yes, it's true, i'm finally starting my search for a place to "call my own". i've finally come to that point in my life where the idea of owning a place or being committed to a location doesn't seem to be so bad anymore...at least not that bad.
i actually started looking a couple of weekends ago. cassie took me around the different beacon hill areas and we went to a couple of open houses. my first open houses ever! i still can't believe i'm doing this. i have to admit, i'm pretty overwhelmed with everything and i have a kinda nervous laugh everytime i talk about it. hopefully i'll get more comfortable with the idea as the search gets going.
this week i contacted a real estate agent and setup an initial talk with a lender. there's so much new jargon to learn and all of these numbers to remember. i'm soooo NOT a numbers person. i pray that God will give me a lender who can talk "my" talk. at least i feel totally comfortable with my real estate agent.
i'm also finding out how i should have sympathized a lot more with those friends of mine who went thru this process already. it's a pretty crazy process...it's overwhelming, exciting, stressful and fun all rolled up into one andrenaline filled emotion. or maybe that's just me...i get really caught up with things.
anyways..i guess this means i'll be blogging more...or at least i'm going to try. you only buy your first house once, right?
Thursday, March 31, 2005
Monday, March 28, 2005
Easter 2005
hmmm...easter this year was a bit different. i didn't go to good friday service this year...i scheduled something on that night before i realized it was good friday. that's kinda how it was this year...easter arrived quickly and was over before i knew it. really kinda lame...totally my bad.
i did find the "american celebration" of easter quite intriguing this year. i remember my first easter after becoming a christian. i was amazed at how i had grown-up celebrating easter every year with a big family get-together, but no one in my family is Christian. i wondered on that first easter, what were we celebrating and why didn't i question our celebration earlier?
now that easter has a more real and powerful meaning to me, it still amazes me that so many people in this country celebrate easter without the real meaning. one person at work on friday even said to me, "isn't there some holiday this weekend? oh yeah, easter....we should have an easter egg hunt or go to dinner or something." i wanted to ask them why they felt compelled to celebrate it, but didn't know how to say it in a tactful way. i was also surprised to learn that the stock market takes good friday off, and that shopping malls are closed on easter sunday.
it intrigues me that easter is such a recognized holiday...i mean it's a good thing (i think), but weird that many people celebrate it but don't realize what it is that they are celebrating. but i guess that's the same with christmas. but i don't think it's SO weird for christmas b/c it is the "nicer" holiday...marketing-wise. hmmm...it's sad that we (me included) are so easily blinded and can't see God standing there right in front of us with open arms...he's standing there with the gift of forgiveness and life with Him, paid with His sacrifice for us b/c of his love for us...and we just walk (and often times run) on by...
i did find the "american celebration" of easter quite intriguing this year. i remember my first easter after becoming a christian. i was amazed at how i had grown-up celebrating easter every year with a big family get-together, but no one in my family is Christian. i wondered on that first easter, what were we celebrating and why didn't i question our celebration earlier?
now that easter has a more real and powerful meaning to me, it still amazes me that so many people in this country celebrate easter without the real meaning. one person at work on friday even said to me, "isn't there some holiday this weekend? oh yeah, easter....we should have an easter egg hunt or go to dinner or something." i wanted to ask them why they felt compelled to celebrate it, but didn't know how to say it in a tactful way. i was also surprised to learn that the stock market takes good friday off, and that shopping malls are closed on easter sunday.
it intrigues me that easter is such a recognized holiday...i mean it's a good thing (i think), but weird that many people celebrate it but don't realize what it is that they are celebrating. but i guess that's the same with christmas. but i don't think it's SO weird for christmas b/c it is the "nicer" holiday...marketing-wise. hmmm...it's sad that we (me included) are so easily blinded and can't see God standing there right in front of us with open arms...he's standing there with the gift of forgiveness and life with Him, paid with His sacrifice for us b/c of his love for us...and we just walk (and often times run) on by...
Monday, March 07, 2005
You're Fired!
No, not me...and not you (i hope). But some people are getting the ax for their blogs. crazy!
on to a similar subject, the company i'm working at has some super nazi-like security restrictions. i've been cut-off from all web based email sites and instant messengers. and then, when i finally thought i had found a tiny opening to the outside world...i discovered the new web versions of instant messengers...they cut that off too!
what's going on with companies these days! do they really think they are improving productivity with all these restrictions?! hmmm...i hope i don't get axed for these comments...
on to a similar subject, the company i'm working at has some super nazi-like security restrictions. i've been cut-off from all web based email sites and instant messengers. and then, when i finally thought i had found a tiny opening to the outside world...i discovered the new web versions of instant messengers...they cut that off too!
what's going on with companies these days! do they really think they are improving productivity with all these restrictions?! hmmm...i hope i don't get axed for these comments...
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