Got the computer...it ROCKS!!! Everything is so fast. I installed a few graphics programs last night and I turned around, said something to The DH and when I looked back at the computer it was done.  He actually had to tell me, once, "Uh it's done." We were quite impressed with the speed of my big blue 'puter.

I am going today to look at house #4.  Please think good thoughts for me, that the rooms are large and we'll like it as much (ok, more) than we do now...oh, and we'll be able to buy it soon, if we do like it!

I'm off to go 'hiking' around 7 acres and if everything works out as well as it should, I'll soon be mucking around a creek, that's on my property!

The new Computer

Isn't he PRETTY?!?!?!?! It's a he, I've decided..cars are girls, computers are boys, SO THERE!

Wanna hear about my week? Too, bad...I'm telling you anyway..

TODAY- Go to The Dad's and take pictures of the boat (we're eBaying an old boat, The Dad is sort of taken aback with the whole internet auction thing).

Also Today- I'M GETTIN MY COMPUTER!!! I'M GETTIN MY COMPUTER!!!! YAY MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! So the next time I type to all I'll be on a kick ass awesome PC, thankyouverymuch!

Tomorrow- I am going to look at House #4 with The Mom.  That should take all day, it's about 1.5hrs from where we live currently.

Thursday- My birdbath from Amazon.com will be delivered. Man, was that ever a kick ass deal....I got a wrought iron birdbath (with a pump!) and a windchime for $39....just the birdbath is suppose to be $100, but I got a DEAL on Fri.  Ten I checked Saturday and the 'deal' had gone up $20...so I guess that the Turtlemama knows when she finds a good deal, oh yes sir!

Friday- My windchime is suppose to be delivered. YAY!!

Saturday- Leave for FL. which I'm dreading.  It's like a pilgrimage to see FIL one last time, it's all really fucking weird.  He's only 50, it's not like he's an old old man.  I've gone to see old old men who were dying, and tell them goobye and all that.  But a 50 yr old...dude, that's just fucked up.

I will take my laptop with me to FL (I thought about taking the new PC but it's a desktop/tower and man that would be heavy to tote around, ya know?) I'm not sure if I'll get a chance to update while I'm down there or not.  We'll be back on Weds.  And it'll be good to finally get home...I depise driving, I mean I HATE it...especially the interstate and especially long trips.  Not to mention we have to drive through a state forest, and there are NO COPS (or anyone else for that matter) EVER on that stretch of highway.  Everytime I drive it I think of some horror movie.  Like the car is gonna break down and a bubba with an agenda is going to stop and kill us all or something.  I'm not paranoid, really!

I'll be back tomorrow on the new PC and I'll let everyone know how it's doing! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now off to The Dad's for some picture taking fun, of a 1974 boat...yay.

EYE CANDY!!!!(MY kind of eye candy, sexy men pictures need not apply lol)

A Hibiscus from my mom's....click it...it's pretty cool.

More House Talk.....

Ya know, I'll probably loose a gazillion subscribers talking about house shit, but oh well, it's my blog, and really, I'm just flattering myself by saying that I have a gazillion subscribers to loose!

Anyway, here are a few pictures of the inside of house 4.  Most of them suck, so I only posted these...I'll get better ones when we go to look at it.  We might be going this week, but I'll know more about that later.

This one is my favorite because of the stone archway.  This is looking at the dining room from the kitchen...isn't it AWESOME?!?!

This is the front porch, I think...or something! LOL

Part of the yard...gawd I love that fence!!

Part of the pool.

'The chiminey' as BT calls it (he wants to make sure Santa can still get to us! lol)

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!!!! I am really hoping that the rooms are fairly large.  I keep thinking, "Ok, whoever is in charge of really good stuff in the universe, PLEASE make the rooms BIG, PLEASE!!!"

Right now, the house is very 'country garden/redneck country' and I will make it a kind of modern nature-lover's eclectic mix o' shit.  It'll be BEAUTIFUL!!

Man, he was all pissy, his hood is up and he's glaring at me.

Turtlemama in Need

Yes, that would mean that I am in need of something, nahhh not a labotomy, really, they just make me feel icky...yeah, I've had a few...never works.

ANYWAY...what I need are some positive vibes, or maybe a naked pagan dance around an old tree or something, I dunno....I just need positive energy to flow my way.

I emailed the realtor of the 4th house that I posted the other day..it's here, if you don't remember.  And she sent me TONS o' Pics...it's really a cute house!  And it has a greenhouse, a second building that used to be the owner's retail nursery, a pond, and 7 acres. Don't forget the IN-GROUND POOL!!!! yay!  The rooms, however, look a little small, but it could just be that there was a realtor taking the pictures.  The inside is all varnished wood and stone, and I don't mean that stupid dinky crap that they put in new homes now, I'm talking BIG HUGE HONKIN pieces of stone, stone archways and stone walls, it looks like it could be the inside of a castle...it's absolutely fucking AWESOME!!

