Days & Nights: Important Things Update

I know, I know, I've been a terrible blogger. Sometimes life happens, though, and we can't always update. Some of the more major/awesome things that have been going on with me:

1. I'm buying a house! What!? B and I had been thinking about it a lot lately but definitely didn't think we could afford to buy anything. The business accountant told us we were on schedule to get KILLED on taxes this year, unless we find a way to get more write-offs. Being young and technically single isn't always a good thing in the eyes of the IRS. So we looked at some condo's, only to realize that the condo's in our area are ridiculously overpriced. A one bedroom fixer-upper STARTS at $450,000. We were kind of discouraged until Brian came across a house that looked awesome and was in our price range. The fact that it's an actual house is just an added bonus. On Thursday we signed the contract and wrote the biggest check of our lives, we received their signed contract on Friday and now we're going in to deal with the mortgage stuff on Monday morning. So scary, I feel like I'm playing grown-up!

2. One of my baby chinchillas, Davis, turned out to be Bette Davis. He's a she! We had Brian's parents over on Wednesday night and Davis started digging in his cage. Brian's mom commented that they usually do that when they're pregnant. We realized we hadn't checked their "parts" since they were really young and with chinchillas things change a lot between baby-hood and adulthood. So we looked and freaked out. Davis definitely looked like a girl but we couldn't tell for sure. We called around and found a vet that specializes in chinchillas and exotic animals and brought them Thursday night. Davis turned out to, indeed, be a girl chinchilla. No word yet if she is pregnant, you can't really tell until they're just about to have babies, but it wouldn't be bad for her health if she were. Hoping she's not (and even if she is, so they can still live together in the future), we had Junior neutered. It was so weird not having him home, I actually missed him. I picked him up this afternoon and he is so adorable. I guess he's still out of it from the anesthesia and is just so cute and sleepy looking. He's going to need to stay in a separate cage for about 10 days until he heals up but then everything should be fine. I hate keeping them apart, though. It's so sad.

3. Football season is starting! Two weeks ago I went to the Jet's home opener. Brian and Sean have season tickets so Brendan, Christine and me got tickets, too. We got there early and tailgated and the Jets beat the Patriots. Such an awesome game!

Me and Christine tailgating.

For the past few years I've done a pool with my friends where you have to pick the winners of each week's games and if the score will go over or under. Winner used to get a jersey but now they win the money. I won two years ago and got an Eli Manning jersey. My friends and Brian give me shit because I like the Giants and Jets equally. According to them you have to pick a favorite, you can't possibly like them exactly the same. My mom's side of the family all love the Mets and Jets, my dad's like the Yankees and Giants, so I'm split down the middle. Although in baseball I prefer the Yankees.

4. Speaking of Yankees, we went to see them play the Red Sox last Sunday and they clinched their division and home-field advantage in the play-offs. I had bought the tickets for Brian, my parents and me about a month ago for my birthday. I hoped that the seats I chose were good, they looked really good online but I couldn't tell. When we got there it was raining and we just stood around for awhile before going to our seats. I asked one of the ushers how to get down to our seats and he laughed and said, "pssh you have to have those kind of tickets first". I showed him our tickets and he said, "Oh, well, I guess you do...go over to those giant glass windows, go into the Legends Suite Club entrance and get a bracelet. We were confused, because our tickets didn't anything about a Legends Suite Club. We went into the suite area, which opened up into a restaurant. We wanted to eat a little while there was a rain delay, so we asked the hostess how much the buffet was. She said it was included with our tickets. What? So we sat down to one of the most delicious buffets ever. Fresh sushi, Mediterranean cheese/olive/salad spread, lamb chops, turkey, omelets. Insane. After eating the game was starting so we asked someone how to get to our seats. She said, "Follow me, I'll show you. On your way out grab some snacks." We look at the snacks, which was a table COVERED in all different types of snacks; candy, cracker jacks, cotton candy, chocolate bars, etc. "How much?" "Oh it's all free. Take as much as you want." What? "Oh and at your seat you can ask your server to bring you a menu. Everything on there is free except for alcohol." What? Seriously, hot dogs, TRUFFLE FRIES (amazing, by the way), cheesesteaks, ice cream, nachos, EVERYTHING. FREE. Best birthday present ever. Plus the Yankees went on to win! Here are some photos I took of the game: