The Week In Review
What a week! I am typically someone who is on-time (early even) for everything. We did not complete our taxes this year until 8 p.m. on April 15th. I had received a free copy of TurboTax through Props & Pans and it was VERY easy to use, but I just didn’t get around to e-filing until the last minute. (By the way you can win a free copy of the software here. You can also win Momager Calling Cards and a copy of Growing Up Wild Cats.)
April 16th was the 3 year anniversary of my cousin Stephanie passing away. I was able to go by her angel statue at the grave site and leave some flowers. It certainly doesn’t get easier with time.
Work has been very busy. There is a guest speaker coming in town this week and I am responsible for planning and overseeing the workshops and presentations he will be doing over the next few days. I’m enjoying the new position, but it requires a lot of organization. I’ll be thankful when summer time arrives and things slow down.
Our house has been on the market a full two weeks now and only ONE person has actually looked at it! I know the market is slow, but I guess we were expecting more activity than that. Each morning we sweep and clean up before we leave thinking someone may drop in during the day, but so far that hasn’t happened. I know the one day I leave my bra hanging on the armoire in our bedroom somebody will show up.
I thought having a blood clot and giving myself shots twice a day was plenty of excitement for our family, but I was wrong. (By the way, my stomach looks like a battle ground!) Friday morning we were awoken around 4:30 a.m. by the house shaking. By shaking I mean actually moving! Turns out Indiana (and several surrounding states) experienced an earthquake that registered 5.2. Seems small in comparison to what California might register, but to us it was big enough.
Lastly, you must go read this article in our local paper. A student teacher e-mailed a fake threat to the school she was working at because she had an assignment due that day! I feel sorry for her, because this will totally ruin her career, but in a way it was pretty stupid.
Wow - that student teacher is a complete moron. Thank god she didn’t make it all the way to teaching.
How long do you have to do the shots for?
I cannot even imagine what I would do to have to keep my house clean every day for potential buyers… ugh!
And that wanna-be teacher? Crazy! Obviously she has never been on the receiving end of anything like that. She might have thought twice if she had to sit through a lock-down and not know what was going on. Talk about super freaky. You’re the teacher and you have to calm the kids down when you’re just as freaked out as them. I never ever want to go through that again.
I can’t imagine keeping the house ready to show every day and going through everything you have been lately! My house has never been so clean as when ours was on the market, I was so sick of vacuuming tracks into the carpet every day–DH does ALL the sweeping now!
Good luck!
Hope your house sells quick, that’s so stressful having to keep everything so darn CLEAN! I didn’t even wake up during the earthquake (IL), I sleep like the dead.
Is this teacher not validation that there are many out here who need serious mental help? I hope she is given what she needs, as if there is anything I’ve realized it’s there are many who are screaming for something to happen stop the pain in their minds.
You sound better..even though your busy…I hate it when life gets that way. I’m doing great…I actually feel like I did before my cancer diagnosis…hope it last for 30 years…I’d be 91….hugs..
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Busy week! I can’t imagine selling a house right now, so much blinkin’ work to keep it ready to show all the time. Hope things are well with you
Taking shots is the pits, but I refuse to go on an insulin pump. Maybe when I run outta spots to poke. At 12+ a day that day may be sooner than I want. The house willl sell eventually. It’s VERY slow here and I had the house of a neighbor, who made me executor as his kids all live quite far away, on the market for 7 months with very little interest. Then all at one time 3 couples were after it in a small scale bidding war. Got over the asking price in the end. Sometimes patience pays as his kids were after me to sell cheap to avoid fuel bills for minimum heat.
Hope your house sells quick…
Nothing more stressful than selling… Except maybe giving yourself shots…
Post soon just so that we may know you are okay…