April 29, 2008

Like I needed help with crazy

The wind is driving me fucking nuts. I swear, we've had one nice, warm day that wasn't windy. The rest of the time it's either been cool, cloudy, rainy, or freakishly windy.

The weatherman said that today was supposed to be 83 and sunny. Tomorrow and Thursday, partly cloudy, 80's and windy. I thought that meant today would be awesome, and it was, but it was also damn breezy. So what's in store for tommorow, when the forecast actually says "windy?

Gusts up to 40 mph.

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March 6, 2008

Missing out

So yesterday, it got back up into the mid 60's. Of course, yesterday was the day Jamie's tired caught up with her again, so the girls basically came home from school, slept until dinnertime, after which it was dark.

I hate not getting them out into the sunshine on the warm and beautiful days, especially when they're still rare enough to be gifts.

Did I mention we're expecting snow again this evening?

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March 3, 2008

Bullets without dots

It was 70 yesterday. It is snowing tonight. Enough that we lost the satellite hours ago. And my dad is talking about snowmen. I'd post pictures, but my hard drive is so full I can barely open new applications, much less fit another picture on it. I need to burn some stuff and delete, but I end up talking/hanging out with the kids/trying to knock stuff off my list instead.

Katie started TKD. She's so tiny! And yet, she's good. Seriously, she can mimic the older kids well enough to correct minor mistakes in form. She can also spin circles like a Tasmanian devil.

I'm still pregnant. In spite of occassionally having contractions whose numbers give me hope, if not their strength. I'm ready to be done, even though I'm still not completely adjusted to the fact that when I'm done, there will be another kid in this house. A boy, to be sure. Hmm. I forgot to mention that. A little over two weeks ago, I had a sonogram to make sure the kid is butt up. He is, and he neglected to make use of the sex change opportunity provided to him by my overactive imagination. I guess that pretty much settles it. On a brighter note, I think we have a name. I'm less thrilled than I ought to be, because the name he'll go by is more a matter of default than a true decision. Not exactly the way I imagined we'd pick a kids name, but I guess what sticks in your head is, well, what sticks in your head.

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November 29, 2007

I'm a blast to live with. Really.

I got a reminder about the Texas Bloggers Giveaway which reminded me of two things: I only have two more days to make posts mentioning Texas (which I thought would be simple but...) and that they require FOUR posts mentioning Texas, not three.

In case the above paragraph doesn't really count as a post mentioning Texas, I'll throw another tidbit about the weather out. This week has been cool, but not cold, with the warmer days being obnoxiously windy. Come to think of it, Dallas in general seems to be annoyingly windy.

I have begun to watch the Houston weather again, partly because I seem to be fantasizing about moving back there again. Even as we become more entrenched in life here (we have a playdate!) I daydream about what could have been. I feel justified on days when the weather is better there, and resigned when the weather is worse or the same.

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November 25, 2007

If you don't like the weather in Texas...

I can't decide if this is a complaint or a wonder. Less than a week ago, the temperatures were in the low 80's. All weekend, they were in the low 40's. It's hard to believe as we bundle up to leave the house that last week we were all in shorts. Luckily, this week temps should go back up into the 60's, and I'll be willing to leave the house for groceries again.

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November 15, 2007

I hate the limbo

Last week, Rex, Katie and I spent a morning walking through spec homes in our maybe neighborhood of choice. The good news is, we found a house we like. The bad news: Someone else had made an offer on it already, they aren't dealing on it past the incentives they advertise, it's more than we really want to pay, and it's in the Dallas area.

On the one hand, I'm ready for this unsettled feeling to disappear with the signing of thousands of pages of lawyerese and the aquisition of a large mortgage. No more renting, no more talk of moving, and best of all, I can start buying Jamie the bedroom furniture I planned to get her for her second birthday.

On the other, I don't really want to commit to this place. I'm not ready to give up my Austin dream. Heck, I don't even want to give up my unreasonable Houston fantasy. (I keep several goals in my head, some that are reasonable, and some that are way up in the clouds. Sometimes the way to get to the moon is to aim for the stars.) I'm unwilling to accept this place as my fate.

