House Hunt 09

To catch you up:

I decided a few months ago I wanted to buy a home. I was really trying to not take it seriously. I went out twice with a realtor (Kim) with the intention of getting a firm grasp of what's in my price range. I had given up on finding anything decent on the South side of town and was looking in central/north Columbia.

But like I said, I wasn't SERIOUSLY looking. I didn't want to get serious about anything until this summer. That was... until... the foreclosure.

Kim texted me (yes, she texts, it's great) around 9 pm one night. She had found a foreclosure that had just dropped it's price dramatically. It is in South Ridge (about a 10 minute walk from where I currently live!). We looked at the next day and it was BY FAR the nicest I had been in. It's definitely got some, shall we say, quirkiness to it. But nothing that couldn't be painted over of removed (ehem-blue shag carpet...)

After much deliberation with about everyone I came into contact with, I decided to make an offer. And now... we wait. There were 3 other offers as well. Ugh.

I did go loan shopping today. Scary and so adultish... That was until my car broke down in the US Bank parking lot. I started to interpret this as a sign. Sign for what you may ask? I don't know. I just figured my car breaking down in the midst of me loan shopping was indicating something. Turns out it was just a loose connection to my battery. No worries, it's up and running beautifully now.

I find out in the next few days (maybe even tomorrow) if they took my offer. If so, then it's mine unless they find something in the inspection I don't want to pay for.

I'm holding it loosely. I really really really like the house, the location, the quirkiness, etc. But I don't feel like my world will fall apart if something falls through.

There are so many "what-ifs" in this process. A lot of fears have been stirred up that I didn't even know I carried. I've never considered myself a worrier. I guess I've never had to do something so huge on my own though.

Anyway- I will keep my blog followers posted as much as possible on the process. I'm learning a-heck-of-a-lot.

Spring has Sprung!

This is a picture of a field of
tulips. I thought it was so cool!

How am I spending my first day of Spring you may ask?

-Woke up at 2:00 am, couldn't sleep, so got online and requested my annual credit report. Yes, at 2 am. It's in good shape. No worries.

-Woke up at 7am. Attempted to walk Sophie in the rain. She gets very distracted and totally loses the vision of the walk when it rains. When she gets hit by raindrops she looks up and the sky as if she's pissed off at the clouds and then looks at me with the look of "How could you do this to me?!?"

-Senior high class at 9am. We were joined by the junior high this morning. Had a Wii mariocart challenge. I managed to put my team in 4th place by running off that freaking rainbow road 4 times in the one minute I played.

- Came home. Took a nap. A 1.5 hour nap to be exact. It was amazing. I don't know if it is age, lifestyle, sleep patterns or what, but I do know my love for the nap is dramatically increasing.

-Off to watch the Tigers play. Do I really care? Not all that much. I am a social game watcher. If people are there, I care. However, I would like to point out that in my March Madness bracket I am 100% in the Western Region. I'm so proud of my pics.

OK- gotta go.
Go Tigers.

This is depressing...

I only have one year left of increasing intellectual ability.
It's all downhill after that.

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/17/148217&from=rss

Another one-liner

Best quote from Thursday morning bible study:

Junior gal: "Uh, Spring break. I've given up the swimsuit body for food...."

Now that I write that, it seems a little more sad than humorous. Well, at the moment, it gave me a good chuckle.