2 in one day?

Yep -- two entries in one day -- after a week absence. I am all sorts of complicated.

So today is my last day at my current employer. 5 years, same boss. It may not be terribly long for some of you, but it is long for me and I am going to miss him terribly!

I am doing a lot of -- last time.... -- stuff. NOT COOL.

the happy update

So things are finally headed in the right direction for us. I found daycare in PA for both the boys, so now the plan is for both the boys to move with me on the 13th of June. I start my new job on Monday the 16th and the boys start school and daycare. They are going to seperate places as of right now, but there is a spot at the school for the fall for R.

Also, my parents called last night and offered to lend us $$ for a downpayment on the house we want in PA (since we haven't sold the NY house yet). I was shocked. Once the details came out -- they have a home equity credit line for their house, but have never used it. The really news though was their HELOC was for 4%. That is CHEAP for a HELOC, so they are going to give us access to the money and we can use it as a downpayment. We will just be responsible for paying it back (which hopefully the vast majority of it will be paid back when we unload the NY house). It was be dumb of us NOT to take it since no matter what I am not getting a mortgage for 4%! So, YEAH for that.

We are headed BACK to PA (I was just there for the first half of the week) tonight to do the inspection on the house we like with the local building inspector -- who happens to be my best friend's dad -- and then we will make an offer on the house. This is the one we were in love with from first sight, but thought we lost about 2 weeks ago. Turns out that couple never put in the offer that they told the listing agent was forthcoming.

Lastly, we lowered the price on the NY house another 20K. At this point we just want to be clear of the mortgage. The market is killing us and there is nothing we can do but sit on the house. Who knows how long it is going to be until it turns around and I do not want to be a landlord to a house I am more then 4 hours away from. Since we lowered the price on Monday, we have had a bunch of traffic (just set up our 4th showing for tomorrow!) and 2 of the people have responded back that they are VERY interested. GREAT -- now just make a offer for goodness sake.

YEAH -- finally not a blah blah blah, everything sucks, the world is trying to eat me post!

Thursday bullet points

Blah, bleck, funk, moody, what ever you want to call it, I am just not a happy camper. So, my bullet points for the day are going to be whiney. I have warned you...

• moving -- yeah, it sucks.
• staging a house and then having your cat destroy your new bench seat -- annoying
• your husband acting as if the destruction of said bench seat is your fault because you know, that was OBVIOUSLY going to happen since the cat hasn't ever put one little pinky claw into the couch ... even more annoying
• trying to keep your kids entertained and the house clean - completely impossible
• counting the minutes until your kids nap and then being annoyed because you are bored with work and just want them to wake up -- makes you wonder if Sybil has come a-calling.
• Trying to draft a settlement agreement seconds before your job ends for a pro bono case that MUST be finished and other attorneys requesting changes -- after 2 months of work -- oh watch my head explode.
• Getting a call while at Fed Ex trying to get out that settlement agreement that someone is going to come to see your house in 20 minutes and it is a wreck because for once you said screw it, I will just clean tonight. UUGHHH
• That person -- you know the one that will be there in 20 minutes.... yeah, didn't show up for more than an hour.

I warned you. That was my last 24 hours. If you would like me to go back to Tues I could talk about what an embarassment my kids behavior was when we were in my office. Or I could talk about the fact that I found out someone put in an offer on the house that B and I have declare "THE house" and we can't or won't counter it. Or the fact that I got roped into one more week in the office and I don't have even one full day of work left.

The only positive side to this is there may be a day care the might be able to take both of my boys in the next 2 months so YEAH, the boys might be moving with me instead of staying behind with B!!!! I haven't even broached that subject with B though.

The long weekend

Our long, holiday weekend was marked with lots of nothingness. We had 2 showings of the house - which result in abut 30 minutes of franctic running around to make sure everything is perfect and then running out of the house with the dogs and kids in tow -- but for the most part we just spent quiet time alone as a family.

Well, let me rephrase that -- there is no such thing as quiet time in this house anymore because L is always, always, always running his mouth, but as quiet as things will get for us in the near future.

We spent time with friends that we will soon be saying goodbye too, had friends visit and went to a kids birthday party. All in all it was a busy weekend, but it wasn't busy working on the house and that made it very nice.

Of course today opened with lots of showers this morning and therefore I know we will have an abundence of unused energy with the boys and that means by nerves will be almost frazzled by the time B walks in the door this evening.

Add to that, I plan on driving into the city with the boys today and pushing off nap times in order to visit my office with the kids one more time. Sounds like I have lost my dang mind huh?

Hey -- at least it is sure to give me blogging material for tomorrow right? And it has to be better then attempting to keep 2 kids contained on the train?

Who took my hubby?

B has gone missing. There is someone here in his place. They look an awful lot alike, but they aren't alie.

This new version/person is a lot more helpful. Tells me he appreciates all the mindnumbing hardwork I have been doing (what with staging a house, taking care of two kids and having a full time job -- even if that job is being worked these days in the early morning hours).

Today that version called me at 845 and asked me to get L ready. Five minutes later, B 2.0 showed up, took L for the day and left with me just R -- who is much much easier on my sanity and who is capable of entertaining himself for more than 5 minutes at a time. In other words, he practically gave me the day of my day job. Maybe I will do my real job during some normal hours -- what a concept.

Maybe R and I can finally head to the library for story time!

darkest before the dawn??

Seriously, that saying better be true, otherwise I am shit out of luck.

The house is perfect, cleaned, staged and wonderful. Then last night our jack russell decided to play chicken with a skunk.

She lost. BAD!

Of course she also let herself back in the house through the doggie door before Brett and I had a clue what was going on and OMG does my house REEK. Skunk is bad, direct hit by a skunk in a beautiful clean house that is scheduled for an open house is beyond bad.

Needless to say, we canceled the open house. Hey, maybe the house will sell in the week that it is listed without the brokers seeing it first.

And maybe rainbows and unicorns will come flying out of my ass too.

why oh why

Don't I write anything and then save it... for a time when I am going bat shit crazy trying to do more than is really humanly possible.

We found a house to live in in PA! YEAH for that. Booo for the fact that unless I want to play russian roullete with carrying two mortgages (which some dumbass just actually approved me for! WHAT??? I thought mortgages were supposed to be HARD to get. Of course there is a contingent for approval. Only about $75,000 in cash at closing. Trust me -- if we have that minue 2 zeros at closing, I will be thrilled right now!), I gotta sell this house first.

The listing goes up today and the broker's open house is tomorrow.

Yep TOMORROW. All those -- well this can wait until it is ready to be shown is now 24 hours away (actually, it is now like 17 hours away, but hey who is counting.)

If this doesn't end up driving me to drink -- heavily at that -- I don't know what would.