March 18th, 2008 by Kateastrophe

Too much rear in the last post?  Yeah sorry about that.  It stems from a friend in college who used to say it all the time.  When he came out of the closet a year later many things made more sense.

Too much again?  Sorry ’bout that.

Last night was exciting and stressful.  Exciting because we bought a new couch!  Stressful because we bought a new couch and I didn’t find my usual amazingly cheap deal on it!  We’ve been looking for a sectional that we love ever since we moved into our house.  It had to be fashionable and comfortable and not cost $12,000 (like the most beautiful sectional I’ve ever seen).  I would have preferred that it cost a dollar, but I wasn’t winning that battle.  We found an amazingly comfortable, very large, very beautiful sectional.  We were able to pick the fabric (sadly, it’s called “Chunkster.”  Our couch already has it’s nickname. We are calling him “The Chunkster.”) and coordinating pillows.   I can’t complain that we had to pay the retail “sale”price because most of the furniture in my house has been practically (and/or literally)  free.  I suppose it’s OK to spend a bit of money on something as often used as your family room couch.  So that hard part is over.  The next hard part is waiting the 8-12 weeks for it to be delivered.  Now that it knows help is on the way, my empty living room is screaming for the old couches.  Also, I’d like to have it here before my girls come to visit for our annual Soiree the first weekend in June.

With the new couch comes the issue of paint. I’m not sure I can use the chocolate brown that I was thinking about on an accent wall because “The Chunkster” is chocolate brown . . . decisions, decisions.  This house has been so hard for me to decorate and I don’t know why!  I guess that’s what I get for almost doubling the square footage of the old pad and being the most indecisive individual alive.  Well the second most.  My husband wins the prize on that one for sure.

Then comes the issue of the other stuff that needs to be done in the house.  So, um,  if someone would like to donate a giant, gorgeous, decorative yet functional big screen entertainment center, it would be much appreciated.  Kthanks.  The one I want is also about $12,000.  I’m also looking for someone to donate a $12,000 backyard.  Mommy wants a water feature.

Sigh.  I guess I’ll settle for my functional Ikea entertainment center and a backyard covered in rocks.  ’s better than nothing, right?!

March 14th, 2008 by Kateastrophe

Since moving into our house I’ve pretty much done NO decorating whatsoever. I had the living/dining room and kitchen painted three days before we moved and then I got good and lazy and have done nothing else except decorative towels in the master bathroom. But I really don’t think that counts. It stinks because it’s hard to have people over. The last time someone rang our doorbell the first thing they said was “Oh! Did you just move in?” Yeah, no. Almost six months ago.

I’ve got a dining room table and side table in the living/dining room and that’s pretty much it. My hope chest is in there, but, oh yeah, it’s empty because the box of stuff that belongs in it is sitting NEXT to it. There isn’t paint on any of the walls except the aforementioned. I don’t even know what COLORS I want (which is so weird for me). The office is a mess, the guest room is a hodge podge and the empty room is . . . well . . . empty.

This has got to stop. The time has come to decorate. This weekend I’m paint shopping. It’s a difficult task for me because I can’t just pick a color. I have to buy samples of like, ten colors then paint swatches on the walls. My house looks like a patchwork quilt when I do this. It’s ugly, yet effective. Then I’m calling Willy to come paint because once you hire someone to paint, you never want to go back. He’s cheap, it looks fantastic and is ALL DONE in one day. What more could an impatient girl ask for?

I’m going to attempt to get the master bedroom/bathroom and the family room done in the next couple of weeks. I have an idea for what I’m going to do in the guest bedroom (bright and happy and yellow!) and Matt is totally on his own with his study. The empty bedroom shall stay empty for now. At least the part of the house where we spend most of our time will look good. Hopefully.

I’m thinking red for the family room. Well red and tan. It matches the kitchen and I LOVE it and miss it from the old house. Matt isn’t the biggest fan but he can decorate his garage if he wants. For the master . . . I’m not sure. If I do red and tan in the family room and the master is close to it, can I get away with green? Like a nice, mellow sagey green? The issue is that the OLD bedroom was sagey green and ivory and, while I loved it, methinks it’s time for a change, but I don’t know WHAT to change to! Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Calling all decorative minds to help me!!

