2008-07-31 - 8:05 a.m. good and bad YAY! we're under contract on a house in Orem. How pleasant! :)
I would type out more, I'm taking today off... and Katie is having a bad day!
2008-07-30 - 5:08 p.m. pop in I declare that this is my favorite song for .... now. The newest favorite song from X96's exposed?
:) Enjoy MIA's Paper Planes [Plains]
Derringer Meryl [I'll update the exciting news tonight] Out
2008-07-27 - 2:30 a.m. on fire Who Needs Sleep?
Warning: this does swear. LOL So you know. I tried describing this to Wudan and the Specialist, but failed miserably. The best stand up I've seen in a while.
Derringer Meryl [in a ditch covered in Petrol] out
2008-07-24 - 10:38 a.m. off to hate jacob Happy Pioneer Day!
or not.
Some of us schlubs have to work today. I'm one of them. I am aware that some of my family and friends are off having a grand time today. I considered the Idea of stopping to get a frosty float to celebrate the occasion, but I didn't. Why? because.... I'm saving money. LOL.
We've found a house we like, that we're hoping they accept our offer (which we'll take care of the offer tomorrow, since our Lender is closed today for the "holiday") and that everything goes well and smoothly. We'll know by monday if our house is selling or not, the loan papers (the buyer's) have gone to the underwriter. Huzzah.
Other news... Um, Breaking Dawn. 8 days, Only Eight! I'm so thrilled. I'll be going to the release party with Katie and jen, and I'll be sporting my "Team Edward" Shirt. i want to make Something for Katie to wear. I thought about "Alice in Training" but considering that's her cousin's name (as well as a character in the book, who is like the awesomest) We won't be able to go that route. I'm thinking about "Littlest Team Edward Fan" or "Vampire in Training" I'm not 100% sure, but I'm feeling really excited.
I'm also toying with the idea of starting up our Onesie business. I am so wanting to, but I'm afraid the taxes will kill us. We'd be putting no money out, pretty much, and getting money in at our own rate. we could also purchase things through our store, no problem. I'd also like to expand into maternity shirts at some point as well. Why not? Pregnant geeks happen!
I'm so thrilled, It's been a good week. I hope things continue in a goodly direction. Happy 24th everyone ;)
Derringer Meryl [whatever!] Out
2008-07-21 - 11:50 a.m. ring sparkly ring I'm such a jewelry girl, indeed, look at this ring. It's made to match an engagement ring from one of my Favorite books Twilight Well more specifically it appears in Eclipse and Breaking Dawn
Isn't it gorgeous?
It's expensive though, So i won't be getting it any time soon.
I love sparkly things.
(ETA: I love my wedding ring, and this ring would not be (If I were to get said ring) to replace it in any way. I have secretly wanted a right hand ring, but have not said anything on the matter to this present time.)
Derringer Meryl [what?] Out
2008-07-18 - 5:54 p.m. letting go I maintain the idea that despite what you think you may know about a person, it is quite impossible to know everything about them. Even some of my closest friends still don't know everything about me, and probably never will. On that note, never think you know why a person functions the way they do, and never ask "What's their problem?" Unless you really want to know.
Despite it being a friday, I find my usual energy for the weekend squelched. I am not overly thrilled, or excited. I blame BNL. When I get that niggling in the back of my head that I am feeling something but I"m not sure why (and I'm rather intense in my need to know why. I think Why is the question that most people would like to know the answer to.)I listened to The Old Apartment and i found myself with this niggling again. The song haunts me. Mostly because it seems like he's not talking about the apartment itsself, but the life he was living at the point of time he was living in the Old Apartment. It is not as though he's visiting an Ex-Girlfriend as one might assume from the beginning of the song... but it is the memories he cherished from a happy time that's now past. I relate on that point. While I am happy now, with my life the way it is, I miss earlier parts of my life, for a variety of reasons. I miss my old friends, I miss not paying bills.
I miss the way things used to be.
I particularly like the portion of the song where he tries to reclaim some part of his past by taking a rat trap and a dish rack.
