Category Archives: House Hunting and Buying

Mirror Image

lately i’ve been glaring into mirrors picking myself apart you’d think at my age i’d of thought of something better to do than making insecurity into a full-time job making insecurity into an art i fear my life will be over and i will have never lived it unfettered always glaring into mirrors mad i…

Home

I was walking up the stairs to our second floor Saturday afternoon and it felt like our house was hugging me tight. I know what that sounds like, I do, but I can’t help it. As the sun sets it busts through the glass window blocks of the bathroom on the second floor and warms…

More Thanks

Sigh. Right now, my husband and I are watching SNL in the comfort of our new house. We’ve got some wine, and a dog at our feet and candles lit and while we’re certainly not there yet, it’s feeling more like home with each passing second. Our new home. This is bowling us over more…

Thankful

Inspired by my friend, Hannah Beth, I’m taking today and tomorrow (I’d say this week but after Wednesday I’m losing Internet service till sometime on Friday) to give some thanks and appreciation for the following: 1) Being employed. I know that after a year it’s a cliched thing to be thankful for, but it’s #1…

The Silver Linings

1) We have been packed for a month. I’m starting to forget what we actually own. When we finally do unpack and unwrap boxes, it will feel like Christmas Eve! Then again, it might actually be Christmas Eve by the time we move in. 2) So hey! Then we don’t have buy each other presents…

Onward and upward

I have always hated this apartment. My ex-husband found it and I never wanted to live here in the first place. I went kicking and screaming the whole way through finding it, this new, smaller, cheaper apartment than the one we’d been living in for two years. The intention was to save more money –…

Of real estate and crazy neighbors

Someone asked me a few weeks ago to write about what’s going on with The Crazy Neighbors. Life got in the way, and I forgot. It was when I walked by the front yard the other night, and took note of the two “plants,” with flowers that light up, I decided perhaps it was time…

HIIT, kickboxing, etc.

Thanks to everyone for your kind words. It really is good to hear it took some time for the majority of you. I don’t for a second regret waiting a bit to have kids, realizing you’re a statistic sort stinks. On to other things… We’re still in the process of buying a home. We opted…

Laziest Blog Post Ever

1) We put an offer in on a house yesterday. We’re haven’t heard a word, and I’m deciding not to read into that too much. The agent has been Eager McEagerpants, and we know the seller is anxious to sell, although, really, aren’t most sellers in this market? No one is actually selling unless they…