House Hunters New Orleans

Neil and I went to New Orleans in January for a "second look" to decide if New Orleans could be our new home.I absolutely loved it! We both decided this would be the best place for Neil to rank first for his residency. Almost immediately we started looking at houses and planning where to settle down. 

From the start we wanted to live in "uptown", which is about 5-10 minutes from anything and everything you would want to do in the Crescent City. Nola is a very tricky place to look for houses. For instance, one street might have million dollar homes, and the next street looks like a ghetto. This makes looking for a house kind of difficult. We would look online at listings and choose almost twenty houses we liked, but only two would be in a good area of town.  After a few disappointments we found a great house that we both loved and could get in our price range. 

 

Around the middle of March, we placed an offer on this house and it went under contract. Two weeks later the inspection was done, seller agreed to fix everything, and we were well on our way to closing on the house. 

About a week ago the seller contacted us to tell us the city would not let him sell the house as a townhome. The problem is that the firewall that separates the house does not extent onto the front porch. He needed to have an engineer and architect write a letter to the city to state that the firewall complies with the current code. 

After much discussion it looked like everything would work out. Both architect and engineer agreed the firewall was okay. Well...apparently the city did not agree. The seller sent us a letter yesterday through email stating he is backing out of the sale....which is a HUGE no no.

So here we are, a month away from moving and we don't have a place to live. We are heading to Nola today to try to find some kind of rental house or apartment until this gets straightened out or we find a new house.

Either way, the seller violated the contract we had and there is a potential lawsuit brewing. Which is drama we really don't want or need right now.

Hopefully it will all work out!

A Master Weekend

So, a few weekends ago Neil and I made a weekend trip to Atlanta to participate in the 2010 Atlanta Bar Golf Classic. A friend of ours, Alex Bunn, started this event to raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta. 

So, what is bar golf? Each team of four and individual receives a score card. There are nine holes, or bars, that you must visit and order drinks from. At each bar you have a list of drinks you can order to make a certain score: par, birdie, etc. At the end of the course the team or player with the best scorecard receives the famous green jacket. Of course, it wouldn't be a party without some tacky outfits. Neil and I decided to dress up like Tiger and Elin Woods, and we won the costume contest!

The remainder of the weekend consisted of watching the real Masters and a trip to Ikea.

 Neil and I with our "Best Dressed" hat.

 Taylor, Neil, Alex, and J5

Neil with some of the other golfers at the bar. Neil was pretty envious of his green jacket. This guy was the winner for the previous year. 

 I'm not sure who this girl is or what she is dressed like, but she got J5's attention! Hahaha.

 

There ended up being approximately 450 golfers at the pub crawl, and only one score card was turned in at the end of the night. The next morning we found out that Neil would have won if we had only turned in his card. Guess there is always next year, Tiger.

And, of course, around 5000.00 was raised for the Boys and Girls Club of Atlanta. Way to go Alex!

Run Forrest Run...

So I've decided I'm gonna go all the way back to last year and blog about a few exciting things that took place. First memorable event of the year was the Country Music Marathon in Nashville. It was so much fun, and I would love to do it again.

                                                     Waiting in line to begin the race.

                                            

This marathon was a part of the "Rock and Roll" marathon series, and there were approximately 38,000 people running it. There was a band every mile of the race, and the route took you through all the scenic areas and beautiful streets of downtown Nashville. There were people lining the streets to tailgate and cheer us on, and there was a post race concert that featured a more famous band. I can't even remember who it was-we were so exhausted we didn't even go out to celebrate that night.

                                                              Cheers!!!

Next time I run 13.1 miles I will make more of an effort to train for it. This is me trying to walk the next day. Advil and Icy Hot were my best friends.

I'm a Blogger!!!

So...over the past year I have become slightly obsessed with blogs. I read blogs of all kinds: friends, strangers, one time acquaintances, designers, gossip, clothing, lifestyle. You name it, I read it. So, it just makes sense that I start one of my own. I'm not sure if I will even have anything to talk about or if anyone will read it besides my family... I guess I will find out.

Anyways, what will I be blogging about? This past year has been a really busy one. I graduated nursing school, got married, started a new job, moved to a new city, cheered on Bama for a National Championship and Neil started his last year of med school. So, I'm sure I will be doing some catching up. I have some great pictures and stories from all of this.

This year we will hopefully be buying a house, moving to a new city, and both starting new jobs. I might even be going back to nurse practitioner school. Should be a busy one.

Anywhoo...does anyone out there have a guilty pleasure? Well, I sure do. It comes in the form of reality T.V. I'm a little embarrassed :/.


Keeping up with the Kardashians!! Love it!! These people are so crazy. Hence, the name of our blog. I know I'm not very original, but this will have to do for now.

About to start my five day stretch at work. So blogging will come to a standstill until then.