Get a job woman

I've been horribly lax when it comes to this side of my blog. I'll be sure to give myself 40 lashes with a wet noodle - might not get to 40 because I'll have eaten the noodle before that point. I haven't been doing too much that deemed worthy of noting. I officially hate...strike that; hate is a strong word and I don't care too much for it, so corrected - I officially despise literary searches. They are so mundane. Mike has been gone too for quite some time, he practically had back to back trips to Sweden and just recently returned from Chile.

Actually, Monday at the office and Tuesday at home I was counterproductive. While slowly taking notes for the social injustice assignment, I was designing in the paint program what my future home will hopefully look like. :) It has a nice eclectic style to it; there are Spanish elements, thanks to working at Market to Market in St. Augustine, as well as my own heritage, and traditional Japanese features due to my fascination with the culture. However, some of design seems predominately Japanese, especially in the doors. This is fine though I wanted a more Spanish look to the front door. Oh well, I have plenty of time to tweak the design.Ideally, I would like to build the house in the Florida panhandle. My parents own a plot of land in the Compass Lakes area (off of I-10 near Alford and Cottondale. I'm hopeful that the land will be passed to me and they won't sell it off beforehand. We used to go up there just about every summer when my brother and I were younger, but now that we're older I seemingly have to beg to get them to even consider travel there. While they rather travel places like Costa Rica and New York and all those exotic places, I find myself drawn to the calm and simple life of Compass Lakes. I've never been one for large crowds of people, especially for extended periods of time. I just love it there; there aren't a ton of people, the air is so clean and crisp you can taste it, the area isn't built up, not all the roads are paved so you're driving on red dirt roads most of the time, and the trees go on for miles and that isn't an exaggeration. Where our land is located is great because its just down the road from McCormick Lake perfect for swimming and get togethers. Its like being on vacation in your own private corner of the world. :)

Its kind of ironic really. This place is so peaceful and our little plot is located on Battleground Ave.

This whole thing of me drawing up plans and designs are attempts to further my parents decision in eventually handing the land over to me. I had brought up idea to them over the weekend while I was home and my mom wasn't too keen on letting me have it and building on it - saying that they were thinking of retiring there, which I assume meant building a house. To which I replied that would be fine but if they could retire in the house I want to build. My dad especially is always going on about them moving in with me when they get older. Kind of like payback. Any who, my mom doesn't want a two-story or a large home that she'll have to end up cleaning. If I can find away to incorporate an elevator (I saw a perfect example of one in an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) because they'll be too old to get up and down stairs, maybe she'll settle and meet me halfway. I'll even put their bedroom on the bottom floor. Which means they would be getting the main master bedroom. The second and third bedrooms would be upstairs - one of those would also be a master suite but not nearly as large.

I've got to do my best to sell this idea to them - especially mom. By the time it comes to building this, all the kinks and design flaws will have been weeded out. Let's knock on wood!