Me and Zero bought a house! Our bid got accepted -- when three others were submitted in the same day :o I was SO happy. We offered full asking price, $109,900. Its totally awesome on the inside! Its in the "historic" side of Hammond.



The only thing missing is a moat, its a freaking mini-castle. I LOVE it! Inspection, radon (or w/e) and pest/termite inspections on Friday.

So me and Ed got our engagement rings. But mine doesn't fit :( Well, sort of. Today it oddly seems to be more snug but isn't making my ring fall asleep. Ah well. I may give it a few more days of wear to see if it will be alright; if not I know I can exchange it still.

I decided that I WANT a jeweled ring now :P I've discovered that there are such a thing as BLACK diamonds whoo! Very cool in my opinion. Unfortunately there aren't a whole lot being sold in the jewelry stores around where I live, so I may order a ring online. There is quite a selection on Ebay, but I'm not sure if I should go that route either. While the prices are half what jewelry stores around here charge (or even less!) its still a risk to be buying something like that online and I'm not sure if I want to do that. Albert's had exactly one black diamond ring and it was $1,050. I was very tempted to buy it except for the fact that, well, the same ones are on ebay for $300. I guess I'll wait to see.

My cavalier is going to be fully paid off soon. I'm thinking of dumping that for a mini cooper in the next year some time. Those cars are so ugly they are cute!

And last thing I can think to write about: I haven't bitten my nails in about a week now. I feel oddly proud of myself for that.

So me and Zero Phoenix are engaged. I talked with him earlier in the day (two days ago now, on his birthday) about how well we get along together and how not many people have what we have.

So instead of being ridiculously female and hinting at no ring being on my finger yet, I said fuck that -- I went out and bought HIM a male engagement ring, and popped the question myself. Ya, I was nervous -- but he said yes. Whooo!

For some reason I felt compelled to write the story of how me and my boyfriend Zero got together. While it is a rather long story I think it only took up a little more than ten pages but whatever. Thinking it might be good zine material ;) At least it is something to do when I am bored.

Still no houses. After getting rejected on that last one, our realtor had to go in for some surgery on her one knee and she's not supposed to do a whole lot of walking until at least the 1st of the next month. This whole house buying business has been a story in itself thats for sure! Some of the nicer ones had only one or two things wrong with them, but they were major things. Such as the bigger house from the first time owner which looked immaculate but was next to Kennedy Ave. Or the really neat looking "vintage" house or two we saw but could tell that it flooded in the basement. And lets not forget the totally renovated and modern looking house that had a sagging front porch and faced (unused and growth topped) train tracks. What a lovely view, not!

It will be great to find a house though. I'm tempted to try my hand at gardening again. Well I shouldn't really say "again" as the last time I was going to, I got hit by a drunken driver on my way home from working at Domino's. Whiplash kinda hampered those plans :P But anyways, I saw an article on composting in Welness magazine and thats what sort of sparked the idea. Plus it would be a great excuse to get a little exercise.

Speaking of magazines: just for giggles I bought "Gothic Beauty" among some other magazines to read on my work trip. I gotta say, while some of the things in there were totally laughable, there were pictures of a couple that apparently were on the show "Amazing Race". I wish I watched it! Anyways, the woman is so beautiful XD I wish I could dress and do my hair how I want. Of course I could but that would mean quitting my job, and I'm not quite prepared to do that since yanno, I can't get a job at any other places where pink fluffed out hair and black pvc clothing is socially acceptable.

Although I am going back to black hair tonight. I'm rather excited as my hair length is past my shoulders now. I'm just so sick of the blonde hair!

There is no longer a Rocky Horror out here in NW Indiana. True enough Chicago has two of their own casts, but one is actually way out in Illinois now, and the other just sort of sucks for what it is as far as I'm concerned and have been told by multiple people.

The guy that was in our cast and who was also the theater owner of the Pink Invaders had to sell his place because he was losing money on it. He ended up moving to the east coast, but I have his profile on my myspace. I am so completely jealous because he's appeared to have found another cast to join out there :(

As far as the rest of life goes, it goes by OK. We haven't looked at any houses since our realtor has had surgery on her knee, and she won't be able to do anything until the first of next month. But I guess it really doesn't matter since there isn't/wasn't much that caught our eye after those two other houses.

Work is better now that I have this little run. It means more driving to Chicago yeah, but I think I'm less stressed out. Oddly enough I've had that happen before when I was bumped or my job was abolished and I had to get a different regular run.