Should you need reminders of what the house looks like, here is a link to the post with all the pictures of the new house, and just for fun here are pictures of the old house (with the red I love and the green in the master). Beware, the pictures in the new house were taken right after we moved in and still very messy. And yes, the bed has moved out of the family room, despite Matt’s insistence that sleeping in front of the big TV was “what all the cool kids are doing.”

December 14th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

And by “it” I mean the countdown to my birthday, courtesy of my baby brother Patrick who reminded me that I even HAVE a birthday coming up. 17 days to go. (If you’re counting, yes it’s December 31st, which I’m proud to share with Miss Molly and NO it wasn’t awesome growing up with my birthday on a holiday, but it’s become more and more awesome every year so I’m not holding it against the first 17 years of my life. Really.)

I can’t believe I’ll be 27. For some reason 27 is a scary age for me. Not because I feel old (I mean I DO feel old, but that’s due to the fact that I just bought my second house, third car and do all sort of ridiculously ADULT things) . . . I think it’s more because of the pressure associated with 27. It’s the age everyone claims to be once they are over that age. I feel like there’s a lot of pressure to make 27 my best year ever. That way, when I’m 45 and people ask me how old I am, I can say “27!” and think back on when I really was 27 and be joyful. I plan to try to make it the best year ever, but I’m fearing the pressure.

So, I’m moving on and not talking about being 27 anymore.

As I’ve said before, what is WITH this December? I am so behind my usual end of the year extravaganza!! I usually have a huge list of Christmas and Birthday wants, a huge gorgeous tree set up, Christmas music playing at all hours and all my shopping is usually done and all the presents are wrapped by now.

None of the above have happened. Thus my shock when Patrick reminded me it was my birthday in just a little over two weeks. Which means his birthday is in three days. My baby brother is 21! Now THAT makes me feel old! It also means Christmas is just a little over a week today and hi, freak out because nothing is done. Have I mentioned nothing is done? Good because nothing is done. And we’ve decided not to get a tree for our house this year because we’re only in town for another week and I’m freaking out a little inside because it goes against everything I believe in, so things will remain to be undone.

Except this one thing. I got my Dad RED FLEECE FOOTED PAJAMAS WITH A BACK DOOR. I’m DYING at how awesomly funny they are and how sad I am I won’t be there to see his face when he opens them. They were Matt’s idea and I bow down to his genius.

Now, in memory of last year’s amazing(ly overlit) Christmas tree, I leave you with a picture of said Christmas tree. May she and the lights we were too lazy to take off of her rest in Christmas peace.

November 20th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

I’m on the road to recovery! Thank you to all of you for your well-wishes. Half of my face has recovered and hopefully the other half isn’t far behind. I can breathe a little better and can sleep better as well. At least my Thanksgiving wasn’t ruined! Phew!

I’ve realized that I have way too much to do lately, and no energy whatsoever with which to do it. I need to get a new couch, but I’m too tired to get up off the OLD couch to go look for a new one. I need to go to a friend’s house to pick up some accessories I bought from them but the thought of driving out there has me ready for bed. I need to paint my family room, start decorating for Christmas (and buy new decorations because holy crap my old decorations don’t cut it!), landscape the backyard and a whole host of other things that need to be done and I’m just.so.tired.

Oh yeah, and I have to shop for Christmas. Most of you know that a) I love to shop and b)I work for an eCommerce company . . . A tends to conflict with B because I like to go to the mall and shop for presents but I SHOULD shop online to support my industry. I just don’t usually do it. Except for maybe this year. I’m thinking of going virtual for my Christmas shopping and even I can’t believe it. What do you guys think? How do you shop for the Holidays? Does paying for shipping make you want to pull out your hair like it does me, yet somehow you add up the time it takes to go to the mall, find a parking space, drag your butt from store to store and realize that it might just be worth it? I’m still trying to decide.

Also, what the CRAP do I get my husband? He’s very hard to shop for. I can’t get him tools because “tools aren’t FUN they mean I have to do work with them. I like fun presents.” I can’t get him what he really wants because hi, I don’t have $40,000 sitting around with which to buy him a nice truck. Clothes seem boring to buy because he has a uniform of sorts and getting him the fiftieth blue and tan plaid shirt just seems . . . wrong. HELP!!?!?!?

Ok and on to Thankfuls. I skipped yesterday because, well, see the first paragraph. So ten Thankfuls on the way and then I’ll see you all tomorrow!!

