Tumbled Words

Just as I hit send on the previous post, I looked up to see a man walk up, and put something down beside my door. No knock, no doorbell, nada, nunca, nothing. Helloooo, this was an overnighted envelope. Do you not think it might have been anxiously awaited? Could you not have walked two more steps to your arm would have reached the door?

(But, I do thank you for getting it here early!)

Had I not been in here to see him walk by through the frosted window, I would have never known he came. What happened to knocking, at least, to let you know they had arrived? I would have been waiting for hours, had I not caught the movement out of the corner of my eye.

Just for the record, trying to read legal papers with a sinus headache — not an easy thing. I’m going to have to defer to Leon… but I can tell you an interest only mortgage… not fun, when the amount you owe at the end is more than you borrowed… Huh? I want to use that math on my savings account.

OK, so maybe it would make sense without a headache, but today, I doubt it. Now to corral Leon and a notary at the same place and get these papers overnighted back. One more step will be done, the last one for us - except for canceling the electric and ridiculously overpriced homeowners insurance once it actually closes.

And yeah, seeing what we cleared vs. what we could have had we sold just a couple of months sooner — reality check - timing is everything… but yes, I can see the good and be grateful — just have to look a little harder from behind the headache.

Oh, yeah, almost no longer homeowners… and that is just fine!

Tags: FedEx, selling house

Our closing papers are coming today FedEx!! Two more days until actual closing and the house will have a new family to love it and make memories while living in it. How cool is that! My wish that the house be bought by someone who really wanted to live in it, has come true…. though I sure would have appreciated it had it come through sooner! That said, I do not regret wishing it go to a family that would be happy in it. My bank account does, but I don’t.

I paid the yard man to cut one more time, tomorrow, so they would not be moving in this weekend with one more thing to deal with. (Thank you, Leon, for braving the heat and fire ants down here so we could afford to do that - and pay for the house those ten long months waiting for the right family to find it and buy it. I KNOW how lucky we were - and I am extremely grateful!)

Why was the yard work so important to me? Because when we moved in their was trash piled high beneath the front stairs, tree pieces against the wood siding rotting themselves, just waiting to rot the siding. One more thing to deal with that shouldn’t have been. (And yes, had I to do it again, I would have enforced the contract that said they were supposed to have cleaned it out… instead Leon and I braved creatures months later — after much procrastination because of said creatures we both have a major creep factor toward — and had to pay to dump it all.)

Now, I have work to do, only a little, as I am at war with a sinus headache - and I don’t do sinus medicine. But I bet those papers in hand will make me forget it for a while, grin… After all, just writing about them put it in hiding for a while.

I hope your day brings you a smile or two or three, too!

Tags: house sale

Conversations and hurricanes brought memories of flooding in Monroe, WA.

Even in it’s fury it was beautiful. That said, I feel for those whose lives are burdened by nature’s antics.

Tags: flooding, photo