The desperation calls out to me. I can feel it. When I hear a song like this, I feel as though I'm a piano wire and someone has touched a tuning fork to me. I reverberate the same emotion. It shakes me down to my core. While I try to put back the things that I'm figuring out. I feel very. out of place. I feel like an airplane and all my luggage has shifted mid flight.
Sometimes I will be going a long just fine in life, and then it's like my brain switches on my ultra neurosis level, and I get a bit crazy. And when I say a bit, it's a hyperbole. I become obsessive and emotional. Angry, usually at the wrong people. I become intensely paranoid (that one, is Scott's "favorite", because it's when I start asking him if he loves me and why.)
I am trying to work on my neurosis though. I think if I get a little less crazy (ok, a lot less crazy) life would be smoother for me. I want to work on it for myself, but Mostly for Scott and Katie. Scott has dealt with a lot of weird breakdowns that I have (often enough) He helps me through them very well, but he's grown tired of them, and I don't want Katie to think that my behavior is normal. It's not. A few times I have considered taking medication again, however my emotional instability isn't a frequent enough pattern to require medicating. In addition, I really hate taking medication. The people who helped me balance it before were pill pushers, and I was NOT a fan. IT took a really long time for me to recover from my last adventure into medicine. (I had shakes for 3 years after, I was up to 200mg and they wanted to boost me up to 250. That was in addition to the meds I was taking for ADD that caused my heart to palpitate)
I want to overcome my weaknesses, on my own. Without medication. (Not that medication is bad, some people need it, and if i ever got to the point where I did NEED it, I would be there 100%)
Sometimes though I feel the need to withdraw myself from people who-- well i don't want to see me like that. I find it interesting who in your life you can be yourself with. It's not always the same people. It's not always all the time. But if You can find someone who knows you, as well as another person could, and doesn't mind you, for you-- then delight in their company. For those who you can't stay friend with (or you could never be friends with) let them go.
Derringer Meryl [Sometimes it takes a while to let go] Out
2008-07-17 - 4:11 p.m. nader voter
So I'm not a really super political person, but thanks to CNN I have been following the race-- a bit. I won't deny that I was rooting for Mitt Romney, I really like him. I think though, he made the right choice by stepping back and not running. I felt like he had a big ole target painted on his chest.
I'll stop right here and say I don't vote. I don't. Why? Because the idea that voting (especially in such a hard core red state) makes a different is laughable. AHAHAHAHA, see that's me laughing.
Mostly, this time, i don't think there's anyone GREAT to vote for. There is no one clear "Yeah that guy" person for me. (and when I say Guy I don't mean that the president necessarily has to be a man, but honestly, IMO, women are bat poop crazy. I'd not vote for one, and i AM one.) I'd like to point out a little known fact. I consider myself, some what of a republican (and by that I mean I'm fat and I hate nature. lol, just kidding. If you're in my family and have heard me talk about Wall-e you know what I"m saying.) I stand with the republicans on a majority of issues. I would not say all.
I will openly admit I do not like the republican candidate. I would consider living in Canada instead of in America if he's president. Why? Because despite being a POW and a war veteran i find his morals lacking. Not only did he openly cheat on his wife (the first one, his not so pretty one, she was gorgeous until she got into a car accident, and he left her.) he also openly called his wife (the current one) a C**t. I don't like to cuss, I will admit I on occasion screw up, and say bad things, but I do not on purpose, in front of reporters degrade my Significant Other. Apparently (on other occasions) he has called his co-workers and colleagues other such unsavory terms as well, but Honestly it's quite clear to me that he does not honor women, his spouse (either one of them while they were his current spouse) or the sanctity of marriage. I find him to be quite contrary to all my personal beliefs and honestly if I ever met him I'd probably make him eat some soap and tell him that swearing isn't very becoming of a senator. :P
Some people say that Obama is like... a Black Supremacist or whatever. I haven't really heard too much about why he would be. It seems to me that a lot of the African American leaders (didn't one of them say he'd like to strangle him?) don't seem very impressed. Either way I have to say that while I'm not up on everyone's policies and what not-- I follow my heart, and even though I don't vote, and really have no say, I'd probably vote Obama. (My mom might be fainting now) It's not to say I'm a hard core democrat, as i mentioned I don't know his stance on everything-- But I'd have to say I'm not impressed by McCain at all.
