Looking Skyward...

...and it's starting to feel like we're about to step off the edge today. David's in WV, the closing's at 4pm, he and Christy (our RE agent and friend) did the walk through around 9 am after breakfast. Christy is hilarious, everytime she calls we get at least half an hour of what everyone is doing in WV and have to gossip back about what we're doing and she never says hello when you pick up the phone, just hollers your name and gets right into it. At the same time the real estate called here this afternoon to let me know we got our first offer, lower than expected so I halved the difference as per Harry and that will be the counter offer. I did try to discuss it it with David but true to form he took the cell phone and didn't leave the number, is not at the motel, took the roladex with him (!!!) AND snagged the list of numbers I'd left for myself off the table effectively making sure once again I have absolutely no way to get in contact with him. I told Harry he didn't have to worry about David's opinion on the whole thing because I was going to murder him when he got home and bury him in the backyard. He's such an ass sometimes. Jackson didn't get up for school today, he was playing with the new alarm clock I bought him and somehow unset the alarms so I got home from work, he jumped in the car and I drove him to school - I don't think he was even late. We have another set of looky-loos this afternoon so there goes my day off. Sigh. This has to end sometime!!

Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam...

How cool is that - there's a buffalo farm down the road from us and the whole herd was out yesterday, it's a rather eye catching sight.Not sure what you call more than one though - buffaleese?  We had 2 sets of lookers for the house yesterday with one repeat, I just wish someone would hurry up and buy it already. I'm getting very tired and am never sure if I should go sit outside or dodder around trying to look busy when people come to look. It worked out because by the time Ray got here, had coffee,he and David went  to go see Slava (the guy he's doing a deck for and is currently being an enourmous pain in his ass) everyone had seen the house and we were ready to get going . We had lunch at Cordova's which always makes me feel like I should be arranging a hit on someone - very 70's Godfather decor, but according to Ray they make a good Stoli on the rocks with a twist of lime and they do serve vegetarian burgers so they've got my vote. After that we went back to the house and sat on the front deck. The weather's been beautiful for the past day or so and I cleaned the deck furniture so David and Ray had beer and Jackson whupped my butt at chess the stinking little gloater. We were about to leave for Dixon City when Roman called to discuss Slava which made us WAY too late to get haircuts for David AND Jackson - can you believe Jackson after having long hair for years now asks for haircuts??? So we did a few stores and then had dinner at the local italian restarant, that would be enough of THAT. I think I'll have to walk 30 miles today to get all that cheese off. I've also posted a picture of the current sweater I'm working on, it looks much better in person - trust me. I'm back to work tonight and then David leaves for WV in the morning, I'm getting very nervous about that and will not be able to relax until all the papers are signed and it's really ours! OH! Jackson bought Devil May Cry 3 at Circuit City, no questions asked.

You're Fired!

Well, we had a little incident at Best Buy last night and will not be patronizing thier establisment anytime soon. Actually Jackson was the one with the Incident - they refused to sell him Devil May Cry 3 because it's one of those ones that's  of the 18 and Older variety. However, whether that rule is followed or not tends more to depend on if the clerk has a bug up thier butt that night than the age of the consumer.  I offered to go in and buy it, but Jackson was Infuriated and announced we will NEVER buy anything there again. He has vowed he'll be getting the entire staff fired due to their Rudeness and they'll be lucky if they can find work in the fields with the illegal aliens. Ha! On the homefront things are picking up more quickly on the moving thing than comfortable - it seemed like we had all this time and now Eek! we don't!  I had to sign power of attorney over to our WV lawyer since I won't be ther for the closing - this will be the 2nd house I've moved into in the past year and half sight unseen. I guess it's more of a surprise that way!It's limited power of attorney so he can't stick me in a loony house or anything which is a little bonus.  David will be leaving on Monday and the closing - if all goes well - will be on Tuesday, then I hand in my resgination because I dont' want to do it before and jinx the deal, we're packing AND the RE is busy escorting potential buyers through 3 to 5 times and week and I'm still working full time......Sigh. But I still find time to knit!

