Happy Birthday to my mommy! She’s on vacay right now, so I’ll have to tell her on the phone. I’ll see her Monday-and confer the card and gift then.

In other news, I spent most of yesterday trying to get a bead on the 5-W+H’s of getting that deed restriction released. What a hoot! I laughed, I cried, I groveled and begged. And I still had time to go ( Read more... )

It all started about 5 pm yesterday. In retrospect, I should have seen it coming earlier in the afternoon: the sleepiness; the disinterest in anything food related; the greater-than-normal fussiness. I sat on the sofa, holding Baby Jack on my lap, feeding him a bottle. He pushed it away, sat bolt upright, and…

Then it happened. He opened his wee ( Read more... )

Double-up writing time! I’ve been AWOL for two days, trying to get organized and caught up and figure out how this move/buying/selling thing is all going to work!

It’s almost noon and I’m still in my pajamas. This is never a good sign. However, I have called three moving companies for estimates (made 2 appointments for people to actually come out ( Read more... )

The Good News and the Good News leads to Somewhat Good News and Bad News…

Did you get that?? Let me explain…

From about 7 pm to 8:30 pm last night we were ecstatic-we did get two offers on the house. The people who came for the second showing yesterday put in their bid, and it was even better than the first offer we received.

The second offer gave ( Read more... )

Sundays are for family and bacon-and-egg breakfasts, but I missed writing yesterday not for my loved ones, or my triglyceride-laden repast. No, I didn’t write yesterday because we had a house to show. Just like Saturday. I have big news…but…

First allow me to catch up…

Saturday morning I had plans to meet MB & family for breakfast and shopping at ( Read more... )

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Luck o’ the Irish and all that. :)

What happened to my well-intentioned paperwork-sorting adventure? Postponed.

Recipe for Not Getting your Papers Organized

Ingredients
20 lbs. of Baby (extra fussy variety)
1 Cell Phone
15 lbs. of psychotic Jack Russell Terrier
4 Friends
80 Students
1 House to sell
Pinch of Ennui
Stress to taste

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I think if I write one more thing about this house or that house, or any house for that matter, I’m probably going to puke. It’s like I have one song stuck in my head, and can’t stop singing it-for those of you who have heard me sing…well…my sincerest apologies and deepest regrets for that.

Okay. One more thing…

(*gag*)

The photos and virtual tour ( Read more... )

We have a signage!!! Our front yard has a sign that says…oh…well, crap…I don’t know what it says exactly, but you know - it’s the realtor’s sign-for sale, or whatever. Anyway, it’s 100% official. We have the square-metal-poke-in-the-ground model of sign right now, but Tuesday we’ll get the purty one with the large white wooden post and hanging ( Read more... )

Minor updates in here...
In this BEFORE picture, you notice that the Window has no shade and though you can't see, some really fugly rugs and border.  I hate that wallpaper border...but Tim put it up years ago, and it's the next owner's problem now!  What I think is hilarious is that in the before picture there is an empty tissue box cover with a ( Read more... )

Are you sick of this yet??  And of course, because of reverse-chronology, unless you go "back" to the first entry, everything is completely out of order.  Dammit.  Oh well....

There wasn't MUCH to do in the kitchen except get some clear surfaces and spruce up a bit...but I'll share the photos anyway!!!

Here's the kitchen BEFORE:

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