Andi & I am addicted to painting. Not painting pictures or anything like that, Painting walls. We are in the process of getting our house ready to go on the rental market in a couple months because we are headed back to Jersey in a couple months. While my husband was in Iraq, I painted every wall in our house from white to other colors. Not one single wall in our house is White. I think I did it to keep from going crazy.. Painting is a wonderful outlet.. and you always feel good about yourself when its finished.. Well here i am almost a year after my husband has been home (it will be 1 yr in march), I find myself painting again. This time it is not because i want to do it, its not because i need to get my mind off of things.. its because like i said, there is not one wall in our house that is white.. We will be moving soon & we figured that its best that our walls get painted a neutral color.. and being as we both hate white walls, we are going with a nice tan color with white trim.. I personally LOVE that color scheme.. i dunno why, i just do.. So far, i have gotten my daughters room painted and my boys' room painted. I have 2 bathrooms, a diningroom/kitchen livingroom & bedroom to do.. I dont have anymore white paint to do the trim with, so i am at a standstill with what i can and cant paint right now & it is driving me nuts. .I have this incredible urge to get up and start painting.. but I hate to leave a room unfinished, so i will sit there and paint til the walls are covered and the trim is painted.. i think my problem with that is that i dont want to move furniture more then once. Call me lazy, but we have a lot of furniture & most of it is heavy.. really heavy.. Being as Dear husband has a bad back, i cant ask him to help me move it (altho, if he is home and sees that i am moving stuff around, he usually tries to help so i dont end up hurting myself.. i yell at him to go sit down so he dont hurt himself.. he says no & proceeds to help anyway.. i could really smack him for that)So i try to move it myself & try to avoid moving it any more than i have to, meaning move it away from the walls, move it back. So here i sit @ 830 in the morning, itching just ITCHING to paint.. knowing i cant (even tho we have the paint & the brush..) because we dont have any white.... *sigh*

One cool thing about today. i did a search on the real estate commissions website and found my name! I officially have a license.. its just inactive.. how cool is that??

I fixed my template.. Sure, its not exactly what i want it to be, but there arent any annoying little gaps between the boxes anymore. which is a good thing.. anyway, i am noticing a major traffic hike right now.. hmm.. wonder if the universe is going to explode because i am getting traffic on my blog? LOL

anyway.. whats new with me? Thursday I have to go meet with my broker to get my license activated and fill out some paperwork.  woohoo! hopefully i will be able to work within the next few days.. I am guessing it will be about a week.

dang, dont have a bunch to say.. oh well maybe later.

now my template is all fubar!! WTC??? guess ill have to do a little creative editing... later.. lol

I took my real estate license exam at 830 this morning. I am sad to say that my studying is over with and that i will never have to open those book again *unless i need a refresher* I PASSED!!!! I will be a real estate agent in a matter of a few days. Last night, as i sat on the couch trying to study, i was terrified.. NONE of the things i was going over made any sense to me at all... i put it down & headed to bed... it wasnt worth me going out of my mind. When i woke up this morning @ 6am, which is unheard of for me on a weekend, i was peaceful. I got in the shower, got dressed & checked my email one time before i headed out the door. We got up to the testing center 30 minutes too eary *whoops* so we sat there and waited.. the whole drive up, i was not nervous.. another oddity.. once we were outside the center, i started to worry a little. There were 4 women there.. I was the second to sign in.  I sat down at my computer terminal & began the exam.. 30 questions on the state portion & 90 on the national part. state is first.. omg, how shocked and disappointed i was when i started noticing my classes had overlooked some of the material.. it was right then that i thought i was going to fail. I mean if the state portion has stuff on it that was never covered, then the national part does too... panic sets in..

i finish both portions before anyone else... waiting anxiously for my results with my hands covering my face, i sat and thought " I will be the only one in this room to fail my exam.. i just know it"  the results popped up on the computer screen

ok, so i cant help myself.. I run a message board called Silent Ranks. It has been a great source of comfort for a lot of women while their military s.o's ran off to play "army, marines or airforce" in the desert.  Anyway, i noticed that a lot of the people that visit me or who i visit are military spouses OR supporters of the  military... SOOOO if you want to come join us, we would be happy to have you.. Just click this link & join us. All people are welcome, as long as you support our military. Hope to see you there!!

Ok, so not really an explosion per say, but i followed the crowd and went and joined Blog Explosion. I just could not help myself.. It is actually pretty cool, got some pretty good ratings so far, and surfing other blogs rocks.. so much to read.. i love it.. oh and my counter likes it too.. i have only been a member for about 24hrs and have gotten a bunch of hits from it..  gotta love extra traffic!! funny thing is, most of  the sites i have visted all had a post about blog explosion as either their first or second post on the page... how funny!

so here i am, studying away for my exam on saturday and I look at the clock, holy crap, its almost 430pm.. you wouldnt think i started studying at 730 this morning.. i have a lot of material to re-cover & its almost overwhelming... i know i will pass my exam.. well i hope i do, depends on how well i do with E quizzing me every night when he gets home from work.. If i do good on that, i shouldnt have much of a problem with the exam itself...

Today is my son, E's, birthday. He turned 7 today.. its still a couple hours til the time he was born, and i wish i could say what a wonderful labor i had, but to tell you the truth, it was horrendous & i dont remember much of it at all.. either way, he is an awesome little kid, who has so much energy & spark....

He got some pretty cool hotwheels cars today... they run off of 'fuel' which consists of soda, water, juice etc.. pretty cool huh? His daddy took him to the golf course & let him hit some balls at the driving range.. he had a blast....

not much else going on.. ill be pretty quiet in the blogging area for the next week. I will be studying to take my state real estate license exam on saturday.. i am totally excited.. wish me luck!!!