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Today we had another showing. Two yesterday, one today, and there are now two scheduled for Saturday with an open house on Sunday.
One couple yesterday said the house was too small. That's better than it's shit or costs too much.
Hopefully soon we'll get an offer.
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| | The Kids, By Month
Posted: May 14, 2008, at 05:21 PM
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Posted By: Infymus |  | |
I don't write in my journals anymore as I write pretty much everything on my blog. So I've decided that since all my time for personal life reflection is going into the blog, I'd better start getting more pictures of the kids onto the website.
So I've decided from hereout I'd begin posting pictures of the kids and family, one set of pictures each month.
That'll do donkey, that'll do.
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Here is Spencer, for May of 2008, drinkin his apple juice.
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Here is Alexis, for May of 2008, who just got out of preschool.
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Since the house went up on the market last Thursday, we will have had three showings in the first week. Two couples today, a couple on Saturday, and an open house on Sunday.
The new carpets come in on Friday and that will definately help show the house better.
We're keeping our fingers crossed.
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The house went back up on the market today. I'm waiting to find out what the MLS number is so I can update the website.
Tomorrow we go back up to finish cleaning and do a little bit of touch up paint. I ordered a brand new gas stove and that will be installed tomorrow. Next week, new carpeting comes in for the bedroom, hall, front room and newly finished basement room.
We have 48 homes in the area that are the same kind of home, size, acreage and what not. So we have 48 homes to compete with - and over 20 of them are below the price of ours.
Here we go again - but this time, with a much bigger company.
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 | Happy Birthday Kim
Posted: May 6, 2008, at 04:46 PM
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Posted By: Infymus | | |
Happy 39 Kim. You're beautiful.
You are almost as old as dirt. But since I'm older than dirt and older than you, does that make you dirt?
/grin
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 | Talk Nerdy To Me
Posted: May 5, 2008, at 04:55 PM
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| | 97 Hours To The Gates Of Elzebub
Posted: May 5, 2008, at 04:51 PM
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| | The Slippery Nipple
Posted: May 5, 2008, at 04:49 PM
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Posted By: Infymus | | |
We worked very hard this week and all the way through the weekend. Kim's parents and her brother showed up this last weekend, and we stuffed (literally) a 17 foot truck full of the last of the items, mowed the lawns, cleaned the yard and filled four huge garbage cans full of garbage. Kim's parents have been showing up every weekend and their help has been invaluable.
We still didn't make it.
We decided that since there was no way we would make it, I make the call that we'd postpone putting the house up for sale another week. That is far more stress as our neighbors to the North, who just put their house up for $339 - have just dropped it to $325. They have been having open houses each weekend.
On top of moving the last of the shit (and I do mean SHIT) from the house, I finished painting the laundry room and basement room - of which cost me $1000 bucks to sheetrock, mud and tape. So far I've put about $3 grand of money into the old house in paint, material and labor.
What amazes me I think the most is that the house is only 2200 square feet. And with our main bedroom, the two kids, the front and kitchen - then the basement family room, the laundry and the theatre room taking up most of the room - I have been trying to find out just exactly where all that stuff came from. I mean holy hell, we needed a 30 foot truck the first time to move the big stuff - beds, TVs, couches, dressers and the like. Then we rented a 27 foot truck, and packed it to the freaking BRIM, which of course, most ended up in our garage. Then, this weekend, we rented a 17 foot truck and once again, filled it. While our storage room was halfway to the ceiling - and the basement room (that I just re-did) was also, full, halfway to the ceiling - it doesn't account for everything.
Our garage is now so full; only two cars can fit in a four car garage. The piles on each side of the cars is literally 5 feet high and ten feet wide - and there are TWO of them. I have a pile of yard stuff sitting in the back yard now that is embarrassing, but there was no more room in the garage for it.
Where in the hell did all of this shit come from? How could we have hidden all of that material in such a small house? How could my significant other have collected so much shit in the 15 years of our marriage?
I wish that I could rent a garbage bin (literally I'd need TWO of them) and just start tossing everything into it. But as soon as I even started to throw one thing away, I'd be in an argument with my wife regarding whether such items should be kept or not. When I become upset with four dozen picture frames, boxes upon boxes of old magazines, fifteen different kinds of ceramic bowls for Halloween alone - and the rest of the collection - I am the one who gets yelled at. I am the one who gets in trouble for it. And so I clamp down and shut up and internalize it - because what can I do? I can do nothing but stare at the endless piles of books, tapes, nick-nacks, stuffed animals, boxes, papers, holiday crap, crafts, and another fifty or so-odd boxes of shit that came from Deseret Industries or yardsales.
My god, I love this woman, but on Saturday, yes Saturday, when we were trying to clean the last of the crap out of the house - she comes home from the next door neighbor - with a goddamn steamer trunk she'd bought. And I just stared at her dumbfounded.
