early morning

Mary Jane decided that she had had enough sleep and woke up screaming about twenty minutes ago, mind you its now 4:30am. When MJ wakes up, so does everyone else, she is not so quiet in the morning. So now we are all sitting at the kitchen table eating corn pops and looking at each other sleepily while MJ chatters on about who nows what. I had to wake up in fifteen minutes away so... I guess I'm up for the day and MJ already looks ready to go back to sleep.

Zoom-Zoom

Look at how cute our new car is! It's a Mazda3. The official color name is Copper Red. It's fun to have a new car, we haven't had one for ten years. The process of buying the car was not fun however. The salesmen were so conniving. I stood my ground though and think I got a pretty good deal. We just kept saying "no" until we got what we wanted. I pulled the "I'm an accountant, I understand how interest works."

New car

Greg and I are probably going to buy our first car this weekend. Both of us are still driving our respective first cars, mine is the 97 Toyota Tercel and his is the 98 Toyota Rav4. We have decided to trade the Rav4 in on a new Mazda3. It is all very scary and exciting at the same time. I am a little worried about dealing with the salesman and trying my hand at bartering. I wish my little brother was in town to help us, he is a car salesman, and a "closer" too. Wish us luck!

My first blog

I guess I will start by explaining why I named this blog "Beautiful Wolfs" That is the literal German translation of my last name, schoen (beautiful) wolf. Since I will be writing about my family's everyday adventures I thought it was appropriate.

I am currently sitting at my kitchen table with my Mary Jane zonked out in her high chair and my two dogs crashed at my feet. All is quiet. Greg has just left to go teach young aspiring ballerinas and it looks like I will have a few minutes to myself. I am already a little bored, but its nice. I have had a long day. I wake up at 4:45am so I can catch the 5:50am commuter train into Salt Lake, then I transfer to the light rail, Trax, and head up to the University. My class starts at 7:30am and I have already been up for two hours and forty five minutes. The class is Tax Research, wow, its a struggle that early in the morning to be learning how to navigate "The Code," but I love it. I am working towards my Master's degree in Accounting and I have about a year to go. I haven't yet decided what I am going to do when I graduate. I don't really know if being a CPA is right for me, and I really love my job at the University. We will wait and see.

Quiet time is over, baby is crying, dogs are stirring....