Maybe I'll register and vote Nader? LOL
Derringer Meryl [No interesting Pics] out
2008-07-17 - 12:28 p.m. whoo Soooo, want to hear my night last night?
Sure you do.
I get home from doing some light grocery shopping (which I would say I did mildly ok at.) and I ask Scott what he wants to eat, cause I'll make it for him. He says potatoes (au gratin) or chili. I tell him I"ll make him both! So I get to workin' on it, chili in the microwave, potatoes in the oven, and I'm making Katie and I a quesadilla on the stove. So I'm multi tasking, and one side of the quesadilla turns out PERFECT (whoo!) and I"m all and I think "I can do this, this isn't hard!" Then I turn to see I forgot to put milk in the potatoes (the measured milk was still on the counter. I take them back out, pour the milk in, and go, then I ask what juice Scott wants, so I get the juice out and start to open it, it explodes on me and a bit on the floor. Goody. So then I clean that up, and low and behold the other side of my quesadilla has burnt. Damn. IT's still good though, so I plate it and take the pan off of heat, and leave my stuff on the stove, but off of heat. I desperately try to find a FREAKING SIPPY CUP, but alas, since Scott hasn't done dishes (ie removed them from the dishwasher) in ages, that means I haven't LOADED the dishwasher in ages. So No sippy cup. So Katie (alas) gets a bottle. I don't care how she drinks it, as long as it's not a mess, and it makes her stop whining. I turn back to cut up my quesadilla and my spatula has burned to the bottom of my frying pan. At this point I decide that tonight is some sort of comedy of errors, and I might just die by the end of it.
So I sit down with my quesadilla to find that Katie wants NONE of it (except to throw on the floor) and then the timer for the potatoes go off. I look at Scott and say "I could care less if those burned in the oven right now. You can go get them out." To which he replies that they need a few extra minutes to cook, and he leaves them. I eat my quesadilla and ask Scott to get me a drink when he goes to take the potatoes out. He says sure. 10 minutes later, no drink. OK. 15 minutes. Still no drink. Whatever, I take my dishes (and some of Scott's from earlier) over to the OVERFLOWING sink, Sigh, and turn around to find Katie asking for more Juice. So I get it, sit down watch some TV converse with Scott, I decide to play a Video Game, Scott goes to take his pre work nap. I talk to him a bit while he gets ready to go to sleep. Katie gives him his night night kiss, and we set down to play the game. Until she starts shaking and grunting so hard that she throws up. Yep, my baby throws up twice because she was trying to poop and it came out the wrong direction. By this time, I'm exhausted from everything, I take her out of her clothes (that she threw up on) Change her diaper and consider giving her another bath (we do every other day here) but rule against it, as my game is waiting in the other room, and LORDY do I need to relax. Scott (who came out cause I yelled for him, baby throwing up is a new experience) goes back to bed, I go back to game, where upon Katie decides it's a great idea to tell the Wii to eject the game I'm playing so I get her ready for bed.
Normally we're CIO people, but, I can't CIO (Cry it out, Katie will cry herself to sleep. We're meanies) when Scott is sleeping cause it keeps him awake. So Katie and I sit up, and I try to calm her down, but can't, Scott wakes up at 11:30pm, goes to work, Katie goes down at 12:00am, and I am left with the wreckage...
and that was my evening. Fun right?
Derringer Meryl [What a day] Out
2008-07-16 - 10:20 a.m. not again So my realtor calls this morning (I was barely awake.) and she says that our sale probably won't be going through this weekend. Unless there is some sort of miracle.
I'm getting quite angry. You won't like me when I'm angry.
