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June 30, 2005

Happy Birthday House

Happy 2nd birthday to our latest huge mortgage. It was 2 years ago today that I didn't have a mortgage...

December 15, 2003

First Shoveling

One great thing about the new house is that we have a very short driveway, so cleaning it won't be...

November 28, 2003

As Promised

Here are the pics of the kitchen...

November 25, 2003

Painting Done

The kitchen and the hallway are painted. I still need to put the room back together, but the painting is...

November 19, 2003

Stay at work or go home

Just talked to Sandy and she is thinking of painting the kitchen tonight. Sounds great right? Not that means that...

World Toilet Day 2003

Thanks to Busy Mom, I have found out that today is World Toilet Day as specified by the World Toilet...

Shitter #2

Well I have fixed shitter #2. I'm getting pretty good at them now. Just have to wait for the 3rd...

November 11, 2003

The Heat Is On

Well I the repair man showed up about 4:00pm and we went to look at the beast. After about 1/2...

November 10, 2003

Thought it Was cold outside

Here I sit at home waiting for the repair man to show up as the house gets colder and colder....

August 13, 2003

Its about time

It only took me a month, but I now have both cars parked in the garage and all the rest...

July 19, 2003

Finally!

They have been found. All life can return to normal now. Sandy and I tackled the basement last night and...

July 15, 2003

House update

As each day passes, I break up more boxes, but I still can't seem to find anything. We have one...

July 13, 2003

Dead!!!!

Its all here at the new house, we can't find anything and I don't know what I'm going to wear...

July 10, 2003

Soo Tired

My back is killing me and I still need to pack things up. I have finally finished the painting. Sandy...

July 9, 2003

Leaving Work

I'm leaving work now and not going to return till Monday, you may not hear from me as we really...

July 8, 2003

What the...

Hello, where am I today. I can't hold my head up anymore. Its just too heavy. I was at the...

July 7, 2003

Misery

Someone put me out of my misery. I'm so dead I can't even think straight anymore. I have not sat...

July 3, 2003

Keys

We have the keys and we have been to the new house. Its amazing how many new things you find...

June 30, 2003

Homeless 4 hours

We were homeless for about 4 hours today. No mortgage or anything. So now its a done deal except for...

June 27, 2003

Beautiful Day

Its nice to see that its Friday and my site seems to be up for now. I probably just jinxed...

June 25, 2003

Closing Dates Set

We have found out that we will close on our house on June 30th and then also are new house...

Garage Sale

What is it with Garage Sales? I don't know what people see in other peoples garbage. Sandy is having one...

June 19, 2003

Trashing Memories

Our cellar is no bigger then a regular bathroom, but it still took me 4 1/2 hours to get all...

June 7, 2003

In in less then 4 weeks

The home inspection went well and it looks like we will close at the end of this month and be...

June 6, 2003

Busy Birthday

I would like to thank all of you have wished me a happy birthday so far. I don't feel any...

June 4, 2003

Inspection

Everything went great with this inspection and the buyer still wants the house and had pretty reasonable list of things...

Inspection Today

Have the webcam on to see if anything is going on at the house for the inspection today....

June 3, 2003

Offer Excepted

Our offer was excepted by the owner of the house that we want, now we just need to get through...

MIA

I'm sorry to the faithful, I'm going to be a little absent this week. We have birthdays all this week,...

May 30, 2003

100 Post and Good News

Well I didn't know if I could put up 18 posts in 4 days and low and behold I did...

May 28, 2003

Possible Good News

After bitching for another afternoon about our house and how the lady is never going to sell hers,Sandy told me...

House Update

Well, I thought it would be great to have a buyer, eventhough she hadn't sold her house yet and we...

May 20, 2003

Waiting

Today the lady that bought our house is supposed to have a 2nd showing that she and the realtor feel...

May 19, 2003

Weekend

Friday night we went to see the Matrix. I won't say it was better then the first, and I won't...

May 12, 2003

I'm Sorry

Its all my fault. I was too lazy to water my lawn so I asked for it to rain 2...

May 11, 2003

Wow It Sold

As you know Friday Nicholas came home from the hospital, and he is doing great. He is having a slight...

May 1, 2003

Bad Luck Thursday

Here it is another Thursday and another shitty loss of offer on house day. Its ok though, I know that...

April 29, 2003

Sorry

Sorry for the lack of comments. We had a very busy weekend. We have a couple of showings, so we...

April 25, 2003

House Hunters

Home and Garden Television: House Hunters I don't know if you have ever seen this show, but we started watching...

April 15, 2003

Bridesmaid

I'm getting tired of our house being the bridesmaid. For the 3rd showing in a row, the people have told...

April 4, 2003

Recap of the Day from Hell

Went to bed Wednesday night with our house sold and the house inspection done and the buyers still wanting to...

April 3, 2003

Offer Dead

The offer on our house is now dead. We are back on the market again....

Shitty day

The house stuff is in the shitter today, the buyers want more money off and the offer we made the...

April 2, 2003

Whew!

After spending a day holding my breath, I'm breathing some what easier today. We had the house inspection on our...

March 31, 2003

House Hunting

We signed the papers on the offer for our house on Saturday, we are now waiting on inspections, so that...

March 23, 2003

Church, Cemetery, Offer

We had another fun day at church, today we went to Sandy's Grandfather's church, he had a mass for Sandy's...

March 21, 2003

What the F...

Our agent told us that a house down the street from us sold today and it was only up for...

March 19, 2003

So Much For The House

Here I sit watching TV on a day that we had two showings for the house. Now that we are...

March 15, 2003

Showing Blues

We are only up to the 5th showing and I'm already tired of this. I have to live in a...

March 4, 2003

Good News / Bad News?

Heard from the realtor last night about the people that came through on Saturday. They really liked the house, but...

March 2, 2003

Bang at the Door

I have this fear that now, the house if up for sale that someone is going to breaking and steal...

First Showing

We had our first showing yesterday. It was very eventfull for us. Sean and I were out getting some work...

February 25, 2003

For Sale

click to enlargeThe Sign is on the lawn! click to enlargeThe House with sign.Hooray the house is now up...

February 23, 2003

Is it sold yet?

Well, the realtor came out to the house on Thursday night. We signed a ton of papers and decided to...

February 18, 2003

Confusingly Sad Day

Here I sit in my bed watching Dave and listening to Sean snoring next to me. It won't be long...

February 16, 2003

10 Years in 2 Days

After a great Friday night, the hell began per say. I needed to do about 10 years worth of repairs...

January 31, 2003

Sticky House

We met with the realtor tonight and he had some good things to say and some things that weren't so...