1. Hannah. We had the funniest conversation yesterday over email and I miss her and her gorgeous babies to death right now. I was thinking about a night many years ago when we laughed so hard for almost an hour that we couldn’t talk, breathe or do anything. All over a guy’s lip zit. AHAHAHAHA. Dear Hannah how I love you.

2. A clean car. I’m not good at keeping my car clean and I wish I was because it’s sure nice to be in when it’s not a disaster.

3. Chocolate hazelnut mousse cake with fondant. It was a co-workers birthday today and we got the most delicious cake. Mmmmm.

4. The ease with which I can buy music on iTunes. It’s bad for the bank account but good for the soul.

5. That my husband didn’t get one bit mad when I called him up AFTER I’d just spent almost $200 on concert tickets.

6. Instant Messenger. I’m not sure I’d know anything about some of my best friends without it. I haven’t talked to one friend on the phone in almost six months, but we talk every day on IM.

7. Carbohydrates. That’s all I’m gonna say about that.

8. The thought of eating my Grandma’s creamed corn on Thursday. If I could get away with it, that’s all I’d eat at Thanksgiving.

9. Little kids voices. SO precious.

10. My brother Sean. We talked yesterday and somehow got on the subject of tap-dancing lawyers and we were dying laughing. He’s become such an amazing man and one of my greatest friends. I’m so proud of him and how much he’s overcome. He’s literally and figuratively my hero.

November 13th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

Today I worked from home because I had to meet some servicemen taking care of some issues with the house. I am surprised with how much I was able to get done despite working ten feet from my big screen TV. I was also able to supervise the work being done on my house, which was nice.

Have I mentioned I love our new house? Because I do. It’s starting to feel like home and I don’t miss our old house anymore. We still have lots of little things to do and some furniture to buy, but I’m not impatient and that will come in time, we’re in no huge hurry. I do want to have a Christmas party this year, so I’m hoping I can make it look a little more homey in at least the common areas, specifically the family room. It needs paint in a bad way, but I also need a water softener. And by need, I mean HAVE TO HAVE RIGHT NOW oh my gosh the hard water stains are going to drive me to take pills. For real. So I think the paint may take second seat to the softener, because those suckers are expensive!!

So, now that you’re caught up on my boring day, I give you my Thankfuls.

1. Soft carpet. I love walking around barefoot at home and digging my toes into our gorgeous, soft, wheat colored carpet.

2. People with accents. I know, I know, to some people I am the one with the accent . . . but today i heard Paula Deen say “auuul” (oil) like fifteen times and I giggled with glee every time she said it. I also love a British accent. I just watched The Holiday the other night and mmmm Jude Law . . . with his accent. Meow!

3. My recently fixed master bathroom toilet. It’s been sorta broken since we moved in and I am overjoyed at the prospect of NOT running through the house to the half bath to use the lou in the middle of the night or early in the morning. Ahhh modern plumbing.

4. Forks. Yep, forks. I spent some time in China several years ago and let me tell you what, whoever invented the fork had the right idea. Eating without them sucks. Chopsticks are hard and spoons just aren’t right for SO many things.

5. Feed readers. Oh the joy of not having to search out your new posts. I love using my reader to help direct me to your posts. I do love me some bloggers.

November 3rd, 2007 by Kateastrophe

Brace yourselves . . . they’re coming. I’ll try to go easy on you and not overload your brains with TOO many pictures. It might hurt. Most likely it will hurt me and not you guys. But it might hurt both of us, so I’ll be careful.

First, I give you the final pictures of our first home. I have to say that it’s SO WEIRD to think of someone else living there now. We closed on Friday and it’s done, done, done. It was stressful and stupid and irritating but it’s done and now we can move on, but a part of me is sad to end that amazing chapter of my life with my husband. So here you go:

The way I took this picture is very odd and . . . optical illusion-like.
Ha. Oh well! Goodbye beautiful floors and lovely red paint!

The final picture of the outside. Sorry it’s at night. We’ll sure miss that mature palm tree! We should have taken it with us!

The final picture of us in front of our house, even though all you can see is the garage light. Haha. Oops! Also, memo to us: pictures we try to take of ourselves are usually very unflattering.

Now, I give you pictures of the new house! I am going to go chronologically, from dirt to final product. Sidenote: I have yet to take pictures of the slightly unpacked, slightly better looking version of the house, so just remember that I took these THE DAY AFTER we moved in. No judging.