Mostly it's the stress of gearing up (each week) to pack and move and the stress of planning it in a day, to move and get everyone organized. (and in the case of this weekend, still try to fit in all the other stuff we want/need to do)
But it's not going to happen. I'm getting really angry and annoyed. :(
Derringer Meryl [angry angry girl] Out
2008-07-14 - 6:56 p.m. blog update I am hoping to revamp (completely) this blog lay out. I am looking for something new, and pretty, Very stylish, that will aid in the viewing of images instead of harming it (like it is now. I'd like to not have frames or anything so it's going to be interesting!
I like this one, I definately will be going with Rukia again for my next layout-- hopefully after the move I will be able to work magic with my limited knowledge... Everyone should be aware that there is No way in heck I'm hand coding a website. I will probably find a blog I like (somewhere out there) I like, and take the code and hack it up to suit me. :O I know so shocking
Anyway, I'm about to go home. Wish us luck on selling the condo this weekend, I really hope it goes through.
2008-07-14 - 11:11 a.m. weekend update This weekend pretty much rocked. Although at the Family reunion I fell out of my tube twice, though only once while moving. that's what I get for thinking falling back onto an innertube is a good idea. Nooooo. And I have an aching hip and bruises galore to show I went overboard. it was not fun, but fun at the same time. Maybe one of those situations where it wasn't funny in the moment, but shortly there after it was. :D I took a lot of swim classes, so I could have swam back to the boat, but I figured, i don't want my arm taken off by a propeller or whatever, so I'll just sit here. LOL. Katie didn't like the water at all at first, but warmed up to it. She LOVED going on the boat (in an life jacket to boot, so cute, I'll have to snag some of Sukie's pics) She was shy for some people but she let my Cousin pick her up and talk to her and she was pretty friendly after an adjustment period. Katie also got running on a downhill slope and had nothing to stop her but The Specialist's Adams Apple, so There you have it. My baby clobbered her uncle in his sleep. Scott got some sleep in the house. I was glad we all got to go, he had fun on the boat, and I enjoyed talking with my parents in the car. I like hearing stories about their childhood and stuff.
I even got to see the smallest post office I have ever witnessed with my own two eyes. It was the size of a toll booth... or maybe more succinctly a closet. it was itty bitty. We had so much fun though.
Some Pictures. Let me start off by saying... My camera is not designed to take pictures at the speed in which we were moving LOL, so yeah. First lets look the Orbi Gras fun-ness!
That's a few of us (me and The Specialist and Wudan) Showing our ankles. We're sluts. we know it.
Dax and the blurry thing is my daughter. :)
Dax scaring Kate! AH!
Me Whacking The Specialist with Katie's Doll.
A very blurry image of The Specialist Pointing at Scott's sister. We were all giggling very hard, and so many of these pictures reflect that sort of movement. LOL.
The Specialist and Wudan, Just chillin on the couch.
Thus Endeth Orbi Gras Pictures. I got an awesome video of Dax, but That might take a bit of time to upload. I'll show it when I've got it though! :D
I'll post some pictures of the family reunion... too. :D I'd like to note that these were taken by Sukie's awesome camera, and I ganked them from face book :D I love ya Sukie, thanks for the awesome Pics!
Katie Screaming her freakin' head off in her floatie. She was not pleased. LOL
Katie's hair is straight up in this picture, I also love the look on her face. that's my awesome mom in the background, and you can kind of See The Specialist in the foreground. :)
Katie and The Specialist Stare at the camera. Katie has yet to have perfected the family gape, but she's getting there!
Scott and Me and Katie (and the boy in the back) on the paddle boat. they weren't going very fast, so I hopped in to help The Boy paddle, and nearly capsized the dang thing, so Scott came and helped me balance it out. I needs to loose me some weight!
Scott helps Katie get used to the water while we wait for the boat to come back. Katie wasn't thrilled with the water at first, but liked it after Scott basically dug out her own wading pool :)
Scott's calling back to me to tell me how she enjoys it. She does indeed. what a cutie pants. :) Both of them.
Hope you enjoyed the pics, thanks again Sukie!
This weekend will be much less entertaining, hopefully we can have a quick move and be done. :)
Derringer Meryl [What a weekend!] Out
2008-07-11 - 1:09 p.m. What a good day Orbi Gras!
