So much is going on but so far it has all been fabulous.  We had a major hiccup with the painting of the house.  I had wanted three colors, a beautiful green that was going in the kitchen and dining room, a fabulous rusty red kind of color that was going to be the one accent wall in the living room for the couch to go on and gold in the entrance way and up the stairwell.  Understand that why kitchen, living room and dining room is one large open space so the three colors, blending perfectly, go with my "Tuscany" wine country feel that I am going for.  My family diligently started painting last Saturday, doing it without me which I thought was awesome because I had to work.  I got there and was pleased with the green.  The rust color still wasn't on the wall.  I went to the grocery store to get more bottled water and sodas and when I came back, I walked into the ugliest color of "puked up rusted nail" I had ever seen in my life.  My sister did one swipe of it and stopped, knowing I would hate it.  At that point I yelled, put the gold on that wall.  Of course I didn't have enough and had to go buy MORE paint...sooo expensive uuuggghhh.  So now the walls are gold and green but my living room furniture looks AMAZING in the house.  

My mom went and cleaned and put out all my new small appliances.  LOVE HER.  We went Thursday and finally found a dish set.  That was another long story.  She wanted me to buy a 500.00 set from the Chris Madden collection at JC Penneys. I told her she was insane.  We compromised. I found an adorable set for $40.00 and added some of the accent pieces of the Madden collection to it for a grand total of $120.00 for 8 full sets of dishes, a platter, a pitcher, salt and pepper shakers, a pitcher and a canister set.  That is an awesome buy!  Very proud of myself.

I still need to purchase the following:  paint for the rest of the rooms and upstairs, bathroom stuff for my master bath (love saying that), a tv stand for the new tv I will be buying, bookshelves and a new desk for my office.

Than I will be broke and done.

So on to some other news that I probably shouldn't type for fear of completely jinxing myself but here goes.

I had a date last night.  Yes I know Cristian and I just broke up a few weeks ago but we haven't spoken at all.  I had hoped we would remain friends but I guess he didn't want to and the more I have thought about it all...spoken with others about it...and really delved into my own heart, I hate to say it but maybe he was right....maybe there really wasn't anything left anymore.  It hurts to admit that.  It hurts to admit that yeah, maybe we were hanging on for the sake of hanging on.  I dunno...but that being said, because I opened my head and heart to the possibility that he was right, it has eased any hurt that I had and frankly I have had ZERO time for a relationship anyway.  So back to the date.....

Now...I have had some great first dates with great conversation and all that and than I never heard from the guy.  Now this being said, I have always assumed that it was for one of two reasons why the guy didn't bother with me.  One....he couldn't get over my rubenesque figure or two, I didn't put out on the first date.  I mean how could someone NOT love me LOL.  Anyway...so I had this date and it could NOT have gone better. I have NEVER had such a great first date before.  He was just super sweet and super nice and as I said I am probably jinxing myself by talking about him.  Taking this VERY slow as we are both moving so we don't have alot of free time right now, his friends are important to him so he spends alot of time with them (which I like) and neither one of us want to jump in and burn out fast.  So we shall see.  He did call me when he got home last night to tell me what a great time he had and blah blah blah so I thought that was cool.  We shall see. I am being level-headed and realistic but time will tell. 

The greatest thing about this date?  He knew pop culture references so I didn't have to explain everything to him. You have no clue how refreshing that was.  So when I hummed the "manamana song" from the muppets, he knew his part!  That's love people! LOL