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mike and I had an offer accepted on a house.
one step closer to property ownership. so many things could still fall apart but the house is gorgeous and it looks like it's all ours contingent on inspection, them finding a home to move to, mortgage, downpayment (yay for inheritance)... etc etc etc. but one step closer. and now people have to come visit us. It's outside london, but still trainable (and we live 5 mins from the trainstation) and it's still on the metropolitan line so it's almost london. sort of.
my sister and I are giving away sums of money from our grandmother's inheritance as we think our mother would have wanted to do.
it's scary that we're giving one person almost as much as I made in a year at home after taxes. But these are the people that she would have wanted to share with. It's hard to put numbers on things though, people meant so much to her and some people did so much for my grandmother when my mother couldn't be there, we just want to make sure they know how much it all meant, to everybody.
met my father's fiancee last week. I hate how much his life is based on accumulated wealth and material things. I mean it's nice to be able to afford things but there are more important things in life and every conversation I have with him seems to involve some shopping spree. saturday night I got to hear how he bought his second pair of leather pants. Can't help but know that my mother would've told him how stupid that is. Today I got an email detailing how he 'shopped till he dropped' at harrods. well woo hoo. Have to say though, that I thought he'd be married within the year and the date's not till september. quelle surprise. I told him he could spring for mike's and my plane tickets. I hope he doesn't because I'm not sure I really want to be there.
one step closer to property ownership. so many things could still fall apart but the house is gorgeous and it looks like it's all ours contingent on inspection, them finding a home to move to, mortgage, downpayment (yay for inheritance)... etc etc etc. but one step closer. and now people have to come visit us. It's outside london, but still trainable (and we live 5 mins from the trainstation) and it's still on the metropolitan line so it's almost london. sort of.
my sister and I are giving away sums of money from our grandmother's inheritance as we think our mother would have wanted to do.
it's scary that we're giving one person almost as much as I made in a year at home after taxes. But these are the people that she would have wanted to share with. It's hard to put numbers on things though, people meant so much to her and some people did so much for my grandmother when my mother couldn't be there, we just want to make sure they know how much it all meant, to everybody.
met my father's fiancee last week. I hate how much his life is based on accumulated wealth and material things. I mean it's nice to be able to afford things but there are more important things in life and every conversation I have with him seems to involve some shopping spree. saturday night I got to hear how he bought his second pair of leather pants. Can't help but know that my mother would've told him how stupid that is. Today I got an email detailing how he 'shopped till he dropped' at harrods. well woo hoo. Have to say though, that I thought he'd be married within the year and the date's not till september. quelle surprise. I told him he could spring for mike's and my plane tickets. I hope he doesn't because I'm not sure I really want to be there.