I woke up this morning and it was raining and cold. I thought our sale was doomed. At 7:00 I opened my garage door and the rain stopped. The first customer was our neighbor who claimed our ad wasn't in the paper. DOOMED I TELL YOU!! Turns out the paper put the ad in the wrong area but it was there. Then another person came. Then several more. Sell junk and they will come. We had a steady stream of people until about 11:00 along with a steady stream of cash. I'm doing this more often. What a great way to cleanse the house and closets. LOVE IT!!!
Now we just have to sell this house!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Just catching up on things...
Long time no write - but I have had a very good excuse. I have been busy. And I don't mean the I had to run to the post office and the grocery store and then cook dinner all while the kids are sick kind of busy. I'm talking about a huge marketing campaign, several web sites, an adventure race and throw in a move to a new city. I'm lucky I still have my hair.
So Christmas was a whirlwind visiting both friends and family. And after the trip back from Atlanta with the girls and the tire incident, I was fed up. The hub and I have always talked about moving to Birmingham or Atlanta to be closer to the family - mainly to have some help raising these two kids. I used to think I could do it on my own but I need help. I want a relationship with my husband again! Well, after Christmas, I mentioned that it was time to start preparing for a move to Birmingham. Time to get resumes in order and start the hunt. I thought if we started now, by next Christmas we would be in Birmingham. What a joke!!!!
It just so happened that the company the hub wanted to work for was hiring two positions that the hub was qualified for. He interviewed and got them both and he got to pick which one he wanted. The job included a moving package (because there is no way in hell I'm moving the 400lb entertainment center!!!). Lucky for me I don't have to pack but I do have to get our current house ready to go on the market.
Now on top of a move, I have to train for an adventure race AND create all the marketing materials for the upcoming literary festival AND complete two web sites AND take care of two climbing toddlers. AND I did it!!!
The adventure race was awesome!! Cold, but awesome. It was held in the North Georgia mountains. It started on a Saturday with a 6 mile canoe paddle in a snowstorm which led to a freezing 1/2 mile portage upstream. BRRRRRR. I think it was about 20ยบ. Then to the mountain bikes. Did you know that freezing cold temperatures and snow will make bike gears freeze up? Not much fun when you're going up hill. One good thing is that it's easy to know where to go when 80 teams are in front of you. It leaves one giant mud puddle to ride through (mud that freezes to the bike, gears, brakes, shoes, pedals, etc.). After the bike leg we were supposed to do a paddle leg, bike leg and hike. By the time we got into the transition area, I had no brakes left and BB didn't have any gears which made any more biking absolutely impossible. And there was no way we were going to get on the freezing cold water. We finished the hike leg (and the race) at about 2:30 in the morning. We didn't get to complete as much of the race as we would have liked but we still finished officially and came in third place in our category. Can't beat that!
It's nice to be home with nothing to do. We have a contract on our house and we just worked out a contract on a home in Birmingham. Now the only thing to stress about is whether or not the people buying our home can sell theirs - in this wonderful housing market.
I'm itching for another race but maybe I should wait until I get to Birmingham before I launch into another HUGE project. :)
Life is good.
So Christmas was a whirlwind visiting both friends and family. And after the trip back from Atlanta with the girls and the tire incident, I was fed up. The hub and I have always talked about moving to Birmingham or Atlanta to be closer to the family - mainly to have some help raising these two kids. I used to think I could do it on my own but I need help. I want a relationship with my husband again! Well, after Christmas, I mentioned that it was time to start preparing for a move to Birmingham. Time to get resumes in order and start the hunt. I thought if we started now, by next Christmas we would be in Birmingham. What a joke!!!!
It just so happened that the company the hub wanted to work for was hiring two positions that the hub was qualified for. He interviewed and got them both and he got to pick which one he wanted. The job included a moving package (because there is no way in hell I'm moving the 400lb entertainment center!!!). Lucky for me I don't have to pack but I do have to get our current house ready to go on the market.
Now on top of a move, I have to train for an adventure race AND create all the marketing materials for the upcoming literary festival AND complete two web sites AND take care of two climbing toddlers. AND I did it!!!
The adventure race was awesome!! Cold, but awesome. It was held in the North Georgia mountains. It started on a Saturday with a 6 mile canoe paddle in a snowstorm which led to a freezing 1/2 mile portage upstream. BRRRRRR. I think it was about 20ยบ. Then to the mountain bikes. Did you know that freezing cold temperatures and snow will make bike gears freeze up? Not much fun when you're going up hill. One good thing is that it's easy to know where to go when 80 teams are in front of you. It leaves one giant mud puddle to ride through (mud that freezes to the bike, gears, brakes, shoes, pedals, etc.). After the bike leg we were supposed to do a paddle leg, bike leg and hike. By the time we got into the transition area, I had no brakes left and BB didn't have any gears which made any more biking absolutely impossible. And there was no way we were going to get on the freezing cold water. We finished the hike leg (and the race) at about 2:30 in the morning. We didn't get to complete as much of the race as we would have liked but we still finished officially and came in third place in our category. Can't beat that!
It's nice to be home with nothing to do. We have a contract on our house and we just worked out a contract on a home in Birmingham. Now the only thing to stress about is whether or not the people buying our home can sell theirs - in this wonderful housing market.
I'm itching for another race but maybe I should wait until I get to Birmingham before I launch into another HUGE project. :)
Life is good.
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