Bloggin' From a Mac

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I never thought it would happen, but I now have a Mac. After the Alienware crapped out on me three times on Friday, I was able to convince Jer that I needed a new computer. Of course it was actually easier when I asked him if I could get a Mac.

For as much as I resisted, it's actually pretty sweet once you start to get the hang of it. A lot of things still feel weird, but I'm sure I'll get used to it. Plus, on the new Macs I can run windows if I need to.

That's all I really have to say... oh yeah, also, we sold our house! Wooohooo! (Not to be confused with Wahooo!, Buck's blog. I don't want him to sue me.) It only took us 10 days. We actually received two offers today. Nuts! Evidently a lot of people use www.forsalebyowner.com (or at least more than we thought).

Under Contract!

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Our house in Eagle Mountain is Under Contract! We listed our home on ForSaleByOwner.com and after being listed for only 10 days we received 3 offers. 2 faxed and 1 verbal commitment. We decided to sell it to the Hemingways. Well, now where do we go till out PG home is ready?

House for Sale or Rent...

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...for fifty cents. J/K. (it's a song that Clark plays sometimes) So our house is for sale. Kind of sad. But at least I get to take a log of pics. :) The picture is of winegarfamily.com when we were advertising the Home for Sale. I made a cool site, huh? Very professional and each of the images is a roll over image. Which means it changes each time your mouse goes over them. It doesn’t work now, silly. It’s just a screenshot of the old site.

Home For Sale

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Wow, somehow committing to post at least three times a month seems to make the months go by way faster… or maybe it’s just that this month has been really busy.

Among many other things, we’ve finally decided to sell our house and get out of the Ranches. Check out the sweet site [well picture of it, because it's been sold] Linda made to help us sell the house: [right here on www.winegarfamily.com but obviously has been changed because it's been sold.]

To be honest, it’s kind of bittersweet ‘cause we really like our house here and our neighbors and the area we live in, but the drive in and out just got to be unbearable. The fact that our new house will be 5 minutes from work and 5 minutes from the freeway makes it a lot more sweet than bitter I guess. Like a chocolate covered coffee bean—only instead of just a thin coating of chocolate, the bean is inside a 2 pound brick of chocolate.

We’re building, so we won’t be moving into our new house until late November or December, but hopefully we’ll sell our house way before that and move into an apartment for a few months. Either way, at least there’s a light at the end of the tunnel now.
If you know anyone that enjoys being stuck in traffic for long periods of time, or that works from home or somewhere near Eagle Mountain, please let them know there’s a great home for sale. :)

[post updated on Jan 2007]

A Quiet Place to Read

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I’d like to pose some questions for consideration and discussion. Now I know there aren’t too many people that read this blog, so for those of you who do, it would be helpful if you can talk to friends and family and get their opinions too.

Question #1: Do you like to read while on the toilet?

Question #2: Do you feel that reading on the toilet contaminates the book, magazine, newspaper, etc.?

Question #3: If you lent someone a book and found out they read it while on the toilet, how would you feel about it?

Question #4: If someone lent you a book they had read on the toilet, what would you think?

Question #5: If you have borrowed a book from someone else, do you think it’s okay to read it on the toilet?

Question #6: If you were in clean public restroom, and there were a magazine rack by the toilet that also looked clean, would you pick up a magazine and read it?

Question #7: What about reading in the bathtub?

My answers are as follows:

1. Always. 2. Not really, but even if it does, our immune systems need something to fight. 3. I would be fine with it. 4. Also no big deal. 5. Um, I don’t know if it’s okay, but I do it anyway. I don’t really even think about it. 6. Yes. 7. It’s the one place to read that’s even better than the toilet.

Bought our 2nd Home

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We just signed papers to buy a house in Pleasant Grove. It’s the Chardonnay floor plan from Richmond American Homes. So exciting! They said it could take a year. What?! But at least we're going to be closer to Clark's work and other stuff. We'll be almost right across the street from Walmart and Wendy's. Sweet huh? After looking for almost a year we found a new place to live. Well, now comes the waiting and we have to sell our house. :( Not going to be a fun task. Click here to see the Floor Plan.