Brooklyn Blogs:
Summer!
For a teacher, summer is the ultimate time to relax and have fun!
Waking up late and staying up until sunrise is part of my normal routine. My friends used to call me Sunday Sunrise because each Sunday I’d sit on the front stoop (or in a chair in my bedroom) with a coffee and stare at the sunrise.
But this summer is special. We’re buying a house and I can’t help but dream, look online and browse shops in person looking for inspiration. It’s exciting to walk around with Lee and then sit down and sketch our ideal furniture. So exciting! My soul is alive and so happy.
I hope you are all having a great summer and now that I have to figure out how to enable comment again!
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Engineers, Attorneys, Appraisers Oh My!
Buying a new home in Bay Ridge is exciting and well EXCITING.
I know many people are very nervous when they are buying a home, but I am not. We’ve waited out the crazy market and it’s the buyers market we were waiting for.
So we had a licensed engineer come out and look at the house. The engineer found the house to be in good shape. He found three or four minor things. We need to buy CO2 detectors. The back door needs a new screen. The bathtub with jets needs an adjustment so it doesn’t empty and the roof hatch needs a new lock (although the house is alarmed).
I was elated and excited to talk to the engineer, attorney and the bank appraiser. It just brings us closer to moving into our dream home!
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Wonderful June
If you know me or have been reading my tweets, you’ll see I am having a pretty sweet June.
I feel so blessed and I wanted to share with you that is God working in my life. I don’t have enough words to explain it all, but I do know that it’s the God of the Breakthrough showing favor in my life. He can do the same for you if you ask Him.
Joel Osteen is a preacher who has brought me closer to the God that I always knew existed. I saw this video last week and I can’t tell you how much it has impacted me. There is a commercial at the beginning so try to pass it quickly. Oh and I have no connection to Joel Osteen other than that I began listening to him a few years ago.
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New House Brings New Purchases
We are signing the contract on the house this week. But since the engineer visited the house yesterday and gave us the run down, I figured I’d make some lists so I can relieve my mind of it. Plus I can’t stop thinking about stuff that aren’t needs, but wants!
Needs:
1. First Alert Fire and CO monitor/alarms.
2. Hardware for the back sliding door (it’s missing right now)
3. Replacement screen for the back sliding doors (it’s torn)
4. Lock for the roof panel (there’s an alarm, but I want to put an alarm on it).
5. Replacement awning (that one is old and dry)
6. Garbage can and Recycle Bin - none were there
7. Garage Organizer because I want to do this right
8. Cauking for around windows - need to do this one Summer or Fall Day
9. Washer and dryer (it should be on wants, but I need it). There was a set in the house, but the owners are taking it with them.
10. Robin egg blue hand towels for the downstairs bathroom - the tile and sink are robin egg blue - so pretty! It’s a need because every bathroom needs coordinated towels. <wink>
Wants:
1. L shaped sofa
2. Console table for behind sofa
3. China closet
4. Schott Zwiesel Champagne glasses (I have to toast the new house, right?) I really just put this one on here to make Lee laugh. Schott Zwiesel feel as good as Riedels, but are a bit stronger so they don’t break as easy. I can verify this!
5. One lounge chair for the backyard. Because someone always likes to layout and get some sun.
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Engineer Okays the House
The Engineer went out to our house and gave us a huge report today. Basically it’s a good house with minor problems. Here’s its problems:
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Electrical Box needs to be replaced as it was the type that was recalled (name: Federal)
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Back door needs hardware and new screen
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Back awning needs replacement
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Bathroom tub stopper doesn’t work
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Bathroom sink drips
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Roof hatch needs a lock. It has an alarm.
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Need CO monitors
We will be taking care of all these things before we move in! Im glad it was just minor things.
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Happy Brooklyn-Queens Day
It’s Brooklyn-Queens Day! No one really likes Queens so we just say it’s Brooklyn Day. My students are glad to celebrate Brooklyn Day because they don’t have school. Twenty years ago, I celebrated Brooklyn Day in the hospital because I broke my arm rollerskating.
