That my 100th post would be about something pretty special.
We bought a house!!!!!! *dancedancedance*
I'm so excited. Nice 4-bedroom, 2.25 bath on the west side w/a 2 car garage and in a nice, quiet neighboorhood. We put an offer in on Friday morning, after seeing a few more houses with nothing really grabbing us. D was quite pale, but agreed to put an offer in on the house we saw last week. We put it in for $10K less than they wanted (and they'd already lowered it by $10K before this). Figured we wouldn't get it, and I was on pins and needles for what seemed like days, but really, was only like 5 hours - because at 3:30pm I got a call from our agent to tell us that Congratulations - we had an accepted offer!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
We have the inspection scheduled for tomorrow, and a meeting with the bank to get the mortgage officially approved on Tuesday, then then we close on 4/28. We'll have a month to do stuff like paint (yey colors!) and move in, then we'll be officially out of the Whitney Way house as of 5/31.
And so, here it is:
http://www.starkhomes.com/vp/ListingServlet?SITE=STARK&ScreenID=LISTING_DETAIL_P&EXCEEDLIMIT=Y&totalFound=0&showMap=Y&cd_MLS=305313
I'm thinking that the 3rd annual deep fry party will also be a combination housewarming party so everyone can see it once we're settled. I'm so excited to soon be done with moving for a very long time :)
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Here's hoping........
So, we're going to see 2 or 3 more houses tomorrow morning. I've been waking up every night around 3am, like clockwork, then not sleeping well until 7am for almost a week now. I hope that after tomorrow, that ceases to happen, because I feel like my entire body is wrapped in cotton right now and it's really freaking annoying to be this sleep-deprived.
The house that we saw last week is still on the market, and apparently they are really motivated and looking for an offer. I don't want to post any more details about it for fear of jynxing it - but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it may be the one.
On other fronts, I finally picked out a bridesmaid dress:
http://www.edenbridals.com/7169-p-963.html
Yeah, I know, totally not what you would expect. Ding and Loud and I picked it out just for kicks among the, like, 15-20 other dresses that Ding tried on (she was a trooper - many, many thanks for trying on that many dresses, especially since I'm SO indecisive). But, she put it on and it looked FABULOUS on her. I'm finding a distinct pattern with this whole wedding planning shtick - everything I think that I want, I end up completely falling in love with the opposite.
I'm also actually participating in CrazyLegs this year, for the first time. Before, I always stayed behind and cooked a large meal with M and Loud's help (and in Witty's kitchen) for the runners to have when they got back, but this year Witty no longer lives right near State Street, so we're forming a team (Go Alpha Contingent!) and I'm walking with Lucia. Funny how, the year after the accident that has left me with pretty much a bum leg, I'm participating for the first time in 5K run/walk. Should be pretty exciting.
This year is completely turning out the be the most interesting year for me yet.
The house that we saw last week is still on the market, and apparently they are really motivated and looking for an offer. I don't want to post any more details about it for fear of jynxing it - but I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it may be the one.
On other fronts, I finally picked out a bridesmaid dress:
http://www.edenbridals.com/7169-p-963.html
Yeah, I know, totally not what you would expect. Ding and Loud and I picked it out just for kicks among the, like, 15-20 other dresses that Ding tried on (she was a trooper - many, many thanks for trying on that many dresses, especially since I'm SO indecisive). But, she put it on and it looked FABULOUS on her. I'm finding a distinct pattern with this whole wedding planning shtick - everything I think that I want, I end up completely falling in love with the opposite.
I'm also actually participating in CrazyLegs this year, for the first time. Before, I always stayed behind and cooked a large meal with M and Loud's help (and in Witty's kitchen) for the runners to have when they got back, but this year Witty no longer lives right near State Street, so we're forming a team (Go Alpha Contingent!) and I'm walking with Lucia. Funny how, the year after the accident that has left me with pretty much a bum leg, I'm participating for the first time in 5K run/walk. Should be pretty exciting.
