Friday, January 26, 2007

Apologies

I have been so caught up in my own little world that I completely forgot (yet another) birthday. I am sorry, Cyndy! Happy Belated Birthday (on the 15th), although, I was thinking it was February 15th instead of January 15th. I hope it was wonderful!

Also, to my neice, Alyssa, who's birthday was the 25th. Happy Belated Birthday, Alyssa!

And, hey, while I am doing it, I will say Happy Birthday to Kathy! It’s her birthday today!

And, my parent’s anniversary was on Monday (36 years, I believe). Happy Anniversary! Congrats!

Also, we sold the house! (in 6 days!) (Kathy--shhhhh. I want Heath to be able to tell Nick) for less then we listed, but more than we thought we'd get, but we do have to pay some of closing costs. We are all extraordinarily happy. It is contingent upon their financing, but they are supposedly positive they have it. Also, they have 1 week to get an inspection and make sure everything checks out well there.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Delusional

1 week on the market and we have an offer, people! Granted, it’s not a very good one, but it’s a start.
Approximately $7,000.00 less than asking price;
Closing date set for March;
They want everything in the house (duh!--except for the shop-vac--that’s mine);
Home Warranty (And let’s face it, who doesn’t want that these days);
Home Inspection (which they will pay for--hey, if someone is not going to allow you to get an inspection, RUN!); and
It is contingent upon the buyers obtaining financing, because they don’t have pre-approval yet. (Kathy, I am emailing you about this since we just had this discussion.)
They want us to take that much less, wait until the end of February to see if they get financing, and carry the house until mid-March after the house has only been on the market for one week? Gee, let me think about that--Uhhh.. No. But, that's why they have counter-offers.
It's exciting anyway.


In other news, Mary is due back to work tomorrow after a week in Jamaica. Which means no more IPod, but it also means no more weird R&B/Techno/Rap mix coming from the computer next to me! Who knew I would be so happy to NOT have music at work?

Thursday, January 18, 2007

"Which way did our last chance go?"

The house is done, and supposedly on the market, though I do not see it on the web site yet. Yay! For Saledness! Just a few odds and ends to finish up.


The boss is out of the country on vacation, and it appears as though two of my employees minds went with her. I was honestly ready to fire one of them today, and I did not think I would ever reach the point where I would not mind being the one to do the firing.


Taking the optimistic approach, I can happily announce that I am currently listening to my IPOD Nano, and I love it. At least now I don’t have to listen to the constant sniffling that I suffer through 8 hours a day 5 days a week from the receptionist.
Also, Grey’s Anatomy is on tonight. Hooray!

Sarah--If you read this, I have had NO free time this week and therefore have not given grandma those books yet.
Grandma--If you read this, I have books for you.
Dena--If you read this, I want cookies! :)

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Regarding Slackness

Is it really the 10th already? There was a holiday?

Regardless of how fast the last couple of months have been, this day seems to be lasting forever. I do not mean the kind of forever that starts at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m., but the kind of forever that started yesterday morning, allowed for little sleep, and is still plaguing me.

Sometime yesterday morning, amidst an otherwise normal morning, a sinking feeling began to grow in my stomach. The kind that you usually get after something bad happens and you nervously await resolution. Only, I have not received resolution. I don’t even know what is wrong.

More than 24 hours later (too few of those involving sleep), I still cannot shake the feeling. My employees actually decided that it was “women’s intuition” and that everyone should go home because they believe strongly in “women’s intuition” and something might be wrong. For the sake of going home and catching up on some sleep, I wanted to agree with them, for the sake of not wanting anything to be wrong, I will live without the sleep.

Anyway, in house flip-i-ness news, things are going well. We found a realtor willing to go for 5%, and we are almost ready to put it on the market. I will be happy to have some time back.

That’s all I can manage for now, as the nauseating nervous feeling appears to be staying for a while.