Wow! It only took me about 3 years but I have reached a blogging milestone. Yippee for me! Remember in kindergarten, how you celebrated the 100th day of school and you had to glue 100 things to a poster? Well just picture me gluing 100 pieces of Easter candy to my poster board right now.

Mmmmm...100 Peeps, yes please!

 By the way, I just discovered a love for Peeps. What have I been missing all these years? I thought Peeps were some stale, icky, creation BUT they turned out to be DELICIOUS! I spent my Easter Sunday biting the head's off all the ones I got in my basket. Speaking of which, that ol' boyfriend of mine pretty much made me feel like the marshmellow-y insides of one of those Peeps, he actually got me an Easter Basket and hid plastic eggs around the house.
While I was totally surprised I felt like a complete schmuck because I didn't get him one even though I totally thought about it. I figured we wouldn't do anything but he went and smashed that idea to smithereens! Love that boy :)

Our Easter day was pretty uneventful, we didn't do anything with either of our families because they were both doing late lunches or dinners and we had tickets to the Cardinals game. The game was fun except that it was a little chilly and of course started raining but that was no big deal for us because we were under the cover of Homer's Landing, which was definitely nice!

I took a personal day today to work on a grad school project and bum around the house. I pampered myself a little and got an awesome hot stone pedicure and my nails done. But otherwise I have been crossing things off my to-do list...installed a towel bar (more like supervised the installation of a towel bar, thanks Aunt Cyndi!), made ump-teen phone calls...Ashley Furniture for our missing dining room chair parts, home warranty people to schedule someone to look at our oven which won't even turn on :( and trying to get a hold of the people we bought our fridge from to repair the broken LED light. I also accomplished the weekend goal of clearing away our tool table that had been sitting in our dining room for a month and setting up our guest bedroom. No pics of that yet but will get some soon. Things are coming along quite nicely, have a good week!

Sorry, I just had to make a Charlie Sheen reference tonight...that man in 7 different shades of crazy and I find it highly amusing. Anyone else following his Twitter? Pure gold.

Tonight was a night of elation in the soon to be merged Burkemper/Chaney household...we made our first purchase for the casa, a brand spankin' new Vizio 55" television! Nothing too crazy, minor bells and whistles, but really, really, BIG. This baby is going to look great in our basement built in cabinets. I mean you buy a house with a over a 60" space built in to the wall, you can't fill it will a puny 37". That would just look silly.

And the best freakin' part...the insane deal we got on it. I have to thank the boy toy for his covert, clearance stalking ways at Tar-Jay. While he was at work tonight he heard about a tv that had just been returned that came from online. A little secret about Tar-Jay is that whenever something is purchased online that they don't carry in store, they dramatically reduce the price when they put it back out on the sales floor. So the normally $1100 tv was marked down to $769! Holy savings Batman! And then...yes, there is an and then....and then because Chris gets his employee discount there was another $76 worth of savings, making this beauty only $693 before taxes, all in all a savings of almost 40%! BOOYAH! It was completely worth the 40 minute drive from the Chuck in my mom's minivan.

 So yes, the first actual purchase for the casa is one we can not sit in, eat off of, or sleep in...but damn, I love a good deal!

Closing is only two weeks away and I am getting antsy in my pantsy. This weekend I am definitely heading out and doing some reconnaissance...paint colors are my target, hopefully I can find some options so I can hit the ground running once we get the keys.