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The evil that is the "mall massage"

Ok, first of all, it's in a mall. That should be the first clue.

Walking along, headed to look at pets we came upon the massage people at the mall. Daddio thinks to himself "hmmm, would be nice to have my hands massaged." He wanders over while I take the kiddos into one of the nearby stores so they could beg for stuff I wasn't going to buy anyway.

We leave said store to see Daddio sitting in the chair happily getting a massage. No big deal, we sit and wait. Daddio gets done and calls me over, "Hey, I paid for you too."

Down I sit. Little did I know what I was getting myself into, or better yet, what Daddio got me into.

Holy Carp (yes, I said carp)!!! I was expecting a nice relaxing massage, what I got was what felt near to a stoning.

I starting thinking to myself about what I could have possibly done to deserve such treatment. Did I say something to offend? Did my deodorant fail? Did I forget to wash Daddio's favorite socks? What dear Lord was my indescretion?

Finally it's done. And off we walk. Daddio asks how I thought it was. "Not too bad," I lied through my teeth.

"Not bad? I thought it hurt like he**. And I figured that if I had to go through that pain, so should my wife."

BOOGER!!

Turns out he actually paid for both BEFORE the massage and thought I would get a gentler treatment.

Let's just say we might just be calling the chiropracter tomorrow.

Home pics

Yesterday was a busy day

Didn't switch the kid's schools yet. We called the new school and they suggested just waiting. So they have a few more weeks of summer before heading back to school. We'll find out who their first teachers will be on the 1st. Hoping that Buddy will have Kitty's first grade teacher. If not, I just might beg as we'll only be at that school for 2 weeks.

And speaking of Buddy, according to him I had to go to the "pyrocracter" yesterday. I was really surprised that he remember pretty much what the doctor was called, usually we just call him the "back cracker."

Dropped our earnest check off and got the escrow account opened.

Bought some paint and supplies and started testing some techniques to use on the kitchen and master bedroom.

This morning we're off to the inspection and to take a bajillion pictures and measurements so I can start obsessing about interior design and all. I'll figure out a place to put them online and send the link to those interested.

We're still contemplating artificial lawn for the back yard. Maybe for the patch of grass in the front as well. We'll probably go take a look at the setup we saw last week. It was funny, we saw this particular set up and both said that we found our backyard. Yay! Now if we can just make it happen.

We got the house!

Yay!

Now all the fun stuff begins. The inspections, the appraisal, the signing away of my life.

We went and bought school supplies for the kids last night and we're going to see how they want to work the whole switching schools thing. Don't think we'd be so worried about it if they were on the same kind of schedule.

The inspection is scheduled for Thurs. morning.

I wish this part could be over in a snap and we could be moved out there tomorrow.

Step 3.5: calming down (kinda)

We heard from the realtor this evening. Apparently the other offer never came through so tomorrow we should know for sure if we get the home. It sounds like a done deal, but until they say yes we're holding back. We're calming down a bit though.

We had previously called the realtor to start discussing contingency plans. Hmmm, maybe we should have done that last week say, on Wednesday.

If the answer is yes tomorrow the kiddos will most likely be starting school this week. Might as well get them into the school they'd be attending as close to the start date as possible (they started today).

At what age?

seriously, at what age will the kiddos stop sitting on me when I'm sleeping on the couch?

Heck, I don't even have to be sleeping, just laying on the couch, laying on the floor or whatever.

Any ideas?

What the kiddos are doing today

They're keeping me (and everyone else) entertained at work today. Kitty is watching a movie and Buddy was in the process of writing a "pome" (poem).

edited to add: that's a moose hat he's wearing... compliments of my new co-worker.

Step 3: FrEaKiNg OuT

Nothing like the bank getting another offer on the house at the last minute.

We've had some freaking out the past 36 hours. This includes eating almost a whole bag of mini snickers as well as falling asleep at work. How is sleeping considered to be freaking out? It's not... it's a by-product of said freak out.

Hoping that we'll get some good news by tomorrow so we can finalize what we're doing for the trip to see the fam.

Not to mention getting all the inspections and stuff done.

The realtor said the final offers were due at 3:30 and the decision should be made soon after. Whether that "soon after" means today or tomorrow we're not sure.

Fingers crossed

Step 2: Making an offer

Eep!

Lowdown: $135,000 - 2,200 SF, fairly large back yard, close to school for the kiddos (which starts next week!!) , 30ish mile commute, close to shopping and about half the stop lights to work than currently.

Kiddos were already fighting over which room would be theirs. Kitty wanted the big rooms which made Bud want the big rooms too. Daddio told them that the person who got the small room also got extra money for redecorating. Kitty immediately jumped and said BUD could have the big room. And it begins... hehe

Trying not to get excited as the deal could still fall through, but we're hoping that it'll go smoothly.