The House

Ok, I've been slacking on the blog but now I have some exciting news to blog about. Well it's probably not news to anyone anymore, but I thought I'd blog about it nonetheless since I'm UBER excited about the whole thing.

The news (for those of you who might not know)!? I'm buying a house!!!

It's 95% of the way there (the purchase process). Just waiting on the window company to get back to me with an estimate for new windows and doors so I can get that rolled into the mortgage then I'm off to secure financing. Then…then…then IT'S TIME! Time to gut that pig's basement and time to refinish all the hardwood upstairs and lay some tile in the kitchen and washroom upstairs and new sinks, and new shower downstairs, and then, and then and then….HAHA, WOOT!

I know it's going to cost me a bunch, but screw it! Yah, that's right SCREW IT! I want to make this project brand new so I don't have to worry about any renovating for years to come. It's got tons of potential and I'm going to bring it to it's prime again!

As I said, the upstairs is all hardwood and the interior doors are all two-toned pine that are in mint condition! The baseboards are 5 – 6 inches wide and it's all old oak! Oh, and for those of you who don't know…a cement truck ripped down the telephone line going to the house last week and in doing so tore off half the siding on one half of the house…OH NO RIGHT?! WRONG, apparently they don't make that shitty aluminum siding anymore, so the current home owners' insurance has to pay to repair it, meaning that they most likely have to reside the ENTIRE house with new siding! HAHA, so new windows, doors, the roof is new and now FREE new siding! How sweet is that?

Oh, and a bunch of other nice features too, like a fire place upstairs (wood) and newer cupboards, etc…!

WAWAWEEWA! I can't wait to get started. Hmmm, I get three weeks vacation at the beginning of July, perhaps I'll use a week of that to bust my ass at the house…we'll see.

Anyhow, assuming everything goes as planned I'll be having a house warming party in the late summer / early fall!

Cheers!
Andrew

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone, here’s hoping 2006 is good to us all.

I’m not a huge believer in resolutions, but this year I’ve decided to try the whole “resolution” thing out anyways and see how it treats me.

My resolutions are as follows:

1. Only play in one “serious” game of poker a month (leaving the door open to as many $5 and $10 games I can get my hands on!)

2. Only go down to the bars once a month

3. Spend less by going out less for dinner etc.

4. My first investment contribution (for my house) has come out of the bank, my goal now is to live off what I have left from my monthly pay without having to interrupt my monthly investment schedule.

So there you have it, my New Year’s Resolutions.  Comments with your resolutions (if you have any) are appreciated – comments by Randall mocking my resolutions are expected!

Cheers!
Andrew

“If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes Mr. Brave man, I guess I’m a coward.”

-Jack Handey

Short and Sweet

Well, I’m not going to write a huge blog AGAIN today. Something short and sweet for the three readers I have!

Hmmm, ok I lied…I couldn’t think of anything. So here goes a long winded attempt at another “deep” blog.

Yesterday Amy (friend and colleague) mentioned this site where you could write yourself an email and have it sent to yourself in the future. SOOOO, if you felt like being deep like Amy and Matt you could write yourself predicting “where” you’ll be in the future! Which apparently is MORE deep then what I thought would make sense, which, was to email myself what I did today so I can get it, say four years later, and say “Hey, yeah, I remember that day!” or “Wow, I did that?”. Anyhow, I think they are both good ideas! GUYS!!!
So, with that being said, I was reminded of how many times in the past I tried to “landmark” certain events in my mind so that I could look back on them and remeber those moments. For example, my last week at my first job I tried to take certain “snapshots” of the place so I could look back and remember those moments. Guess what…didn’t work! lol Not sure if it’s because I have the brain capacity of a squirrel or if because I just have a bad memory but for whatever reason, I can’t remember what it was I was trying to capture.

So, where am I going with all this!? Good question, I’m not sure I know…all I know is that I’m about to turn 25 and I can’t remember a damn thing! AHHHH

Since I was so “deep” in my blog, in closing I’d like to leave you with this “deep” quote:

“At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be “Clark Kent, Dentist,” because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, “How’s my back tooth?” and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, “Oh it’s okay,” then the patient would probably say, “Aren’t you going to take an X-ray, stupid?” and you’d say, “Aw fuck you, get outta here,” and then he probably wouldn’t even pay his bill.”

- Jack Handey