Rambling On

I've not spent enough time on my blog lately, but I'm so very thankful for all of your comments. I've been swamped with work, house guests, a little travel thrown in and general busy-ness.

Some of what's been going on:

The house is still in contract negotiations. It looks like everything is coming together and that the contact part should be finalized on Monday or Tuesday. We entered into escrow earlier this week. I'm excited.

It looks like my landlord will let me out of my lease 2 weeks early, which isn't much, but it will save me half a month's rent. Enough to buy the new couch for the guest room I want.

I won a contest at work and have $850 in VISA gift cards. I'm definitely using that towards new condo stuff.

My Benevolent Blogger Project is moving along nicely and taking up much more of my time than my original commitment which I'm happy about. I'm thinking it's about 20 hours a month. I've also joined the Junior Board of Chicago Cares and committed to being a Project Service Manager for the Serve-a-thon in June.

I had a super third date with a new boy last night. He's just great and that's about all I have to say about that.

Check out Jon Stewart's interview with Jim Cramer. I highly recommend that you watch the entire interview.

I've lost another five pounds for a total of 19 pounds since January 1. I'm pretty happy with that. New jeans are in the future. I need to get back to the gym. When I was sick, I couldn't go and now I've just slacked. It's been a month...the excuses have to stop.

I don't have any travel planned for a bit. I'll be in Arizona for Easter and then I head to NYC for a weekend for work. In between, Brian will be visiting for a long weekend. I'm dreading the though of how hot it will be in Phoenix.

Work is going really well, more responsibilities and more time, but I'm so lucky to work for such a great company through these economic times. This coming week is going to be a crazy one.

I need to do laundry this weekend.