firmly believe I should always post after drinking a couple glasses of wine (as I have just done). Stream of consciousness blogging is so much more random and spontaneous. All hail the unfettered authorial Id.
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