Goodbye

Dear Home,

It's been a good 13½ years. You've treated me fairly with just a few hiccups and I hope you feel that I've treated you the same. I hope you like your new owners and they like you as much as I did. You've been a great house and it's sad to have to leave you, but we've had our time together and it is time for me to move on. I hope I like my new house half as much as I enjoying living in you.

Take care Dear Home.



Your loving past owner,

April

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Thanks for sticking with my Weekly Quips for a year now. I need to find a new "gimmick" for the blog for the next year. LOL!

First things First....

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Now the boring stuff......

This is the newest contraption I got for my finger. Who would have thought that a pinky finger dislocation could be so much work. I did get the OK from the doctor to start some "therapy." Basically I get to move my finger a bit more and try to bend it as much as I can without dislocating again. NICE! Really, how much is too much? Especially for someone who never felt the pain of the dislocation in the first place. Wouldn't even have known there was a problem if I hadn't looked down at my hand. Weird. I don't think I mentioned if before, but I'm pretty sure the reason I didn't "feel" anything was because my blood pressure was 69 over 49. I was dead! According to the nurses I wasn't since I was still breathing, walking and talking, but with a BP like that, HOLY COW! This custom made split is to be worn for at least the next month. At least this one isn't as suffocating and it's easier to remove and replace. At least my ring finger swelling has gone down and I can wear my ring again.

Packing is going. I'm ready for it to be done. I NEVER want to pack again. My training on the otherhand is suffering. I may just have to run the half marathon for fun instead of trying to break 2 hours. I don't see that goal happening this race, but I'll give a go round. I may need to crawl to the finish, but I'll finish.

This weekend will be jam packed fun filled packing and I'm going to slip in a run or two, hopefully. I hope you all have a great weekend.

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I'm feeling just like this little one.

What do you think?

I decided the blog needed a face lift and since I didn't want to spend loads of time picking a background out from Pyzam I went with something from Blogger. Hope you like it. If I get some time I may take a little more time and pick something else. There are also some companies out there that will customize your blog for you, but again, time is a factor. I also changed the title since the blog is more about life than it is about the pursuit for Baby N.

It's 100%

Yes, my house is definitely sold and we close on September 30. YIKES!! 2 weeks!! I don't know how I'm going to pack up 13½ years of stuff in two weeks. I started this past weekend and it didn't seem to bad, but I don't think I've gotten into the nitty gritty yet. I keep forgetting about the garage. ARG!! I guess the trash people will LOVE me over the next few weeks. I have a ton of things already stacked in the garage for the Ozanam Home and I'm stopping by U-haul tonight to get wardrobe boxes and some dividers for glassware. I also have to guess on what the weather is going to be like from now until the end of October since I won't have my closet full of clothes to choose from. FYI - If you see me in the same thing many times in October that will be why. All my clothes will be locked away in storage containers. There may not be many posts in the next two weeks due to my overactive packing rituals every night. I can guarantee you don't want to hear about that.

So, I'm stealing...

info off of another blog again. H posted about this really cool website that can help you with dinner if you forgot or just don't want to go to the grocery. All it needs is to know what you have in your frig and cupboards to come up with a simple recipe for you.

Visit Cooking By Numbers and see how they might help you tonight or in the future.

What have I been up to this week?

Not much. The inspection was done on my house Monday and at the last minute the buyers decided they wanted to test for Radon which then put the inspection results two days behind plus the time they needed to go over the thing and decide what they wanted. I will say I'm not entirely happy with their realtor or inspector. The inspector had permission to go into my house before noon on Wednesday to get his radon equipment and when I got home at 5p it was still in the house, so when I left at 5:50p he still hadn't been by and I turned on my alarm. You can see where this is going, right? Yes, the jackhole and the realtor came by, knocked and no one home, saw the lights on and assumed that meant they had an open invitation to enter MY house. NOT!!! Of course, the alarm went off and the cops were dispatched however, the realtor & the inspector decided to take the stuff and leave. Yes, the realtor spoke with the alarm company since they call the home, but he won't even admit he was in the wrong since he is obligated to call and make an appointment before entry a house. Now, if I get charged for a false alarm guess where the bill is going? Yep, the realtor and if he doesn't pay...well...hell to pay!!! Yes, I'm still ticked about it and probably will be for a while since I DO NOT answer my door if I don't know someone is coming by. I could have been there and shot the dude! OK, I don't have a gun in the house or a gun period, but I could have and I could have shot the guy. STUPID REALTOR!!!! Moron inspector!!!!

OK, enough of that. What else have I been doing?? HUM....Oh yes, I went to dinner theater Wednesday night with my mom, a friend of hers, Suzi, and a friend of mine, Lynn. We saw 'The Last Romance' staring Marion Ross. It was pretty good. This is the reason I didn't hear the security people call my cell.

Other than that nothing has been going on. I don't want to start packing even though I NEED to because I'm still not sure if the buyers can back out at this point. Anyone know? They've already given the list of their "fixes" and I think my realtor gave them what I was willing to do out those, so I guess I have to wait and see what they say or is it a done deal? I have a call into my realtor because I know I have to sign something. Just waiting to hear back.

Oh yes, pictures.

Tim just about to cry (just kidding, sort of) while the tattoo artist started his male tramp stamp. Is that an accurate description for a male getting a tat? He got this last Saturday.

Tattoo Artist, Alli, from Irezumi, marking Tim up.