A couple days ago, we heard that the house we liked was back on the market. Depending on the minute you ask me, I'm either ready to sign on the dotted line, or I'm totally ambivalent to the house's fate.

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November 9, 2007

And great Tex-Mex, too

Today has been one of those beautiful days that sums up why I love Texas. Low 80's, sunny, a light breeze, November. Winter here offers these beautiful gifts, sometimes just a day here and there, sometimes longer stretches, a break from the gray chill and long hours of darkness.

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August 22, 2007

Sounds like the definition of family to me

We were in Austin last weekend, where I was buried in old memories.

I've known the friend we were visiting for 22 years, two-thirds of our lives. Even though we haven't always lived near each other, or even been in the same phase of our lives for most of that time, we've always come back to each other. She's a smidge older than I am, and has met most of life's milestones first: college, marriage, kids. Because we have some very similar values and views, her advice and opinions have always been very important to me. I'm not sure what I contribute to her life, but to me, she's been invaluable.

Add to that her parents, with whom I spent quite a bit of time as well. We were at their house on Lake Travis, which is filled with the things they've collected over the years. They had a lot of those things already when I was a kid, and so even though their current house is less familiar, much of what fills it is the same. We were at their house for my friend's birthday party, a fun affair full of families, swimming, food and play.

I got to flip through an album of old pictures, from before my family met theirs and beyond, and it gave me a sense of connection I don't get with many people. I haven't held on to very many people through my life, I don't have those elementary school friends some have, or a group of girls from college that did everything together. But I do have this family that has been intertwined with mine in many ways since I was eleven. They knew me before I knew me.

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June 7, 2007

REWARD!

What's the proper reward when someone finds a $5,000 check and a $100 check (made out to, uh, no one) and mails them back to you, along with a note and phone number in case you have questions?

I'm thinking $50 gift card, not sure to where.

And I didn't lose them, our realtor forgot to staple them to our paperwork.

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May 7, 2007

More motivation to move. As if I needed it.

This weekend was fun but exhausting.

Earlier in the week, a good friend of mine in Austin asked me if I had any interest in coming to a party at her house. Totally kid friendly, and while I'm not really friends with most of the people there, I had at least met most of them before. Even better? I think I WOULD be friends with a lot of them, if I saw them often enough.

I packed the girls up Saturday morning, and after Tae Kwon Do we made the three and a half hour drive to Austin. The girls were good, most of which I attribute to the movie they were glued to for the first two hours or so.

The party was awesome, a gathering of friends and family and friends with families. Jamie practically disappeared into a herd of girls. They spent so much time on the swings I'm surprised she wasn't walking funny the next day. Katie even wandered off to play, in spite of the crowd of strange kids and adults, either of which would typically have her hanging off my leg like a barnacle. And me, well, I got to talk and talk and talk to adults. There were enough people there that I could talk all night long without torturing any one particular person, except maybe my friend, who may not feel the urge to be near me for a while :)

Sunday, my kids woke up early, despite a three an a half hour sleep deficit for each. Typical. We hung around for a while, and then my friends took us out to find our first geocache. Rex, the girls and I had tried to find one using my navigation system, and when that wasn't accurate enough we bought a more suitable GPS. While that first cache was a bit hilly and muddy, and involved a couple fits out of Jamie, I think the hobby itself will be fun. And after Jamie found the "treasure," she immediately asked to go find another.

After lunch with our friends, we hit the road. The return was even more uneventful, since the girls spent most of it asleep.

And just because it was good to get back, that doesn't mean it's home.

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April 26, 2007

Still looking at houses like I'm going to buy one

Every so often I go through the house flyers we pick up while wandering around town, looking for which ones are still for sale and which ones have dropped in price. We keep the ones that are only moderately out of our price range, just in case they take forever to sell and we think we can lowball them.

I'm not sure why I still keep the flyers. Hell, we're still picking up new ones. All this *after* we've made the decision to rent for a year, just in case a miracle happens and Rex can wrangle a transfer to Austin.

I still get excited over some of the houses, at least on paper. There's one section of a particular subdivision that has big, beautiful houses on larger lots. Most of the houses are way out of our price range, but one was just moderately so. They lowered the price to something that we can negotiate from. AND it's pretty and with a big, beautiful kitchen. Unfortunately, it's one of a small section of houses in that subdivision that's in a completely different school district, one that we aren't impressed with. And while there is a convenient elementary school located within walking distance, my kids wouldn't be able to go there.

