Countdown Update.

It's Wednesday. We close on Friday.
Check out our new decorating scheme. Very minimalist.

See the new coffee table (blue cooler) and new entertainment center (round waste basket), which the computer sits on so we can go to Hulu and get our Burn Notice fix....our current TV fascination.

I have to say though without all our stuff in the way, our paint looks AWESOME. I'm gonna miss this house.

UPDATE on the thermostat:
While I would have loved to put in a circular thermostat, I didn't get a choice. Matt called our HVAC man and he put in a digital one. Dang. Still I do get a little satisfaction when walking by, there is a small but lovely square of red next to the current LEVEL digital thermostat.

It's the small things.

Wow.

Matt just found a 1 million dollar bill. Here's what the back of it said -
"The million dollar question: Will you go to heaven when you die? Here's a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God's name in vain? Jesus said, "Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on judgement day? If you have done those things, God sees you as a LYING, THIEVING, BLASPHEMOUS, ADULTERER AT HEART."
Wow.
Of course, then the million dollar bill then goes on to try and get you to "repent (turn from sin)." Wonder if that has ever worked for anyone?
Oh my, a 1 million dollar bill. What's this? If I don't, how you say, re-pent then I'll go to hell?! OH NO! Whatever should I do?
Now, I'm no Jebus hater, in fact we're pretty close but this is a bunch of religious propoganda that gives us Jebus lovers a bad name.

Countdown On.

It's Monday, August 3.

We have 10 days to be out of our house.

On Saturday, August 8, all TVs, beds, dog houses, lawn furniture, bed side tables, end tables, dressers, tables, lamps, and chairs will be taken to storage.

For the rest of that week, we will live in the nicest camp ground on the planet. Too bad there's not a river to canoe in our back yard.

Oxymoron?

On my way home from work yesterday, I was sitting at a red light beside a car that I had just passed.
A little red 4 door car, with 2 window clings screaming "BABY ON BOARD" and 2 sunshades in the rear windows to block the sun from the little ones' eyes.....
Now this in and of itself is not that much of an oddity. I see this all the time. I have yet to figure out what compels new parents to have Baby On Board window clings but I digress...
The real conundrum was that the mother was driving, all the windows rolled up, smoking a cigarette with the kids in the back seat.
Is it just me or does it appear that this mother has mixed up her priorities??

Victory is Mine - Kinda.

After all that stuff with Matterhorn, I figured I should update the plight with Eastland. Remember this one - the one we're trying to buy so we're not homeless forever...
So we're cautiously optimistic that this will actually happen. Our real estate agent, actually the seller's agent, tipped us off about renovation loans. We didn't think banks did this anymore but apparently they do. Yay for us! Bad for Dooze and Lester, and Steve and Lisa, and maybe Sam and Bekah too....
Dooze and Lester, Steve and Lisa, and Sam and Bekah are the wonderful peeps that are letting us couch surf for a couple/few of weeks with our 2 dogs. Since we've had to go this route with financing, the escrow period will be longer plus we still have to renovate a couple things like electrical and HVAC before we can move in....thus more time spent couch surfing.
Matterhorn close date - August 14th (Shit, that's only 2 weekends away)
Eastland latest close date - September 9th (We've made sad, little, puppy dog faces at our new mortgage guru to hopefully speed up this process.)
3 1/2 weeks homeless....or at least until we can move our stuff in. Um yea, where the hell do you store a doggie mansion for a month??
Prolly 4 1/2 weeks until we can move in. We're counting on the kindness of our friends....hopefully they'll still be our friends after this is all over.

The Difference Between Us and Everyone Else

We're masochistic.
We must be. Otherwise why in God's name would be dying to buy a house with no kitchen and only 1 functional bathroom of the 4 in the house.
This didn't really seem that weird to me until I saw the list of fixes the buyers of Matterhorn wanted done before closing.

1. New roof. Ok so maybe there was more hail damage than we thought....but a whole new roof when this one doesn't leak or look f-ed up at all. Really?!

I'm no roofer but if it doesn't leak...where's the problem??

2. Replace all gutters and downspouts. No. Nuh-uh. Not ever gonna happen. That is cosmetic and all the gutters function just fine. They have been blown out every year nevermind that Matt spent about 4 hours with a Magic Eraser and Power Paste scrubbing the dang things clean before we went on the market.

Sparkling Clean.

3. Fix the float switch on catch pan in attic. What IS that? Never heard of it but apparently ours is broken - sounds serious enough that we should have noticed, right?

4. Fix outlet at right rear kitchen wall. This one is so vague, we don't even know which outlet they're talking about. The right rear kitchen wall? With a walk through kitchen - Which end of the kitchen were you standing on to say right. Nevermind that all the outlets work in the kitchen. Apparently the one "on the right rear kitchen wall" has the negative and positive switched....?

Which right is wrong in this picture? There's an outlet on every wall.

5. Level the heating/cooling thermostat in the upper hallway. This one is the most ridiculous to me and the one that will give me the most satisfaction when it's all said and done. Little do the new home owners know that our hallway was RED. Leveling that thermostat will leave a lovely red outline around the new one. I haven't decided yet whether a brand new nice, ROUND thermostat is just too mean.

Imagine a nice new round thermostat with a eye catching rectangle of red around it. How's that for level?

Dog House vs. Fence

The Dog House.

The Only Gate.


Since the contract on Matterhorn does NOT include our pimpin' dog house, we have to figure out just how to get this mansion out of the back yard.
Uh oh Shaggy.