The Longest Post, EVER!!!!

OMW! I am SO SO SO behind on blog-related stuff!!!! Not only do I have a million pics to post, Poetry Thursday to post, and random CAC things to do, but....

I haven't updated you all in the boring details of my life in ABSOLUTELY EVER!!!!! So... boring details of my life, here we come!!!!

Next Monday, I go to a loan company to OFFICIALLY apply for the loan! Everyone cross your fingers and toes! They say it will take about 2 weeks to close on the loan. The rate is decent (far better than I would have gotten at the roomate's bank) and fixed, payments are doable, and life is just generally good!!!! (Don't know about "the loan"? I originally posted about it here.)

I cleaned out a gutter!!! YES! I conquered the fear of heights, got on the ladder, and cleaned out the front gutter! There were plants growing in it BTW, but unfortunately I forgot to take a pic of the biggest one like I planned. It was a very nice grassy plant. I was impressed! However, the other gutters are way higher, too high for me to reach, even with the ladder. :o( Maybe James can help. Or maybe I can get a better ladder, the lean-on-stuff kind instead of the fold-up-OMG-I'm-gonna-fall-and-die kind.

Speaking of James... my birthday is in a week and a half, and the rumor-mill has it that James is planning to take me out! YIPPEE!!!! *happy dance*

Remember last year, when I ranted about rolling over and hitting my head on the side of the bedside table? Well, I did it again. I have scary bruise (not visible, just a little swolen and VERY painful) above my eyebrow! It hurts to raise one eyebrow, which evidently I do a lot more often than I realized!

I have conquered more of the back yard wilderness... the poison ivy is slowly but surely meeting it's doom! Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!! I will have to show you all some pics of the back inside-the-fence yard soon, so you can see before & after pics.

Speaking of the back yard.... Our Photo Thursday challenge on CAC last week was: Take some pics out your front door! Well, I was slightly, accidentally, obedient... LOL I was angrily taking pics of the disorder the city had caused in my yard while re-replacing our sidewalk that they just replaced last year. So, here are some pics of my front yard:

This is the yard, and my little tree. they dug up the areas all around the sidewalk, and haven't bothered to fill them in yet.... at least, not with dirt. Instead, they have filled them up with...

Starbucks containers! That is SO UNFAIR! I don't get to drink the starbucks, but I have to live with the debris? What?! No way. Also notice the cement in the ground... where I planned to plant flowers! You can't plant flowers in cement... *ranting*

And Caution tape!!!! Woo hooo! I always wanted some caution tape. I think I'm going to take it out of the ground and use it to decorate! LOL

Also, while examining my little 'hood, I found out that someone had an accident in front of my neighbor April's house! Neither of us knew there had even BEEN an accident, until we found this:


Debris!!!! The city didn't clean it up after the crash! How annoying. I took a piece of it home to show you all, but forgot to take a close-up pic. Sowwy.

This week, for Photo Thursday, we're supposed to take a pic of ourselves at our desk. Well.... my arms aren't very long, and it's very hard to take pics of yourself with your own cell phone, so this is what you're stuck with!!!! LOL

Notice the papers in back of me? I was at work, at my desk there! Those are my papers that I was working on! Isn't that impressive? LOL

This is also me at my desk at work. To the right, you see my way-cool new adding machine! To the left you see a box of Kleenex that my Aunt Barbara gave me, the edge of my staple remover (the cheap crappy kind) and my Sacred Blue Pen (Touch it and die!)

And last, but not least, this week's Poetry Thursday challenge was to base a poem on an image.

In honor of Tammy the Warrior, who encouraged me to let out my inner poet, we have a simple haiku. My first haiku in fact.

Springs first white petals
Greeting us from the cold ground
Hope of warmer days