Dammit, I just found another one in the same section. This one is a new build, and it's even cheaper!

There's another house, in a different subdivision. Awesome section, and they've just lowered the price for the second time. The layout of the house is familiar, since a good friend of mine lives in one a lot like it. The difference is hers has enough bedrooms, and the one we found is one room short.

This finding-everything-I-want-in-one-package thing is going to be much harder than I thought.

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April 25, 2007

Today is the one year anniversary

Of our move to Texas.

We got to the house around dinner time today. I had stopped at our realtor's house to pick up the keys, and the girls and I headed over to check out the house and see if it was as awesome as I remembered it.

The girls and I scouted the house. Katie climbed the stairs for the first time, and Jamie ran through the bedrooms and picked one for herself. I took all sorts of "before" pictures, as in before all our crap got piled in.

Rex showed up a while later with the cats and the Penske truck. We got the cats settled in the master bath, and then had to leave and spend the night at my in-laws. It was so hard to leave, even for one more night. We were so excited to start living there.

So much has changed since then. We sold my dream house. Rex got his dream job. We're living in this less than permanent home, looking for another temporary house. It will be over a year before we get settled, and I'm still not sure where we'll be when that happens.

I try every day to create a life here. I haven't been all that successful. The lack of permanence gives me little motivation to dig in. It also gives me little motivation to wake up and greet the day with enthusiasm. I'm trying, though. Trying to give my girls a purpose, and trying to find purpose in my girls. Some days go better than others. Today was a good one.

But I still wish I could go back.

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April 7, 2007

Snow flurries. On April 7. What are you doing to me, Texas?

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October 25, 2006

Official

I've cried. I've overthought. I've tortured my friends and family with dramatic conversations about fear, depression, money, quality of life and the potential to move again.

I told Rex yes, then this morning decided the money wasn't worth losing this life. Luckily, I didn't call Rex right away, and by the time I did talk to him, I was resigned to moving again. Although I did hope that he was on the fence too and would call the whole thing off.

Anyway, verbal acceptance has been given. A written offer letter is expected next week. Rex's ass is expected to be planted in a chair near Dallas within four weeks.

If all this sounds discombobulated and unsure, well, that's because it is. I am.

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September 30, 2006

There's no place like home

I haven't been around much lately.

This past week, I've been knocked out by the crud. It got bad enough I actually went to the doctor. I've been to doctors enough lately that I'm starting to feel like a hypochondriac. Odd since I'm generally not a sickly person. At least this time I walked away with some antibiotics that seem to be kicking the sick's ass. Today, I finally felt like something better than ass.

For the week or so before that, we were up in Maryland, visiting friends and family and reassimilating Jamie. We had a nice trip, a great mix of seeing people and things and relaxing. Rex officially got laid off. I finally got an Ikea catalog. Even Steven, right there, I tell ya.

I also came to a very important conclusion. Moving, with all it's problems, was the right decision for us.

The weather was nice, but getting cooler. Some of the nights were what I consider downright cold. I could feel winter coming, and I was incredibly happy that we were going to be thousands of miles away when it arrived.

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July 4, 2006

Rain, rain go away

It's been cloudy and rainy here lately, and today was no exception. To ward off boredom and escape the house, we decided to make a last minute trip up to College Station, a town Rex and I lived in for 4+ years while earning (or at least attempting to earn) our degrees. We haven't been there in about 2 years, since before we left for Maryland, and it's always fun to go back and see what's changed.

And also? Lunch at Freebirds. If you've been to Chipotle, it's the same concept but about 100 times better. I ate way too much, and I can't even bring myself to feel guilty about it. We also got ice cream at a place called Maggie Moo's, which isn't specific to College Station, but was still yummy.

The girls were angels today. There was lots of napping in the car. They were happy and good and they played with each other and Jamie wasn't argumentative at all. Even getting caught in a massive rainstorm and huddling under an overhang for half an hour or so didn't ruin their moods or mine. We didn't get to walk around campus and relive our glory days, although we did drive around and see some of the additions to campus and the town, and some of our old stomping grounds.

