My NEW Blog!!

Well since we are in the new house I am really enjoying cooking more than ever...and so I decided to blog about the new and old dishes that I am and will be making...so check out the new blog!!! Named so tastefully after my "nickname"..."Diva's Dishes"!!! Ahh I love it!

www.divasdishes.blogspot.com

Hope you enjoy and tonight I will upload pictures after dinner, Slow Cooked Chili and Corn Casserole!!!

Calling my mom...

       If there is one thing I do just about everyday...that would be talking on the phone with my mom.  (That is Judy Knewasser) Even just to say Hi. But there are two things that we talk about on the phone that just cracks me up and I want to share!!

        I have lived in Orlando for 6 years and this still does not get old, I LOVE to call my mom when it is starting to get cold NY, and then I tell my mom that it is really cold here, maybe 40 or 50, and then my mom says something like, " Yeah ok it is 20 below here" Ha ha that just makes me laugh!! Then I will say yeah I am wearing shorts and a tee shirt...lol!! It is funny! 

        Now there is a new thing that drives her crazy when I call...the price of gas!! I always try to find the cheapest gas price between my house and work. Recently gas has gone down a lot near me, last night I called her and I told her I needed to fill up and I was trying to get to the Hess to fill up at $1.95, she said stop bragging about the price of gas by you, gas in NY is $2.5o something. I hung up with her, and filled my tank. I drive the rest of the way home and I get to the Race track that is right by my house and it was a penny less....$1.94...Called mom back, I said, "Mom, guess what it is a penny cheaper by my house!!" She was not amused! 

I called mom today on my way home from work...I forgot to mention that gas by my house tonight was $1.91...lol!! I will call her tomorrow!!

Crazy 2 weeks!

 Wow! What a crazy two weeks it has been! The move in has been great so far. And, on Sunday I am off from work and will upload some pictures...I promise! It has just been a crazy two weeks! We bought a lawn mower and on Sunday Anthony put it together and mowed our lawn! A family friend put up our garage door opener so that was very cool, growing up we did not have a garage...just because of where we lived...we just did not have a garage. So to have a door that opens automatically is pretty cool!! We are not parked in their yet, cause we still have boxes out there to unpack. We are really enjoying living in the house and getting used to everything! 

                 I am of course back to work, working on IAAPA which is one of the best shows that we have that comes in I think all year, it has amusement park rides, and games and different things that the parks and carnivals have...the clients are very nice, it is long hours but fun at the same time! After that show ending on the 23rd I will have about 6 days off over Thanksgiving so that is great! 

                Anthony is busy at work as well!! Even with the economy the way it is, people are still traveling to Orlando and that is good for us! In a meeting this week at work they said other cities are having a hard time due to the drop off of people coming in and staying in the town, but that Orlando is actually maintaining and that is really great for Orlando and our industry! More to come on Sunday...until then have a great rest of the week!  

We are homeowners!!

YAY!! We closed on Wed. it was a long day! We were there at Noon, and some guy fron Osceola County went to lunch and did not sign a paper and send it over so they could not give us the keys, KB Home gave us a gift card to a Darden Restaurant so we ended up going to Olive Garden to lunch...then it was making its way to 4pm and we were getting annoyed!! But, finally we got the keys and we were on our way.  Yesterday was moving day it went really well.  We started at 9am and we were all unloaded at the house by 2:30ish...so we were happy. 

          We had a few issues with a ceiling fan so I was at Home Depot for 2 hours and came home around 9pm...let's just tell you that I ended up leaving with the store model due to all the issues!! 

By 11:30pm we went back to Anthony's parents to sleep since our bed was not together yet...This morning I was up at 7am starting to unpack the kitchen, Anthony works a double today so I will be unpacking what I can while he is at work. 

            Thank you everyone for all of your well wishes and Thanks for reading our blog. We are so excited to  venture into home ownership!! Everyone is welcome to come by when you can and we will let you know when the house warming is! I will put up pictures when I can find the cord to upload these pictures!!  

Count down to Closing!

Yesterday we had our house "Orientation" walk though at 3pm. Jenn is the KB Representative that took us around the inside and outside of the house. We were explained what everything outside did and how to shut off the water, we opened every window, door, cabinet, looked in every nook and cranny. So there we are going though the house blue taping every imperfection that we see in the paint, drywall or anything that did not look perfect.
They finally fixed the "U-shape" pipe next to our drive way...not sure if i wrote about that already, they put in this pipe for the irrigation and it was like 3 inches from the driveway, so if you open the car door it WILL hit the pipes and our house was the ONLY house in the neighborhood with it that close, I was freaking out!! But, Mike our KB Foreman said they would move it, 2 weeks later it is moved and it is way over in the middle by our neighbors pipes!! YAY!!!
Even with all of our tape marks Mike from KB said we are still good to close on Wed. the 29th. He said it is all fixable very fast and we will be good for next week. So we have our final walk though scheduled for Tuesday the 28th at 4pm.
The house is really looking great and we are also starting to schedule appointments for installation, such as our fridge and microwave. I just set up the appointment for Bright House to come and hook up our Cable and Internet!! We can not wait!!! Wish us luck that in the next week all is good and we can indeed close on the 29th!!

~~ Congrats to Amanda and Daniela who also just closed on homes in the last couple of weeks!!! ~~

Amanda and Daniela are two of my dear friends and Pi Nu sisters from Delhi.

Amanda bought her house in Upstate NY and Daniela just closed on her house yesterday in the MD/DC area!! Love you girls!

Update on the house!

Finally have a minute to up load these pictures and show everyone where we are at...since these pictures they have painted the garage door and front door...those will be the next ones I load up...  This last month has been just crazy as far as work and life in general, it is slowing down which is wonderful!  Thursday the 23rd we have a walk though of the house to point out things that may need to be touched up and so on, we are scheduled for closing on the 29th!! I was able to rack up some days off from work so I am going to be taking a week off from work for moving and unpacking which is very nice that it worked out that way. I know when our friends Kristi and Tony moved into their house they were unpacking boxes everyday after work for a while!! 

We did go yesterday and buy our refrigerator and over the range microwave. So that is taken care of and one more thing to check off the list!! 

Whew what a week!

Well I can tell you that it has been such a busy week, finished one show at work and started moving another one in while the other show was moving out!! Let's just say for the last week straight I have been going to work in the dark and coming home in the dark. Therefore I have no pictures of the house...But so much has happened this week! They primed the outside of the house, flattened out the front yard, painted inside, put the trim around the doors, put doors on and we have all the cabinets in a bundle waiting to be installed this week! We got exciting news that our "hard" date for closing will be Oct. 29th!! So we are really excited!! Anyone off on Thursday the 30th?? We will be moving!! We can use your help! (Rich hint, hint) lol!! We booked the cruise and sent the first batch of "Save the Dates" out!! Trying to fit in time to finish those up as well! So it has been such a busy week! Well gotta run! I will try to get some pictures up this week!