After a gut twisting week, we finally got a call from our rental agent very late this afternoon.

We got the 4 bedroom townhouse that we wanted!

We sign the papers tomorrow and then WE START MOVING IN.

Like, in less than 24-hours.

As there is also a LOT more going on than just moving, I have to say that don’t think I have ever been so busy in my entire freaking life.

Well…maybe except for the quarter in college when I was carrying 18 credits, performing a minor role in an operetta, leads in a musical and an opera, working part time, raising a 2-year-old and getting married the day after final exams.

THAT may have been a little busier.

Maybe.

*As I wrote this and then set publication after midnight (You know, because I posted FOUR freaking times yesterday), I should clarify that I’m moving TODAY. You probably figured that out though, huh?

Do you find yourself making up different word combinations when you’re asked to type in a never ending string of letters for blogs using word verification?

If so, this contest is for you. Come up with something witty and win a $25.00 gift certificate to a cool place of your choosing (Starbucks, etc.)

Are you fond of editing your posts after you’ve published them? While I will cop to this behavior from time to time, I only WISH that I could edit them as HYSTERICALLY as Jon Deal (Ransom Note Typography). It was so funny I had to post a third time today.

You may all now envy that I get go to lunch with this guy occasionally.

P.S. If you stop by, wish him (And his zit) a very Happy Birthday.

Even though we are still quite a ways off for applying for a construction loan I know that there are things I will have to look at and clean up on our credit reports. We have average credit scores right now but I want to raise that to a good credit score.

4 hours after signing up for my three credit reports and FICO scores, I have this to say: Wading through all this red tape and trying to comprehend some of this stuff is massively hurting my head.

That may be due to the fist full of forks I’ve been jabbing in my eye.

Just so you know.

“Gotta go to work.”

“Alright. Don’t forget to call the leasing agent. I’d REALLY like to know where I’m going to be living after this weekend.”

“Sure. Why don’t you get up and dressed in case you and I have to go in to their offices to sign papers?”

“I’m just being lazy and tired because SOMEONE woke me up EARLY this morning. In fact, do you have a dollar that I can have to get some caffeine? You know, because I don’t have any cash on me and I WAS WOKEN UP REALLY EARLY THIS MORNING.”

“Sure. In fact, I’ll give you TWO dollars.”

“WOW! I guess I must have been totally awesome this morning to deserve such staggering generosity!”

“Well, actually…one of them is for last night.”

I usually like almost everything Scarlett Johansson does.

Notice I said almost.

Her new CD tracks?

NOT SO MUCH.

Lots of people blog about one or several of their pet peeves. This is going to be a little different. It is about the pet peeves of OTHERS and how my behavior impacts them.

I have a habit,

Unfortunately, as many of my habits are wont to do, it does not fall under the “Good” habit category. No, it tends to make most people climb the walls. It is obnoxious, irritating, intrusive and just ANNOYING AS HELL to those around me.

I snap my gum.

I snap my gum a LOT.

LOUDLY.

With VIGOR.

I know. I know that I resemble a cow chewing its cud. I know that this is uncouth, tacky, unlady-like and just plain rude. Most of the time I try to constrain myself around others, but usually it’s just an unconscious thing that seems to take over my mandible.

“You’re REALLY enjoying that gum, arent’ ya?” is one of the more polite reminders I’ve had to stop my gum munching. Usually the (justifiable) comments are more along the lines of, “IF YOU DO NOT STOP SNAPPING YOUR GUM I WILL REACH IN, TAKE THAT GUM OUT AND THEN WIRE YOUR FREAKING JAW TOGETHER SO YOU WILL NEVER ASSAULT MY EARDRUMS AGAIN, YOU INCONSIDERATE PIECE OF EXCREMENT!!!!”

It’s one of the many flaws that I have that I inflict on others.

Sigh…

So? Do any of you have habits that drive the people around you NUTSO?

I’ll tell you right now that I think my husband should post a comment and say, “Why, YES! I chew a hideously large amount of sunflower seeds on road trips and then spit the shells into a cup, resulting in a totally foul looking thing that just sits and STARES AT MY WIFE THE WHOLE TRIP AND ENEVITABLY SPILLS ON HER SIDE OF THE CAR AT SOME DAMN POINT!!!!!”

I’m not counting on it, though…