Finally bought Halloween candy and have wisely hidden it.
I have also been a very good Army wife and helped my husband with the large task of sorting through and cleaning his gear. A lot of it he has to turn in, as a part of "clearing post." So I sat on the steps and picked lint out of the Velcro straps of many a helmet, knee and elbow pad, as well as bulletproof vests and ammo holders.
The gear completely fills the entire downstairs family room, spilling out of arm chairs, draped across the back of the couch and propped up against the entertainment center.
"I feel like I joined the Army," I complained to Keith.
"At ease, Private!" he barked out, by way of reply.
We experienced a "The Gift of the Magi" moment today. Today was the second day of the two day argument recess and consequently the dead line of when we would have to ante up and decide together what to do. It turns out each of us had privately given in to the other person's point of view and was just waiting to confess.
I saw our house on one of the websites it's advertised on. It looks very cozy and attractive, and since the price reduction is now comparable, but not a steal. Keith and I get ancy and want to drop the price but our realtor says to wait out the week, which is easy for her to say, as she is not liable for the mortgage.
However, she has been a rental agent and realtor for a long time and hasn't steered us wrong in the past, so wait we will. Just in case, I am starting to mentally prepare for Double Mortgage December. Wouldn't that be a Merry, Merry Christmas!
On a different note, I find pundits amusing. Their motto should be "I express, therefore I exist." They feed off of one another. Countering what one pundit said yesterday in The Washington Post makes for a perfectly good article the next day in the New York Times.
Within the concentric circles of Washington are the politicians, their aids, then the journalists and then there are the pundits, scurrying rapidly around and constantly talking about what everybody else is doing.
Not that I am not fond of them, at least some of them. And I'm not really sure exactly what the difference is between a columnist, a journalist and pundit, as they do seem at times to be interchangeable.
I will however follow absolutely everything that Charles Krauthammer has to say or write. He is one of the first names I began to recognize. As he never engages in wishful thinking, reading him can be a little unsettling, but the clarity more than makes up for it. He recently had an interview with a German magazine that was fascinating. (Link)
To be honest, I did begin to recognize the work of Paul Krugman early on as well, but only because along with Keith Olbermann they make up the lowbrow bullies and heavy weight hitters of the liberal media.
Update: Our realtor called! She has officially had two calls on the house and one walk through scheduled for tomorrow at 3:00. (The other interested party is not so sure about the school system here; rightly so, I would think, just from what I've seen.) As the realtor will be busy tomorrow we will be doing the walkthrough ourselves, which should be interesting.
Every single night before we sleep, Keith prays and every night for weeks now he has prayed for God to send the right renters our way, people that would enjoy the house as much as we have. It feels like we are a little closer to finding them.