The teachers don’t love Brooklyn Day as much because we still have to go to school and have a professional day. This year, I postponed jury duty until this day because that was as much as I was allowed to postpone it for.
So I arrived for jury duty at the Brooklyn Courthouse on Adams Street at 8:15 a.m. We went through the metal detector and into the jury selection room. I was surprised that no id’s were checked upon entering the courthouse. We sat in the jury room which was suprisingly comfortable. Free wireless internet access was available and I loved that. I was sitting there chatting with everyone on Twitter and talking to some friends on AIM. At 9:30 am, the court officer gave us instructions and asked us to watch a short movie on the flat screen monitors hung all around the room. I sat on the left hand side in the front because those people are called first. I was called to a jury at 10:20 am. I went in and filled out the survey. Before collecting the survey, the two attorneys asked if anyone was a city worker. I raised my hand and said I was a teacher. They asked me to leave.
I was hoping to go home before lunch, but that is not the procedure for the court house. For lunch, I wanted to go to Chipolte, but the line was going out the door. Instead, I walked down to Montague Street and had a delicious salad. After lunch, I came back and sat in the jury room. I spoke with a guy and a girl who lived in Bay Ridge. We spoke about Bay Ridge and Brooklyn’s best schools, attorneys, shops and restaurants. Then Mrs. Sunshine who works for the courthouse announced that we would all be excused from jury duty for the next eight years. I left at 4:20 pm. It as a good and easy experience for me.
Tomorrow, the home inspector is visiting the new house. I’m crossing my fingers that everything is okay.
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We’re buying a home!
Ok Bay Ridge watch out as we will be purchasing a new home in the area shortly. If you know me in person, you will know that I waited a long time (YEARS) and wouldn’t settle until I found a house with parking for two cars and a backyard. I grew up in a brick house and a neighbor from my block gave me excellent advice. She said, “when you purchase a new house make sure it is brick and that you have parking.” She also lived in a brick house on my block and when she moved and purchased a house with siding, she felt like the wind blew through her home. Years later, she brick-faced the entire house.
The house is beautiful and perfect for us! It has 2 parking spots, a big backyard, new kitchen. It’s a small two family and I love it. We are getting it checked by an engineer on Friday and I am crossing my fingers that the house will only need minor repairs.
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Spammed
My blog is getting spammed like crazy so I made an adjustment to comments, but I don’t know if I did it right so that friends can still comment.
I don’t know why spammer would even be interested in posting advertisements about penial implants, drugs, horny women, etc. This blog isn’t about any of those things and will never be about that. I’m just a regular Brooklyn woman sharing bits and pieces of my life online.
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House Bidding
We bid on a great house this week. We haven’t won the bid and I don’t know if we will.
It’s just a stressful process and I wish I was up to the part where we were moving into our new home. I mean I love the house, but I don’t feel like being part of the seller’s agent scheme. So friends, please say some prayers for me. God already has his plan, but I would love for this to be our new home.
And Of course, Lee has been amazing through the whole thing! We spoke to our banker and he agreed that we are in good shape and ready for a mortgage.
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Found a house which may be home
We found a gorgeous, affordable home in Bay Ridge and it may be our new home. Cross your fingers for us. The house has:
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garage
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backyard
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three bedrooms
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3 bathrooms (1 full, 1 half, 1 quarter)
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living room, dining room and kitchen
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deck
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amazing backyard - did I say that already?
I’ll share pics soon. I’m so excited I can’t stop bouncing.
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I Love Lee
Lee was God’s gift to me and I hope that everyday I appreciate and love him as much as I do right now! Lee is full of love, humor and compassion for me every day.
Note to God: I am forever indebted to You!
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Rule breaking in 2009
When a chick signs up for to be Miss America, they have to read and sign contracts. In the contract, they ask the girls if the girls about prior experiences. Miss California, Carrie Prejean posted with her boobs out. No bra - just an open vest - boobs exposed. Carrie Prejean gave so many excuses why photos like that were taken of her. PLEASSEEEE.
The Miss America Foundation should have held to their rules and taken a stand. It’s disappointing to see just another person making cheap excuses for poor behavior and getting away with it. And we wonder why kids have no role models.
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