Tights & kitties

Tomorrow we're meeting with a landscaper and a house cleaner for estimates. I wanted to clean everything myself but Ed convinced me to have it cleaned professionally so it's like we're really moving into a new house. And then with the landscaping, our backyard looks like it was stopped halfway through a project and then became overgrown. I'll let ya know how that goes tomorrow.

We had a bit of an uncomfortable moment today. Ok so first off, our home was sold for almost double what we paid for it when it was first built, before the crassssssh. Therefor there's very nice stuff inside it. As i said before we have these fancy pants toilets with slowly lowering lids. The cover of the tank of one of them is very broken so we figured Home Depot would have what we needed. We bring the lid in to show the guy and he *totally* rolls his eyes and was like you need to go to a specialty place....Uuuuh sorry? I swear we're normal :|   

I spent the rest of the day watching Being Human with my mom<3 I would link it but I don't want to search for it and find any spoilers! We have 3 more episodes.

omg steak!

Today was awesome. We went up the coast for a second, it was too cold to actually go down on the beach (how could we forget our sweaters!). Then we tried to check out this old cement plant that's in Davenport but it's completely shut down. There was a security guard and he said he couldn't give us a tour :/ It was kinda eerie because there were about 10-15 cars in the parking lot, they all belong to the plant...it made me think of a twilight zone episode where everyone disappears in the middle of the day.

 We spent some time at Ed's mom's house and visited with our littlest bub, he is hilarious and has some serious dance moves!  

After that we decided to try out one of the *fancy* restaurants in santa cruz. Fancy is subjective but for me a place that serves steak or lobster is usually fancy? right? This is overall a pretty casual town though so it wasnt a big deal that i was in shorts an a tank top and Ed in sandals. So we're seated at a table overlooking the ocean, oh btw the greeter was super snobby so we knew we were in the right place. Ed went to the restroom and while he was gone I heard something that startled me, this couple with 3 kids has an ipad set up on the window sill (ya know where the ocean was...) turned up super loud...OH HELL NO! we moved. I was so irritated by that, it's not fucking fresh choice yo. We totally snobbed the snobs, it was awesome.

We have never been to a nice place like this before,just the two of us, sushi doesnt count, so i was really hoping everything was good so Ed wouldnt be turned off to the idea of doing it again. We had an appetizer of Crostini, I know what youre thinking! How fancy :D that was delicious! Ed had some sort of chicken stuff and i had mocha scrubbed filet mignon, it was sooo soft and delicious! I used to call it bubblegum steak when i was little. Then for desert we had creme brule and I had coffee. Our waiter was super nice and everything was so tasty we also had a great show of what appeared to be a 17 year old couple who had drank an entire bottle of wine and were fighting, the best part was that since they were so wasted they didnt notice me gawking at the whole thing. After that I had a refill of coffee and we went upstairs to see comedy night. We caught the end of the last comic and there were even drunk hecklers that he put in their place. Needless to say it was great and it left a good impression on Ed, yay for me!

Oh! Last night I snuck in Ed's office and put a lil bunny plush i secretly made him on his keyboard<3

Need sleep

I just need one good night of sleep! Something about knowing we're gonna move out of this place has kept me from being able to relax here and sleep well, plus the excitement of moving into the new house. I'm so looking forward to getting settled and knowing we will be staying put for a loooong time. I think then I will sleep well.

Today was our 6 year wedding anniversary and we spent it  relaxing, watching lots of Is It Real? , and snuggling with the cats<3

Catching up: We have a home

    A few months before Super Meat Boy came out we started looking for homes, nothing serious, no realtor just driving around and getting a feel for what was available in town. Before this game we had talked about buying a mobile home but really it's kind of a crazy dream to think of owning a home in santa cruz, this place is expensive! When the game was released we went from thinking we could get a really nice mobile home, to an average home, to possible something better.  Early on we were looking for some listings that we had found online and saw a sign for a place that wasn't on our list. We got out and looked at it and agreed that it was a dream house. I don't know how to explain it, just like the perfect family home that you'd see on tv.  We loved it so much that we decided we would get serious and call the listing agent and call out realtor to tell her we were ready. Unfortunately the listing agent said there was a sale pending. We were very disappointed and I felt like  further house hunting was going to be one big heartache.

   In the meantime we were really tired of our apartment. We had been there 6 years and with the addition of Tammy we were bursting at the seams. We decided we would move to a nice place so that we could  relax while we looked and just enjoy life after the craziness of SMB development. About  3 weeks after we moved into our "temporary house" ours dream house popped back up on the market. The previous sale fell through but those people did negotiate the price down by 50k!

   Our realtor got the keys and we finally got to see inside the house! Let me preface this by saying there are a lot of OLD homes in santa cruz. Almost every other place we had looked at would have needed a ton of work, hideous kitchens with old cupboards, crummy bathrooms etc...This house is 6 years old, has an indepth inspection report with the worst thing on it being doorknob screw missing, just minimal cosmetic stuff. All the walls were painted unique colors, beautiful cupboards, deluxe dishwasher and oven, fancy toilets that have lids that lower themselves slowly, granite counters everywhere and a huge master bath with a corner tub...we were in heaven. Ed said lets go for it and it started. This is about the time i had to give up project 365, because *buying a home is stressful*.

Tommy picking a giant lemon that was growing in the backyard, we have 2 avocado,grapefruit,tangerine and and orange tree!

   The first thing we had to do was meet with a broker and see what kind of loan we could get. We had good credit but a few dings on it that could easily be taken care of. Then there was the business of our taxes. We had filed an extension in 2009 and hadnt had them done yet, so we needed to file for 2009,2010, and do the business taxes before we could move forward. The title company gave us about 40 days to get this done, otheriwise we would have to pay $50 per day to stay first in line if they granted us an extension. We rushed around getting our taxes filed, at this time i really surprised myself at how much ass i kick in the grownup world. we were on track to close escrow as soon as our paperwork was filed...then I start getting some frantic emails that our 2010s have been recieved but not the 2009s this is confusing to me because i see that the IRS and friends have cashed the checks for 2009....it turns out we were sent home with a copy of our taxes to give to our broker and that's it...but our cpa thought we had a copy to send in, i just assumed they were being e-filed. So no taxes filed, our time in escrow is almost up and we need at least a couple weeks for all of this to be processed, plus it's getting closer to actual tax time so that might hold us up even more.  The day we found that out i completely lost my mind, Tommy was visiting and he got to witness this breakdown, what a lucky guy :)  We rushed to our cpa got the documents and overnighted them. Our realtor did an amazing job stalling the bank and our taxes were processed about a day shy  from out deadline.

We closed escrow on April 8th.

It was a surprise and we ran over to get our keys before i could put any makeup on ;)

   We should be moving in by the 1st of May. Right now we are having the remaining carpet replaced with pergo and we've had a few rooms painted. We liked all the colors except for the master bedroom,master bath , and Ed's office. I really couldn't stand the color of the bathroom, it reminded me of pee :x

before

after, lilac

I saved the best news for last!!

This color was already there and I love it!

  I was very  very reluctant to the idea of having a room all to myself and just saying my studio made me feel funny. In the past few months I've gone from working at the couch/coffee table to having a desk so just that was an adjustment.  After thinking about how long I've been making plush and how hard we've worked I really warmed up to the idea. Now it's like of course I should have a studio...this is my job, duh! 

  I already have an awesome desk to put in it! 

Sewing night with Tera<3