Thankful

Have I mentioned lately how wonderful my life is?

Here's how this week lines up, so you can see.

Monday: Easy start to the week plus overtime plus ice cream for dinner
Tuesday: Soccer, then D comes home FINALLY
Wednesday: Hump day/hang out with mah boyyyyyyyfrien'
Thursday: Soccer. (It doesn't take much to please me?)
Friday: Date night
Saturday-Saturday: Fly to Boston and spend a whole week on Nantucket.

See? Plus, in this time we should close on the house, set a date to move in, and become real homeowners. Amazing.

Excess

I love living in California for a lot of reasons. The weather, the proximity to home, the local events. Mostly, though, I love the produce. Maybe a little too much.

Right now I have a ridiculous amount of fruits and veggies in my apartment. Wanna know why? First, one of my favorite things to do on Saturday mornings is head to the Santa Monica farmer's market. The produce is all locally grown, usually picked the day before, fresh, ripe, and tasty. Second, my patients brought in a bunch of ripe stuff that they grew at home. That's organic, right? Third, one of my favorite grocery stores from home, Sprouts, just opened a location in Culver City and I went to check it out today for the first time

Here's what I have right now.

3 Oranges
1 Apple
1 Watermelon
2 Cantaloupe
2 lbs cherries
4 kiwi
5 peaches
3 lbs apricots
10 lemons
3 limes
1 bag spinach
3 onions
2 green peppers
1 red pepper
5 tomatoes
6 bananas
4 cartons of blueberries
1 nectarine
4 zucchini
1 avocado

What in the world am I going to do with all of this?

Got It :)

Offer accepted. In escrow. Holy crap.

Nervous Habits

I was nervous today. I also wasn't working today, which made being nervous that much worse.

Apparantly I cook when I'm nervous and have nothing else to do.

Today I made:
Dulce de Leche
Brownies (with the dulce de leche)
Gnocchi
Tomato Sauce for said gnocci
Roasted Beets
Peach Ice Cream

I also swept the entire place and did all the laundry. D is going to wish I were nervous more often :)

Gasp!

We're putting an offer in on a house tomorrow.

YAY/WHATTHEHELLAREWEDOING?!?!?!

Up for Air

Week 1 of the WC is over. Its been amazing. And fun. And I have NOT slept enough.

The US looks to be in about as good a shape as a team could be after 2 games and 2 ties. We hold our future in our hands and play the weakest team in the group. If we win and England wins (and the goal differential holds up) we'll even advance first. And not have to face Brasil. Fantastic.

House hunting is going, neither well nor poorly. We've seen some houses we've liked, and a lot more that we didn't like. We've seriously considered putting offers on a few; unfortunately (or fortunately) they both went off the market today. But we have a much better idea of what we are looking for now, and I think we're both in a place where we are much more ready to move on something if it comes up. Now, its just a matter of time...

That being said, house, please please please please please pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeee come up sooner rather than later. Please?

Holding my breath...

Soccer Stuff (and a Disclaimer)

This article - Zidane refuses to apologize. And he shouldn't have too - it was still one of the most amazing dirty plays in sports history. And I hate Italy.

Thanks for caring, Prince William. See you Saturday :)

But that article does win for having the best comment: Chris H said "At the end of this match, all of England will still have bad teeth."

Can I be Samuel Eto'o's teammate (Truth: I really just wanted to write the word Eto'o's)

Messi snores. Who cares? He's electrifying.

Elton John is still a classy guy.




Disclaimer: All I will talk about for the next month is soccer and houses. You've been warned.