Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Really BIG news!

Guess who was the Viagra High Scorer of the Week? AGAIN? That would be me.

NO! I'm talkin about Fantasy Football you gutter rats!

Well we have BIG news at the house of Chaos. Charlie got a promotion that means we will be moving from Houston to the Dallas Area. He starts next Monday. Yes, we're blessed, I'm stressed and I confess the house is a mess! I had my garage sale last week. GadZOOKS, I hate garage sales! "NO LADY, I WON'T TAKE LESS THAN 50 CENTS! GOSH!" (Never mind that she can fish it out of my trash can today for free.) I sounded like Napoleon Dynamite all day long. "You mean you sold that desk for $10 and you're gonna deliver it to her house for free?" "CUZ I'M AN IDOT, GOSH!" And my friend Chase entertained the neighborhood by modeling my size 42 double D bra around on top of her clothes. I had it in a sack of stuff to throw away in the garage and she fished it out and provided the comic relief we needed in order to sit sweating in the sun schlepping our junk a nickel at a time.

After two Kamikaze trips to Dallas over the last two weekends, we have narrowed our choices to a Highland Home, you can see the floorplan here and here, oh and it has an optional media room and bath upstairs. It would be in a traditional neighborhood with a postage stamp sized yard, but across the street from the park and pool. And our other choice is closer to my Mom with a custom builder and we haven't really gotten a plan together from him, but it would have an acre of land. So big house/little yard/city living or big yard/little house/country living. It really doesn't sound like a tough choice when you put it like that, but we're used to big yards and we both come from country living. But the custom guy has got to come up with something quick because I'm ready to start building something!

Charlie and I are meeting at U-haul today, to pick up boxes so I can start packing closets and things and we've got to go get some storage to put away some of the excess furniture. I'm hoping to pack up equal parts boxes and trash. I've got my realtor called, a floor guy called, a lawn service guy called, I still lack a carpet cleaner and someone to fix a couple of spots on the outside of the house. I have a zit on my face the size of Mount Olympus from nerves, and I can't keep my train of thought without being derailed with thoughts of wood floors, countertop options, stone exterior options and all the fun stuff about buying a new house.

3 comments:

Pollyanna said...

First of all congrats. But, how sad to have to leave your brand new beautiful kitchen! But, if you get a whole brand new house I guess it will be worth it, huh? :)

Jeff and Charli Lee said...

Wow, crazy exciting huh? Well then, congratulations to you all. It sounds like fun - but also a lot of work too. Uff-da.

Ann(ie) said...

Big stuff going on!! I'd have about a million zits in bloom. You'll do great, though. Deep breaths, much wine and keep those TO DO lists handy!

How's the market for selling in your area? Here is not so good.
=( I think we might be stuck for a while. feh.