RL weekend goalsFollow

-putter in the kitchen, trying out new things while bitching about the insane amount of pots I go through for one small dish

-teach my son to finally ride his bike of doom

- debate whether or not to mow the lawn, then decide ultimately against it

- laugh my *** off at the hubby while he tries to kill some wasps by one of our windows, inevitably being chased around the yard by the swarm

-make up my laughing my *** off at hubby in the BR ;)

-other stuff

Finish preparing the house for selling. It goes on the market Monday!

Finally go see PotC 2

Play EQ2 (of course!)

Sleep the sleep of angels...

Thanks, I think we're over the stressful part - getting the house ready. We know the market is tough this year - we figure, we'll try again in the Spring if it doesn't sell this time and in the meantime we can enjoy our house now that it's all spiffied up.

Edited, Jul 15th 2006 at 2:12pm EDT by Smoggy

no youre not. Everytime you show your house you have to go through that kind of cleaning again. What you think is mere tidying turns into a 3 hour job each time. It sucks

pregnancy has nothing to do with it. You think you keep your house tidy but when you want to sell your house, you want it perfect each and every time there is a showing. And when you get that call you have a showing the next day you will start off by just "tidying" and end up cleaning for hours.

We're really not that worried about it - we keep the house clean, anyhoo. So it's not a big deal. I'm sure we'll be tidying up daily, but we don't consider it stressful. It's something we always do since we have cats. The house is kept so clean that most people are shocked to learn we have any pets.

At this point, the stress will be on the buyer's side if we get an offer. While we would love to move back to California asap, if it doesn't happen at this time it's no biggie. We'll just try again in the Spring.

As for showings, we're not having an open house or anything. There will be a lock box on the door for real estate agents to walk their clients through. Our cats will be in the basement during the day - we've made it really nice for them and it helps that we have a sliding glass door down there for them to get some sunlight and birdwatching.

The stressful part for us was getting things repaired/fixed by the electrician, landscaper, and the water feature/pond-cleaner in time to put the house on the market, as well as us finishing any painting, major cleaning, minor repairs as needed. We're actually thrilled that the house looks great and that we've finally gotten around to fixing things that the previous owners had done to the house that we should have fixed sooner than 2 years later. We're really enjoying Castle Smoggy, for however long we stay here. So it's all good.

Watch Red Hot Chilli Peppers live at Earls Court, they rocked and the support act sucked in equal measure.

Avoid sunstroke in the oven like conditions in london.. Lots of water and icecream ftw.

Dodge random ladies of the night when strolling through Soho, man dem chicks are UGLY!!

Try not to laugh at the 50 year old woman exposing vast amounts of cleavage to the slightly harried teenager sat opposite her for the entire four hours of the train back home.

I'm glad you two had a great time at the concert, but sorry about the accident! I hope she's feeling better soon!

I should go to a concert sometime...I hear they're neat.

Nexa

sucks to hear you guys got into an accident. :( How long will your car be in the shop this time? And how fast was the woman going?

No clue and no clue.

The insurance claims person hasn't called yet to set up the estimate and I can't guess at how fast she was moving since I never saw her coming until she went boom. Faster than me, apparently

Damn Joph. You driving an invisible car or something?

It was a minivan, but not Russian lady. She was black.

Weird story: The transporter was chatting with me on our way to the CT, and he congratulated me on coming in to be looked at. He said that his best friend since childhood had been in an accident about a month back, and refused treatment. He went home because he felt fine. Four days later his mother found him dead in his bedroom. Turns out he had internal bleeding and never knew.

Of course I had to find out the signs of internal bleeding and make sure Joph knew them, since he said he felt fine as well.