Everyone is blogging about it. Why not me? No really. Why not.
I was quite perturbed with myself that we were late, however it couldn't have been helped, I was at work and then the baby needed a diaper change, and then... well you get the picture. we had to get food and what not.
Anyway. Scott ate a Steak the size of his head, I ate cheesy hot dogs (yay) we brought Scott's sister a long, and we all had a grand time. We sang, and I took some pictures, which are tragically still on my phone at home, so those pictures from Orbi Gras will have to go up later today. :) Katie had a good time, she gave some hugs and loves to Alice, who I swear is her best pal, she also chased The boy around and played legos with him too, though she is not at all as talented as he is ;) We roasted marshmallows and as The Specialist (or TheOrb to everyone else, hence Orbi Gras!) mentioned, we sang together. I love my family, because I don't know any other group of people in the world who can do things sober that other people normally only do drunk :) We took the cake over to my mom's house (our mom's house, whatever) and sang happy birthday. it's funny to see that Scott and I's family are so different. We are very loud and obnoxious people (I'd say) But we have fun and we enjoy each other's company immensely. It was a great party. I loved it.
I'm glad it's friday. I'm sick of this week, and I'm quite frankly ready for next week so that we can get this move on the road already.
I just want to warn you that there is going to be some religious statments to follow, and if you are not inclined towards any particular religion or maybe you just think it's silly or whatever-- well maybe you should just pretend the post ends here, and wait patiently for the orbi gras pictures.
Ok?
There.
So Our house is in a pickle we're waiting for the guy to get a co-signer and all that junk, and I went to bed thinking... Man if I just paid my tithing I bet everything would work out and we'd be able to sell our house and what not. I immediately thought there after, that we didn't have enough money to pay our tithing (yes I know it's a bad situation to be in) and so I thought... I have enough faith to pay my tithing, but I'm not stupid enough to put a check that is going to bounce like rubber to the church. That seems DUMB. So I prayed that if I had enough money I'd pay my tithing now, Cause I know it would help. Long story short, we get an email today at work that says "Hey, we're switching the way we pay you, so you'll be getting a larger paycheck this pay period" I'm super enthused, the larger check means we can more than likely pay our tithing! yes! I just know that Once we pay it -- things will look much more up and a lot less down.
Derringer Meryl [Crazy little thing called Hope] out
2008-07-10 - 10:13 a.m. more teeth I'm like a blogging machine lately, right? lol
Katie has 3 new teeth (and one more on the way...) She has MOLARS? WTH!? They've popped through! she's still missing a few teeth between, but we definately need to get her to a dentist now, she's up to 9 teeth!
2008-07-09 - 5:31 p.m. Me Panicked why never Just got notice that the buyer on our house has put out an extension, If you could please send some good thoughts or prayers our way, we'd appreciate it. We'd love to be out of our Condo, as nice as it is. :)
Derringer Meryl [Panic] Out
2008-07-09 - 3:45 p.m. wait its not saturday I'm going to start to try to blog more, and YES, I'm jumping on the photo blog bandwagon. Here i go.
Katie Is Halfway into the box. Nice huh? She loves playing in and around boxes. it's a fun twist on her normal hide and seek.
Switching Techniques, Katie is trying to step into the box instead of crawling into it. Have I mentioned she's too tall to lay down in the seat of a shopping cart... EVEN with her feet over the side. My Baby is gargantuan. :)
Speaking of shopping, Katie got put down, and she decided to help Daddy push the cart. she did really well actually.
In a ramen box. She just loves boxes. I don't know what her deal is. LOL
Fourth of July I love Katie's 4th pics. In case you haven't noticed yet, I'm getting these directly from my phone... which isn't the best quality in the entire world. But some is better than none, IMO. ;)
She was really loving the fireworks, and clapped with everyone, she did rub her eyes a few times, we were REALLY close and got pelted with cardboard, and stuff I swear up and down was kitty litter.
She wasn't bothered by the noise at all, I was a bit surprised.
