I hate trying to discuss grown up stuff...

A brief update of events since my last posting:



*Having been denied our house, thanks to the U.S. government, Halbastram decided to buy yet another car. We'll discuss this later.

*On Sunday, we ventured down to the Market Days on North Halsted and Halbastram was overjoyed at having seen his first transvestite in person. He wanted to take a picture with her, but she was very elusive. And he was sad.

*The names of my cats have been changed to The Boy and The Other One (the girl).

*I discovered that if you're at an outdoor event and you arrive just as it is beginning, use the port-o-potty right away. Afterwards, grab enough t.p. to ensure that your next trip will be a success, because it all goes to hell after that first hour.

*I'll be going back to school this winter for journalism. More bills for T.E.!!

*Apparently, people at work are under the impression that, since I'm married, I can't go out or hang out unless I have "permission". It seems that we still live in the 50's, where a lady only had friends on the block, and in the daytime, unless someone is hosting a party in the evening where both the man and lady can attend. Dicks.


Alright, now back to the car.

We've had our condo on the market since January but have had only three people look at it in that time frame. Unfortunately, we had already put a deposit on our house, thinking that the condo would have sold while the house was being built and we could just transition from one dwelling to the next. This was not the case. After the required 6 months with our realtor, we took the condo off the market and went back to the housing development to request our deposit back. They said no dice. Then they changed their tune, offering us $6,000 of the $8,000 back if someone else buys our lot/house. Fair enough.

But then we figured that if we could get someone to rent our place, we could still move into the house. That's a great plan too, right? Wrong. Due to the brand spanking-new banking laws, we can't get a loan for the house since we still owe on the condo. Le sigh, indeed.

(I hate all of this grown-up stuff)

So, with that said, since we had all of this extra cash saved up for closing on the house, and since we're going to be stuck in the condo for an extra year or two, Halbastram decided that now was the time to buy a new car. If you're unfamiliar with his car buying history, this is usually his solution when life gets complicated. His philosophy is: "well, since I can't do/get what I want at this moment, I might as well buy a new car. Why not?" This way of thinking has gotten him into trouble thrice:
-2004 Black Pontiac GTO
-2004 Red Jeep Grand Cherokee
-2007 Mazda CX-7

Here's to hoping that his latest acquisition, a 2009 VW Passast, doesn't make the list of "yeah, maybe I should've waited on that purchase".

I'm not very fond of it. Aside from the satellite radio, it's pretty unspectacular. But it had navigation, which made Halbastram happy, so I guess that's what counts.

We named him Johann, which seemed like a nice German name.