It feels so good to have a good day, even when there were so many reasons that it shouldn't have been.

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May 9, 2006

From the center of the hurricane

I'm still here.

No, really.

It's been rather hectic here. Unpacking, birthday parties, family visiting and repairs on the house.

Let's start with unpacking. Most of the boxes have been emptied. A lot of the stuff has been put away and organized, although there are pockets of crap hiding around. The office is a total loss. Jamie still doesn't have any furniture, although we have gotten her a mattress so she isn't sleeping on the floor anymore. None of the nicknacks and gewgaws have been diplayed yet, and pictures and paintings are all stuffed away until I can figure out which walls need what.

Katie's turned 1 on Sunday. We had a big BBQ for family and close friends on Saturday. My dad flew down for a long weekend (only a week and a half after we left. He may be joining us here after all!) The party went pretty well, considering the lack of time and planning. I can't believe my baby isn't a baby any more!

And the house. The source of my pride and stress. You would think that when you buy a new house, there wouldn't be a lot of fixing up to do. Especially when you have an inspection done, hand the report to the builder and tell them to take care of all the issues.

You would be wrong.

They took a jackhammer to my shower today in order to replace the shower pan. They still haven't come back to paint the drywall patches from last week, so I can't move my furniture back against the walls. The list of crap wrong with the kitchen is slowly getting shorter, but my dad and I were laying on the floor upstairs and noticed that the ceiling looks like crap. The texturing was done poorly, on top of seams that weren't properlyfloated or sanded or something. The list goes on...

Our builder might do well to change their slogan: Wilshire Homes, [Re}Built Around You!

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April 27, 2006

We're going to Texas? Alright!

I'm back. Didja miss me?

Play-by-play of the trip after I clear enough space to walk to the bathroom without tripping.

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April 22, 2006

On the road again

All my recent posts are in the moving blog. I'm too pooped to even make a link right now.

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April 18, 2006

!!!

We own a house!

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April 3, 2006

The next big thing

OK, I give. I have a second blog (ok, third) that I started to keep track of moving stuff. Not sure now why I didn't just make another category. I had a reason, but I've forgotten already.

In any case, the moving blog is here.

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April 1, 2006

On the hunt

(I actually copied this post from another blog about our move. I can't seem to keep up with all my blogs!)

I’m having a really hard time writing this post. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s that I have too much. Summing things up doesn’t seem to do the whole “moving blog” concept any justice, but nobody wants to read my 3 page blow-by-blow either.

We spent last weekend in Houston, house hunting. Friday consisted of checking out a new subdivision and looking at a floor plan we loved on paper, but was lacking in person. (For some reason I can’t let this go – the flow and layout of the house were great, but the proportions were off – the auxiliary bedrooms were just too small for the size of the house.)

Saturday, we met up with Wendy, our realtor, bright and early. She is an interesting combination of friend, former neighbor and former realtor. The first two houses we looked at were ruled them out for the same reason that I loved them – they were in our old neighborhood. I loved the old neighborhood – the location is great, the people are nice, the park was close, but the property values just weren’t appreciating well. After the hit we took when we sold our first house, I don’t think Rex or I are willing to take the chance of making the same mistake twice.

On to the next subdivision. Imperial Oaks was probably highest on our list before we even got to Texas. We have some very good friends there, the schools are decent (although not quite as good as The Woodlands) and there are homes of all ages and prices. We had two homes that topped our list on paper, and they held up in person. Those two homes are the same size on the same street and the same price, but the similarity ends there. One of the houses (pretty house) is on 2,000 feet less lot and has no sprinkler system, but it showed BEAUTIFULLY. The other (big yard house) is nice, if plain, but the space is used more effectively for the way we live our lives. The back yard is bigger, with nice trees that give it shade and privacy. But the turquoise wallpaper in the master bath that just HAS to go!

We looked at maybe half a dozen homes in that neighborhood, some very nice and some not. All of them had something that made them less desirable than pretty and big yard. We decided to go look in Spring Trails, the new subdivision we had driven through the night before. We looked through one existing home and a couple new construction homes, but they were either terrible floor plans (one had no garage, just a garage door!) or too expensive for what you got.

