Another House Sold

We have got to get our house on the market. One house over from us went sale pending yesterday after a couple of weeks on the market. Amazing. It was listed terribly and the most expensive house to list so far. I feel with much less appeal than my own. It gives me hope that we may yet have very good luck selling our house.

Second Note to The Cats

Fighting on the foot of the bed at 3 AM is not ok. Stop it.

Note to My Cats

You are both primarily black in color, my eyesight, in a dark room in the middle of the night, is not as good as yours. Move.

Is It Bad When You Go To Work To Relax?

It was a busy weekend. A few steps closer to having the house ready to sell. Painted laundry room, grouted tile in the laundry and hall, primed sun room waiting to be painted, and many, many loads of stuff taken to mini-storage. It was a bust weekend. I felt like I was on one of those home improvement shows where the build and entire house in a weekend.

Add to that a very busy work week, and I need a nap.

Blank Mind

I think I may be a little too busy lately. I've been trying since last night to remember the name of a company I order computer parts from. I've typed their address in this very browser at least 100 times. I wanted to check a price last night and I could not recall the name.

Has old age suddenly hit or am I just so busy and stressed that my brain is turning off a few parts? Can the brain do that? How do I flip the switch to turn it back on? What else have I forgotten and forgot that I forgot so I can not even remember that I forgot it? Get it? No? Me either.

One Showing Down, Another to Go

Shame there is another showing to go. I guess it might have been a little optimistic to think that the first person who saw our house, before we really even have it on the market, would buy it. I know it was a little far fetched, but I did hope. Seems the buyer really doesn't want much yard work and my little .29 of an acre is too much for him. He's thinking about a patio home with no yard. I can understand that, not my thing, but to each their own I guess.

The bright spot out of all this is that the realtor said our house did show very well. I think that's a good thing. It's kind of reaffirming to hear that, means we might be able to sell it after all. I hope we have it ready to be on the market for real soon.

3 Things

First, I'm out of coffee filters. That makes it hard to make coffee, and that's a very bad thing. Second, a realtor called yesterday and wanted to see our house. I'm guessing she liked it for her buyer because now she really wants to bring him by today. We're not even ready to sell. We have lots of work left to do on the house. Floors to finish, walls to paint, and more cleaning than I care to think about. We'll see how that goes.

Finally, I don't think it matters since I received the following letter this morning from Suha Arafat, Yasser's wife. I'm going to be rich anyway.


Dear Friend,
This mail may not be surprising to you if you have been following current events in the international media with reference to the Middle East and Palestine in particular.
I am Mrs. Suha Arafat, the wife of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died recently in Paris. Since his death and even prior to the announcement, I have been thrown into a state of antagonism, confusion, humiliation, frustration and hopelessness by the present leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the new Prime Minister. I have even been subjected to physical and psychological torture. As a widow that is so traumatized, I have lost confidence with everybody in the country at the moment You must have heard over the media reports and the Internet on the discovery of some fund in my husband secret bank account and companies and the allegations of some huge sums of money deposited by my husband in my name of which I have refuses to disclose or give up to the corrupt Palestine Government. In fact the total sum allegedly discovered by the Government so far is in the tune of about $6.5 Billion Dollars. And they are not relenting on their effort to make me poor for life. As you know, the Moslem community has no regards for women, more importantly when the woman is from a Christian background, hence my desire for a foreign assistance.
I have the sum of 21 million dollars with a financial firm in Europe whose name I can not disclose for now for security reasons until we open up communication. I shall be grateful if you could receive this fund into your bank account for safe keeping and any Investment opportunity. This arrangement will be known to you and I alone and all our correspondence should be strictly on email alone because our government has tapped all my lines and are monitoring all my moves.
In view of the above, if you are willing to assist for our mutual benefits, we will have to negotiate on your Percentage share of the $21,000,000 that will be kept in your position for a while and invested in your name for my trust pending when my Daughter, Zahwa, will come off age and take full responsibility of her Family Estate/inheritance. Please note that this is a golden opportunity that comes once in life time and more so, if you are honest, I am going to entrust more funds in your care as this is one of the legacy we keep for our children.
In case you don't accept please do not let me out to the security and international media as I am giving you this information in total trust and confidence I will greatly appreciate if you accept my proposal in good faith. Please expedite action. please get back to me on ( suha arafat 2000@yahoo.com ) Yours sincerely, Suha Arafat

Monday Morning Coffee

Coffee is such a good way to start a morning. Let me think, is there any exciting news from the weekend. We have the signed papers for our new house and we have a meeting with the mortgage people on Wednesday. What? Did you think I just paying cash, like I have that much buried in the backyard?

