ANOTHER GETAWAY

Tomorrow another house viewing bright and early, an hour early even...cuz of stupid daylight savings! Whoever thought of that anyhow? Dumbasses!! I guess I'll feel better about it when I'm almost all the way home from work and it's still bright enough outside to walk the dog! Anyhow, this is the 2nd viewing of this house, and even though it needs some work...it's growing on me. It's a cape, only it's one level- the ceilings are very high so they never made anything more than storage space attic upstairs. 3 bedrooms and a fireplaced living room, a quarter acre of grassy yard and fenced in on 3 sides with stockade. Like I said it will at least need a months worth of work before I would want to move in, however if I kept it as is (cosmetic updates aside) it is in move in condition! And I do like it.

I have been to shitty house viewing after shitty house viewing this week. They look so great from the outside, then when you get in and people are living there, it just throws you all off. All that aside, the basic structures of the houses have been just miserable. Today I saw a house that was lived in by a family with a few teens...the house was TAH-RASHED!!!! I could not believe people LIVE that way. Same last week on another street- although only the teenage son was home, it was just disasterous. His room was a typical video came/pc room freak, wires hanging out of every crevice of his room AND him, and just trash everywhere. I'm sorry, I think sometimes with dust on my hardwood floor floating by and a sink overflowing with dishes my house is a mess. Oh, HELL no!

The offer on the initial (first house I ever viewed) fell thru. The only offer they had ever gotten was $64,000 less than what they were ASKING! What an insult. I offered $34,000 less, it needed some updates- floors, bathroom and such. They came down 9k from where we started on their original price. Phoey. I went up 5k more and walked away leaving the cards in their hands. I don't think the agent was very aggressive and the seller was not very motivated either, it being an estate left to the brothers. We shall see what tomorrow brings. *fingers crossed* Everyone I speak to says, "Oh, house hunting...how exciting!" I am guessing they don't mean the "sunshine and rainbows" exciting that I was picturing. It's stressful and I can't wait for it to be over and me be cozying up worrying about my OWN mortgage payment.

Friday bright and early (4am) I will be on my way to the airport and off to St. Louis to visit my friend Amanda a.k.a. News Chickie (she works for a news station) for a four day St. Patty's Day (you know what that means *waggles eyebrows*) weekend!

She's quite the spitfire, can't ya tell?

(The shirt is actually a shirt from a well-known restaurant near her called 'Peckers'. Quite fitting actually...I'm hoping to wear one on the plane ride home. How do ya think that'll go over in baggage claims?)

Anyhow, she's alot like me, thinking and speaking, and I know that's why we get along so well. 4 days will never be enough time, but if all goes well we're planning Mardi Gras in New Orleans NEXT year together. I figure I gotta take little trips here and there just to keep my sanity. Plus I miss my friends that lived/moved far away and it gives us fun memories together.

Speaking of, Sissy and I are already planning another extravaganza, only we're gonna meet halfway this time for a weekend, and stay in the londonderry NH area and go shopping and to some show/concert or SOMEthing for the night. Can't wait. She'll be here in April for Easter so we're spoiling eachother this spring. With any luck she'll have moved back home in time for fall! Yaayee.

Nonetheless, I'll have plenty of pics to post sooner than not. I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend. For me it's movie & pizza night with Kdawg and we're having a wonderful time. Life is good and I couldn't have asked for a better kid. Even though sometimes I NEED my time away to myself from EVERYONE- not just her...I still cherish every moment and I wouldn't change for the world.