Then we turned into a section that was waaay out of our price range. I ran into their construction trailer just to see if they had any spec homes. Wally had one. One that they had been close to selling when the deal fell through 3 days before closing. One that they were willing to deal on considerably.

Even though this house was way our of our price range, we decided to walk through it. This house is perfect! I love the floor plan. The rooms are all big and open. The kitchen is stunning. The yard is large, in spite of the 3 car detached garage. It has tons of energy efficient and convenience features built in. It is at least $30k above the max we wanted to spend.

At this point, Rex and I were in house overload. Katie was starving and pooped after 5 hours of no food and no naps. Wendy took us back to our car, and we headed out to lunch to do some thinking and talking.

By late afternoon, Rex and I had decided to make an offer on the house with in Imperial Oaks with the big yard. We decided to offer $10k less than they were asking, figuring they would counter right in the middle and that would be fine. We headed over to Wendy’s to sign the contracts. Somewhere in the middle, we started looking at some more homes online, in our friend’s section of Imperial Oaks. There was one that looked quite promising, and the price was acceptable, so we ran off to look at one more house. It was nice, aside from the power lines in the back yard!

At this point, I was close to having a meltdown. We decided to sleep on it, and headed out to see some of Rex’s family.

The next morning, we went ahead and signed the contract and submitted our offer. By this time, neither of us could really remember the details of the house we were trying to buy, we were just going with our gut reaction from the day before. We also decided to look at our perfect house one more time, and see if we could get them to drop the price a little more. I had figured out the numbers, and we can afford that house, we just hadn’t planned on wanting to afford something that expensive.

On our way to the perfect house, we heard back on our offer, it was accepted with no counter-offer! After walking through the perfect house, we decided it really was perfect and put an offer in writing on that house, too. Then we made a mad dash for the airport.

In the end, the builder of the perfect house went up on his price instead of down. He strung us along for a while first. So as it stands, barring any inspection issues or other catastrophes, we’ll be the proud owners of a house I can barely remember as of April 19th.

Whew! And that was the short version!

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March 28, 2006

Falling behind

We went to Houston last weekend to house hunt. We have a contract and a long drawn out story. I haven't had time to write it down, what with the phone calls, paperwork, reams of printing, kids and lack of sleep.

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March 14, 2006

Test run

Rex has started his first week of a new contract in New Mexico. He'll be gone until early Friday morning this week, and Sunday through Thursday next week. This is the first part of the sacrifices we're making to move back to Texas.

So far, so good. Although, this is not an accurate representation of what life will be like when he's traveling and we're in Texas. My dad came home around 3 today, and was around to occupy Katie while Jamie finished her bath and got tucked in. Hopefully, the conveniences of the new house will make daily life enough easier that the inconveniences of being alone won't stand out so much. I can hear you all laughing, and you're right, but right now I need my little fantasy.

We've been looking at houses online, and have tickets to fly to Houston next weekend. We've found a few places that look great on paper - one had a floorplan I loved, and was brand spanking new and priced to sell. It's gone already (although the realtor said it had been on the market for a looong time). Two more are on a cul-de-sac street. They are both significantly larger than the house we had before, which actually puts them in the holy-cow-does-this-place-come-with-a-maid category. I like that the street should be quiet, and they are closer to some trails and the pool/park area.

We're also looking in our old neighborhood. This is a little crazy to me. On the one hand, we really liked the neighborhood. It's proximity to, well, everything. The people, although many of the ones we knew have moved. Walking distance to the park. There are several cul-de-sac homes available. Of course, we took quite a hit the last time we sold a house there. The neighborhood is being annexed by the next town, and we aren't sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. And how weird would it be to drive past "our" house every day? Speaking of, I wonder what the new people have done to it?

I'm still not sure this has all sunk in. I haven't done any packing yet, although I'm not that worried since half of our stuff is still packed anyway. Most of the other half is stuff we're still using. I have so many things to do, but I can't do a lot of them until we know when and where exactly we're moving.

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September 28, 2005

We're back from the clusterfuck known as Rita

From the trip that should not have been.

