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Friday, November 02, 2007
I can't believe I'm doing this.
This is November, which means that NaNoWriMo is in full swing. (That's a link, for those of you who have just discovered the Internet within the last eleven months.) And no, I'm not that crazy. I am crazy enough, though, that I've decided that during the month of November I will post every single day in my blog. After all, I pay for the darn thing*; I might as well use it. Besides, it might be nice to do a little writing when I don't have to worry about Tight Paragraphing and Citing Sources and all those very important English 01A kinds of things.
That sound I am hearing is people rushing to their RSS feed-readers and scrambling for the DELETE button.
So, um. A post.
I am so everlastingly tired of the whole home-buying thing but I'll do a short update. No, They(tm) haven't taken back their statement about how escrow must close by, egads, this Monday, isn't it. Our lender and our agent are just figuring (hoping?) that by continuing to make progress and demonstrating such to the seller's bank or whoever it is, we'll mollify their angry, impatient little bankerish selves (who, hello, are the ones who dragged this thing out for four months for no reason that anyone can discern) and they'll let us proceed. So we'll know more in, eh, three days or so, how that went. If you hear a primal scream followed by a medium-sized explosion on Monday afternoon from the general direction of California, you'll know why.
Living with Mom and Dad is going very, very well. We all like it so much that it's a good thing we're already roped into buying a house, because otherwise we might just keep mooching off my parents for years. Everyone without exception in the outside world (at least it seems this way) assumes that we all can't wait to be out of each other's hair, but we're actually pretty sad about the fact that we'll only be here for maybe another month or six weeks. Unless, of course, They(tm) dump us on our sorry behinds and we have to start that whole process over again at day one, in which case, hey, spring wildflowers are just awesome out here.
*actually, if it weren't for the fact that my husband's car-restoration blog, whose URL is Very Important to him, is a subdomain attached to this one, I'd have pitched the whole thing and gone back to blogspot months and months ago.
Comments
I'm glad you are blogging every day! will look forward to reading them.
Posted by: debi at November 2, 2007 02:42 PM
I, for one, am super excited about the daily post thing. Bring it, sister! ;-)
And I'm glad you're enjoying living with your folks.
Posted by: Denise at November 2, 2007 04:41 PM
Buying and selling houses is REALLY HARD. REALLY.
I can't imagine living with either set of our parents, sadly. You're blessed to have parents you would happily stay with!
Posted by: Beck at November 2, 2007 06:01 PM
Yay, more posts! Sorry about the house-buying difficulties.
Posted by: Kat with a K at November 2, 2007 08:15 PM
I can always use more reading material. ;o)
Since the bank people are being exceptionally difficult, I'm glad that you're at least enjoying the extra time with your family. I bet the kids are having fun-- it's like a marathon sleep-over at the grandparents'!
Posted by: Michael at November 3, 2007 08:12 AM
I hope the house thing does not fall through. But if it does and you have to begin again, would your parents consider moving? If you all enjoy living together, maybe it would make sense to pool resources and buy a house that is comfortable for six, that would belong to all of you so no one would be "mooching". Something with two houses on one property, or with one house that's got separate wings - something so everyone could have both privacy and time together as needed.
Posted by: dichroic at November 5, 2007 06:22 PM