And so the endless cycle of incoming without outgoing continues, and I end up parking our cars in the driveway instead of the four car garage where they belong.
Ok enough, I'm already in enough trouble for finally airing my feelings.
Well, this week Kim is going to head back up to the house after I get home from work to finish the painting. Only the kitchen is left to paint and should only take a couple of hours. After that, it is cleaning time. On Wednesday we will have the carpet cleaners out to steam clean the whole house - and the weekend will be spent doing the rest of the cleaning and yard work.
And me? I'm freaking numb. Numb. Just numb.
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This weekend is the last weekend before the house goes back up on the market. We have so much left to do, but we have done so much already.
The entryway to the downstairs and kitchen need to be painted. That will be done this week and by the weekend. On Saturday I am picking up a 14 foot UHAUL truck and packing every last item in the house, garage and shed into it, leaving the property completely empty.
The house goes up on the market for $314,000 on Monday. On Monday, the carpet cleaning people are coming over and totally cleaning the whole house. After that, we should be totally ready to go, with a few minor changes.
Two more houses went up for sale in our neighborhood. Next door and next door. That doesn't help. The house to the North went up for $339k. The house on the South is going up for over $400k so that isn't too bad.
It is just worrisome for us because I can only cover two houses for so long before I have to give up on one of them. We have some time, but not much - maybe Thanksgiving this year is the last of it.
This is going to be one hell of a long week.
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 | Working On The New Yard
Posted: Apr 27, 2008, at 05:14 PM
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Posted By: Infymus | | |
Yesterday we worked almost 9 hours painting the old house. We finished everything except the kitchen. Next weekend we will finish that AND get everything off the property. The house goes up for sale the Monday following that.
Today I planted the fifteen or so plants that I transplanted from the old house. Peonies, day lillies and more, I dug them out first thing on Saturday and moved them over here. Now they are planted and being watered. Also got the tramp up.
Here is me in all my Sunday glory - keeping out of the sun.
Still need to till the rock laden garden. Down here the soil is nearly 100% clay. Worthless. The garden is full of rocks and weeds.
So much to do.
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| | More Annoyances - The Gummy Bear
Posted: Apr 23, 2008, at 04:51 PM
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| | My Gas Stove, Finally Installed
Posted: Apr 23, 2008, at 04:37 PM
Stored Under Topic: HOENIE HOME 2008 -GUID-
Posted By: Infymus | | |
At our old house I spent almost a grand on a gas oven that had five burners and a convection oven. I searched everywhere to find a gas oven that had equal size of burners, after a few weeks, I found one at Sears and bought it.
I had it for about a year before we moved.
The new house has one of those goddamn electric flat panel ovens. I absolutely hate those kinds of ovens. They have two settings: On
Off
And that is it. Shit burns so easily and you can't change the heat in an instant. If you want to turn it down, you had better just take it off the heat.
Today I shelled out the $$$ to have the gas line routed through the garage, into the kitchen and hooked up our old stove.
I can't tell you how much better it is to be cooking with gas. It is ON when you want and OFF when you want. When you turn it down to simmer, it is instantly on simmer.
Anyone want to buy a Whirlpool Electric stove that is only 3 years old? I'd almost give it away.
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| | The Internets
Posted: Apr 21, 2008, at 04:37 PM
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Posted By: Infymus | | |
There's this commercial from a few years back where an Internet provider is saying that their net is so fast, you will reach the end.
In it, they have a guy who hits the end of the Internets. The computer says to him, "You have reached the end of the Internet. Please go back."
I always thought that anyone who reached the end of the Internet would need a shitload of therapy.
Everything is out there, should you wish to find it.
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| | The Wind Never Stops Blowing In West Jordan
Posted: Apr 20, 2008, at 02:47 PM
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Posted By: Infymus | | |
The one thing that I've noticed about West Jordan Utah is that the wind is always blowing. During the winter, trying to snow-blow the driveway meant a crapload of snow back in your face. The snow would pile up against the house. You'd open the door and the snow would be four feet high.
Today a storm front is approaching and it has been blowing hard all day long. About 1:30pm we had a wind gust of nearly 90 miles an hour (as recorded on my Davis Weather System). It picked up the trampoline from the neighbors house and threw it into our back yard, smashing it onto our children's play set.
I can't believe it didn't break the fence, but it broke the play set. It pushed the set over a foot and bent the metal frame causing stress fractures and breaking some 2x4s.
I'll have to talk with my insurance agent to find out what is covered because the play set is worth a couple thousand dollars.
My neighbors pulled together and we took the top parts of the tramp apart. Then we lifted it up and threw it over the fence back into the neighbor's yard. There we set it upright, but I'm afraid the tramp is toast.
Freakin West Jordan.
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