The DH and myself have found about 5 houses that we really like, enough to actually want to go look at them.  The problem is the house we're currently in, it has to sell first.  We might be selling it...I don't want to get into details about it, cause I don't want to jinx anything, but that's why we need positive vibes.  We both like the 4th house, but I just found another one with an in-ground pool and a 5-stall horsebarn complete with tack room & loft!!! How cool!!! But, I think it's on a main highway..YUCK!  If/when we go to look at these house, I'll take decent shots and post them for you all You people can help us choose a house, won't that be fun? You have a say in someone's life, and you've never really 'met' them! wheeeeeeeee!

So, if anyone out there could just light a candle for us, or dance around an old tree, no need to be naked unless you just REALLY want to.  Or just send a little positive "BE ABLE TO BUY THE HOUSE!" vibe, that would be wonderful!  Thanks!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled weekend blog review.....

OH! I got my final grades.  Art History-A, Conceptual Design-B..I knew about the B, I just was wishing he'd make it an A and be nice, but he didn't, the bastard. That means my 4.0 is now a 3.75..grrrrrrr

I also got some GREAT pictures of our house finches, I know, I know, you're sooo sick of me and my bird talk...but I'm finally getting good pictures, and seriously, birds are FACINATING to watch!  They squabble and play and help and protect one another...it's really pretty cool....

So, I thought that I had one male house finch and like 3 females, his 'Harem'...I have TWO males and 2 females, there might be a third female, but I'm not entirely sure.  So I've named them, Lucy & Ricky and Fred & Ethel...they are my house finches, yestheyare.

Lucy & Ethel

Click on this one, the female is looking at me and the male is looking at her like, "What WOMAN?!"

That's a female flying to one of my other feeders.

Finches, finches everywhere and not a one to eat!

Ethel's gettin' a little pissy with Fred

"Gawddammit! I told you at the other feeder, LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!"

CRUNCH!

Have a happy Friday and a GREAT weekend!! Less bird pictures and more computer talk next week (IT SHIPPED TODAY!!)

Yesterday's entry was full of grammatical errors, and for that I apologize, it was written about 3 mins after I woke up...the coffee had just started brewing and I was half asleep, not sure what the hell I was thinking typing an entry that soon but I did...anyway...

I finally got a picture (albeit a bad one) of the male house finch..you can sort of see his head at least, his body looks like the female in yesterday's entry...click the picture it's much better bigger.

See he's red, in the sunlight he has hints of purple/maroon.

So, I was searching around realtor.com yesterday looking for houses in the area we live in now, just on at least 1 ac and with a pool.  I found a few but they're still in subdivisions.  So then I think "Heck I'll buy a HUGE house in a subdivision with a pool, YEAH!  So what if I don't have a bazillion acres, I just need at least one acre...let's go look at 'em." And I did....then I started looking at the little line that says "HOA FEES: XXX.XX" and realized that most of them wanted me to pay $400+ a year to live there.  Now, let's sit down and go through this whole HOA (Home Owner's Association) thing with a fine toothed common-sense/reality comb, shall we?

1. You pay some person, that you don't really know, a nice little chunk of change annually or monthly.

2. You have to follow the rules that this person (oh yeah, they're on a committee, so you have like a dozen people that you don't really know..yay!) sets.

3. You're paying for the upkeep, supposedly, of the community pool and tennis courts and possible clubhouse, if they have one, whether you use it or not, you pay for it. (hey, wait! that sounds like the education/school tax that I pay every year..hmmmm)

4.  These people that you don't know a thing about (and gawd forbid you'd actually ask them something so personal as "How did you vote last election? I mean I don't want to give my money to some stranger who has some weird political views, they may make crazy rules or something.") tell you how to live in your house, how your yard should look ,where you can park your cars, what color you can paint your house, etc.

5.  If you fail to follow these rules that the strange people set forth, you get fined and you could even have these people take your house.

Now, call me crazy but that all just seems a little too fucked up for me.  So no thanks HOA dude, I'll keep my $500.

Then, I saw the other day how subdivisions (now they're called 'communities' or 'developments') are being run by BIG CORPORATIONS!!!! How fucked up is THAT? 

