I am at work early, because the pooky is sick at home, and fiannaharpar is home with her. The poor girl is just extra congested and not feeling well. The kicker was that when we were shopping yesterday she wanted me to carry her and she fell asleep on my shoulder. That hasn't happened in... forever. I hope she gets to feeling better today.

What sucks is that I have a little bit of the same thing. Some sinus pressure, congested, little sore spot in my throat. This is the wrong week to get sick, bucko. I'm taking daytime gelcaps, hopefully that and a boat load of fluids will, as Benny Hill said, cut short its visit.

Yesterday was busy. Church was good, finally working on the Ellingboe Requiem during Sunday morning choir practice (haven't been able to make it to Thursday evening practices for a long time), and since we're performing it in two weeks it's nice to start reading it. When I came home it was spring cleaning! Lots of laundry, fridge and freezer cleanout, and bedroom fixin'-uppin'. Our bedroom, thanks to my wonderful wife, looks clean and great now. So does the kitchen. It looks and feels really nice.

fiannaharpar, when you read this, know that I love you and can't wait to see you this afternoon. Kiss the punkin on the head for me. Hope you both have a good day.

Our dryer is now operational. Woo-hoo! No more laundromat! Boy, we have a phone line that works, a dryer that works, what's with all this functional stuff? (don't answer that!!)

Also in the news, I'm in the middle of a two-hour delay caused by the snow. Blissful silence at work!

Staying home today cuz la munchkina had a fever yesterday and she's all snurfly and schtuffy. Otherwise, she's really feeling ok. Currently she's tooling around her Ikea castle and tunnel that sk4p bought her for her birthday. And she loves it. ...well, until I take away the plastic rod that she was using to bang on the wall and other things. Now she's throwing a fit. Tough to be a toddler.

So, the other challenge of today will be to call MCI and get real honest-to-goodness phone service to our house after getting the old Verizon line disconnected after almost a month of living here. Seems the owners never cut off phone service. Jeesh. Anyway, the challenge is made more, well, challenging due to the fact that cell phone reception here sucks. So, if this can happen, then we just might have a real phone that can dial real long distance today!

Kid wants on the lap- gonnna wrap this up.

It's ours!! It's ours!! Waa-ha-haaaa!!!

*AHEM*

As I was saying, we successfully closed on our house in Allison Park today, despite the numbnut FHA assessor, who has five too many letters in her occupation. The owner clearly was going to be miss the house, but we were told, "If anyone's going to buy it, I want it to be them." We also unexpectedly recieved a lovely congratultions card from our agent, and a gift card for Home Depot! Woo-hoo! She's been so good to us, despite random flakiness here and there. She wants us to keep in touch and warns of unexpected drop-ins to see how we're doing. :-)

In fact, as we speak my sweetie is over at the new house with cleaning supplies. And I bet she's squeeing. Right now. She won't admit it, but she squeed. Just ask rani23. Squeed, I tell you.

Oh, and sweetest friend EVAR goes to ommkarja today for the card we recieved at the new house today, before we closed, offering us the warmest wishes and congratulations. Sara, you rock. We're putting that card up in the house once we find a place for it, because it's the first piece of mail we've recieved there. We miss you bunches and bunches.

Oh, and, We have a new house!!!