Donated blood for my work. If we donate blood, we get 4 hours off of work. I figured I'd fail the iron check, but I passed. Yay 4 hours. Here's the stats:

January 9, 2009
Weather now: 1st decent cold of January.
Internal Temp: 97.6
BP: 100/68
Pulse: 92
Cholesterol: 185
Weight: Wii says 142 or so

November 8, 2007
Weather: Cool consistently for the last few days
Internal Temperature: 98
BP: 110/80
Cholesterol: 200
Weight: 142

This compares with:
cholesterol: 175.
Weight probably 144.
Temperature was 99.4
pulse 92, and
blood pressure 118/70
in September/August

In other news, not much going on. The guy is coming today to fix the hole in the drywall. This was from the leak in the pipes. It seems to be fixed. I'm figuring we'll eventually have to redo the plumbing with PVC through the attic, but it's hard to make that investment after one leak. I think the guy said something like $3200, 3500?
Work goes on. Anime Night is 2nite. Hopefully they'll come. Hopefully the EQ will work.
Need to fix the screen door latch. Hopefully this weekend.
DnD games are fun. My halfling cleric can be dull sometimes. I'll consider a paladin. A Lawful Good character might have difficulties getting along with a couple of the chaotic neutral character. Hm.

Just a quick note- We're moved in, and we finally have Internet. Yay! It's good to see what you guys are up to.
So far the woes include a leaky toilet that leaked for enough time to go through the wall and into the carpet. Laundry piling up. Hope to nip that in the bud today. People stressed at work. Getting sick. Need to fix dinning room chairs so we can sit in them.
But Christmas work party is coming up. And it seems like we know what's happening with the toilet. Things are overall doing well.
I gotta Christmas shop today. Much to do.
<3

And now for a brief interlude in which the computer must be packed away, but fear not, for it shall be unpacked upon the morrow. But what's this? We haven't decided what Internet service we want, much less have it installed?? Zounds! Mayhaps this brief interlude be not so brief a'tall? Only time will tell. Stay tuned!

So we have a house! Finally, after agonizing over will be be able to do this or that, or that other thing is running late, all the crazy stress, now we are owners of a house. Now the stress is on making sure we clean it up and pack up in a timely fashion, but that stress is not so bad at all, because we don't have to eat into our sleep or work, we can just work on it on the weekends.
Closing was kinda neat. We met the old owners who had lived there all their life. They told us about a few quirks of the house. The Weatheringtons.
House, house, house...

Might as well update. Life has been busy since I got the YA librarian job at TEM. That's the full time job. The part time job, so to speak, has been finding and obtaining a house. We were going to get a short sale in northern Brandon, but it was taking so long and we were at the end of the second renewal, so instead of getting another renewal of the contract, we put in a contract for a regular (not short sale) house in the same neighborhood. The listing price: $170. It's in nice condition, a good bit better than the short sale, but in this economy, it ain't $170. We put in for $135. They countered at $162. We were thinking, oh, they aren't being realistic, we won't get it. But then we did a $142 final offer. They countered our final offer (hey, didn't they know you're not supposed to counter a final offer!) with $145. Aha! That's a little better. We countered with $144 and got it. So then closing is a little less than a month away, but you only get a handful of weekends and stolen library time to do what needs doing to close. Like get insurance, mortgage, and inspection. And it's not like you can get anybody. Oh no, it's shopping around, comparing, trying to figure out what's a good deal and what's a scam. So far my sob-count is 2 or 3, but hopefully no more. We found a guy who does inspections fairly reasonable with the at-no-extra-cost-to-you pest exam. We're heading over to the inspection in just a few minutes. Hopefully no major issues besides the obvious a/c unit looks ancient. We got to check the brand of the circuit breaker and age of the water heater and then Monday I can secure the insurance. And I think e has found what he wants for the mortgage, but a little clause in the contract (if the sale falls through, you may owe up to $10,000 to us anyway) might have to be tweaked. I think we are on our way to getting stuff done. And then the next major crisis will be packing, packing, packing. And then falling over sideways from mental and physical exhaustion. But hopefully this whole saga will have rewards that outweigh the challenges and consequences.