 "Look, you can live in this BIG NICE over-priced house and pay a big, nice over-priced mortgage payment, then pay us so much money a year or a month and we'll tell you how to live in your big, nice over-priced house! WON'T THAT BE FUN!?!?! And best of all, We'll get your nosey, gossipy elderly neighbors, or the most annoying soccer moms we can find, to 'run' our development and then you'll have to do what they tell you to!  And they get to set the rules, you don't need a say in it though, because really you're already so busy with your life, let US think for you..you'll be glad we did!"

Yep, I sobered up and went back to looking out in the country for a home with or without a pool, I'll skip the pool just to have the peace of mind that no stupid gossipy nosey soccer moms will be ringing my doorbell telling me I owe them my $500 annual dues or they'll evict me from the house I pay my mortgage on.

Tell me why, again, people actually WANT to live in dictatorship subdivisions???? Can we seriously not think for ourselves? Are we that 'busy' and wrapped up in our own stupid selfishness that we can't even figure out big business is RUNNING our lives???

*Hops off her soapbox and runs for the hills, IN THE COUNTRY!!*

WHERE'S MY FARM!?!?!?!?!?!

PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dude, isn't he cute?!

That's a TITmouse, hehehehehe

A house Finch, the males have a pretty reddish purple head, but he doesn't come around as much as his harem.

Fuck off!

Couple of catbirds without the fuck off look.

Hehehehehehe he crawled on his belly all the way around the feeder with big, puffy cheeks.

A blackbeery archway, I just thought it looked cool.

A sick or disformed cowbird.

Click on this for the full sized one, if you want wallpaper or to print it or something.

I'm going to start working on organizing my picture albums, I'll probably do a seasonal album in nature...that way my winter trees and spring flowers aren't all bunched together.  Then again I might start a photolog...I dunno yet.  I'll let you know and when I figure it out!

Happy Hump Day!

We're debating about selling again.  We're going to look into FSBO when we get back from FL.  I don't really want to go through that hassle but I'm suffocating here in 'Suburbia'.

I've been looking at houses and I've come to the conclusion that realtors can't take a decent picture to save their lives, and they wouldn't know a good angle if it bit 'em in the ass.  BUT, they do at least get the point across that the house resembles something of its picture.  These are the ones that I really like, so far....each one is on 5+ acres, thankyouverymuch.

IT HAS A POOL!!!!!! And almost 9 acres!

It's in a weird location, like an island of trees surrounded by pastures that belong to other people, I see surrounding subdivisions in this house's future....(but the location is good)

Almost 6 acres and it's in TN and on a Mtn..how cool!!

This one is my favorite, aside from the first one.  7 Acres and a POOL!! WHEEEEEEE!!!

That's it.  We're moving to the country.  I want to live so far out in the middle of east-west-bumfuck-egypt that when I call 911 I'm already dead by the time the ambulance arrives.  Then I'll live so far out in the middle of nowhere that they'll just help The DH carry my body to the backyard (ok, back pasture) and bury me under a tree. And, that will be the end of that.  THAT is how far into the country I want to live.

Oh and backhoes banging into asphalt? Not out in the country, nosireee.  Then again, I might be in prison for homicide before I can get moved....bastard construction workers.

Pretty stuff to look at, because I'm too pissed to type a real entry....

Franken-baby LT
(notice the swollen right side of his lip?)

SQUWAK!

NEW pictures at The Photo Gallery
Mainly WILDLIFE and NATURE

7:30am....

BANG BANG BANG RATTLE RATTLE RATTLE.....That is what I woke up to.  Some stupid fuckers are RIGHT beside my house banging into asphalt with a gawddamn backhoe of all fucking things.  They are installing new hydrants or some stupid shit.  They've been beside my house for 3 days now.  Everytime they use the backhoe my house is shaking. 

It's 7:fucking30 in the morning and I'm awoken by the banging of the backhoe and my house shaking so badly that I honestly thought the pictures were going to start falling off the wall.  I have a good mind to call the cuty and ask them just who in the fuck is going to pay for my house when it gawddamn falls down.  Then I thought about going out there with a gun and screaming like a crazed mental patient that they all need to just leave right the fuck now. 

Whatever I decide to do, I'm pissed.  The funny thing in all this is that it's 7:30 (well 7:45 now) and I can't call the city to complain BECAUSE THEY AREN'T EVEN FUCKING OPEN YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yet their stupid little minons are out there tearing every gawddamn thing up and making it virtually impossile for those of us that live in this neighborhood to go any fucking where between the hours of 7am-4pm or 6pm whenever the fuck they feel like going home.

We're suppose to go to B's today but hell if I know if we'll be able to even leave the gawddamn driveway, they've blocked it with their fucking big assed trucks two days in a row.

Oh, someone in the city services office will be hearing from me today, they'll have a GREAT story to tell the spouse this weekend, ohyestheywill.