No offer on the house

Ahhh, these people have pissed me off! Why would you waste so many people's time and then decide to "pass" on the house. I have spent the past 4 days emailing and talking on the phone with my realitor over and over again answering their questions. Just so they can pass on the house. I know they have the right to their opinions, but I am pissed that their realitor with her lack of knowledge has messed up this deal. Basically they have 3 issues:

1. the roof: there was a small leak in the dining room that hasn't leaked for over a year...why did we not get the ceiling patched in time? b/c we are so busy and it is an old house and basically it will never be 100% perfect
2. the HVAC unit: it is over 10 years old and they are worried they would have to replace it while they lived there...well I am not about to replace a perfectly functioning unit that has never gived us on bit of trouble and lots of COLD air! HELLO you are buying an old house, duh!
3. Asbestos siding on the Garage Apartment: they think they have to have this specially removed before you can put vynal siding on it, again HELLO you are buying an old house, over half the houses in our neighborhood have asbestos siding hiding underneith. Just don't lick the building and you should be ok!
   

I wish I could talk to them face to face and tell them to not waste peoples time and energy and that they need to be looking in a different neighborhood because the homes in lindley park are OLD and not perfect, but yet that is why the neighborhood is full of charm and character. Go ahead and buy your new vynal siding home in your cookie cutter neighborhood that looks like every other house on the street. And when you go to try and resell that house and aren't able because the builder is building new ones down the street cheaper and you are stuck, I will be on the side lines saying a big fat "i told you so!".

the sherrill home

When I think of leaving our house on sherrill, I get really sad, we have had so many fun times in this place, but at the same time it doesn't make sense to stay anymore.
Reasons to leave:

• we want to start our family eventually and would like to be near my in-laws
• we need to refinance before 5/2010 (less than a year!)
  
• Chris is tired of commuting and says it is my turn now
• we want to be closer to our church
  
• Mike and Christie are in that area

Why I don't want to leave:

• I spent the first night married to my husband in between those walls
• Parties and Celebrations we've had in that house: Chris-a-pooloza, Sara & Robby's engagement party, wedding showers for friends, cook outs, and who could forget SLIP N SLIDE!
  
• the most random romantic moment in my life when Chris painted the dining room and put out all our beautiful wedding china and crystal and bought me flowers and wine!
  
• I've celebrated birthdays, engagements, weddings, passing Chris's electrical exam and many other monumental moments.
• the brick wall in the back yard that was a wedding present from my in-laws
• over 200 bulbs that we planted in the back yard
• that I am 5 min from work
• that Sara lives only 10 minutes away
• that i am close to the junior league headquarters and events and chi omega stuff
• and the list could go on and on....
  

I don't think my heart realizes that our house in truly on the market. My body knows its true because it has to keep the house clean, my mind knows it true because it is off shopping for the next house and designing it. But my heart looks around my home and feels good.

Tomorrow should bring our first offer on the house since it has been on the market. Our realitor has tried to prepare us for a low ball offer. I have no clue what number they are going to come up with. I don't know if they are going to offer on 1 propriety or both. All I know is that Chris and I feel that it is time to move and we are ready to take on the next phase of our life and see where it leads us. As long as we are together that is all that matters. Here is a picture from last night at Chevy's wedding of us!

random updates

I just found a feather in my salad at Panara Bread. They gave me my lunch for free, but I am still grossed out. Why do you always find this at the end of the meal?

In other news today:

Sara's Wedding Shower was wonderful. We couldn't have asked for better weather. It was in a backyard and felt like a garden party. Very classy! Just makes me want the wedding to be here tomorrow!

Selling our house: We had a showing scheduled for 5-6, these are the couple that came on Thursday and saw the house. They are coming back to see the garage and apartment!!! Then I get a call that wakes me up from my nap and another showing was scheduled for 3:30-4:30!! YIPPEE!! I put a note on the door that said to leave the lights on for the next showing. If I was looking seriously at a house knew there was a ton of showings it would make me more anxious, I am hoping this will put a little good pressure on them to make an offer sooner than later.

