Great days in hell
been sick! SICK! SICK!!! for the last 3 days. oh my lord the sick. started sunday night. we went sunday to see Dion's mom for lunch and then sawy MI2, which i posted about previously. had a sore throat that night... went to Wegmans at 1AM to buy cough drops, cepacol throat spray and Comtrex cold medecine. should have bought more tissues but didn't think of it at the time. Monday i had to call off of work... i was a mess. throat so sore i could barely speak, head ache, constant nose running feverish and dizzy. tuesday i was hoping to make it in to work, but no deal, i was achey all over, my throat was less sore but i was all coughing and wheezing and headachy. and my eyes were tearing up all day. ugh. so today i feel a million times better, even though my nose is still running like it's in a marathon and i am still coughing. at least it is breaking up. i have lost 5 lbs in two days because of not eating much (somehow no appetite and upset stomach really work in your favor... either that or i have gone through 5 lbs of snot. gah, that sounds more realistic). maybe this is the impetus i needed to lose a lot more weight? we shall see. though my appetite is coming back, maybe my tummy shrank. i will be taking it real easy though, i know i am not 100% yet. man, i had such plans of going to the gym and stuff this week, i even have new sneakers and a new Ipod Shuffle... i so wanted to go to the gym. hell i would happily go to work double time if i could've somehow avoided the sick part... ugh. not fun.
anyway, we went to see houses today. the first one we looked at had potential but apparently the upstairs tennants have been real jackasses and are not letting anyone in to see the place. and they are not paying their rent. etc, etc... so we only saw the first floor-- which was HUGE! and a mostly finished basement, too! if we had been able to see the upstairs... but we don't want to start out our life as landlords having to evict bad tennants. that sounds like a no-win. so on to the next... we had such high hopes for the next place, it was on a 3 acre lot, with 3 rental units (apartments)... the one apartment was really... in poor shape. the house needed a ton of work. the basement was scary. the apartment over the garage was better, but still needed serious work. the upstairs apartment was locked and noone was around to let us in, the realtor's keys didn't work. Dion is in love with the idea of all that land... he wants the yard more than anything. but it's really a craphole. it would need like a total re-finishing... it needs new EVERYTHING. the stairs to the upstairs apartment need to be torn off ane rebuilt. it's a real mess. and it's so expensive! they want almost $90,000 for the place-- and it needs probably $50,000 in work done. no no no... i think i have talked him out of it for now. i am sure the place is not going to sell fast, it's really a slum.
i get to go see another house tomorrow (another house i have no faith in, but it had a nice yard...) and i found a ton of listings to look at in a realtor magazine. wish us luck.
anyway, we went to see houses today. the first one we looked at had potential but apparently the upstairs tennants have been real jackasses and are not letting anyone in to see the place. and they are not paying their rent. etc, etc... so we only saw the first floor-- which was HUGE! and a mostly finished basement, too! if we had been able to see the upstairs... but we don't want to start out our life as landlords having to evict bad tennants. that sounds like a no-win. so on to the next... we had such high hopes for the next place, it was on a 3 acre lot, with 3 rental units (apartments)... the one apartment was really... in poor shape. the house needed a ton of work. the basement was scary. the apartment over the garage was better, but still needed serious work. the upstairs apartment was locked and noone was around to let us in, the realtor's keys didn't work. Dion is in love with the idea of all that land... he wants the yard more than anything. but it's really a craphole. it would need like a total re-finishing... it needs new EVERYTHING. the stairs to the upstairs apartment need to be torn off ane rebuilt. it's a real mess. and it's so expensive! they want almost $90,000 for the place-- and it needs probably $50,000 in work done. no no no... i think i have talked him out of it for now. i am sure the place is not going to sell fast, it's really a slum.
i get to go see another house tomorrow (another house i have no faith in, but it had a nice yard...) and i found a ton of listings to look at in a realtor magazine. wish us luck.