Against my intuition (dammit, I need to start listening to Oprah), we went ahead and left on Wednesday for Houston. It took us 3 hours to get from the airport to my in-law's house. It should have taken 30-45 minutes. The kids were good on the plane, but Katie was a screaming mess in the car. I broke the law more times this last week than ever before in my life, taking her out of the carseat for comfort or to nurse while we were on the road. I only took her out when we were in stop-and-go traffic, or just stopped, but a fender bender wouldn't have been great either.

We skipped town on Thursday, moving up our planned trip to Dallas to visit friends. It took us 8 hours to get there, about twice what it should have, but we were lucky. We didn't even need to stop for gas, fortunate since there wasn't much of it. We did stop a couple times for the kids, once for ice cream and again for dinner. They were remarkably good on their second long day of travel.

We stayed with friends until Sunday. They have a 3.5 year old daughter and a son 5 days younger than Katie. Jamie amazed us by sticking to G like glue. The two of them would just head up to the playroom for hours, and never really had any issues for which we had to intervene. I've noticed that Jamie is a bit of a sheep around other kids. I guess that's not a big deal, since most of the world needs to follow, but I worry she'll be a lemming jumping off a cliff someday. At home, I can't get Jamie to stay in any other room in this tiny little house. It's only recently she'll let me pee in peace.

We took bunches of bad pictures of our younger kids together. Katie and G2 are 5 days apart in age, and 5 pounds apart in weight (same height). Holding the two of them was an experience. G2 is so solid! Katie is such a wirey little thing, and so strong, and G2 is more like holding a weighted stuffed animal. He's much more low-key, too.

I played a little with R's dSLR and zoom lens, and now I want to move up my "new camera timetable" by about 10 years. I really liked the way the candid photos turned out with that zoom lens. I like being able to control the focus a bit better, too.

On Sunday, we headed back to the fizzled hurricane site. It only took about 6 hours this time. We didn't see much besides a couple downed trees, some larger limbs, and a lot of leaves and such. Otherwise, it was a beautiful sunny day.

The in-law's place was powerless, so we stayed at Rex's grandparent's house for the last two nights. We managed to see our unsold house, resign for 6 more months with our realtor, and visit with some close friends from the neighborhood at their new digs.

We never did get to see Rex's mother, through no fault of ours. The whole trip ended up being a logistical nightmare with some nice, relaxing time visiting friends in Dallas. I still can't say if it was a success or not, but I do know that I need a vacation from my vacation!

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September 20, 2005

Leavin' on a jet plane

We're heading to Texas tomorrow for almost s week to visit family and friends. We haven't been back in almost exactly one year.

I'm looking forward to the trip, but not to the crap that goes along with being a parent on a vacation. After all, it's not much of a vacation to chase your kids around someone else's house :) I already pity the people who are going to be on the airplane with us. Jamie has generally been pretty good every other time she was on a plane, even when she was younger and hard to keep entertained. Katie, on the other hand, is not known for her easy travelin' nature. And she's got a damn fine lung/vocal cord combo.

I'm also anxious to see how I feel when we're back in Texas. I'm anticipating a feeling of homecoming that for some reason I haven't experienced here in Maryland. Since we've just about made our decision, I'm hoping for that feeling.

Ah, well. It's going to be what it's going to be!

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September 1, 2005

Wanna buy a house?

No, really. Wanna buy it?

We have this house. This big, beautiful can't-convince-anyone-to-buy-it house. In Texas.

Have I mentioned we live in Maryland? And that in two weeks we'll have been here for a year?

We've had a lot of showings, and one lowball offer. In the beginning, no one said much about the paint colors. (I should note that I hate white. Beige is the new white. I didn't have any purple rooms, but I didn't shy away from color either. And I'll give them the kitchen. We painted right before we found out we were moving, and even I kinda wanted to repaint it when it was done.) Lately, everyone likes to rag on the colors. They can't see what a nice house it is because of the colors. Ask for a painting allowance, for god's sake! I'm willing to paint the damn house back to beige for you! I'm not bitter. No, I'm not.

We're at the point where we don't know what to do. It seems unlikely that we'll be able to sell the house for anything less than a huge loss. Like, tens of thousands huge.

And this is just one of the big issues in the debate: Maryland or Texas?

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