This year is completely turning out the be the most interesting year for me yet.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Houses
Grrrrrrrrr. I'm rapidly becoming tired of looking for a house. The ones we like seem to get accepted offers within hours of going on the market, and D and I are just not ready to go that fast. The ones that we don't like that much sit on the market and don't go anywhere.
Add that to the fact that D and I like EXACTLY opposite things, and this is just not going anywhere.
*sigh*
I feel like we've looked at 3 million houses and we still haven't made a decision. We decided to hold off on the Raymond house after I sent D to an open house that I couldn't attend, and he came home saying that he really liked the other house. Then I went to look at it and didn't like it all that much :P
Then we found another one that we really like, and saw it last Friday. The problem is that there's 3 others I want to look at before we make an offer on the first one, but D's gone this week, so we can't see the other 3 till Friday, and I'm so nervous that the first one is going to be gone before then that I can't even sleep more than 2 hours at a time. So now I'm still nervous and stressed, and add to that sleep-deprived. Whee.
Who ever said that the housing market was slow never looked for a house in Madison. Our agent has had just two houses in the past week where they've gone from listed to sold in less than 12 hours.
Augh!!
Add that to the fact that D and I like EXACTLY opposite things, and this is just not going anywhere.
*sigh*
I feel like we've looked at 3 million houses and we still haven't made a decision. We decided to hold off on the Raymond house after I sent D to an open house that I couldn't attend, and he came home saying that he really liked the other house. Then I went to look at it and didn't like it all that much :P
Then we found another one that we really like, and saw it last Friday. The problem is that there's 3 others I want to look at before we make an offer on the first one, but D's gone this week, so we can't see the other 3 till Friday, and I'm so nervous that the first one is going to be gone before then that I can't even sleep more than 2 hours at a time. So now I'm still nervous and stressed, and add to that sleep-deprived. Whee.
Who ever said that the housing market was slow never looked for a house in Madison. Our agent has had just two houses in the past week where they've gone from listed to sold in less than 12 hours.
Augh!!
Friday, March 7, 2008
Slacking off
Whoops, it's been a while. I've been busybusybusy with stuff, though I don't feel like I've accomplished a lot.
I went to Seattle on a business trip last week, that was fun - we got out early and saw amazing sights and went to Pike's Place market and then gorged ourselves on seafood at a restuarant that was right on the water with an unbelievable view of the setting sun over the water and mountains.........wonderful.
I'm also going on another business trip next week - Sun through Sat in MO. D is in Vegas this weekend, so I won't see him for over a week. Boo!
Speaking of him, the fiancé and I decided on the tux and rental place for the wedding tuxes, which is a big load off my mind. He wants his side of the wedding to wear black zoot suits with white pinstripes, and while that's an awesome idea, we were having trouble finding some. We even went to the men's place at Vera's bridal, to talk to the girl there - and OMFG she had the brain of a rock! D, the fiancé, POINTED to the tux that he thought was most like what he wanted. It was the longest tux in the whole place. The girl, brainless as she was, goes over to it and says "Oh, we have many other suits with these buttons!"
Uh - buttons?? WTF? Why, when we point to the only tux that's long, would she think we were talking about the goddamn buttons??? Her brain is just NOT wired right. I was completly irate after 5 minutes of this incomprehensible incompetence, and we finally left. What an idiotic moron. I do believe that DuBois must practice nepotism to the hilt, because there's no way in hell that girl knew a thing about men's suits. Argh!!
D took me to have wings and (copious) amounts of beer after that to calm me down. Grrrrr.
Anyways, we've found a place that has them and is national and where we can rent in RI and return in WI, to accomodate both the RI wedding and WI reception, and the fitting of the 2 groomsmen from WI and my brother in RI.
And, I bought my dress! Wheeee! It's the second dress in my previous post about dresses. White with dramatic red accents. It's so damn pretty! I'm so excited about it.
