Movin and Groovin

We started moving today! We don't officially close until Monday, but the owners let us have the keys on Friday. I took a bunch of pics but left the camera over at the new house, so I will post all the "before" shots sometime soon.

We have already made a few improvements: Matt installed a new wax ring for the toilet (an absolutely disgusting, yet neccesary task), I replaced all the nasty gold cabinet hardware with new "brushed nickel" (oh so trendy). And we went down in the crawl space to patch up the furnace ducts. I tell you, that was an adventure! We were down there duct taping the ducts (how appropriate) when I looked over and saw a little pair of beady green eyes staring at me through the darkness. FREAK OUT. Turned out to just be a nice fat cat with a collar, so I guess he was just out for a nap in our CRAWL SPACE. Weird cat. Guess I'm the skerrdy cat! It's not so fun to jump three feet when you're in a three foot crawl space...

Now we are back at the old house swaping the washer/dryer that came with the new house for our set. I use the term "we" rather loosely. You all know I have no muscles :) Poor husband is doing all the manual laber. He prefers to do the lifting and I do the organizing/cleaning. Works for me! I hate to sweat :)

We'll keep you posted on the new adventure.

In other news, I had a traumatic Friday when I looked down at my wedding ring and a prong was BROKEN OFF. My diamond was just flailing about. Teeter Totter. As if it didn't have a care in the world. This wouldn't be so bad IF 1). Matt hasn't been telling me to get the ring insured for about 4 months 2). It wasn't Matt's mom's diamond that is on the loose 3). I had listened to the jeweler when she told me to sauder the bands together because they were going to rub and a prong would eventually break. So now I look newly engaged with a single band solitaire until I can get my wedding band fixed. Maybe we'll go out tonight and see if people will send champagne to our table as a congratulatory gesture...

Bon Noir mi Amigos

Rose Bowl Blues...

Today the "limited number" of Rose Bowl tickets that Ticketmaster had were released for sale at 11am EST. Matt sent out a huge email to all his co-workers (and some of mine!) pleading for us all to get online and refresh/refresh/refresh until we got some tickets for him and his dad to go watch the Longhorns in Pasadena. Now, this is a HUGE deal for Hubby. He and Dean bought their plane tix in SEPTEMBER because they were so confident that Tx was going to the Rose Bowl (never you mind that they ensured the tix were refundable before they bought them- side note from the token Aggie). Anyway, no such luck with all that clicking going on. I think Ticketmaster must've had about 4 tickets that they released today.
Boooooooo
Hisssssss
So, if anyone has alumni connections or anything along those lines and can get my sweet Hubby tix - let us know!!!!!!!!!!!!! Believe me, you will be Matteo's favorito amigo.