Hours from being a home owner...

In 2 hours i will sit down at a table with my attorney, my realtor, and a fat check, and become a home owner for the first time. I have been told several times this week that I am about to be come a 'grown up'...I guess b/c now if something breaks I have to fix it? I'm not really sure. As I take a second to reflect on exactly what I'm about to do, and what all it has taken me to get here, It is hard to comprehend that I have only been out of Milligan for 4 years. I can remember sitting in Williams 104 dreaming of living in this city...having serious doubts if I would have the balls to pull it off...but knowing it is the place I really wanted to be. I remember a couple years ago visiting someone in this building I'm about to move into and think...wow, this place is awesome I would love it here but I could never afford this. Over the past few weeks I have been stressed, I have not slept, I have not ate, my eye has twitched for 3 days....maybe a Quarter Life Crisis...or maybe it is just part of "growing up"...either way I have been blessed.

Kerry Wood...

Kerry Wood pitched a great game Sunday afternoon...then sat next to a friend of mine at the evening service at my church.

Ashton...I would have not guessed...

I totally have a thing for Ashton Kutcher...maybe it was seeing him on Oprah...maybe its that funny tounge thing he does...maybe it was the dream, I'm not sure. I really am not a big celeberty follower, I don't really have favorite actors and I didn't really think he was my type....until now...I even stayed up late to watch him on Jay Leno. I thought I would have picked the Brad Pitt type or something...but not the Ashton type...but geesh I was wrong.
I saw the previews for his new movie when I saw Fever Pitch and it looked really good...but he was talking about it tonight and the thought of watching 2 people dance around their feelings for each other over a 7 year stretch sounds exhausting, not sure it's worth the 10 bucks, but I would really like to see how it ends...

For right now...I'm going to go have sweet dreams of Ashton...watch out Demi.

It's good to know that the traditions continue...

This story put a smile on my face....different students, differant Buffy...same prank...I love it....

Survey Says?

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Oh I wish I was an Oscar Myer Wiener...

The only way to go... 

Check out the article, if you need a quick smile...

2 Good Things

Tonight a friend and I went and saw Fever Pitch. Baseball and a romantic comedy...how great is that? The only way it could have been better is if it was about the Cubs winning the World Series but hey, I feel like Boston fans share a common bond with us so I'm okay with it...well, we use to at least. Coming out of college, if there was one other place I wanted to live, it was Boston. I had been there once and had really liked the feel of the city...after seeing that movie I think I could even be a Boston Fan. It's not a whole lot different from being a Cubs fan...again, before last October. It made me even more excited for June 10th when Boston makes an appearance at Wrigley. I already feel like it's not about who wins or loses that game...not that I won't be pulling for the Cubs...there's more to it then that, the movie just got me really excited to have tickets...

The movie did bring out a small serge of insecurity in me though...in the flick, Jimmy Fallon plays a crazed fan and everything in his house has something to do with the Red Sox...this came off as very funny to everyone in the theater...but I have started accumulating a lot of Wrigley Field/Cubs pieces...just this afternoon I was framing some historical pictures of Wrigley I got...I want to be tasteful but not tacky...but the Cubs door mat that my dad bought me for my Birthday may pushed that over the edge...

The End of an Era...

As I sit on my couch amongst boxes of cherished belongings...I begin to hear sawing not to far away...I get up and peek out the window and see that the landscaping guy aka the guy that lives next door..aka the president of the condo board...is cutting down the only living thing in the court yard. There is one medium size tree housed in the courtyard that peeks up through the three levels of the building...in the city, where tree's are precious it's a pleasant site in the spring to see the green buds and in the fall its a colorful indicator of the long winter ahead...and here he is...just when the first green leaves have started to appear...cutting down the only living thing in the complex...a rush of sadness pours over me...the tree, that has been growing there, probably since the building was built...now dead. I'm no tree huger but it's an end of an era...and had I not been moving in 10 days it would be hard for me to sit here and watch...another sign it's time to move.

Last item that I found amusing....this is an old CTA card for public transportation I found. 

Milligan Steps up its campaign to get funding...