Updates
UPDATE TIME!!
-We close on our house next Friday. Everything is going according to plan. No surprises at the last second, hopefully! I'm so excited, and I can't wait to move in and make it our own! I'm already thinking about the vegetable garden I'd like to plant next year.
-Bought a wall oven and cooktop for the planned new kitchen yesterday on ebay. Good deals.
-Out of the $10,000 we had to put down to get out of the condo, we'll be getting back $1700. Oh well, at least it's something. I heard that the condo's AC has been broken all summer and only recently got fixed. Must have sucked to live there. Awfully nice to be free of that place.
-I've been growing tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers in pots at the town home. The yield so far is two cherry tomatoes and four cucumbers. A deer ate a good chunk of the tomato plants last month, so I'm surprised that they're producing at all. The bird feeder that I put up has lots of activity. We routinely have two baby cardinals that hang out there.
-Wedding plans are crawling along. Right now we're thinking about either a small wedding in Yellowstone/Tetons with a later reception at the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis or having the whole thing at the Walker or elsewhere in MN. The fiance is set on having Wolfgang Puck's restaurant cater, but we'll see how that prices out. Current date is spring to early summer next year.
-My clinical fellowship is going smoothly. I should have a paper accepted next week with 2-3 more in the pipeline for submission. Over the next year I'm going to be the acting director of a lab with 100 people that runs 1 million tests a year. Yikes!
-We close on our house next Friday. Everything is going according to plan. No surprises at the last second, hopefully! I'm so excited, and I can't wait to move in and make it our own! I'm already thinking about the vegetable garden I'd like to plant next year.
-Bought a wall oven and cooktop for the planned new kitchen yesterday on ebay. Good deals.
-Out of the $10,000 we had to put down to get out of the condo, we'll be getting back $1700. Oh well, at least it's something. I heard that the condo's AC has been broken all summer and only recently got fixed. Must have sucked to live there. Awfully nice to be free of that place.
-I've been growing tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers in pots at the town home. The yield so far is two cherry tomatoes and four cucumbers. A deer ate a good chunk of the tomato plants last month, so I'm surprised that they're producing at all. The bird feeder that I put up has lots of activity. We routinely have two baby cardinals that hang out there.
-Wedding plans are crawling along. Right now we're thinking about either a small wedding in Yellowstone/Tetons with a later reception at the Walker Art Institute in Minneapolis or having the whole thing at the Walker or elsewhere in MN. The fiance is set on having Wolfgang Puck's restaurant cater, but we'll see how that prices out. Current date is spring to early summer next year.
-My clinical fellowship is going smoothly. I should have a paper accepted next week with 2-3 more in the pipeline for submission. Over the next year I'm going to be the acting director of a lab with 100 people that runs 1 million tests a year. Yikes!