Stressful success
Hey, it's probably been a month or so since my last update, and I figure someone out there must wonder if I've fallen off the planet. No I haven't, although some days (like today) I wish I had!
Okay, nothing today has really been super bad (Ha, Superbad was an excellent movie, by the way), but I'm right in the midst of a very stressful real estate deal and I've been on the phone all afternoon with banks & agents about it. I'm aware that this is exactly what I signed up for... I mean, things never work out as clean & pretty as they appear to on House Hunters. There's always confusion and mis-communication and deadlines that are somehow surpassed. But there has been a great deal of frustration trying to get this couple's financing sorted out and I'm ready for it to just be over with already. Can they possible drag on this process any longer? I like this couple and I would love for them to get this house, but it's still in question whether it will be too late or not.
God, I just feel so blah today despite the fact that things have been going very well for us lately. Still no luck with Matt finding a job, but he put in a couple more apps this morning and we are doing fine with money anyway because my job is supplementing his unemployment checks sufficiently. I had two closings last month and have another one coming up in a few weeks that will be awesome ($190,000 house, so like $3000 for me!), and then if this other one works out that will be another $1500 or so in my bank account. I'm so glad I'm doing this instead of some part time job. I can work fewer hours and do most of my work at home and still make more money.
But like I said earlier in the entry, it is very stressful and you can never clock out because you are constantly on call, always thinking about how you should be doing something at every moment to increase business. I feel guilty for turning off my phone when I go to the movies because I might miss an important call. But at least we have money for the movies now, right?
Recently I've realized that I haven't been very social with friends this summer, so we invited people over a couple times this week and I really want to keep it up because the laughs feel good. I love sitting around being perverted with other twenty-somethings (and one 16-year-old) in front of an entertaining rental.
I'm also yet again in the beginning phases of a recommitment to my health. I went a good couple weeks there without working out and I didn't like feeling like I was turning more and more into a gelatinous blob each day that I didn't get exercise. So I've been to the gym Monday and Tuesday for a little treadmill time, and tonight I'm going again for a toning class. I'm also ridding myself of my addiction to cereal... oatmeal has been my new favorite breakfast - yummy and much lower in cals and I can mix it up a variety of different ways. Today I took sugar-free apple oatmeal and added a handful of fresh blueberries. Mmmmm! I also started eating a small healthy lunch in between breakfast and dinner so that I'm not ravenous at dinner-time. I used to just eat a huge bowl of cereal in the morning and then a huge dinner, but now I'm trying to space out my eating and it has been working great. I'm hoping to lose like 5 pounds and be really toned & strong.
Carter is so freaking big now, it blows my mind. He can speak in full sentences too! Like, put 4 or 5 words together and it actually makes sense! That is pretty amazing for a 2-year-old. He loves reading books, getting chased around by the "Mommy Monster", watching Sesame Street and Barney and Bob the Builder, going for walks in the woods at Matt's parents house, playing Guitar Hero, riding in his bike trailer.
He got a nasty cut on his head on Friday when we went over to see Barb's beautiful new house for the first time... I almost puked my guts out when I saw him bleeding like that. He was fine after about ten minutes though, and we cleaned it up ourselves instead of putting him through the trama of the emergency room... it should heal fine without stitches or anything but he might have a tiny scar above is eyebrow :o(
Ok, I think I'll lie down & close my eyes for awhile before I have to get ready for the gym. Carter is still down for his nap and Matt's playing Guild Wars with Colin. I'm bored & lethargic and hoping the catnap and endorphins from exercise will give me a boost of energy.
Okay, nothing today has really been super bad (Ha, Superbad was an excellent movie, by the way), but I'm right in the midst of a very stressful real estate deal and I've been on the phone all afternoon with banks & agents about it. I'm aware that this is exactly what I signed up for... I mean, things never work out as clean & pretty as they appear to on House Hunters. There's always confusion and mis-communication and deadlines that are somehow surpassed. But there has been a great deal of frustration trying to get this couple's financing sorted out and I'm ready for it to just be over with already. Can they possible drag on this process any longer? I like this couple and I would love for them to get this house, but it's still in question whether it will be too late or not.
God, I just feel so blah today despite the fact that things have been going very well for us lately. Still no luck with Matt finding a job, but he put in a couple more apps this morning and we are doing fine with money anyway because my job is supplementing his unemployment checks sufficiently. I had two closings last month and have another one coming up in a few weeks that will be awesome ($190,000 house, so like $3000 for me!), and then if this other one works out that will be another $1500 or so in my bank account. I'm so glad I'm doing this instead of some part time job. I can work fewer hours and do most of my work at home and still make more money.
But like I said earlier in the entry, it is very stressful and you can never clock out because you are constantly on call, always thinking about how you should be doing something at every moment to increase business. I feel guilty for turning off my phone when I go to the movies because I might miss an important call. But at least we have money for the movies now, right?
Recently I've realized that I haven't been very social with friends this summer, so we invited people over a couple times this week and I really want to keep it up because the laughs feel good. I love sitting around being perverted with other twenty-somethings (and one 16-year-old) in front of an entertaining rental.
I'm also yet again in the beginning phases of a recommitment to my health. I went a good couple weeks there without working out and I didn't like feeling like I was turning more and more into a gelatinous blob each day that I didn't get exercise. So I've been to the gym Monday and Tuesday for a little treadmill time, and tonight I'm going again for a toning class. I'm also ridding myself of my addiction to cereal... oatmeal has been my new favorite breakfast - yummy and much lower in cals and I can mix it up a variety of different ways. Today I took sugar-free apple oatmeal and added a handful of fresh blueberries. Mmmmm! I also started eating a small healthy lunch in between breakfast and dinner so that I'm not ravenous at dinner-time. I used to just eat a huge bowl of cereal in the morning and then a huge dinner, but now I'm trying to space out my eating and it has been working great. I'm hoping to lose like 5 pounds and be really toned & strong.
Carter is so freaking big now, it blows my mind. He can speak in full sentences too! Like, put 4 or 5 words together and it actually makes sense! That is pretty amazing for a 2-year-old. He loves reading books, getting chased around by the "Mommy Monster", watching Sesame Street and Barney and Bob the Builder, going for walks in the woods at Matt's parents house, playing Guitar Hero, riding in his bike trailer.
He got a nasty cut on his head on Friday when we went over to see Barb's beautiful new house for the first time... I almost puked my guts out when I saw him bleeding like that. He was fine after about ten minutes though, and we cleaned it up ourselves instead of putting him through the trama of the emergency room... it should heal fine without stitches or anything but he might have a tiny scar above is eyebrow :o(
Ok, I think I'll lie down & close my eyes for awhile before I have to get ready for the gym. Carter is still down for his nap and Matt's playing Guild Wars with Colin. I'm bored & lethargic and hoping the catnap and endorphins from exercise will give me a boost of energy.