My Random Thoughts

Its been about 2-3 weeks and the apartment is pretty much set. We need more furniture (like a couch, a chair and a desk! I’m writing this from a bed tray on the queen size bed that gets smaller every night I sleep on it).

Jeff keeps giving me crap about not taking the more uppity apartment with the integrated garage, which was more money for less space! pbpbpbpbpbpbpb to him.

And now for the rant - I need to buy a house, fast! Faster than fast - yesterday! The first thing that makes me crazy is the dumb bitch who parks in the spot which is not a spot. Its the space to the right of the handicap space - you know the one they would use if they had a wheelchair to get into??!?!? yeah, she parks there. It’s also right infront of the ramp up to the sidewalk.  Perhaps I wouldn’t be so upset if it wasn’t CLEARLY MARKED that its not a space and that NONE of the other ones are parked in.  If I think about it while i’m going to/from the grocery store, I will stop in the office and give a word to the management company. JUST MAKES ME CRAZY!

And then there are the elephant children who live on the 3rd floor. It not just the regular walking around, or the occasional drop, it’s the running up and down the stairs and the squealing as they do it. Obviously it bothered more than just me, as the apartment complex sent out a note to everyone saying please be considerate of your neighbors and the breezeways are not the playground. You shouldn’t be congregating there. THANK GOODNESS!

Now the rants on poor Jeff……I brought up some ’stuff’ to decorate the apartment to give it a more homey touch. I dared to hang something on the wall - I thought he was going to have a fit. I used the 3M command adhesive strips. It was just a small little thing, and dude, they are keeping most of the security to repaint anyway, so who cares! it’s not like I was putting holes in the walls! GAWD!

I can’t wait to get my own home. I’m going to put holes in every surface i can find. I’m going to paint every surface i can find and i’m going to be happy about it!! I think I”m going to go home this weekend and paint a wall in my current house, just cuz I CAN! so there!

Yeah, those two subjects don’t really go together, but this is my blog and I can write anything I like.

Our neighbors across and 1 down sold their house. According to the neighbor 2 houses down they got what they wanted. Of course after a year on the market, I don’t know what the price was down to, or what they wanted. They were moving out today. I’m jealous. I’ll have to pay attention to when the new neighbors move in so I can go over an say hello! Wonder if the closing is sometime this week. Sigh.  Everything in the papers down here say the market is still in the tank. I hope it turns around soon, I’d like to sell this place and move, though the stress of always having it in show condition is not something I’m looking forward to, especially with 2 active cats!

In other news, Pheobe is just wierd. She cries, loudly, at us for attention. I tell Jeff she comes into the room and yells at me.  I haven’t figured her out. The volume and sound of her cries makes it seem like she’s angry or in pain, but then she rubs on me and purrs. Goofy cat.

I’m seriously considering changing Margarita’s name to Nut. Black Walnut to be precise. We call her the nut because she’s a kitten and acts like a nut. I still like Margarita, but Nut really suits her. In fact, The Nut and Pheobe are chasing each other through the house right now. Goofballs. Its nice to see Pheobe playing though.

Weekend really go to quickly. I think its time for me to head to bed.

Sigh - apparently we missed the bubble. We took the house off of the market this morning. Five months has been quite long enough with one BS offer. There are so many homes on the market right now, I just don’t want to play anymore. Maybe we’ll try again in a few months, maybe we’ll try again next year. I don’t know exactly what we’ll do.

The master plan is still to move north, but the timing is up in the air. In the meantime we’ll enjoy being Floridians. I’ll enjoy my pool for the summer, we’ll enjoy diving, and lobstering. We’ll enjoy our friends and I’ll look for my photography group/class, etc. Clearly there is some reason we still need to be here right now. I’m sure it will come to light at some point.

I actually feel okay about this. I thought I’d be more upset. I’m a little disgusted because it’s been so long, but I’m really okay with it. I got new carpet and paint (even though I may repaint a white wall or two a different color).  Next project - window treatments! Hmmm, maybe I’ll visit a window place this weekend.

I had hoped so when we got a call yesterday that the house was going to show today. A good sign, I would think.

Here I am, 30 minutes after the window i was given, and no one has shown. I even left the house only to come back to no business cards left on the counter and no new tracks in the street. I’ve only got to assume that they were a no show. That’s frustrating. If I worked out of the house I don’t think I’d be as upset. Just the same, Jeff cleaned the house last night, I left in the middle of my work day today for nothing.

We haven’t gotten any feedback from the Drive by Showing from Saturday either. SIGH. I guess we were wrong and the market isn’t picking up.

We have another open house today. I hope someone shows up. Jeff and I need to figure out what to do with the 3 hours we’ll have to waste. We’ll go out to lunch, for sure. Beyond that - I don’t know what we’re going to do. I’m going to take my camera and see if we can get some pictures someplace.

About 3pm I called Dana - I couldn’t stand it anymore!!!

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It’s been a long day here in Orlando. The training is going well, the project is holding its own, but I fear i’m in the heads down until the end mode, which means I’ll be working more hours. Hours Hours Hours.

So we’re going to counter tomorrow. I’m not holding out any hope of them accepting the counter, or of them coming back with an offer that we’ll find acceptable. I think they were playing and they aren’t serious about the house. BUT what has happened is the seal has been broken. I expect that another offer should come.

Ah well - my prayer to St. Joe - please let them come back to us with a reasonable offer that we can accept. As long as its in the plan that this happen.

SO - get a call from my realtor today - we have an offer :-). The offer was 83K less than list . WHAT WERE THEY THINKING. Let’s be reasonable about this. If you can’t afford to buy my house - DON’T WASTE MY TIME. If you can afford to buy my house, make me an offer I will at least consider! Yes, I want to sell this house, but I’m not going to give it away. Yes, we are going to counter, but in the range where I expect an offer to be. I’ve given my realtor the bottom line - and I’m even willing to go a smidge below that, but geez! I think we’ve invested more in the house over what we bought it for than they are offering - okay, maybe not that much, at least half! (new roof, new paint, new carpet, blah blah blah) Ah well, it was an offer - so YAY for that. Maybe that was practice for the real offer that will come through some day soon (very soon) I hope. Hmm, wonder if they put the offer on the wrong house. Nah, they couldn’t be that dumb

So it’s HOT here and I’ve decided to put up my summer theme. Act impressed, the header photo is mine! I still have a few tweaks to make, but overall it’s pretty much done. I wanted to apply the same theme to my writing blog, but for some reason any theme except the default theme seems not to work over there. Gotta work on that.

I’m tired tonight, but this stuff is addictive. I was thinking I should have been a programmer, but at least if I get stuck on this I can quit or change direction, couldn’t do that in reality.

The realtor actually showed up today. With some of the last ones cancelled, I was a little surprised that she did show up. I haven’t heard any feedback on the house yet, but I’m not surprised at that. Time to go back to tweaking!

Sounds like it should be a title for a book — wait - it IS

What a day…..work is busy, but not so busy that I’m working insane hours. I used to feel guilty about that - I got over it. I’ll be working insane hours soon enough, don’t need to start them now.

I get a call that we’re having a showing tomorrow. I’m trying not to be cynical, but I am. I’m almost ready to greet them at the door and say, well, if you’re not interested, I’m too busy to let you in. I was going to go gangbuster in cleaning tonight, but I don’t think I care that much. I’ll sweep and put more things away tomorrow. I already washed the windows a couple of weeks ago, and they still look pretty good. Eh, it is what it is, either they like it or they don’t.

Sigh