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The last two weeks have just been crazy. Right now the house is a complete mess. Half packed half not. We bought our new entertainment center and TV for out new family room and we have that laying around too. I have talked more on the phone the last two weeks than I think I have in my whole life. Everything is going pretty smooth. Today we found out that we make to much money for the load we got. Now our interest rate is going up a bit. Not much though. Our payments are only going to be $14 more a month. On our original loan we were getting $3800 from the state of ND to help out on the down-payment. We are no longer getting that. It’s not that big of deal I guess. Our saving will just be drained a little more than we had originally planned. I am not complaining because I would rather pay more than make less money.

One week from today we will be loading up the Uhaul. Is it ever going to get here? I swear every minute feels like an hour.

I have been a nervous wreck about this whole moving thing all week. I can’t believe it is actually happening. I keep thinking something is going to happen and the deal is going to fall through. This will be a busy packing weekend. I so can’t wait until the 26th when all our shit is in our new house. I knew these four weeks would take forever.

I don’t know if I mentioned it on here or not, but this weekend my Brother-in-Law moved in with us. He just recently graduated from high school and is going to the tech college here. He will be here for two year. It’s kinda crowed here now, but in two weeks we will be in our new house and it will be much better.

He did something that was good, but I am not sure if I would have been able to do it. He left his girlfriend back at home. I met her last weekend and she is a nice girl and super cute. I am sure they are going to miss each other. They are still together, and are going to try the long distance thing. I was pretty much in the same spot he was and that was the main reason that I stayed in my hometown to go to college. If it was meant to be I guess the long distance thing will work. My wife and I did it when I got my job and she still had one more year left of college.

My blog will probably be a little quiet the next few weeks. We are going to start packing this week. We have just over two weeks until moving day.

Now I am off to take my Brother-in-Law out to find a job.

Happy 777 day!

I have been playing around with Pownce for the last couple of days. If you haven’t heard of Pownce, it’s a new Twitter like site created by Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, and Daniel Burka. It’s pretty much twitter, but with a lot more added functions. You are not limited to 140 characters, and you can send files also. It has many other cool features too. I still prefer Twitter for it’s simplicity, but really like Pownce too. Pownce is currently invite only though. I have a few invites left to give out. Let me know if you want one, but I am heading out of town for the weekend, so I might not get back to you until Sunday.

There are no Apple sores anywhere near me. I have been to one Apple store in my life. The one in the Mall of America. Well, Justine was at that one to get her iPhone. While she was there she saw hometown heros Motion City Soundtrack there. On her short little montage video I spotted Jesse Johnson and Matthew Taylor from Motion City Soundtrack. Pretty cool. I have seen them in concert 5 times, and wish I was in San Francisco this weekend. They are playing there this weekend. I don’t think I could ever see them enough. That’s how good they are.

We made the first of many purchases for our new house today. Since Friday we have been looking for an entertainment center for our new TV we are going to buy. Entertainment centers for big LCD or plasma TVs are pretty limited. We finally found one we liked. Now I have to start looking more closely at TVs. I know I want a 46 incher. In that size you have a choice between LCD or plasma. It really is a toss up on which one is better. It will come down to price and image quality for me, and image quality is a tough one because they are never set up right in the stores, and the lighting isn’t ideal either. There are a couple of TVs that I am looking at. I have a couple weeks before it’s time to drop over a grand on a TV. Ouch!

The inspection went well. It was nice to spend some more time in the house and get a closer look at everything. The day we bought the house we looked at so many houses that I got parts of the one we bought mixed up. We thought it only had a stand up shower in the downstairs bathroom, but it has a full tub and shower in that bathroom also. The washer and dryer are staying with the house, and we thought they were an old mismatched pair, but we were wrong. They look like a pretty new Whirlpool washer and dryer, so that is cool. The inspector was very good. He was very thorough. There was nothing major wrong. Just a few things that we can fix after we move in. The windows need to be re-caulked, the gfci outlet in the garage needs to be replaced, the bottom of the garage doors needs some touch up paint, and the deck stairs railing is a little wobbly and could use a few bolts in it. All simple things that we can do. We probably didn’t need to have the inspection, but it’s nice to know there is nothing major wrong with the house. Now the 25th just has to hurry up and get here already.

Another busy day today. In an hour we are heading to the house for the inspection. Everything should be fine. We would just feel safer with an inspection. Then at 3:00 I have a dentist appointment. I am keeping my fingers crossed for no cavities. Then at 4:30 we meet with our banker to get everything ready for closing day. Is that day ever going to get here?

With all the house stuff I have been super busy. I am way behind on my RSS feed reading and my podcast listening. I have no time to blog. So I will post a video for you folks.

I meant to post this video earlier this week. It is of the newest song from the soon to be released newest album from the BEST FUCKING BAND IN THE WORLD!

Motion City Soundtrack!