Also, we went to pick out wedding bands last week. D's mom had a white gold wedding band that she didn't wear anymore and wanted us to go to a custom place (where she had it made, coincidentally) and have it melted down to use in my band. Sweet gesture, so we figured why not. Then I found my great aunt's engagement ring that she left to me when she died many years ago. It was white gold, with a 7-point diamond (.07 carats). Since our bands will be white gold, and D wants a few 7-point diamonds in his, they'll melt down the white gold from my great aunt's ring with his mother's gold, so my band (sans any diamonds) will be a mix of the two families/history. Then, one of the diamonds in D's band will be my great aunt's diamond, completing the mélange. Two perfectly custom bands that have more sentimental value than you could ever believe, all for less than we budgeted for. Woohoo, go us!
We've also been looking at houses on the near west/west side for about 3 weeks now. We put in an offer on one a week or so ago, but were competing and lost when she wanted to go above her listing price (screw that, I was not pleased with her playing one against the other and her excuses about why she suddenly needed more for the house). We've seen over a dozen houses so far. Perhaps a move and housewarming party will be in the future!
I went to Seattle on a business trip last week, that was fun - we got out early and saw amazing sights and went to Pike's Place market and then gorged ourselves on seafood at a restuarant that was right on the water with an unbelievable view of the setting sun over the water and mountains.........wonderful.
I'm also going on another business trip next week - Sun through Sat in MO. D is in Vegas this weekend, so I won't see him for over a week. Boo!
Speaking of him, the fiancé and I decided on the tux and rental place for the wedding tuxes, which is a big load off my mind. He wants his side of the wedding to wear black zoot suits with white pinstripes, and while that's an awesome idea, we were having trouble finding some. We even went to the men's place at Vera's bridal, to talk to the girl there - and OMFG she had the brain of a rock! D, the fiancé, POINTED to the tux that he thought was most like what he wanted. It was the longest tux in the whole place. The girl, brainless as she was, goes over to it and says "Oh, we have many other suits with these buttons!"
Uh - buttons?? WTF? Why, when we point to the only tux that's long, would she think we were talking about the goddamn buttons??? Her brain is just NOT wired right. I was completly irate after 5 minutes of this incomprehensible incompetence, and we finally left. What an idiotic moron. I do believe that DuBois must practice nepotism to the hilt, because there's no way in hell that girl knew a thing about men's suits. Argh!!
D took me to have wings and (copious) amounts of beer after that to calm me down. Grrrrr.
Anyways, we've found a place that has them and is national and where we can rent in RI and return in WI, to accomodate both the RI wedding and WI reception, and the fitting of the 2 groomsmen from WI and my brother in RI.
And, I bought my dress! Wheeee! It's the second dress in my previous post about dresses. White with dramatic red accents. It's so damn pretty! I'm so excited about it.
Also, we went to pick out wedding bands last week. D's mom had a white gold wedding band that she didn't wear anymore and wanted us to go to a custom place (where she had it made, coincidentally) and have it melted down to use in my band. Sweet gesture, so we figured why not. Then I found my great aunt's engagement ring that she left to me when she died many years ago. It was white gold, with a 7-point diamond (.07 carats). Since our bands will be white gold, and D wants a few 7-point diamonds in his, they'll melt down the white gold from my great aunt's ring with his mother's gold, so my band (sans any diamonds) will be a mix of the two families/history. Then, one of the diamonds in D's band will be my great aunt's diamond, completing the mélange. Two perfectly custom bands that have more sentimental value than you could ever believe, all for less than we budgeted for. Woohoo, go us!
We've also been looking at houses on the near west/west side for about 3 weeks now. We put in an offer on one a week or so ago, but were competing and lost when she wanted to go above her listing price (screw that, I was not pleased with her playing one against the other and her excuses about why she suddenly needed more for the house). We've seen over a dozen houses so far. Perhaps a move and housewarming party will be in the future!
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