This was a particularly BRIGHT firework, allowing for you to see more of Katie. :)
She's having a good day. This was a suprisingly good day actually. We weren't able to make it to the Provo parade to protest Jack (Senile) Thompson, but I hope someone did. At least we didn't go and throw eggs like Scott wanted. The last thing we need is to be investigated by the FBI.
Some of the fireworks. I got tired, these are certainly some of the less fantabular ones, but I couldn't have my cell phone out the entire time.
One of Katie's friends is going to be wearing my old Snow White Costume for her Birthday in August, so I modeled it on Katie since they are about the same size right now.
My mom (mostly my mom) and I worked on this dress for katie. it was supposed to be for her birthday, but instead she gets to wear it now. I love it!
She's happy, and is holding on tight to a magnifying glass.
Katie chillin' with grandpa. I've noticed that since for Scott's mom I just say Grandma since Scott's dad has passed away, so when it comes to my family I have gotten into the habit of just saying grandma. :S I think I should explain this to my dad, so he won't feel like I'm trying to short change him, I'm really not. It's a habit now, Trying not to hurt anyone's feelings, it gets hard. I talk to Katie all the time about her Grandpa Heppler. I didn't get to know him very long, I hope Scott talks to her about him too. It's hard, I'm sure, but very important. I wish I had known more about my grandparents. I feel really fortunate that I got to meet all but one of them.
Don't mind her, she's a bit tired, when we go and look at houses that are vacant, that means no one has been using the AC and quite possibly the heat is still on (depending on how long they've been on the market!) She was in the backyard of one such house and was dying from the heat.
I absolutely WILL NOT tell you where this is written, but it is, so kawaii I think :D
Ok You can't tell what this picture is of (other than a naked baby eating in her high chair) but she has pig tails in. She looks much more girlish with them in. :D
More of the aforementioned piggie tails. I <3 them. For real. She is pretty good about letting you put them in as long as she has food or Chicken in a biscuit.
Ok-- I think that's it for today!
Derringer Meryl [saturday night] Out
2008-07-09 - 1:19 p.m. Just a note I am aware my blog is broken. No worries, I'm working on it
2008-07-07 - 2:40 p.m. Good Morning Using the second half of my lunch break to blog. Maybe this will become a tradition. Maybe I'm tired. Maybe both!
I am tired today... For sure. I would say to my friends and family, beware me for the next week, i will probably say something that will sound a bit off, and come off condescending, or rude, or even quite offensive. Apparently God wants me to practice my talent of saying sorry a lot. So... Sorry.
We will be moving this week. Crazy right? I know. So-- Um. I'll still be online during the day, MUCH less at night, I'll be packing like crazy.
My mom is having knee surgery this week. I'm nervous. It seems like all the big things in life like to hit all at once. :( It's crazy. I'm not a fan. I'd like to say that things are perfect, but -- I'll settle for OK. Things are Ok. :) Hopefully we will find a new house soon, and buy it :) and then we'll have a new home to move all our stuff into. We're really hoping that Drama Queen will be able to move in with us. :) I'd adore it. :) I think Scott would be pretty keen on it too. (Not so much THINKING he'd be keen on it, so much as he's said that he wants her to move in so she can hang out with me all the time so I can stop being a mopey butt)
we're going to look at a house this evening. We'll see how my navagation skills have improved. I'm starting to get more lost in SLC and less lost in UC. :) Also, I'm enthused about decorating Katie's future room. I love decorating, My mom can attest, I would always draw up grand plans when I was little and... well let's face it-- they hardly ever worked out. Katie will have some of my more non fragile dolls for her to play with -- and some day I'll get a curio and put my more fragile dolls into it :D
I'm having a good day. Despite the fact that it's monday and i feel a little sick-- I'm still happy.
Derringer Meryl [In Case I don't see you...] Out
2008-07-03 - 6:16 p.m. whatever im going home Ever have one of those days (or set of days) where dumb trival stuff kind of piles up and you just want to say "OH TO HELL WITH IT!"
welcome to my WEEK.
I'd blah about it, but to be quite frank it's not really worth the time. I am on the "just give up" part of my cycle. I will mope about for an unnamed period of time, then pick myself up, put my big girl undies on and go about life again.
