Good stuff

Usually the week after a great vacation is somewhat lackluster and dull.  I'm happy to report that my week has been a great one, full of happy things to report.

First of all, our loft is starting to look like a home!  We had our dining room table delivered, so the main living area is pretty much finished, and it looks great! The table looks huge, but we have the extra leaf in it at the moment. Hopefully we can find a place to store the leaf so that the table looks more...small. :) You can also see Will's birthday present in the background. Big ol' TV and entertainment center. We l-o-v-e it! (And amazingly enough, our entire DVD collection fits in that entertainment center...much to our disbelief. Our collection is rather extensive.)

Remember the TV dresser that we got awhile ago that matches our bedroom set, but that we couldn't get upstairs? Well, it's up there! FINALLY! (Amazing what a little bribe to a couple delivery guys can get you.) We actually have a bedroom set! It looks great.

We're finally getting all our pictures up in the game room, and my "vision" for the room is coming together.  We're going for a pub-like atmosphere in the room- cozy, comfy, and (almost) cluttered with pictures on the wall.  Most of our pictures we have are from traveling, so it's worked out well for that room. Now we just have to get some smaller frames up to fill in the holes.

If you look closely, you can see the hats that we plan to wear this weekend because Jimmy Buffett is coming to town tomorrow!!  Cari and Curtis are heading down from the "lake house" to stay with us for the weekend, and we can't wait to show off our hats that we worked so hard to make.  (We jokingly refer to Cari's house as the "lake house" and our place as the "downtown place".  It's great to have the best of both worlds- nice, peaceful, relaxing area to hang out at Cari's place on the lake, and then our place, which is right in the heart of everything downtown.)

In other exciting news, I got out of a parking ticket yesterday morning.  I was parked in a 6 AM to 8:30 AM loading zone and went downstairs around 7 to move my car...and a cop was standing right in front of my car.  I was totally ready to be handed a ticket...but he didn't! He was much more interested in having the car parked in front of me, in a tow zone, get towed. WHEW!

Finally, (and trying not to get too excited) I had an interview yesterday! It went really well, and they called me back for a second interview on Monday.  I'm really hopeful that this job works out, but again, I'm trying not to get too excited.  We'll see how everything works out!

Have a great weekend!