The house we are looking at near my in-laws. Last Sunday, Chris and I walked through it and were happy about some things and dissapointed about others. We were hoping there would be a way to open the kitchen to the den, but without giving up a small 1/2 bath we can't do it. The kitchen was bigger than we thought, which is a huge plus, but the den was smaller. The dining room ceiling is REALLY low. Earlier this week, I was really feeling that this would be too big of a project for us, but now I am more excited after Mom looked at it and did her majic on it. (FYI: this is what she does for a living and could make the house beautiful and exactly what we want). The only catch is the money side. I just don't know how we are going to be able to buy the house and the 8 acres and still have enough money to redo the kitchen and make the rest of the house livable until the major renovations would take place. The first thing to go would be the kitchen and then the wood paneling that is throughout the ENTIRE house. YUCK! A lot of sweat will go into this one if we do it.

Looking forward: The first step is to sell our house and then the next step is to see what they might want for the other property. Then if all that is a go, we will bring mom to the house and come up with a master plan which will include an estimate of how much it would cost to do what we want to do. Then make an offer on the house...but not until I know it is possible that it could become my forever house.

free candybars from MARS

M&M Mars is sending coupons every Friday for free chocolate. You are limited 4 coupons per house, one per EMAIL address (use multiple email addresses and you are able to use them all). It is legit too. It takes about two weeks to get to you but it is a nice surprise when it does! It is a coupon for a free candybar! Here is the link:

https://secure.realchocolate.com/

YUM!

fun with kitchen gadgets

We were at BB&Beyond last night buying a wedding present and killing time while there was a showing on our house. So, Chris decided that this spoon rest was too good to pass up and lucky for us there was a salt grinder nearby (yes we did pick the salt instead of the pepper intentionally!). LOL I love my funny hubby!

blonde moment

So, I had a TOTAL blonde moment yesterday. I bought the DVD the 30 day shred. I've heard it is really hard core and a great workout. Well, I thought I will just do it at the gym after my usual cardio on the stairmaster. So, I put the DVD into the play, it was a 5 disc changer and I noticed this. So a DVD starts playing and I am using the remote to find the work out. I noticed that it wasn't the same lady as the cover of the box, but I figured maybe they hired it out. As I am doing the work out I am thinking this is WAY too easy. Well I get home and really start looking at the box and notice that the pictures on the back are not the same as the workout I did earlier. Then I open the box and look at the front of the DVD and I am thinking maybe they switched them and I am going to have to return this DVD...then the light comes on...it was a 5 disc changer and I must have done some random DVD in the changer....DUH!!!!! Really!?! It took me getting home to figure this out! So tonight hopefully I will start the 30 day shred!

almost got a ticket today

My adrenaline is still running!!!! So, I left my house as usual today and was making a right turn at a stop sign onto a busy road. Well, as soon as I pulled out I noticed this car up ahead SLAMMED on the brakes and swerved into the right lane, I was in the left lane. Then the blue lights turned on....my heart dropped I was like did I do something wrong? So, the cop got behind me as I was pulling up to a red light, then he got beside me and rolled down his window.

Cop: Mame, that was a no right on red back there.
Me: what?
Cop: The right turn you made back there was a no right turn on a red light.
Me: it wasn't a light, it was a stop sign. The road was south L***.
Light turns greens, cars behind us begin honking.
Cop rolls up window, so I do the same and I pull out and over to the right in case he wanted to stop me further.
Cop pulls into left lane and onto median, ready to pull the next person over.

Whew! I thought that was going to be a ticket for sure! I was so nervous I couldn't even think to say the name of the street the first time...i was tongue tied! Thank goodness for not getting a ticket.

Sophie Smith joins the world!

7-2-09: Sophia Smith (no middle name as of yet) joined the outside world around 9am this morning 8lbs 4 oz, 20 inches (if i remembered correctly)!

Big Brother Jordan kissing his new sissy!
Mommy and baby:

really?.... REALLY!

I hate it when people try to help you but make it worse:

A coworker was having issues with his email account yesterday and decided to help by fixing everyone's emails. Well, my email was fine but then after he fixed it, it was all messed up. Where I couldn't even have the outlook open because a box keeps popping up in front of whatever I was working on and no emails were going out or coming in. Basically, I had to call and speak with the lady in customer service and have her walk me through it and then go fix 3 other computers! AHHH I know more about PC's than he does, I wish he would just have left it alone. Oh well it is fixed now back to work!