Our bit of earth

Later, after they dug a bunch of stuff up. Veeeery exciting.

Pre-plumbing and the frame for the foundation

Walls!! Sort of . . .

Almost there . . .

Almost there . . .

Ta-Daa! Complete with empty lot next door that will cause many headaches when someone finally buys it and they begin building on it. Seriously, EVERY OTHER LOT IS SOLD. Just my luck that the ONLY unsold lot is next to our bedroom windows. Seriously.

Le front door

The view from the entryway

Formal Living/Dining/Entry/Great Room/HOLY AWESOME NATURAL LIGHT!

Great Room from upstairs, where there is a small loft, three bedrooms and a bathroom.

Most of you have seen this already but this is the kitchen (unfortunately pre-paint. I gotta get one with the new paint. I promise I’ll do it. It’s light brown, if that helps!)

Family Room/Master Bedroom for the first week

Master Bedroom sans bedroom stuff

Master Bathroom (two sinks AND a separate tub/shower? I’ve died and gone to heaven)

Closet. Sigh of joy.

Our first meal in our new house. Traditional Move-in Pizza Hut. Mmmm.

I LOVE our new house. I’m having trouble decorating, but that doesn’t take away from my absolute joy every time I drive around the corner and see it standing there. I seriously can’t believe it’s ours. I keep having to pinch myself. Especially when I see the view from our front porch. I gotta give it to Arizona, it has the most incredible sunsets. And now I have an unobstructed view of them every day. I’m in heaven and so, so grateful.

Well, I have lots of pictures of our trip to the dunes, but I think those will have to wait for another day because I’m about pictured out. Just to give you a teaser though, I proudly present me, kicking my husband’s butt on top of a huge sand hill.

We got very, very sandy.

Stay tuned Sunday for my newest installment of Soap Opera Sunday . . . the one in which I completely embarrass myself. Again.

October 26th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

So we’re off to the Coral Pink Sand Dunes with Matt’s family and our quads. I bought new pink and black gear for the occasion which might spark the question “Kate, why on earth did you buy matching ATV gear to go out with your family?”

Well, that is another discussion for another time, but basically . . . IT’S PINK AND BLACK!!!

We won’t be back until late Monday night, so I’m sorry I won’t be participating in Soap Opera Sunday yet AGAIN. I suck. But trust me, I’m the worse off. I’m gonna have sand in places you didn’t know sand could GET by the time we finish up four days at the dunes.

I leave you all with the knowledge that when I get back, it will be a week full of pictures because WE FOUND THE CAMERA CORD! So you’ll be able to see me in the Shark Tank at Mandalay Bay, the new house, final pictures of the old house and me, covered in sand, but stylishly. I might dub it Ocular October or something stupid like that because you might just get pictures!

I apologize. Ocular October is a lame, stupid name.

OK we’re off on our elebenteen hour drive. Have a great weekend!

October 16th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

I only have a few minutes but I wanted to update you all on the boring goings on in my life. Because I know you care sooooooo deeply. Or something.

So, in no particular order, I give you:

- I would LOVE to post pictures of the new house for all of you, but somehow in the move, I have misplaced the camera cord. Well, by I, what I actually mean is Matt misplaced it. And by misplaced I mean packed in a box and forgot which one. So um . . . yeah. Sorry about that, but not really because all the pictures are of a HUGE MESS. Our bed is in the family room due to technical difficulties with the frame (which should be fixed tonight. Who knew a 200 lb man doing a superman-esque leap onto the bed after running down the hall at full speed might actually do damage to a bed frame? Oh wait. I did. And I warned him.) and there are boxes and wrappings and blue tape (from finding little things that need to be fixed by the builder) EVERYWHERE. So it’s really in no condition to show you.

- We are almost completely moved out of the old house. Now all we have to do is a bit of cleaning. I’m proud to say the house was not that messy. We got the wood floors pretty dirty moving everything around but all in all, I pat myself on the back for being able to keep the house relatively clean over the past six months. It’s been helpful in many, many ways. And has sucked and been stressful in many, many ways.

It’s bittersweet to be moving out of that house. After spending one night in the new house it seems small, cramped and old, but I still love it. Our blood, sweat and tears went into turning it from a pink carpeted, outdated disaster to something we were proud of. Tomorrow as we do the final cleaning and shut the door for the last time, I will be sad because a very, very happy chapter of Matt’s and my life together is ending. We were in love when we got married for sure, but I truly fell madly in love with my husband in that home. I will miss it and be sad. But only on the drive to the new house. Then I will see the new house and I will be happy again because I really LOVE our new house.