A large part of the weekend was spent staging the house. I never realized how much goes into staging a house. Never mind most of it makes the house sort of unusable. Furniture not where we like it, all the stuff we've collected, put up. I think the main thing is for everything to be clean. I am convinced a clean house will sell much better than anything. Now if I can only stop the dog from shedding.

PETA Scum

I've always thought they were nuts, this proves it!

I've Been Thinking ... I Don't Think We Should Relocate Target

Ask me what that means. I have not a clue. I said it though. I was apparently talking in my sleep. Nothing like a little incoherent babble to make life interesting. Not that the things I say when I am awake and coherent are much better.

Back to my house topic. The other house across the street from mine sold yesterday. It had been on the market a little longer, but it was 10K more than the one beside it. It had also had a sale pending which fell through, that also kept it on the market longer.

I'm getting a little less nervous. Not much mind you. I'm not sure if it's the money that worries me more or the cleaning of the house we live in now.

I Own Dirt

We bought dirt. Six month's from now that dirt should have a lovely new brick house on it. Right now it's just dirt. I'm mentally dead. The pressure of work, plus buying the house, plus selling the one we're in, plus Sara's birthday, and the total lack of sleep, has made me a walking zombie. I'm not certain anyone will notice the difference.

Maybe in the next little bit I can find a sort of topic for my writings and talk about what it's like trying to sell our house. We've lived in it 7 years. There are things in the attic that should have been tossed out 7 years ago when moved in. Hopefully we can get around to that now. Just to set the stage, we live in the same neighborhood as Edward Scissor Hands, at least that's how it appears. Good news is, it's a fairly hot housing market thanks to a new school zone. Several houses right close to mine have sold in a week. The one across the street went sale pending yesterday after much less than a week. Our house sits on a lot and half, so I'm hoping we can sell it fairly easy. Wish me luck.

Anyone want to buy a house?

Nothing to Say

I think my brain is on vacation today. It must be. I didn't sleep well last night. I think it was nerves, because we are meeting with a home builder today to build a house. That's enough to make me a little nervous I think. I'm waiting on the coffee to brew. I need a wake up call.

Oh yes, please tell Sara happy birthday. She's 25 today. That's half of 50, and like a quarter of 100. He he he.

Must Be A Good Day To Be Michael Jackson

No, this is not going to be some political post about our legal system, but I must say if you are going to be a celebrity and charged with a crime, do it California. Don't believe me, ask Martha how well the East coast worked out for her.

Sara and I spent the night cleaning. Her birthday is tomorrow. She's going to be old. Just kidding, happy birthday.

I love the fact that my idea of cleaning the kitchen counters involved caulk. I'm not sure everyone views wiping off the counter as the perfect time to caulk part of the back splash. Maybe they do.

I'm teaching class this week. Such fun. Teaching already makes for a busy week. Add to that the pressure of getting our house ready to sell and looking at a new house and I'm ready to scream. I don't enjoy dealing with mortgage people, and money and the like. It's just not my kind of fun. I know the option is to have enough money to pay cash for the house, but I don't think I can swing that right now. If I wanted to pay cash we'd be living in a nice tent. I'm not even sure how nice the tent would be.

Waiting on Paint to Dry

I am. I am really waiting on paint to dry. I took today off work. I needed a day off. My head still feels like it is going to explode. If there are any doctors out there reading this, let me know what I should do. It's just a pain on the left side of my head. No, amputation is not the answer.

Return From the Black Lagoon

Yet another last minute business trip. Thankfully this one at least resulted in a happy customer.

I've had a headache for 2 days now. I've got more work to do than ever. I'm more confused than ever about what to do about buying a new house. We want a new house. We want to move. People want money for houses. There in lies my problem.

A few random silly things from my trip.

• I can never use Aquafresh toothpaste. It's far to close in name to the Aquaflush urinals at the plant where I was working.

• Others on this planet share my use of bad puns. For example when driving through Horn Lake, MS. Me: "Why in the world is that guy honking?" Co-worker: "Well, it is Horn Lake."

• After a conversation about Apple using Intel chips in the new Mac - Me: "Wow, just think of all the angry Mac users jumping out of Windows." I swear I didn't know what I was saying.

One last thing, I am taking denotations for my new house fund, any amount is welcome.

Well Duh

how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen

Hey, Pay Me

I saw this article on Fox News. I don't really want the FEC telling me what I can and cannot write, but I do see their point. Let me just say, no one pays me to write this, but if any one would like to pay me to write something, please just let me know.

If you are reading these things, and really think everything you read is true and should be believed, let me just say "GROW UP". Learn to think for yourself, not trust the opinions of some idiot who writes one of these things.

Talk About Too Much Free Time

This guy built Pong. The video game, only minus the video part, he built the game.