We're Moving to Chicago wish us luck!

Just kidding I wish we were moving to Chicago. Jane says I wouldn't last one winter...she's probably right I think I'm doomed to live in the desert my whole life wah wah.

I went to Chicago a couple of weeks ago for business...wow I sound all grown up :) One of the companies that I work with gets a ton of money from us we are their biggest client and I mean HUGE! They asked if our design department wanted to go to Chicago for the annual NeoCon trip. NeoCon if you are not familiar is a week event held every year in Chicago and features everything that is new and exciting in the design world like new furniture, fabrics, and carpet. Blah blah blah it's a big deal if you are in my field. I've always wanted to go but tickets are expensive and at my last job you had to be a senior designer to be able to go and I was next in line but I quit that job.

Anyhow it was amazing I love Chicago so much I would move there in a heart beat. There is something about that town, I like it better than New York. It feels so much more active, friendly, cleaner, I don't something is in the air there. Chicago, Chicago that lovely town! Yep and we sang that all week. Here is how my trip to NeoCon went in a nut shell.

Me in front of my absolute favorite building ever, I can't wait to be an architect...it looks like Gotham City no? The black building.

We flew to Chicago and arrived at our very nice hotel, when we checked in Facilitec (That's the company that paid for everything) had goodie bags waiting for us. That's fun. Then we were limoed around, wined and dined at Fancy shmancy restaurants...we ate at the restaurant that Johnny Depp ate at a week after we were in Chicago where he gave a $4,000 tip. Yep we just missed him.

Here are some photos of me at NeoCon trying out all the new stuff so fun...if you're into that kind of a thing. It's 14 stories high of nothing but trying stuff out. It's kind of like going to IKEA for the first time x 14 stories :)

Get off you can't afford that lounge, ah so sleepy.
Companies that are featured at NeoCon have giveaways and there were a lot of awesome bags given out. Now we don't ever have to use plastic at the grocery stores.

Ahh local flavor, this guy was down by the pier recording people kicking him in the nuts so he could post it on Utube...yep you know I did it I'll bet I'm on utube somewhere :)

Bah ah ah ah ah ah

This is a local bar, I thought the sign was great I had to do the same pose!

I really wanted to do all things they did in Ferris Bueller's Day off, but we didn't have much time to ourselves our days were pretty planned out for us. This is the same shot from the movie, next time I go I will go to the top of the Sears tower, lean and put my forehead on the glass and look down at all the people in the city that look like ants from up there.

Catching up

I haven't blogged in quite a while so I will catch you up to speed on what has been going on at the Graves house. Nick is almost done with school and graduates September 11th, kind of a weird day to graduate but I'll bet no one will forget. He had to take a test a couple of weeks ago on AC, it is required by Arizona to be licenced and we got his test results 100%!!! He's quite amazing and I'm very proud of him for going back to school.

Speaking of school...I started going back to school a couple of weeks ago...MATH Ahhhhhhhhhhh. I still hate math, who ever said math is easier when your older is a liar!
I had just got back into town from Chicago (I will post about the trip another day) and got a reminder email from my academic counselor that I had class that night crap I totally forgot and was unprepared.

I went to class, no big deal until she started in with math problems. I started to panic and wasn't quite sure I was ready for this but I stayed. Then I started my homework the night before my next class, yep the night before that's the Turner way :) I didn't really understand everything but not to worry my teacher said she would go over any questions in our next class.

Well I go to class and realize I didn't do a bunch of the homework I was supposed to do because I didn't see all the problems crap #1. Then students were talking about math problems that we didn't even go over in class crap #2. I started to panic yet again, so I did decide to take the next class and be more prepared. I don't think I was ready yet and I already felt lost, not to worry I start class in a couple of weeks and I won't wait until the night before to do my homework, and I will read everything that is due. I forgot to mention that this class still makes you do a bunch of stuff online which is very difficult to understand and not user friendly but my job pays for me to go back to school so I need to stick with it.

We are looking into buying a home if we can. We are renting a home now and our lease is up at the end of September so we need to be out. We have had nothing but problems from the second we moved in, the property managers aren't keeping the 100 year old home in good condition and it takes them forever to fix anything basically I hate them and we're moving :)

We should have all the pre-qualification paperwork figured out in the next week or so. Buying a home is very overwhelming and I'm over it before it has even begun, I'm not really excited anymore but people do it every day it can't be that hard can it? There are just so many options and we still don't really know where good areas and bad areas are in Phoenix because it's very patchy.


Happy homemaker update

Way cute pillows hand made for the couch, as if we didn't have enough color going on in this house :)

Pot pie which is delicious by the way.

More to come, I'll try and be better about blogging....it's so hot here already and I need to stay inside so I shouldn't have any excuses.