I See Dead Things. It Must Be Spring

If you want to see what kind of wildlife they have here, you only have to look as far the as the side of the road. Dead beavers are on every corner, possums, racoons, skunks, you name it - we hit it. And I do mean everywhere you look too.Anyhow,, it finally got warm the other day, how strange was that. We went from rain mixed with snow right to 70 degrees and everyone in shorts. David is busy busy now - he's doing that deck job, finishing the house here and organizing the Wagon Train for June. We heard from the bank in WV yesterday and Gods willing and the creek don't rise, we'll be closing on the 12th of April. The new fly in the ointment is the septic system. In WV that's pretty much the one thing they like to see and the rule is the seller has to put X amount of dollars in escrow for 45 days in case it doesn't perk and then the money is used for an aeration system if it fails. The problem is someone has to be actively living in the house for those 45 days or they won't come and inspect it and the DO check to see if you're home. So we have the choice of either trusting the system will work or David will have to go live in the house by himself until June when we can join him. I also have to hand in my resignation to work and am trying to decide when . I don't want to wait too long like I did the last time but I also don't want to jinx this whole thing so I think I'll do as I planned and wait until David REALLY closes on the house - it's only 5 more days. That will put me mid-May so I can earn as many paychecks as I can before leaving. I had to do a special form because I didn't realize my WV nursing license had lapsed - I never got the renewal form for it so I didn't renew it. I woke up at 2:30am this morning in a full blown panic attack - there's so much to do and so little time to do it and so much that can go wrong!

ARRGH! Snow AGAIN!

Can you believe rain mixed with SNOW?? Jackson was going nuts yesterday, he cannot take another snowstorm and I dont think I can either! Good thing it didn't last long. With all the rain the cats are quite bored and have been picking on each other nonstop for two days now.  The flooding around here has been pretty bad, the outlying areas are all closed due to the rivers flooding. Here it's not too bad and the water levels seem to be receding. David's spending another morning on the phone, it's constant phone tag with the RE, the bank, etc... at this point. He got roped into going to Motecello on Saturday with Roman and Nadia, they go every week to play the slot machines. David lost $10 and then was instantly bored. He said Roman isn't too crazy about the whole thing - he's always trying to get David to go so he has someone to talk to - but Nadia is quite taken and was pretty annoyed at having to leave after only 3 hours.  She told David he broke her heart by making them leave so early - David didn't care he just wanted to get out of there. The temp this morning is still pretty cold but it's supposed to go into the 60's by Wednesday - that's going to make us happy!

What's Eating The Dogs

Vincent is once again creating a stir in the animal kingdom around here. I changed the dog's food and for some wierd reason Vincent is wildly attracted to it, much to the dog's horror. It's ok for them to eat the cat's food, NOT the other way around. Coppper is especially freaked out by this new turn of events and has no clue how to deal with it at all, he'll probably need dog therapy. I finished the latest sweater, it came out pretty good. I think it'll fit David's sister Maryann so I'll be flinging southward and she can just pack it away til winter. I of course have already started another one, knitting helps me deal with the stress. We've had lookers for the house pretty much every day for the past few weeks, but no offers as of yet. We actually have a renter lined up in the event we're unable to sell it, so at the very worst it'll be investment property. It's just hard because I sleep during the day so David's got to be around to show the house an run the dogs out to the truck. We're fortunate they're very stupid and don't mind sitting in it for an hour or so daily, they actually look foward to it!  It's hard to keep the house perfectly straight all the time as if Martha will be doing a spot check any second!

Heading For The Hills

Ok. I admit it. There has been ALOT going on lately. Last month, after having lived here for almost a year - and yes, it has been that long - we are still very unhappy. So we've decided to try to pack up our toys once again and go back to West Virginia, where we should've never left in the first place. We put the house on the market a week and a half ago (we're already tired of that, there's been over a dozen couples through here already and Harry said it hasn't even picked up yet!) and we are under contract for a house in West Virginia with a tentative closing date the middle to end of April. This is the house---> http://www.k2kgraphics.com/kristi/index.htm which is about 7 miles outstide of Morgantown and sits on almost 6 acres. It was a former horse farm (with a barn to prove it) so once we get settled and financially stable again we can have a horse! Things are still up in the air right now, this deal may fall through, but we're hoping to be out of here by June. Jackson is counting the days as are we . Things here just haven't worked out and quite frankly, sending Jackson to that high School again, I would much rather not. Although he has made some friends and enjoys metal shop, the drugs and the fighting in that school are beyond belief and that's one of the reasons we want out of here. So until everything is finalized, we are holding our breath and crossing our fingers!!