About a House.

This house thing is more complicated every day. We looked at three houses tonight, one of which being the primary contender we've been talking about all this time. After seeing it again, we're less interested (although not totally uninterested yet) in buying it--a little more work, a little more money, and in fact, it's already under a contingent contract, so even if we offered for it we might not get it. The third house I really liked except that it was in an awful location, and it also needed some work... some amount of home improvement is expected, but I'd rather not have to replace kitchen cabinets that are falling apart. The first house, though.. well, except for the smell of cat urine pervading the entire house, it was pretty nice.

We're never gonna find a house.

Actually, it's not as negative as it sounds. I mean, first of all, we just started looking, so the fact that three weeks later, we haven't bought a house.. that's nothing to write home about. I think we crossed a big hurdle, actually.. the one that says we don't have to be in such an almighty rush about the whole thing. We have some valid concerns that make waiting for a while a not-entirely-bad thing, so if we end up waiting.. well, that could be a good thing in the end. It's not like we don't like it in our apartment, either. It's roomy, it looks nice and I love where it is. I guess there are still a lot of what-ifs in my mind, though. Perhaps I haven't entirely settled on the fact that we live in Frankfort, either.. I don't know. I'm not saying that I don't want to live in Frankfort, just that the adjustment phase hasn't been completed. It was like we put our life on hold in a lot of ways for three years, and that time went by very slowly, but things started happening very fast all of a sudden and it can feel a little overwhelming sometimes. Also, the cathouse (we called it that once and it stuck, despite our repeated requests to each other that we not call it that anymore) really was kind of nice.. we'd definitely have to rip out the carpet and paint every single wall, but it had a huge basement and it was in a nice neighborhood, so it's not like we won't be able to find something we like. No big deal. We have to live in this for (presumably) a long time, so better make it something we like.

In other news... my mom came down yesterday after work with my aunt, and we did a little shopping and had dinner. It's always nice to have a round of gossiping thrown into any given week. We just found out that my cousin Rae is pregnant for the first time.. exciting! We hadn't had any babies around for five years until Elizabeth was born last month, and it seems that there will be babies around for a while now. :) We had a bit of a half-competition on who was going to be first (or last, depending on how the kids were behaving on any given day) so it seems that she won.

Also, I've started reading and editing M's book, which has been both fun and scary and nerve-wracking all at once. Oh, sure, we love each other, but taking a red pen to someone's baby is always a little dangerous. He hasn't divorced me yet, though, so it seems to be going okay so far. I'll keep my fingers crossed that it continues on that way.

Things You Don't Want To Hear Your Realtor Say #1
This house will need significant cleaning, and be extremely hard to resell.. sign here, please.