So I doubt anyone I know is using LJ much anymore, but I've realized I need to really work on getting stuff out of my house so I can give my daughter her own bedroom.

So, I'm starting with UFO Catchers since those are relatively easy to photograph and list. To be frank, I don't even know how I got some of these anymore. lol I am *ALWAYS* ( Read more... )

I hate how many people keep coming up to me and asking me how I am doing. I want to shake them and say "What do you think you moron, my father is DEAD." But I don't, I hold my tongue and try to say something polite about how it is hard or complicated or both. It's so incredibly hard, just so hard. If you've not lost a parent, I don't think you ( Read more... )

On Monday April 8th, I thought my husband had come home for toddler breath's speech therapy session. Instead, he immediately took me aside to tell me he had bad news. My mother had just found my father, still in bed and she thought he was dead. He called back and it was confirmed, my father was gone. He'd been dead for hours by the time my ( Read more... )

Look, I am alive ( Read more... )

My parents were just informed by Con-Ed (their power company) today that their electric won't be back anywhere from 1 week to 1 month from now. Yes, you read that right, 1 MONTH. The problem with electric being out is your boiler won't work, which means not only no power but no heat, and then you need to worry about your pipes freezing, it is not ( Read more... )

To the greatest and most amazing "Terrible Two" in the world.

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Guess who has an accepted offer on a house!!!!!!!! We're hoping to do the inspection on Friday and contracts ASAP! Closing is currently planned for November though we probably won't be out of here until December.

So we sort of have another bid in on a house. The seller wants us to go higher. I can't decide if we should. Pluses on the house, amazing yard (it's only 1 acre but a mostly flat and sunny 1 acre), good (to me) property taxes, nice flow to the rooms, beautifully updated kitchen and decently updated bathrooms, decent location, and plenty of room ( Read more... )

So after going back and forth with the sellers for more than a week, being patient when they wanted all week end to think about our last offer, THEY DECIDED TO TAKE THEIR FUCKING HOUSE OFF THE MARKET Just to make things clear, THEY LISTED THEIR HOUSE FOR SALE FUCKING OCTOBER 2011, SO FOR SOME FUCKING REASON THEY DIDN'T RECONSIDER SELLING THEIR ( Read more... )

So for those who don't know we have an offer in on a house right now. Or rather it is currently a counter counter counter counter offer in on a house. We placed our first offer on Monday of last week and have been going back and forth with the sellers since then. The house has many pluses: location, flow, size of rooms, good yard, and central ( Read more... )