Mixin’ it up ‘round here
Posted on | June 15, 2008 9 Comments | e-mail | print
So hey guess what? My super awesome husband scored a new job. Can I get a woot?
Just to mix things up a bit — life with two little kids just gets so dang calm and peaceful sometimes! — we have decided also to sell our house. Why not? The housing market is softer than room-temperature butter, so this is surely a good idea. It’s a market in which buyers could waltz up and slap us each in the face before commencing the tour and we’d thank them heartily for the honor. So, yes. We are brilliant. But also motivated! And also knee-deep in staging hell! (Seriously. Have you seen my furniture?)
So right now we have boxes everywhere and splatters of beige paint in our hair. We rented a storage unit and it’s already three-quarters full. (And then the managers of the storage unit place told us that the entire building would be inaccessible from the time of: hmm, yesterday until the time of: oh, one and a half weeks from now. Super helpful! Jagoffs.)
Owen is doing super well through this transition. Seriously, he’s blowing my mind. He is excited about buying a new house, and all of a sudden he’s night-trained as well. I know! Weird. Woke himself up at 3 a.m. to pee one night last week and has been going strong ever since. Color me surprised, with a light patina of very pleased.
So that’s the haps. Boxes boxes boxes, paint paint paint, shuffle shuffle, nap. It’s thrilling, every bit as thrilling and meditative as you know it obviously isn’t. But that’s all right, we still know how to relax.
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June 15th, 2008 @ 4:45 pm
So while I am all kinds of excited for you (I’d move right now if I weren’t so humongous, and it weren’t so hot, and you know, we had some more money, because a new house is just fun) I’m curious… send a girl an email and let me know where you’re going! You’re the last person I know who lives in the ‘ville, and now who am I gonna get to tell me when the Paradise Tavern finally burns down?
Reply to thisJune 15th, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
Where did Ian get a job? In Maryland or you moving back home?
Reply to thisJune 15th, 2008 @ 7:41 pm
Congrats on the new job!
Woot!
The whole process of moving sure does suck, though.
Reply to thisJune 15th, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
Congrats to y’all! And good luck with the house thing. It’s sounds like you’re off to a good start.
Reply to thisJune 15th, 2008 @ 9:32 pm
Congrats to all! Hope you get top dollar for your place and steal your next.
I so adore your house. Wish I lived nearby so I could take it over.
Reply to thisJune 17th, 2008 @ 6:25 am
So, are you moving my way? Let me know!
Reply to thisJune 17th, 2008 @ 11:23 am
Congrats! And… Where? We’re in that boxes, boxes, paint, paint, yikes mode at the moment too.
Reply to thisJune 18th, 2008 @ 12:56 am
Awesome! Congrats about the job and house selling… well probably not selling so much. But good luck with that. Seriously, I mean. Staging bites.
I love little Mac’s unorthadox stool usage in the last picture.
Reply to thisJune 20th, 2008 @ 11:39 am
thank you, everyone! We will be moving. Hopefully this summer, if the house sells (can’t afford a double mortgage, no).
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