3 MONTHS?!?!?

Golly gee! I knew that I had been slacking on my blog, but 3 MONTHS?! Not like anyone actually reads this anyway, but I was surprised to see just how bad I had been slacking!

For the past couple of months, my husband and I have been in the process of checking out new houses. We already own a two family, that we have been living in for almost 4 years (4 years!) but are ready to have our own single family home, where we don't have to share walls with screaming tenants! The plan is to keep the 2-family, rent out both sides of the duplex, and for us to move into a larger house for ourselves. To this day, we have checked out a dozen houses or so, with no luck. We put an offer in on 1, only to be outbid and the others have just not been to our liking. Although we don't have a huge budget for this house, we both agree that we are not just going to settle for something that we could tolerate. We want to both walk into the house and know that it's for us. This will be the house that we plan on staying in for awhile, so I am going into it looking at how it will accomodate a family, as opposed to when we looked at houses the first time around and I was looking at it for just Brian and myself. I am researching the best neighborhoods, I know which school systems I would prefer, and am looking at yard space as well. Today we are going to check out 3 properties and I am actually quite anxious about it. I have a different feeling today than I did all of the other days we had showings scheduled. Something is telling me that one of these houses could be it. We shall see!

About a month or so ago, I was flipping through the channels and came across a Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals episode on the Food Network. I was glued from the second I started watching it and have since become my own little Rachael Ray. I have never been a big fan of cooking. Not that I didn't like it...I could go either way about it. We would have your typical chicken, rice, and vegetable for dinner and both of us were content. But then when I realized just how easy these recipes were to re-create and how quickly I could make a yummy meal, I was addicted! I have spent a lot of my free time at work scouring her website for recipes and looking through her magazines as well (I scored a full years worth of issues for $15 on EBay!). I have even started using terms such as EVOO and Yum-o. HA!

Well, the phone is ringing here at work, so I'm gonna answer it. I promise I won't let 3 more months pass before I blog again!