Off Topic Part Quatre

[Krikit 1,163]

Good morning, friends. It's been a busy time. Still homeless. Put an offer in on a house we loved but someone else had a stronger offer. Worked on it into the wee hours trying to get it through...... which is really hard to do when you live in a hotel. Oh well. Time to regroup and rethink. Better things to come. Only have time for the one post as I am getting ready to meet with the realtor to start my search again. Hubby is out of town for the week, ergo the "I". Hope everyone is well.

[Marilyn. 340]

awww, I hope you find something soon, Krikit

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Come to Centreville Chiquita...we like it here

[Flames9_RN 358]

Guess the house wasn't meant to be, and the "one" is still out there somewhere!! When my wife returns in Mid-June from her work trip, we will most likely be back in the full swing of buying a house. I casually look now, but not really! no way in hell i would buy a house without her input, even though she said I could,lol Then i would just be blamed for everything that went wrong,lol Plus there is no fun looking at places by ones-self. I strongly believe that one knows it is the "one" in about the first few minutes of walking into the house!! I know thats the way it was for me in the past!! Funny I never got that sense when we bought this condo and have regretted it ever since,lol oh well! So looking fwd to a house/yard!

[Sprailenes 47]

Good morning everyone, sorry about the house hunt krikit.

I spent all weekend painting at the new place, it's times like this I am so relieved I work Tuesdays to Fridays because I really need today off, I'm just beat. I have a class at 5:30 today so I am trying to take it easy until then.

Need more coffeeeee.

[Kimbear 53]

Aww Krikit!! Hope you find your dream home soon! When i was house hunting in 2000, it took me from june to september and then til december to hagle over issues and get the place. Was a long wait but it was soooo worth it!

[OBX 51]

Good luck with the house hunting Krikit.

Our house hunting was left until the last minute so we had a whirlwind of only a few nights of viewings. We walked into the "one", my husband turned to the realtor and said "this is the house we are buying!" but after going back and forth with multiple offers and counter offers it all fell through. His condo was sold, mine was closing in a month and we had no new house to move into! In the end we bought a house my husband had seen on his own prior to my move; I went in with the realtor, liked it, my husband put in the offer without even coming back to see the house. To our surprise, our offer was accepted even though there were two other offers. After it went through my husband's comment was - "Remind me again what that one looked like."

In the end you will get the house you were meant to have and all will be fine!

Edited May 3, 2010 by OBX

[ashenflowers 5]

Sorry about the house Krikit. It can be heartbreaking once you get your mind set on something and start envisioning your new life there (at least that's what I do.. lol get ahead of myself a bit). Flames is right though. It just means that the 'one' is still out there.

In other news... my hamster died today. He was just old. We had actually taken to calling him Stinky/Silly Old Man. lol I'm sad. He even moved with us on our cross country drive from Canada. Sigh. We buried him under the apricot tree in my in-law's garden.

His name was Chipper.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Aww, I'm sorry about Chipper, Ashen. It's hard to lose a four footed member of the family. It sounds like he had a good, long life with you. Rest in Peace, Chipper

[Marilyn. 340]

so I was doing the laundry today and usually I got through all the pockets but I forgot to check a few pairs today,, anyways I was pulling my jeans out of the dryer when I noticed something strange in the pocket.. it was a credit card..lol so it went thought the wash and the dryer..lol

it doesn't look damaged or anything... I wonder if it would still work.. although I mainly use the credit card for online purchases..

[Rhiannercakes 14]

Aw, what a cute hamster.

RIP Chipper.

[Hugglebuggles 60]

Sorry to hear about the house Krikit! If it makes you feel any better, Bill and I went through the same thing when we were house hunting. We loved a place and decided we wanted to put in an offer, only to find that they accepted an offer from someone else only hours before. We decided that was a sign it wasn't meant for us and walked away instead of getting into a bidding war. The next weekend we went looking at some places and found the house we're living in now. It's definitely a better place for us! So, things happen for a reason. You're meant to find something you love even more!

Sorry to hear about Chipper ashen

How old was he? Was he a lover or a bitter?

[Ban Hammer 13,110]

losing a pet is always difficult.

[ashenflowers 5]

Thanks guys

Chipper was about 2 and a 1/2 yrs old. I got him in Nov. of '07. He was a lover of peanuts, cashews and lettuce, and paper towels and kleenex. lol He only really bit me hard once, and that's when we were trying to get masking tape out of his fur in January... We had used it to hold up his water bottle in our makeshift travel box during our road trip and it didn't work so well.

[Marilyn. 340]

so I am back on antibiotics.. joy oh bliss..

and I have a renal US scheduled for Thursday... my side has been bugging the heck out of me for awhile now... the doctor was hesitant at first because he said I just had an abdominal US a few months ago but I told him it started bothering me after the US so he gave me the ok for another one...