I should have known that things were going too well for me. For the past month, I was floating around with the thoughts of moving to Playa in September. I put all my plans into motion and started waiting for everything to fall into place. I should have known better that things wouldn't go so swimmingly for me. They never do.
First, no one came to my Open House yesterday. Tomorrow will be 4 weeks that my place has been on the market and I’ve only had a few bites on it. I also found out that our building may need to have the roof replaced and this could cost each of us a few thousand dollars!!
My friend, Stewart, called my this morning to tell me that he is going to wait another year to do the Whaleshark Tour that we had planned when we meet in Playa in a few short weeks. He wants to wait until his son is old enough to participate. I completely understand, but it doesn’t lessen the fact that I’m disappointed and was truly looking forward to this. It was one of the major reasons why I planned the trip.
After I got off the phone with Stewart, I decided to go into my online checking account and do some balancing when I noticed I deducted my mortgage twice this month!! CRAP!! So, now my checking account sits in the negative. I jumped into my car to go over to the bank and see if they can reverse one of the payments and my car was DOA!! DEAD! I just had the battery cleaned and checked, oil changed, and air conditioner fixed last Thursday, so I was ticked off. I ran back inside the office and asked my boss to jump the car for me. He did this while I was on the phone with the bank trying to make a transfer so my checking account was no longer in the zeros.
After the car started I took it over to the shop where I had the work done. I just have to say that I love the guys there. They were the only bright spot in my day. They were very concerned about what was wrong and had me in a free courtesy car within 5 minutes.
And to top it off, I haven’t been feeling well since Friday. I’ve been having lower abdominal pain and nausea….but it hasn’t been anything strong enough to warrant me going to the doctor just yet. Oh...and I'm developing a heel spur in my right foot. I'm supposed to lay off the running, waitressing, and flip flops...yeah right.
I’m considering postponing my trip to Playa in July....WHAA!!!
This day just sucks!
Edit: Just found out car will be $650.00 and it HAS to be fixed. It's only money, right?
Monday, June 30, 2008
Friday, June 27, 2008
Hurray up and Wait!!!
That’s how I feel at the moment. I’m ready to move to Mexico…TODAY…but my hands are tied until my townhouse sells. As soon as my boss gave me the verbal OK to relocate my job, I started putting all my plans into motion. I called the listing agent for my townhouse, scheduled my first round of necessary shots with my Dr, looked into getting a SKYPE phone, called the vet to make sure that Reese has all his shots in order, scheduled a dental cleaning and exam (which I’ve since canceled), looked into the cost of buying a new laptop, and started throwing away all my old winter clothes and boots. I’m ready…..I wanna go…someone buy my place!!!!
It’s frustrating not knowing when I’ll be able to make the big move. My plan is still the end of August, but as each week goes by, I keep thinking I might not make it there until mid September, early October? I had one VERY interested woman come look at my place at my 2nd Open House. She lives in the apartment across the street from me. She is an AS/400 programmer, so we almost speak the same language. She moved here from Ohio where the job market sucks and took a job 3 miles down the road. She hates living in the apartments as she has 6 people living above her and she there beer parties every weekend outside her bedroom window. She kept commenting about how beautiful my place was and we even measured for her dinning room table. She also asked if I’d be willing to leave my patio furniture, but I told her my mom already called dibs on it. She said she’d be in touch.
A week later, I found out that she called my listing agent and asked a bunch of questions that I had already answered for her. It seems that she didn’t believe me when I said I was moving to Mexico. Okay…who makes up a lie about moving out of the country?! It kind of hurt my feelings cause I was all happy and chatty with her and now I find out that she didn’t believe anything I was saying about my move and the property. But, I’m sensitive that way.
She indicated to my listing agent that she was interested in making an offer, but when my agent asked if she had pre-approval financing, she said no. Rose, my listing agent, said she can put in offer but with a contingency that she’d get financing in ‘x’ number of days. Linda, said she’d be in touch.
That was a week ago. I’m finding I wake up each morning now with a knot in my stomach. My goal is to be in Playa at the end of August, but if I don’t get an offer in the next 3 weeks, it’s not going to happen. My employers are flexible enough that my Consultant contract with them will start when I’m ready to leave. In the meantime, I can only make tentative plans….but I’d really like for them to be solid.
Here is a link to my place!! It’s so cute!! If you know of anyone interested, please send them my way!!
Had I known that the patio furniture would be a deal breaker, I would have thrown it in and dealt with Nan….
It’s frustrating not knowing when I’ll be able to make the big move. My plan is still the end of August, but as each week goes by, I keep thinking I might not make it there until mid September, early October? I had one VERY interested woman come look at my place at my 2nd Open House. She lives in the apartment across the street from me. She is an AS/400 programmer, so we almost speak the same language. She moved here from Ohio where the job market sucks and took a job 3 miles down the road. She hates living in the apartments as she has 6 people living above her and she there beer parties every weekend outside her bedroom window. She kept commenting about how beautiful my place was and we even measured for her dinning room table. She also asked if I’d be willing to leave my patio furniture, but I told her my mom already called dibs on it. She said she’d be in touch.
A week later, I found out that she called my listing agent and asked a bunch of questions that I had already answered for her. It seems that she didn’t believe me when I said I was moving to Mexico. Okay…who makes up a lie about moving out of the country?! It kind of hurt my feelings cause I was all happy and chatty with her and now I find out that she didn’t believe anything I was saying about my move and the property. But, I’m sensitive that way.
She indicated to my listing agent that she was interested in making an offer, but when my agent asked if she had pre-approval financing, she said no. Rose, my listing agent, said she can put in offer but with a contingency that she’d get financing in ‘x’ number of days. Linda, said she’d be in touch.
That was a week ago. I’m finding I wake up each morning now with a knot in my stomach. My goal is to be in Playa at the end of August, but if I don’t get an offer in the next 3 weeks, it’s not going to happen. My employers are flexible enough that my Consultant contract with them will start when I’m ready to leave. In the meantime, I can only make tentative plans….but I’d really like for them to be solid.
Here is a link to my place!! It’s so cute!! If you know of anyone interested, please send them my way!!
Had I known that the patio furniture would be a deal breaker, I would have thrown it in and dealt with Nan….
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Blogging Again!!
I know...I already know what you are thinking!! I'm going to blog for one week and then get bored, busy, or blah and stop posting. I won't!! I promise! I pinky swear that I'll update my blog as often as necessary. That might be daily or weekly (but never monthly or heaven forbid, yearly).
The main purpose of this blog is to keep my friends and famiy updated on my move to Mexico. And if you haven't heard that I am moving to Mexico, then you haven't been doing your part in reading your emails. It true. I'm moving. I cannot wait.
But, before I leave the US of A, there is ALOT of preparation that has to be done. So, my hope it that keep you all informed of how things are progressing.
Stay tuned...more to come. And thanks for reading.
The main purpose of this blog is to keep my friends and famiy updated on my move to Mexico. And if you haven't heard that I am moving to Mexico, then you haven't been doing your part in reading your emails. It true. I'm moving. I cannot wait.
But, before I leave the US of A, there is ALOT of preparation that has to be done. So, my hope it that keep you all informed of how things are progressing.
Stay tuned...more to come. And thanks for reading.
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