Here is the finished product. Introducing...The M-Dot. It's the Ironman logo. Can you tell why Tim is a good swimmer? Flipper feet. See Katherine, Tori can have a promising swim future with wide feet. ; )

I also went to the DR on Wednesday and he put me in this new contraption of torture. I much prefer the buddy tape. This splint makes my finger ache. It aches so much that I cannot sleep unless I take it off. Hopefully it'll get better since I'm stuck in for at least 2 weeks and maybe 4. Pray it's not 4. I may just go nuts if it's 4 weeks.

This weekend I'll be running 14 or 16 miles. It'll depend on how long I can stand running in the rain. We are also going to the Chiefs home opener. Let's hope they do well against the Hated Raiders. Yes, I'm a Raider Hater. They did much better against the Pat's than I thought they would given they were 16 point underdogs and only lost by one touchdown. Of course, we knocked Brady out pretty early and apparently for the rest of the season. YIKES! And, it was a total accident!!! The Pat's retaliated by knocking Croyle out. That'll only be for a few games, but I still think we need to find a better QB and Huard may not be it.

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Louisville 2008

We had all these hopes to document the whole trip there and back. Yeah, that didn't really happen, but I will give you what we have. I'll post more when Tim downloads his photos.


Us in the car on the way to St. Louis to stay with some friends.

Mark, Erica, Tim & me. The friends in St. Louis.

Relaxing the day before the race.

And I can't forget the finger. This is what the doctors used to "splint" my finger.

Louisville 2008 - Part Deux

My pictures suck and I can't copy the professional pics, so I'll just have to make due with these.


Tim's back as he takes on the last 22 miles of the bike. He's the tiny one in the background with the orange jersey.

Tim, still smiling after 8 hours and 48 minutes with 12.4 miles left to run.

Not too smiley as he hits the finishers mat and heads to the finish line.

This is what it looks like to finish a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike and a 26.2 mile run in 10 hours, 50 minutes and 19 seconds. Still smiling!

It's Official

I SOLD MY HOUSE. Kind of. It all depends on how the inspection turns out since my buyers can still back out, but I'm pretty sure it'll all go well and we'll be closing on September 30. Of course, that means I have to store my stuff for a month and live in Tim's tiny little house which, by the way, is up for rent. It'll all work out and it's worth the inconvenience to have my house sold and that stress gone.

My house officially went on the market Aug 28 and I had 3 showings on Aug 30. From the feedback whoever saw my house first said they were writing an offer that day. The thing I don't know is which offer, did I not mention there were two if them?, was the first showing. Not that it really matters, but it would be kind of neat knowing if the first people to see my house immediately loved it and wrote an offer. I'll ask them if I ever meet them, but I'm pretty sure my realtor could tell me.

What do I know about my buyers? They are older, they are each on their second marriages, they are moving from a patio home, they sold that home for a nice chunk of change. What am I curious about with my buyers? Why would they want to move from maintenance free living to a home that they have to maintain a yard at.

At any rate, the inspection in Monday the 8th, so I have to find a furnace before then and have it installed. I'm guessing that won't happen since it's Thursday already. That's OK, the inspection will tell me that it needs to be replaced (it's 25 years old) and I can say that I already have that set up and he'll be here......I hope that nothing else is really wrong. I need to call my mom's cleaning lady and schedule her for the 29th and get an estimate on POD or some other similar storage device.

I'd like to rub it in my Realtors face that she said Labor Day weekend wouldn't produce anything. YEA RIGHT!! Both houses she put on the market at the end of last week sold. So much for a slow weekend. I suppose officially my house was on the market for 6 days since it now says pending.

Oh yeah, I forgot the best part.....I got $1000 over asking. In what universe does that really happen??!! Tim and I (mostly me LOL) have gotten really lucky in this whole house situation. I really hope he rents his house quickly. He's already gotten two inquiries and he just sent the mass email Wed night.

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NEVER, NEVER, NEVER...Fart in a wet suit.



Poor flatulent Tim. LOL!

WARNING - GRAPHIC PICTURES

So, Tim and I went to Louisville, KY for the long weekend. He was participating in the Ironman (2.4 mile swim - 112 mile bike - 26.2 mile run) and I was there for support. It's 5:30am EDT and I drop Tim off near the start of the race and drive back to our hotel to get my bike and all my spectator garb. I grab all my junk and hop on my bike and head for the start. It's now 6am EDT and I'm toodling along when all of a sudden the curb jumps out and bites me. Yes, it bit and I bit it! I wrecked on my bike and broke the front brake and my finger. Luckily I was only 3 or 4 blocks from the hospital, so I hoped back on my bike and rode to the hospital, locked the bike up outside the ER and went in for help. Yes, funny, I know. As luck would have it the hospital that I wound up at happens to be one of the top if not the top places in the country for hand surgery. They perform all those hand replacement/attachment surgeries you hear about and think are science fiction. At least I was in the best place in the country to be IF I needed surgery. Here I am sitting in the ER alone prayer that I don't need surgery and hoping that they would hurry the hell up so I could get to the race which was going to start at 7am. Unfortunately, I didn't make it out of there until 9am, but after a few detours I finally made it to a spot on the bike course where I could see Tim. I saw him as he was beginning his run as well and he asked what I did to my arm since I had a bandage over it. I told him he didn't need to know and I would tell him later. Well, he finished the race (I'll post about that later in the week) and I told him that I crashed and had dislocated my finger and showed him the doctors handy work. Here's were you might want to get your barf bag ready. I put the gross ones at the end, so you could warm up to the idea.

Road Rash on my arm
After shot with rash on palm & finger
After shot from top

Doesn't look too bad, right?

BE WARNED - MIGHT NOT BE FOR THE FAINT OF HEART