booty, ho!

[verbicide]

Today has been a day of DOING things.

Grown-up Things

- called my Allstate agent and finally switched my policy over from Port Orchard to Seattle

- and on that note, decided to finally get renter's insurance

- decided that even though I've been without medical benefits for three years, I should finally take advantage of the benefits plan (at least Short Term Major Medical) offered by my contractor agency; this decision would be much facilitated by their voice-messaging system actually working (*hiss*)

- called my dad to ask our family accountant to fax me the 2004 tax returns, which I still haven't found, grrr


Consumer Whore Things

- after five million years of dithering between shiny and economy, shiny won out and my silver, 6GB iPod mini will arrive on Wednesday, and lo there will be squeeeing (if I find I love it and use it all the time, I will someday upgrade)

- placed a bid for a gen-U-ine burberry bucket hat on ebay (selling for 1.99GBP), I bid at 10GBP through auctionsniper.com. We'll see what happens, I tried one on at Nordstrom this weekend with Jeanne and I must say I looked quite fetching, but not fetching enough to spend $300 on a fucking hat


Scary Things That Shall Make Me Hyperventilate

- meeting tonight with the real estate agent I decided on (Allison), post-work for discussion on what I want and possibly looking at a few properties; I hate this process and just want to be moved in with my plasma tv and new couch set

Comments

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Plasma TV and couch set? Damn, I know who to call when I'm stuck at SeaTac! :)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Bring a crowbar, because I think Sarah's going to violently defend her prior claim ;D

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Forget her! My Ape Fu beats all challengers!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

You've never been at the dark end of her Withering Gaze Fu.

*shiver*

[euphrasie.livejournal.com]

Fucking home process.

I want a Burberry umbrella.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Did the bastards decide yet?

I hate the seller's agent on your behalf.

[euphrasie.livejournal.com]

No, and she is mean.

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Good for you for getting all the scary adult stuff done! Dealing with those things is loathsome, that's for sure. :) Good luck with the agent, too.

The looking's actually kind of fun, or at least the only fun anyone seems to find in the process (and by "looking," I include "making fun of the insane decorating schemes of the current owners"). Well, unless you're only looking at brand-new, then it's a different kind of fun.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I hope it's more fun and less ulcer-inducing than the financial paperwork part of it :)

And thanks for the luck, I'm going to need it!

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I don't think I found anything less fun than the financial paperwork.

(Note to self -- acquire a crowbar.)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[lietya.livejournal.com]

Much, but as I believe someone else is pointing out, a root canal might be more fun than that. Still, if it helps any, it's *actually* fun - we still pop in on open houses, like once a year, just because it's neat.

You'll do fine; you're super-organized and -prepared. Not that that makes the nerves any less, but it sure as hell does make the paperwork part go faster when you're ready for it!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

A lot of my friends really love going to open-houses, so I do hope this part is fun. And I'm lucky, I'm not in a tight situation where I need to make a decision fast. So I may compromise, but at least I don't have to settle.

And thanks, I'm hoping my hyper-cautious nature will serve me well here.