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Well, we went from no houses to two.

As my previous entry stated, we got accepted for Grandma's House! (Yay!)  However, the previous house we put an offer on (but got beat by another offer) just got put back on the market!  Apparently, the person we were competing with was an old woman who offered to put $100,000 as a down-payment! (WOW!  No wonder ( Read more... )

Good news:  They accepted our offer!  We are now in esgrow and waiting to close on Grandma's House! :-D  I'm thrilled.  The owner's family will also be offering us an *additional* $2,000 to go toward closing.  This is because ( Read more... )

So we didn't get the other house. Boo. Rather sad about it. There was another offer on it and they offered a higher cash down payment, so they got it. Damn.

Yesterday a new house became available... and in fact, we were the first ones to view it today. It's got nice curb appeal and is at the end of a street by a hill, which adds some privacy. ( Read more... )

Several months ago some high school kid shows up at our door with his dad. He's selling subscriptions to the local newspaper because he's saving up for a trip to Washington D.C. Usually we just say "we're not interested" for stuff like that... but that day, Gwydd felt particularly generous and agreed ( Read more... )

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On Wednesday, we decided to go to the San Diego Zoo. :-D  We figured "Why not?" since we live in San Diego County now and the zoo was a little less than an hour away.

Anyways, check out the pictures!!:

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Playing with Rhiannon on our last day in Twentynine Palms:

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Bouncing Rhiannon on the air mattress in our tiny apartment:

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Seamus, Mom, and Dad playing the LadyBug game:

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Tomorrow we're going to the San Diego Zoo. :-D

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Good gods this week has been frustrating.

First... the heat. It's been between 100-120 all week. We don't have A/C, just a swamp cooler. And swamp coolers don't work if the humidity is over 7%. Unfortunately, several days it HAS been over 7% humidity. Plus, whomever designed this house was a complete moron when it comes to air circulation. The ( Read more... )