- The Great Internet Debacle of 2007 is raging a war at our new house. We had one of the satellite companies come and install our new TV system and they forgot to mention that they were tapping into the cable box in the study . . . which means that the TV in the study works but the cable Internet doesn’t. That’s a big problem because as nice as a TV is in the study, Internet would be nicer considering it’s where the desktop computer lives. The satellite company promised us a phone call in 24-48 hours to arrange a time to fix it and it’s now been 48 and no call from them. For now we’re thinking wireless on the desktop, but that uses valuable USB cords and heaven knows we need those for multiple iPods, the laser mouse, wireless keyboard . . . you know other junk. So wireless it is for now.

BUT then we tried to use the wireless router. Somehow, on the drive from the old house to the new house, the router broke. It wasn’t dropped, damaged . . . who knows what happened. Maybe it’s against new construction. However, JUST the wireless part broke, the router part still worked. So we had Internet when we were connected to it through a cable but didn’t have wireless. *scratching head here.* So after an hour of trying to figure it out on our own, we decided to do the really dumb thing and call tech support. IN INDIA. (Please note I have nothing against India in general, I just find it very, very difficult to understand and be understood by anyone in another country trying to do TECH SUPPORT.) It was a giant disaster.

“Please plug your modem into the router and then your router into your laptop.”

“Done. I have Internet“

“No, take the laptop cord out of the modem and put it in the router and that should get you connected to the Internet“

“Um, that’s what is already done. And I have Internet on the laptop.”

“I repeat myself kindly please. I need your laptop plugged into the router.”

oh.my.gosh. It went on like this for like two hours and three disconnected calls. We finally talked to someone who seemed to understand what was going on and it appears our router stopped assigning an IP address. So um . . . now that means new router or wait for the company to send us a replacement one.

And the money keeps rolling out.

It’s expensive to move. And I’m tired of sleeping in the family room and eating fast food. And lifting and unpacking boxes. And not exercising and feeling fat. I want so badly to wave a magic wand and make it all done.

*squinting eyes and waving hands*

Not done?

Crap.

October 8th, 2007 by Kateastrophe

First off, let me start my blog post the way I normally do . . . with an apology. Haha.

I apologize that I don’t have pictures for this post. In fact the post is almost pointless without pictures, but I had to post about it before I ran out of time. So . . . yeah.

So, this week we started moving stuff in to the new house. Correction: We started moving stuff into the garage and kitchen and that’s all. We have been taking over a trailer and two car loads of stuff every day and the third car bay of the garage is practically full of boxes. However, we have not moved over ANY furniture. So, recap. I have an empty house and a full garage. Per-fect.

Ooh ooh ooh but I DID (with the help of my amazing friend Rhonda) organize the entire kitchen. I am delighted to announce that I have WAY too many cabinets and drawers. I am a person of MANY, MANY kitchen things. The kitchen at the old house was bursting at the seams with stuff. I had about eight cupboards and four drawers. I now have four drawers and six cupboards on my ISLAND ALONE. I am full of bliss and excitement at the thought of a shopping trip to Williams Sonoma (someday when we have money again) to fill the cupboards with fun kitchen gadgets, serving platters and the like. Excellent.

We were also able to finally pick paint colors, thanks to a model decorated with exactly our color of carpet, tile, cabinets and counter tops, and as of Saturday afternoon, the living/dining room, nook, main hallway and kitchen are now painted. They messed up and put the wrong color on one wall in the kitchen, so I’ll be working on fixing that this week, but it’s not a huge deal. The house looks AMAZING. The colors are perfect. Now I just have to save up some more money to have the rest of the house painted. See, now I never want to paint again. I let the painters in at 7 AM and arrived at 2 PM to a finished product. Could it get ANY better?

The house selling negotiations are . . . well, going. This market sucks. S-U-C-K-S. I truly feel lucky to sell our house in this city. I went garage sale hopping on Saturday morning and I swear every other house on every street was for sale. There aren’t a lot of people selling their houses and we’ve been able to sell ours. But I won’t lie, we’ve been HATING it. We have been asked to do some repairs to the house that just seem utterly ridiculous, but in this market, we can’t fight too much about it. We just have to suck up and do it. Luckily, our Realtor has really come through for us and he’s handling all the repairs so I’m going to get a lollipop and stand by watching him spend our money. Who needs money right? I’ll just work Matt a little harder. Hehee.

