A Birthday List

This week has been a week of ups and downs for us.  Yesterday, we got word that there was a non subject to sale offer put in on the house we had an offer in on, so we lost the offer on that house.  I was a tad upset, but knew that was a pretty strong possibility.  We took it as a sign that it wasn’t the house for us and we will find something else or know if we are intended to stay put for now.  Today, I got a call that there were some people in our neighborhood looking at houses and they wanted to look at ours.  Unfortunately, we only about thirty minutes notice and there was no way that was going to happen.  I am still waiting to hear if they are going to set a showing up or if we lost out on that one.  Things are a bit of a mess right now.  I have been cooking and baking and that makes for a messy kitchen.  Right before I got the call about people wanting to see the house, I had emailed about getting our house on the schedule to have the deck re stained and the trim re painted.  Some days, I feel like we have one foot in and one foot out, and it is a rather frustrating feeling.  I think it boils down to doing the smart and responsible thing, or doing what we want to do.  We don’t really NEED a bigger house at the moment. 

Speaking of want and need, my birthday is next week and it had me thinking about a birthday wish list.  I would like to reiterate that I don’t NEED anything and I am not intending this list to sound this way, it is simply a fun wish list

1. A tablet – I have considered several different options for tablets including an Ipad, a Kindle Fire, or other various brands of tablets that are out there these days.  I never bite the bullet and buy one because I can’t justify it.  While it would be nice to have when I am in the kitchen cooking of a new recipe I found on Pinterest rather than looking at it from my Ipod, that alone isn’t enough to justify the purchase.  It would also be nice to have one for night time rather than taking my whole laptop to bed with me, but again not enough to justify the purchase of one.

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2. A new computer- My current laptop was purchased in 2010.  Yes, I realize that is only three years ago.  However, that laptop as seen a lot of use and probably some abuse.  The dogs have kicked it off the couch a time or two, the hard drive that was in it when I bought it died about a year and a half after I got the computer.  Rather than buying a new hard drive, we put one in my laptop from Andrew’s old laptop.  I went from a 500 GB hard drive to a 250 GB… you might see the issue there.  I think my current external hard drive is larger than my internal one.  I have a lot of music and photos on my computer, so those eat up a lot of space.  My current hard drive is on the last bit of space and I really don’t have a ton on it.  After the last hard drive crashed, I moved a lot of my photos to my external hard drive.  Andrew and I are both huge computer people, so one computer would be a bit of a problem for us. 


3. Earrings- A shiny pair of princess cut diamond stud earrings to be exact.  I would love a ½ ct. or greater.  Again, this is a wish list! 

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4. Tickets to a Green Bay Packers Game!


5. Tickets to Europe- Italy, France, England, Germany, you name a country and I want to go there.

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6. $20,000- To renovate our house the way we want it.  While we are at it, I would really like to just win the lottery and pay off all our debt, who is with me?