i forgot to say in the last post - monday evening, we went by an at&t store to look at phones (john's having to switch carriers to be on the same network as everyone else on staff), then he walked next door to get a haircut at supercuts.  i decided to go to the car & knit.  on my way there i saw a big truck backing into a parking space with an LSU front license plate and immediately i knew i had to talk to him.  he did indeed graduate from lsu and had moved up here 2 and a half years ago, blah, blah, blah, talked for like 5 minutes when i finally got around to telling him john's name and it turns out that john graduated from mandeville high with him!  what in the world are the chances of that!  seriously.  about that time john walked out of supercuts, and we had a little mini-highschool reunion.  it was great.  AND he & his wife go to calvary.  weird!

tuesday, john made a trip into philly to pick up 2 ikea stools for his office that we bought from a girl on craigslist.  they will serve as a "coffee table" and can also be dragged over to the opposite side of john's desk to be used for seating.  while he was doing that, i went out with the realtor & looked at houses & vetoed all of them.  i then made a trip to homegoods & found the PERFECT artwork for john's office walls.  i was SO pumped and then was totally deflated when i got back to the office and found out that some of the guys on the staff were making fun of john's office for being "girly."  Ugh!  haha.  turns out they were just picking on him, so i reassured john that they were just jealous that their offices weren't as stylish as his.  :-)

tuesday evening, we had another little mini-reunion at mcdonalds with kevin watterson.  for those of you who don't know him, he's lived in pennsylvania for forever but moved down to covington to work with disaster response for katrina a few years ago.  we talked for a long time - it was great!

update on house hunting:  we have zeroed in one in particular.  steve robert and david fuller will be glad to know that it's the one they voted for!  woo hoo!  it's the one i voted for too!  yesterday, we saw it for a second time and brought a builder, who goes to calvary, with us (who, by the way, has been down to covington and done tons of work with katrina relief and totally knows all the EFCA people - crazy!!!).  we wanted to just make sure that he didn't see any red flags (the house is over 100 years old), and we also wanted an idea of how much certain improvements would cost (i.e. central air installation).  anyway, the walkthrough went great, and we're going to make an offer today after lunch! woo hoo!

ok, now for the serious part...we need to sell the thorn in our side (condo).  prayers are appreciated!  thank you!