I'm in some sort of weird bizzaro catch 22 kick Meryl while she's down situation.
I'm just done
Derringer Meryl [no really]
2008-07-02 - 5:05 p.m. the answer is just no One Long post about things that piss me off....
People who exploit a situation for money. Unless it's something trivial. (anything that isn't about your life, or status of living) Realtors that won't get off the pot or piss in it. Because the house they're selling is theirs and they want to issue a bidding war. Scumbag!
People who park motor cycles and scooters in regular parking places when there are their OWN parking spaces elsewhere. REALLY, I can't park in your space, so why should you be able to park in mine? JERKS!
People who talk on their cell phones in a public restroom. Just don't do it! I don't want to hear you have a chat with your kids at home or your broker, or whatever while you pee. JUST STOP! Seriously.
I'm a bit stressed, and a bit mad. We will be booted from our house in approximately a week and a five days. Still no answer from the douche bag realtor we made an offer to on SUNDAY, he has been unreachable, and I'm quite tempted to call him myself and bitch him out for being such a money grubber. You're not playing real estate tycoon on your little intendo 54 here, you're toying with people, and honestly if the other people have had their offer in as long as we have, they are probably JUST as pissed as we are. You can push people so far, but you have to be careful, he might end up with no offers and a house that sits on the market.
I'm so frustrated, and ANGRY. I am a planner. I plan EVERYTHING. I do not enjoy the idea of things NOT being planned. I like to be able to say "After this period of time, this will happen" and instead of that happening I'm stuck with "and after July 11 when we close on our house, we will be staying with Scott's mom... until we aren't any more." That stresses me. Scott tells me to calm down and not worry. How do I just "not worry" HM? I'm quite frankly going quite insane.
Don't let CNN fool you, the housing market isn't stalling in Utah. All of the well maintained houses are selling-- leaving complete holes in the wall for those of us who aren't able to sit around all day and look at houses.
I'm so very very angry.
Derringer Meryl [no.] Out
2008-07-01 - 12:58 p.m. picking up Happy July Everyone.
I was saying to my mom that I wish Sukie would update, and she said "look who's talking" and since I haven't updated in a while I really don't have room to talk. But I think everyone else's life is much more interesting than whining myself, so there you go.
lets see...
We made an offer on one house, they countered with a crazy horrific amount to which we promptly said... NO. Then we looked at houses, and I'm ashamed to say that everything even in the $200k range is a freaking hole in the wall. I kid you not. It's like everyone said "Let me do a piss poor job of maintaining or updating my house, and then put it out on the market for an over inflated price. that sounds great!" we found one that we really like that has a few things we'd change but they're small and easy. Unfortunately the dork of a realtor that is selling it, went on vacation for the weekend and STILL hasn't gotten back to us on the offer that we put in on SUNDAY! for the love of pete. Seriously though. *sigh* So we'll probably hang out at Scott's mom's for a while, which ... in all honesty makes me kind of want to tear my hair out. I know it'll be hard for everyone involved, b/c it's hard living out of boxes, and living in someone else's home. It's just true. So hopefully we can find something we like before we lose our minds.
I'm still incredibly interested in this whole "My house looks like crap, but I'm ok with making you pay lots and lots for something that was made in the 60's and still looks like the brady bunch could pop in at any moment" For real. I mean, I"m ok with older stuff, really, I swear. But try and make it not look so... crappy I guess.
Also, if you're going to do something... do it 100%. Dont' update the bathroom and leave the rest of the house crappy! WTF!? Or Update the kitchen to be modern and leave the rest of the house in the 1950's. It's just common sense. Don't spend all your money in one place. Spend a little everywhere.
*sigh* Anyway. that's pretty much it from me. I wish I had better more "we have a house" news, and whoever said that we're in a Buyer's market is FREAKING insane. We are in a "We know there's like 10 good houses on the market and we're one of them so we're going to gouge you for it" market. That's that.
The Specialist and Wudan, Just chillin on the couch.
In a ramen box. She just loves boxes. I don't know what her deal is. LOL
