Omg I locked my keys in the car again!!! Calling CAA

Ok, I'm stilll sore from volleyball, but I thought that I would try it this new social networking tool I found "ping.fm"

Over a year of looking

I know it has been a long time since my last post, so why not start with this bit of news.

But before I get to the news, I just wanted to say that this social internet thing is really starting to suck. I find I just can’t keep up with all the new social services out there. Don’t get me wrong, I think that a variety of web sites are good; however it would be nice to have one place to go to see all my friends online. I have Twitter, Facebook, MSN Live, LinkedIn, Blogs (4 of them … LJ, MSN Spaces, Google Blogger and WordPress). Right now I’m using FaceBook a lot, and sometime Twitter (but eventual I will drop it; it’s a fad). Blogging is becoming a chore, but I sometime get the itch say something (Like now) .  Anyways I’m going to try and Blog more, from now on, and see how that goes. Apple is coming out with their 3.0 update to the iPhone, and I have downloaded an App that will let me post to all my Blogs, so that should help.  Anyways… let me get to my news…

Last year, we started to thinking about moving back into the city, so we started to look at some houses, around the March time frame. Our neighbors were also looking to move, and even came over to our home to see if they wanted to buy it. Well they did find a home, sold their house sometime in May (for over asking).  We were still looking, and could not find anything. By the end of June the housing market started to drop, and there was just crap on the market. We were hoping to sell our house for $530k in the spring, but the housing market was slowly dropping by the end of Summer  we were thinking that we could get maybe $480k (if we were lucky). Then we found out that another neighbor was trying to sell their home, it was bigger, had better and more upgrades then ours, and back onto a park, and they could only get $460k . Things were bad. Then the economy; well we all know about the economy, I don’t have to go into that. However we were still looking for a home. We thought that all homes are going down so it did not matter that we could not get much for our home.

Well last week our agent found a home that was put on MLS that morning, we ran to see it a lunch time and put in an offer, that afternoon (we did not want anyone else to see the home, because the market was starting to pickup), they accepted. Now we had to sell our house, so we spent the weekend cleaning, and this Monday afternoon we put our home on MLS.  4pm that same day I got a call; someone wanted to view the home. So I had to rush home, and take our Dog over to my parents’ house (I did not think we would get a viewing request so fast). The Next day, I was getting calls all day for viewing, and we could not go home until after 10pm. The next day our agent said that he will stop all viewing after 8pm (by then we had two offers on the house). At the end of the day we had 8 offers, and buy 12am we had sold our home, above asking; more then what we thought we get last year. WOW, it all happened in less then a week (I think the Market is starting to pickup).

Busy Weekend

Well not that busy, maybe I’m just lazy. Saturday was spring cleaning, movie matinee  and poker with the boys; Sunday was house hunting and another movie downtown.

The movies I saw what “I Love you Man” and “Watchmen”

“I Love you Man” was a good movie, however it did not hit my funny bone. I think this may be because I could not relate to it. I would say it may be a good rental, there are a lot of people out there that will love this movie.

  6/10 Funny, just not funny to me

This was the second time seeing Watchmen, and this time I saw it in IMAX (It’s not worth it). I did not get anything from the IMAX experience; (Batman the Dark Knight was amazing in IMAX this one was not). However the movie was still good, and I enjoyed it. It not a move for everyone, but I feel they did a good job with the material (If you like comic books; SciFi/Fantasy; Action, you may like it as well).

Rod, the changes they made were OK, your just too picky. Transformers was bad, and they should have used the original voice for Megatron!!! 

  7/10, This movie will take some time to get its money back, good but not for everyone.

Testing my iPhone blogging tool

I'm just testing this new iPhone app I just downloaded from the apple app store.

At the airport, in the states, we saw a new type of vending box. You can get a PSP, iPod, and other items you will need for your new toy. LOL too funny.





-- Post From My iPhone

Trip to the dental Office

I missed my dental appointment yesterday, and had to run to the dentist this morning. I think I’m the only person I know that likes to go to the dentist. Dr Kotzer has been my dentist for ever (since I have gotten my first tooth).

Well I got into the dental office an hour early, so they took me at that time. however the lady that was cleaning my teeth, had to point out that she was missing her morning coffee; blah, blah, she was new…. heheh. they did not have to take me, I could have waited (I was having fun with my iPhone).

after she was done with me, Dr Kotzer comes in and double checks the cleaning. There is one thing about Dr Kotzer, that people will not like, he does not use gloves when he checking your mouth.  I know I know, but he is good, and I don’t want to try and find another Dentist. (Now when he is doing heavy cleaning, or anything else, he puts on some gloves).  And he did not charge me for missing yesterdays appointment.

This was a standard appointment, but got something extra this time. I got the standard tooth brush, but then Dr Kotzer asked me if I use lip bom. I said sometimes, so he gave me one.  I just wanted to know if that is the thing to give now?

Finding it hard to Focus

I’m really having a hard time focusing on my work, this week and last week. We just come back from a cruise, and I still have not gotten back into the swing of things. I have to catch up on my school work, house work, and just work.

In other news, my mother got a new camera, (just one of the gifts she got when she retied ), but she does not know how to use it. So she gave it to me to play with until she needs it. The funny thing is that I don’t know how to use it as well, but it is fun to try. So you will be see a butch of bad pictures from me. You can go to my Flickr account and see some of them. This one is of the evil rabbit that has been making a big mess in out backyard.

The picture is a bit dark, but I’m still learning.