my eye has been twitching at least a few times a day (sometimes like a hundred times a day!!!) since before christmas. i may have tourette's syndrome-don't be surprised if i start randomly yelling obscenities. i may have to start wearing a pirate eye patch if this continues!!!

anyhoooooo....i had friday off of work in order to celebrate abraham lincoln's birthday. and i celebrated by having someone come out to the house to measure for our new pergo floors. they will get back to me with an estimate on wednesday, so we shall see. grammy, what did you do to celebrate your hero's birthday? :)

matt put an ad in "craig's list" advertising our FREE HOT TUB (you haul away) and within an hour we had 6 phone inquiries and 10 emails. so some people came by to look at it last night--since it is inset into our 2nd level deck, they couldn't see if it was going to be easy enough to move. so today matt and i and our friend tom are going to be tearing up our deck (which we have been intending to do since we moved in. it may just be dirt out there for awhile, but at least that will get us motivated to fix it how we want (which involves laying flagstone-irregular shaped flat stones-with a border of blue mexican river rock, then get a little bistro table, bamboo/reed fencing and most importantly--a firebowl, so we can have campfires out there)--just in case you were all wondering!

since we're going to be getting a new car in the next couple of months, we'd rather sell the jetta ourselves than have a dealer rip us off. so matt listed that the next day (on craig's list) and had a ton of emails--people offering to pay cash for it now and then just give it to them when we get our new car. crazy! he had to take both ads off within a day because we were getting so many calls! he's meeting someone in an hour for that business.

we got two inches of rain yesterday here in point loma, which is disappointing because we were going to go mountain biking at mission trails today. but those deals are going to be straight mud, so we may just take a normal road ride over to mission bay after we finish the deck.

man!!!! the rain just started up again--go away! well, at least everything will be beautiful and green for all of our march visitors! and my eye started up again as well, though i can't find any positive in that.

we could count the stars
and we could plunder the galleons
my heart is on the outside, looking
i've been searching with my one eye missing
i'm a pirate eye
i'm a pirate eye
-lassie foundation

matt made this great mix that i am listening to right now, you guys need to get into it. some new(er) tunes for you to research/buy/burn when you come to visit: palomar, elefant, aqueduct, razorlight, elliott smith, reeve oliver, q and not u, hippos, fall out boy, mates of state, and the new starflyer album....

we had an impromptu weekend extender (that's now what we call friday night activities now that we're older and it's harder to go out on friday night) on friday with some friends. they all came over to our house for an appetizer and then we walked to downtown ocean beach and ate dinner at bravo's, a mexican place. then we went to pacific shores for an after dinner drink and walked back home. it ended up being such a fun time!

yesterday matt and i did a little research for our future wood floor buying experience. it's sort of a long process, actually. i was hoping to have them put in before our guests come in the middle of march, but it looks like the earliest will be late march/early april. then matt went out and bought a rotisserie chicken, bread, and cheese from the grocery store and we stuffed ourselves!!! we blobbed around, rented the last episodes of sex and the city--and it had such a great final episode, we're sad that it's over!

today we went for a hike back in sunset cliffs natural park and everything is green and lush and beautiful. the place where we had mom and dad edwards' 30th anniversary celebration is overgrown with green plants and yellow flowers, as is the entire park. we hiked down the cliffs to the beach and tidepools and explored and found sea plants and creatures. now we're getting ready to go to a superbowl party. i don't care about the actual game, but there will be guacamole, i've been told, so that's the main draw. also, someone is making a chart where we can "buy" boxes and something or other about the last 2 numbers of the score of each quarter--either way, i plan on winning some money from this deal!!!!

have fun this afternoon, everybody!

yeah, the sun always shines around you...
-the queers