It's been a while, hasn't it?

Well, I have once again slipped into negelcting maintaining a blog! But I do have things to update with to make up for it.

My family and I have been in our new house for close to a month now, and it's starting to feel like our house. I still miss our old house in Ontario with it's early 1950's charm, but this house does have a very nice neighborhood and view of the Great Salt Lake. I need to find the pictures that we've taken so I can upload them here.

We even have a furry little friend who has adopted us. Her name is Maddie (not our choice, but it's the name she answers to) and she's a cute FLUFFY calico cat! She belonged to some people living up the street from us from what our neighbors have said. Apparently they had gotten a new cat, she didn't like it, and prefered to live outdoors and catch mice and voles for a living. We've started feeding her and she had started waiting at our front and back doors for us to come out and either feed her or brush her. She is quite a friendly cat. I need to find a way to take a good picture of her. She had thus far been less than photogenic.

I have started attending my local Single's Ward, and it's about the same size at the Chaffey Branch. But deffinately not as friendly, I'm sad to say. The Branch president (who reminds me greatly of Brother Anderson) came and greeted me on my first Sunday in the ward, and introduced me to one other young lady. I was surprised that in Relief Society no one said that there were any new members/visitors, and so was the Branch President. He then introduced me to more young ladies in our group for Relief Society--the teacher had split the room into five groups for group discussions.

I was suprised that this ward even did Linger Longer! I was able to meet a few more young ladies there, and then I met one young man, who is now off to Portland, OR to sell home security systems. I met another young man at this weeks YSA activity at the park. I had started talking to him along with a group of other people, and when the others went off to play volley ball, he and I stayed to talk more. We talked about a lot of different things: showes we liked, animals, family members... general things. I learned that he lives fairly close to me (just down the street and around the corner, really) and I hope that this guy will be someone I can look forward to sitting with and seeing every Sunday.

Well my mom and I spent the last five hours or so putting the coins from our Popcorn tin in the back yard into little coin rolls. We found 10 Franks, 32 Centimes, one English Penny, one Canadian Penny, and one Kurus along with the $174.85. See what happens with your spare change? It GROWS! I need to start a penny jar when I get married haha! My husband and I will put our loose coins in there and then 20 years later see what we have! :P

Really makes me want to just pick up every coin I find on the street. You never know, it might help add up to something later!

Well, the date is drawing nearer, and I'm getting to a point where I am starting to feel like I am moving.

We'll be leaving on the 17th of March, and we'll be staying with our grandparents untill the end of the month. After that we will be able to move into our new house.

I think that tomorrow I will spend some time cleaning up things in the house and start taking pictures. I'm going to need them. I also need to organize a day where I go and walk around Armsley Court and all those pretty old homes on the other side of Euclid, and pictures of Chaffey High School. Such beautiful architecture. I will have to see if I can get inside either North Hall or South Hall to take some photos of the corridors and their beautiful Art Deco designs. Might even have time to visit a few old teachers and deliver some prints from my Silk Screen and Print Making class.

Sold! To the Vicomte de Chagny, thank you Sir.

We sold our house on Tuesday. A nice single school teacher bought our house for about $291 thousand which was more than our asking price. Our asking price was in the $274 range. We had a few offers from people in the $300, but they were also asking for us to pay the closing costs on this house, which would've brought us to just below our asking price. The lady we sold the house to bought it without wanting us to pay anything extra since we were also putting on a new roof.

We also bought our house in Utah. It was quite nerve wracking. When we called up the other relator to place an offer, she said we should hurry because there was another offer coming in, too. Now, we had looked at this house before and it's a beautiful house, and it was big enough for us to all have our own bedroom, and we'd have one room left over for a guest room (and we are planning on having guests). As it turns out the other people wanting to make an offer didn't have all of their financial information ready for the relator yet, and she was giving them 24 hours to get it together. We had everything ready, made the offer, and we heard back the next day that we got the house.

We've set a tenative date for the relocation company to come and pack us up. So it looks like we will be packed up and leaving on March 17th, 2010. We won't be able to move into our new house untill the 31st, but that's okay. Dad's company will pay to store our items for up to 60 days, and then move them into our house for us.

So for now I am still here in California, and I need to get to Institute and tell my friends when I am leaving.

Déménagement

So, it is official! We are moving from our home in Ontario CA to a house somewhere in Layton UT. Yesterday our realestate agent came to our house, gave us the info on what was needed to get this house to sell (basically all we need is a new roof), took some pictures, and put the house on the market yesterday at around 3:00pm. Today we had our first couple come over to tour the house. Very cute young couple. The husband is an engenier, and the wife is a nanny. They seemed to like the house, and said they really liked the kitchen.

We had just recently remodeled the kitchen so now we have a natural looking tile floor, granite counter tops and all new cabinates and a new oven/stove top. We didn't have to knock out the walls and expand the kitchen, but we did rearange the cabinates and the position of most of the appliances so that the room flowed more and appears to be more open. The cabinates are a very pretty redish color, and we have a black granite tile countertop. Surprisingly, the tile countertop was cheaper than buying a granite slab countertop. All in all, the kitchen renovation cost 5 grand. Not bad, really. Dad installed the cabinates along with Craig Holmes, and we helped him lay the tile on the floor and countertop.

We are in the process of redoing our house roof. Unfortunately no one will insure a shake-shingle roof anymore. Which is really unfortunate. We've been in this house for 15 years and our roof hasn't leaked on us since we moved in. We have a friend doing our garage roof, and he has done a very good job. He's now going to start work on our roof tomorrow along with a few other people. We even suggested him to our neighbors who are also looking to sell.

We might be taking a trip up to Utah on Friday if everything goes well. Mom will be looking for a house while Dad works. I don't know if I will be able to drive my new car down from my uncle's house, but I hope so. It's a little two-door Honda Accord. Oh, and by the way, I got my license yesterday! I am very excited! I am now able to drive! :D

Manditory Explanatory Post-a-tory.

Welcome! This is the Blog of Miss Danae Allen. If you are looking for Mr. John Smith, I believe he is the next blog over.

Little background before we get things started:

This blog is mainly an account of the many adventures I encounter in my life. Right now I am in the beginnings of embarking on a new chapter and adventure in my life -- University! I thought the title would be fitting for a person like me who manages to turn every outing into a mini adventure (Adventures happen almost every day, especially when using public transportation.)

I hope you stay tuned in to what is going on in my life, and I will be sure to post what is going on in my life, and the many adventures I shall encounter therein!


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