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Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

creekside

mandy and i spent friday shopping for my angel tree kid and her secret santa for work.  that night, mandy and i met up with neo, hambone, and david to for diner and to play games on neo’s newly built computer.

saturday morning mandy and i met our realtor, brent, to go look for a list of houses he pulled togehter for us.  mandy and i decided to get back in the house hunting game when we found out we would be getting most of our money back from the house we moved on before.  after looking at eleven houses, we decided to ask mandy’s parents and my family to come look at our top three.  after showing them the two that we considered tied for second, we went on to look at and place a bid on our favorite.

today, mandy and i missed church because she was not feeling well and was up most of the night.  this afternoon, we got a call from brent saying the home owners where interested in moving foward with out bid if we where okay with closing before year end. :-)  so tomorow mandy and i will move foward filling out whats left of the paperwork and lining up inspections for the house.

tonight, mandy and i watched ‘the notebook‘.  i do not think i will ever understand these types of movies.  they always tell such a great story, but always end sadly and just leaves women in tears…  it was a good story though, i never thought i would see jim rockford, narrating such a story.

stupid dumb work tomorow, ya’ll have a safe week.

Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form–no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space–ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold–the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring’s invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.

Continuities, Walt Whitman, 1819-1892

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

house hunting

mandy and i have been looking at houses for a while now.  we are wanting to get her moved in to a place so that soon after the wedding we can be settled and have the dogs move in when i do.

we found this house we both loved in euless.  mandy put down the earnest money and paid for the inspection.  whenever we got the inspection report back, it pointed out electrical problems and severe roof problems.  after thinking about our options of putting more money out of pocket in to a house, after going through the home loan process anyway, we decided to pass on the house.  mandy is getting her earnest money back because we backed out of the contract in our 10 day option period, but she is out the money for the inspection.

expensive lesson learned on our part.