this new thing

So, I’m having a go at moving over from livejournal. I’d like to be able to link to other blogs and stuff, and that’s not possible on their platform. So, moving on it is. I tried migrating using a couple of different tools into Blogger, but without luck. It seems that livejournal has changed a [...]

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still here, but just as boring as ever.

I think this will be the last time posting from the So Cal area. At least for a while.  Like I thought,  ( but not really ) the past few weeks have flown by. I honestly didn’t expect to have so much to do for the weeks following moving out of the house. But time has [...]

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calmer…….

 Today is the first day since the move that things have felt somewhat back to normal. We’re settling in here at Evy’s house, finding places to put things. ( they moved, but 95% of their things are still here ).  I arranged my sewing stuff and tomorrow can begin to get back into it. I [...]

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out, gone, done.

 It’s all over. Yesterday was pure hell.  The new people were literally moving in on our heels. Cleaning each and every room with lysol and gloves as we were out of them. They arrived at 9 am, and the movers a couple hours after that. Their realtor was there as well, kissing butt, providing food [...]

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and now we wait…….

again. Only this time we have accepted an offer. A couple of counter-offers back and forth. But we are officially in escrow. And now we are on the twenty-one day countdown.  Yikes!! Three weeks! In the end, we settled at 440K.  With the market tanking ( and that’s an understatement for what’s going on here ) in southern [...]

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Listed! ( at last )

Okay, so we officially have a house on the market. Now of course, we wait for the buyers to beat a path to our door instead of the 156 other single family houses in Santee that are currently listed.  Could we have picked a worse time?   Here is a link to the listing:http://listings1.sandicor.com/SearchDetail/Scripts/PrtBuyFul/PrtBuyFul.asp?prp=mls&AgentId=625468&EmailKey=50369359 Of course [...]

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little by little

Saturday was spent working in the carport, loading the flatbed trailer with things to go to the yard, and unloading it out there. ( How can two people have so much crap????? No doubt sixteen years living in the same house  with one person being an obsessive fabric & all things sewing collector, and the other [...]

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going away.

 Not me, not yet. Lots of stuff. I had a bit of a fit right before the weekend, and as a result a lot of stuff has been hauled off by various people. And today the dumpster arrived for a lot of the leftovers. Yay!    All of the excess stone from the patio projects is now [...]

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so long…..

It’s about time to say good-bye to the beach. Too soon. It alway takes me a few days to unwind and settle in – which at this point is about when we have to go. What a wonderful last day though.  Currently I am sitting on the deck in the 72 degree sunshine ( thanks Justin [...]

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countdown

It is now only a few days before we leave on the next trip to the north. I am so excited that Justin will be coming on Monday; to drive back up with us. I think we have decided to take the coast route up. It will add some time though.  Putting us to the [...]

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