From my eyes…

It’s been some time now that I’ve wanted to buy a home. Like so many other things in life, the timing just was never right…until this weekend. I am now the proud owner of my own home! I bought a duplex in Minooka, Illinois - a fast growing community, or village, as they call cities in these parts. It is a tad bit farther from the city and airport than I am now (like 4 more miles southwest), but it’s close to the things that are important in my daily life and more and moreis built in Minooka each week. It reminds me of how AZ just expanded overnight a few shorts years ago.

Anyway, my new place is a duplex connected by the garage only. The garage itself is not my favorite part. It is what they call “tandem” and it means that Mike and I will be parking one behind the other. And no, he is not moving in now, but that it the plan eventually. And he’ll be over lots anyway, so it was something to consider. The things I fell in love with were the loft, it’s just perfect, the fact that I can put up a fence on my fully sodded and lanscaped yard, the filtered water and ice in the fridge, the ALL NEW EVERYTHING, that oval mirror in the 1/2 bath and the brushed nickel fixtures. Also, that fact that all byt maybe the front room are rooms I will spend lots of time in, so I won’t feel like I’ve spent all this money on a house with all this space and only live in half of it, you know?

It’s hard to see how cute it is in pictures, but here ya go anyway…

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So yeah, my kitty, the big ol’ fat boy? Famous. My mom emailed some pictures of him to a local DJ in Phoenix who loves cats. She thought he was cool, and of course adorable. You can see his celebrity debut here.

And special just for you… more recent pictures of my 20 pound cuddle bug.

Lounging around.
 

Getting cozy on Mom’s head. Yeah, I don’t know what he was thinking either.

Modeling his birthday shirt for Grandma again.

This video was shared with me a few weeks ago. I really like how song goes. I love the message. And though it shows Canadian soldiers (it’s a Canadian singer), the meaning is the same. I hope you took a moment to remember the vets in your life today.  

This weekend Mike took me to my first Bears game. It was a blast. We left the house at 5:20 in the morning to meet up with the people we were tailgating with. We arrived at our tailgating spot just before 7 am and stayed there until 11 drinking bear, eating food prepared by a real chef and enjoying the company of about 40 friends. At 11 we walked over to Soldier Field with the millions of other people and watched the game. They did a fly of with the F-16’s in honor of Veterans Day and had a flag ceremony on the field for pre-game. The game was not all that great. The Bears never showed to play That’s ok though. The crowd was rowdy the whole time and that made it fun. On the way out I saw parts of the old stadium and took some pictures before we headed back to the parking lot party. We stayed or another few hours and then headed home. I’m glad I took today off. It’s been fun just laying around and sleeping in today!!

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