CRAZY

Monday, March 13, 2006

Well, the sellers of the house we were bidding on, pulled their home off the market! Apparently they just could not agree on how to respond to our offer, so they pulled their house off the market to duke it out. Crazy!

NEGOTIATING

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

The sellers of the home we are trying to purchase are getting divorced. Between them, they cannot make a decision to save their lives. We are negotiating with completely irrational people. The process of selling a house makes you partially irrational anyway, I cannot imagine what getting divorced in the middle of that is like. At any rate, we may give up.

ANOTHER HOUSE

Saturday, March 04, 2006

We put an offer on a house. Really great house for us. We aren't sure if the sellers will be too keen on the fact that we can't close for 90 days, but we had to try anyway. A little disorienting to put an offer on a house we couldn't even find on a map at this point, because we are so new to the area. We'll see how it turns out!

NOT APARTMENT PEOPLE

We've unpacked, rearranged the furniture, made a bunch of trips to Target and Home Depot, and the 1200 square feet doesn't really look half bad. Aside from the kids wanting to kill each other for the first couple days of sharing a room with bunk beds, it really is pretty liveable.

We have a balcony of our own where we can see flowers, mountains, hummingbirds, and the beautiful San Diego sky, which is usually in indescribable shade of bright blue. We have managed to fit most of our stuff into much smaller storage spaces. The washer and dishwasher are running constantly. The dogs and cats are all going to the bathroom where they are supposed to (yay). The kids are too, for the most part. And the heated pool is pretty great (though we're usually the only ones in it, because San Diegans think 63 degrees air temperature is cold).

But, after just four days, it was clear we are not apartment people. Grocery trips involve lugging bags up 38 steps. You feel like an Olympic lifter after those trips. Makes you think twice about buying cases of Diet Coke. Becca and Sarah have changed who's sleeping on the top bunk. So far, Becca has only fallen off the bunk once, but there are surely more mishaps to come. And our downstairs neighbor is pretty rude with her stereo. The other day, she had Yanni blaring for 11 hours while she was not home. Cars parked all crazy in the lot.

In general, we just aren't used to sharing walls and everything else with other people. Too bad for us! We have to do it for another 4 months!