Adventures in House-Buying Land, and Other Details

Once upon a time we tried to buy a house annnnd... it took a very long time. Apparently our seller doesn't actually have the title to the house? And he's in the hospital? So, we're waiting.

I recently had a job interview at the local hospital pharmacy. I was recommended by an employee, so it wasn't a job i had sought and prepared myself for, but I felt that the Lord was giving me an opportunity in one way or another, so I applied. As we are living out of boxes right now, I didn't have anything appropriate to wear, so I went shopping. Skinny girls like me rely on the breadth of shopping available in larger towns to find something that fits properly. There is no breadth here in A-town. There is Maurice's, Stage, little locally-owned cowgirl stores, and Wal-Mart. I ended up at Wal-Mart. In the children's department. I had to buy a pair of pants designed to fit a ten-year-old girl. Good news: I got a pair of suitable trousers. Bad news: I deprived a child of pants. Do note that these pants are about six inches too short and would be better labeled as "capris" on me.

"Let's be clear: This is a fall, not a collapse. He's not been repudiated or even defeated. He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance reform that will restore some of his clout and popularity.

But what has occurred -- irreversibly -- is this: He's become ordinary."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/03/AR2009090302859_pf.html

Verbatim

"I would be ashamed and embarrassed to peddle this." - Greta Van Susteren, regarding H.R. 3200, the House Democrats' health care reform bill

clark and i are looking to buy a house. we kind of came to the decision to buy instead of rent hastily, but the more i pray and think about it, the more i am sure it is the right decision for us. we are learning so much about the house-buying process, and really enjoying it. we got estimates for loans, checked out a ton of properties, did mondo internet research, sought counsel from relatives and are feeling pretty good about where we are now. hopefully soon we will be putting in our first offer :D

other news:
- i dropped my class pretty much before it began; it just wasn't the right time.
- i've been blessed to have my job at the elementary school for the past year or so, and am so glad i got to continue during extended school year.
- clark will be taking his very last college course this fall (yeah!).
- we will be in altus by august 1.
- colored bubbles are now available! (i have waited so... verry.... long..... !!!)


later gators

hello world. since i last blog-posted i have had the flu for a week, quit sonic (they made me work while i was coming down with the flu--NOT COOL), and enrolled in a human anatomy class at OSU-OKC. well, i have done other things, like eating and stuff, but who wants to know about that. you do? okay. while visiting clark's parents we were served Gundelsheim brand original German recipe barrel red cabbage. i guess it is similar to sauerkraut... but better! it is slightly sweet and a little tangy, and clark and i both enjoy it immensely. kae served the cabbage with grilled bratwurst, and i just imitated her meal almost exactly, with the addition of roasted lime broccoli. delicious!

now that food is out of the way, let's discuss my forthcoming summer biology experience. in all of my college years (i graduated high school six years ago this month... yikes!), i have taken many a science class, including lots of biology. that is what you focus on when your intention is nursing school... eventually. but one class i never took was human anatomy, and for good reason! the community college i attended and got my associates in science from was killer in the science department, and their anatomy class was CADAVER DISSECTION. yes, as in the dissection of dead human bodies. i couldn't hack it (no pun intended), so i avoided it and took lots of other classes that are all valuable and necessary. well, fine and good until you actually have to enroll in nursing school (not that i have been accepted yet, but i am anticipating?). completion of a course in human anatomy is a requirement prior to enrolling in the nursing program at WOSC (the two-year school in altus that i hope to attend), and my only available option this summer is another cadaver dissection course at OSU-OKC. which means all this time i have spent avoiding cutting open people has been for naught. sheesh.

there is another important detail of my life: my recent discovery that britain's got talent. makes me cry every time.

good day to you all!