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My own spot to rant about my day.
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wSunday, November 30, 2003 |
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Last night Dave and I went to my sister's ninth birthday party. She was having a slumber party, so there were eight girls running around being silly. It was actually pretty fun, though. We set up DDR and showed them how to play (I think the high grade of the night was a "D" from a girl whose cousin has the game), had dinner, went to the movies to see Haunted Mansion, then came back for cake and more DDR. Haunted Mansion was slightly cheesy, but I was happy that they incorporated all the best parts of the ride into the movie. Haunted Mansion without, "Of course, there's always my way out" would not have been the same.
We had almost as many adults as kids at the party, with various relatives hanging about, but luckily the girls didn't seem to care. In fact, they were pretty happy to have Dave as the DDR instructor.
I've been feeling a little under the weather all week, but today I woke up full-on sick. I had to cancel tutoring and a skip a family dinner. All I've done today is lay about the house and be online. I'm hoping that having a restful day today will mean that I'll be okay tomorrow. We'll see. If I'm like today, there is no way that I'm going into work.
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nea at 4:19 PM
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wSaturday, November 22, 2003 |
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posted by
nea at 10:52 PM
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We bought a house today! AHHHHHH!!!!
For anyone that would like to see pics, we have posted some up here. Escrow closes in sixty days, so by January 24th we should be in our new place.
Yay house! Dave and I are very excited about all this. We are also excited to have found a house we like, at a price we can live with, and that has everything we need. I'm happy.
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nea at 10:38 PM
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wSunday, November 16, 2003 |
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Today marked the first official day of house shopping. Dave, Vahe (our agent), and I saw five homes this afternoon. Three of them were dismissed outright -- too small, too ugly, and too much work to be done. Of the other two, one we dismissed after discussion, as there was not enough in the way of closet space or storage space. We don't have all that much stuff, but if we're going to spend close to $400,000 on something, we want a linen closet. On the fifth one, there were a few odds and ends that we weren't fond of (rooms painted in ugly color combinations, kitchen a little small but easy to expand, family room floored in linoleum) but the real problem was the price. It's about $20K above what we want to spend. However, the house has been on the market almost a month. We're playing "wait and see," in hopes that no one else will want the house for that price either, and they'll either reduce it to something reasonable or we'll make a lowball offer on the current price.
For the first day of house shopping, I'm pretty impressed. I was halfway expecting the houses to either be way too small, in much worse shape than what we saw, or just otherwise totally unsuitable. To have two pretty good houses made me happy. This bodes well for Dave and I finding a good house in a neighborhood we like and at a price we can afford.
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nea at 8:58 PM
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