Speaking of Matt, have I mentioned that I have the most amazing husband? The man works all day, then comes home and works some more and he still manages to pack, organize and move a load a day and help calm my craziness to boot. We’re both under a lot of pressure and it’s obvious who deals with it better. (Hint: it’s not me.)

And while I’m talking about amazing people, my crazy Mom ran ANOTHER marathon this weekend. Naturally, I can’t get her to call me and tell me how she did, but I’m sure she did great. I think this is like the sixth marathon this year? I told you. CRAZY. Love her but she’s CRAZY. And skinny. Damn I wish I was that skinny. Without having to run a marathon . . . or six.

OK, thus ends the craziness of this random, stupid post. I promise pictures of the new house soon and keep you updated on moving progress.

Merry kisses to all and to all a goodnight.

October 3rd, 2007 by Kateastrophe

I woke up this morning and for the first time in a long time, I didn’t feel ominous. I didn’t feel like I was going to sluggishly tromp through my day. I had energy and spunk and most of all, I was grateful for all the amazing things in my life for the first time in a long time.

I’ve been focused on the bad for way too long. It’s not like me . . . I’m SO not a negative, wallowy (is that even a word? Eh, who cares.) person. I HATE feeling like I’m in a pit of despair. So I’ve been doubly miserable lately, drowning in my pit and hating myself for it. Basically, I was being stupid.

I have an awesome, luck filled life. I married a man I don’t deserve who loves me in spite of ME. I have an incredible job I probably don’t deserve that came with an incredible boss I probably don’t deserve. I have an amazing family who is loving and supportive (how many people have 20 year old brothers who call JUST to tell their sister they love and miss her??) and I have the most incredible group of friends that I know most would kill to be a part of.

So today, I decided to be grateful for it. I said a prayer and thanked the Lord for my life and apologized for being such a butt-head (yes, I actually used the word butt-head in my prayer) and then I skipped off to face my day with a smile.

And this has turned out to be one great freaking day.

I don’t want to jinx it, I just had to share because we had a plethora of good news in the last 24 hours.

First, after INSANE amounts of controversy, stupidity and more stupidity (the real estate world seems to be full of idiots. No offense to any of you who are in real estate. You’re not the idiots of which I speak. Just everyone else in real estate. That includes Realtors, Banks and Title Companies. I’ll share that story later) we FINALLY got the keys to our new house!! It’s ours! It’s more beautiful than I ever hoped. Here are some pictures to prove it!

A key! We have a key!

My favorite room, the kitchen (two views, one from the family room)

The breathtaking view from our front porch
(oh and the final picture of Rhonda’s Mini. It got traded for a hot new set of wheels the next day)

And last, but certainly not least, my hubster, having the first go at the master lavoratory.
Two important things to note:
1. His pose. What the crap?
2. He gave me permission to use this picture

On Saturday the paint crew arrives to do away with the ugly white and make it look a little less sterile in there. I’m SO excited. I will post pictures of the other rooms soon. They’re on my other computer and I’m too lazy to go get them off.

My second piece of good news is actually the one thing I’ve been waiting on for almost two years. I FINALLY got the PEARL PINK RAZR!!!! I have wanted it since the second I saw it but I was too cheap to pay for it. Hahah. So now, it’s mine, all mine! Next step is to bling it out. I can’t WAIT!

Look at it in all it’s pearly pink wonderfulness!!

The final piece of good news is the one I don’t want to jinx, but I HAVE to tell everyone about.

We got another offer on our house!!

It’s not a perfect offer but it’s a good offer and it sounds like the buyers are in LOVE with the house, so I’m feeling good about this one. I’m crossing all fingers and toes and saying many prayers that it will go through. If it does, it causes major stress because the buyers want to close on October 15th. (I KNOW! What the crap?! That means I have to move this weekend and I haven’t even packed one single thing!) However, it means we don’t have to pay ANY double house payments. So, here’s to hoping it works out and that I don’t die of the moving stress this week!

You have all been so great during this entire debacle. Thank you for your words of encouragement, your funny comments and most of all your stories on your blogs that got my mind off of my issues for a few minutes. I love blogging.

Seriously. What a great day.