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rivkaOne of my underlying sources of background stress for the last few months has been our landlords' intention to sell the house this summer. With Michael out of work, we're in no position to think about buying, so it would've meant a move to another rental - which, given the local market, would have meant either a move to another neighborhood or a move to a much smaller place, probably an apartment. (And just after we'd enrolled Alex in a nursery school within walking distance of this house.) Just the idea of packing and moving was enough to give me hives... and that was before adding in the added stress of expecting to move to a less desirable location.
Today one of our landlords called. They would really, really like to put the sale off for a year, but they don't want the hassle of finding new tenants. Would we be willing to stay for another year? Why, YES. Yes, we would.
The catch: one of the reasons they want to put off the sale is that the house needs a new roof. So sometime this spring our lives will be turned upside down for at least a week while the old roof comes off and the new one goes on. We suggested the week we go to SUUSI, and they laughed the hollow laugh of people who don't think there's any way in hell the old roof will make it to July.
So it's not an unmixed blessing. But still, what a relief that we won't be having to pack up and move in a few months, into another set of temporary quarters. If Michael gets a job soon and we make a concentrated effort to save money, we should be able to afford a down payment after another year in this house.
Speaking of SUUSI, they've got a lovely promotional slide show set to music here. It really does a great job of conveying the good feelings of the week. The short version is probably as much as most non-attendees will be able to stand, but I also feel compelled to rec the second half of the long version, because they've included a nice shot of our family at 1:07.
I have never in my life seen a weather report change so much so quickly. Before church this morning, we were expecting an inch or so of "wintry mix" followed by freezing rain. By the afternoon, several inches of snow had fallen, and they were predicting a total of 5-10 inches of accumulation. Then the snow tapered off, but they were still predicting another inch or two overnight. Now, just "a few rain showers" overnight.
I can't decide if I should cancel my clinics tomorrow or not. If it doesn't snow any more than this, I would feel awful silly staying home. If there's more snow and ice, patients just aren't going to show up.
Incidentally, my RA Steve just left for a week's vacation, which he had booked and paid for long before the other RA got sick. For this whole upcoming week, it's just going to be me and a very-part-time grad student. And Lydia, who doesn't really help with the day-to-day stuff. Is it any wonder that I'm having snow day fantasies?
I hate shopping. But for some reason I really love buying big mixed packages of clothes for Alex on eBay. I would hate actually cruising the stores for this stuff, so the opportunity to get a whole season's wardrobe at once is worth having to discard a few ugly things from the mix.
Today one of our landlords called. They would really, really like to put the sale off for a year, but they don't want the hassle of finding new tenants. Would we be willing to stay for another year? Why, YES. Yes, we would.
The catch: one of the reasons they want to put off the sale is that the house needs a new roof. So sometime this spring our lives will be turned upside down for at least a week while the old roof comes off and the new one goes on. We suggested the week we go to SUUSI, and they laughed the hollow laugh of people who don't think there's any way in hell the old roof will make it to July.
So it's not an unmixed blessing. But still, what a relief that we won't be having to pack up and move in a few months, into another set of temporary quarters. If Michael gets a job soon and we make a concentrated effort to save money, we should be able to afford a down payment after another year in this house.
Speaking of SUUSI, they've got a lovely promotional slide show set to music here. It really does a great job of conveying the good feelings of the week. The short version is probably as much as most non-attendees will be able to stand, but I also feel compelled to rec the second half of the long version, because they've included a nice shot of our family at 1:07.
I have never in my life seen a weather report change so much so quickly. Before church this morning, we were expecting an inch or so of "wintry mix" followed by freezing rain. By the afternoon, several inches of snow had fallen, and they were predicting a total of 5-10 inches of accumulation. Then the snow tapered off, but they were still predicting another inch or two overnight. Now, just "a few rain showers" overnight.
I can't decide if I should cancel my clinics tomorrow or not. If it doesn't snow any more than this, I would feel awful silly staying home. If there's more snow and ice, patients just aren't going to show up.
Incidentally, my RA Steve just left for a week's vacation, which he had booked and paid for long before the other RA got sick. For this whole upcoming week, it's just going to be me and a very-part-time grad student. And Lydia, who doesn't really help with the day-to-day stuff. Is it any wonder that I'm having snow day fantasies?
I hate shopping. But for some reason I really love buying big mixed packages of clothes for Alex on eBay. I would hate actually cruising the stores for this stuff, so the opportunity to get a whole season's wardrobe at once is worth having to discard a few ugly things from the mix.
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Date: 2007-02-26 12:46 am (UTC)And what a good idea, the clothes on eBay! I never would've thought of that, but it makes such good sense. (And cheap, too!)
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Date: 2007-02-26 01:47 am (UTC)I have to wade through a lot of crap to find the good stuff - unfortunately, there's no way to narrow your search to "tasteful," so I have to sift through pages and pages of hot pink sparkly stuff emblazoned with cartoon characters. But yeah, there's just no reason not to do used clothes at this age.
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Date: 2007-02-26 10:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-26 01:16 am (UTC)On the other hand, there will be no exciting heavy machinery for Alex to watch.
What a killer deal on cute clothes!
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Date: 2007-02-26 01:41 am (UTC)What a tremendous relief! Thank you. Obviously the big thing that we are apprehensive about is naptime, so this is encouraging information. Alex's room is on the third floor, but we could easily set up the Pack-and-Play in our room for a few days.
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Date: 2007-02-26 02:24 am (UTC)N.
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Date: 2007-02-26 07:14 pm (UTC)But I would be so happy to be able to buy on our block! I love this location.
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Date: 2007-02-26 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-26 05:47 pm (UTC)(Just got Boo's entire wardrobe for next winter, including a winter coat, off of Craigslist for $65 - as long as I guessed correctly on size!)