Thought I would start this post by talking about Avenue Q, for those who dont know Avenue Q is a tony award winning musical that is basically Seasame Street for adults. I had found out about it a few years ago when it was off-broadway in an Entertainment Weekly article. I found the soundtrack and purchased it from the song titles alone(classics like "if you were gay..." and "Everyones a little bit racist" and my favorite "The Internet...is for Porn). Well we finally got the chance to see it live as it came to Atlanta this week. The show was simply outstanding its done with a mix of live actors and puppets (to give it the seasame street feel) and after a short while you dont even notice the puppeteers and just focus on the puppets themselves. The story is actually quite good it focus's on Princeton the newest arrival on Avenue Q trying to find his purpose in life and getting involved with the other citizens of the block the superintendent Gary Coleman (yes THAT Gary Coleman), Christmas Eve (a Japanese Therapist with no clients) Her finace Brian (a jobless stand up comic), Rod and Nicky (a Bert and Ernie type pair with Nicky being the slob and Rod the in the closet Republican investment banker) Trekkie Monster (the internet porn addict) and Kate Monster (the cute kindergarten teaching assistant who cant seem to get a boyfriend) Princeton and Kate hit it off and begin to date while Princeton is still searching for his purpose and this leads to one of the most outragesly funny things I think I have ever seen...after the whole groups goes out to a bar to see a new singer (a rather gifted (in the chest anyway) singer aptly named Lucy the Slut) Princeton and Kate wind up getting totally wasted (thanks to another highlight of the show The Bad Idea Bears) and wind up back in Kates apartment while during a song sung by Gary called "you can be loud as the hell you want" they engage in some serious puppet on puppet action...it was so funny it nearly had me falling out of my chair. Sam and I truly loved the show and would recomend it for those with an open mind LOL.
On the housing front after some discussion and thinking we have decided that Bridgetowne may not be our best bet. After we started looking closer at the house to get the upgrades we would want we might wind up closer to a 215,000 price tag wich might stretch us farther than we want to go. So we met with the realtor on thursday and really liked her she pulled some listings for us in Woodstock and Cumming that fit our needs and were in our pricerange and we went through and picked out the ones that we liked we came up with close to 20, so this saturday we are going out with her to try and look at as many of them as we can. Most of them are priced less than 200 so I really think we may be getting the most out of our money on a resale, the nice thing is what we save on the house we can always put to upgrades or rennovations. We also talked with the mortgage lender that we got connected to thru Sam's coworker, We already got pre-qualified and found out that we really do have an awesome credit score wich really made me feel good. On the apartment front we found out that in order to get out early we would have to buy out basically by giving 60 days notice and paying a month and a half worth of rent. But in talking to the realtor we may be looking at around August for closing so we may not need to get out early we will just have to see how that plays out. Hopefully we find something that we will really fall in love with and can get a good deal on it really is a great market for buyers right now so we are looking at a good time.
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