Ready for Spring?

So for the past couple of weeks I have been making a concerted effort to quit sitting on my ass on the days I am not working and actually go outside, enjoy the "fresh" air, and get some exercise. I have set a goal for myself of exercising for at least 30 minutes three times a week. This is actually less than the recommended standard set by the American Heart Association. (However, it would be virtually impossible and probably clinically insane for me to think that I will actually work out or exercise on days that I am working twelve hour shifts. Plus, I feel like I get my share of physical activity at work, so I don't really feel bad about not trying to exercise on those days.)


So far, I have been keeping up with it pretty well, despite my usual day of exhaustion following any span of working several days in a row. In fact, once I finally get motivated to get out there and just do it, I usually feel more energized and generally more motivated to accomplish whatever tasks I may have set out for the rest of the day. That is, until today.


I felt pretty run down this morning anyway, because I had a crazy day at work yesterday and ended up not being able to leave until about 10pm. So I finally peeled myself away from TLC this afternoon around 5:30 and ventured outside for my usual walk/jog through the neighborhood. I felt like it went pretty well, returned to my apartment, and plopped down into the recliner to catch my breath before stretching.


As soon as I sat down, I must have sneezed about 10 times and my nose was an instant running wasteland of snot and general clogginess.... Ugh! My first thought was "Oh crap, I've contracted my Favie's plague/sinus infection that has reduced him to a coughing, snoring, stuffed up and runny nose, sneeze-o-matic 5000 since last weekend." But the more I thought about it, the more I felt like it was a reaction to being outside, since I had been fine all morning.


Weather.com certainly confirmed my suspicions. So apparently I'm allergic to tree pollen. And here's the kicker: Somebody left town for business this morning and took all the damn drugs with him!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Adventures in Housing!

I'm sure that everyone has been waiting on the edge of their seats to find out whether or not our offer was accepted on the house. (And by "everyone" I mean the 3.5 people that actually read this thing...haha!) Well the bad news is that we waited five days to find out that they rejected our first offer. But the good news is that they accepted our second offer two days later! Yay! We are super excited!

Now we are just waiting on the appraisal, our mortgage loan financing, and the closing date. From what I have heard about the mortgage market these days, you just about have to promise them your right arm to prove that you are capable and prepared to actually make your payments. Luckily, our mortgage broker assures us that we should have no problem getting approved. So for now, we are still just waiting to find out where to sign next.

In the meantime, I've started trying to watch some of those really lame HGTV design shows to try to get some ideas for the remodeling that we will have to start almost immediately after we close. I have a few ideas, but whatever we end up being able to do will pretty much all boil down to money. I'm already getting stressed about it, because we're in a bit of a time crunch at this point. After our apartment lease is up at the end of March, the longer we stay in our apartment, the more money we'll have to waste on rent (which will be at an exponentially higher rate than our regular rent because we'll have to pay the month to month rate.... stupid greedy apartment management.) I'm sure we'll get it all figured out in the end, but I'm expecting the next few months to be a busy, stressful roller coaster!

Give it up for Feathers...

I dedicate this video to Georgia Girl (and The Baffled King). I'm just glad to know that I'm not the only one that can get a silly song stuck in my head.