Contract

Ok - so today, we visited a home For Sale By Owner not once, not twice, but three times.

At 10a we went to take our first peek inside the house and assess whether we liked it or not. We liked it, so we called Doreen's folks, (Who are still in town by the way because their truck keeps leaking Anti-freeze fluid - they're ready to get back to work now that Sandra has her medical release.) to see if they'd come down and give us an unbiased assessment.

So at mid afternoon, they arrive and we go for our second walk-through, warming up to the idea of the place and batting around some ideas of some things we'd like to do to it before we move in, and then make an offer.

Early afternoon, they flat out accept our offer.

Late afternoon, after a quick meal at El Matador, where the waiters sang "Happy B-day " to Larry (the big 60)and put a silly looking sumbrero on his head and some whipcream on his nose, He, he, he - by the way, and then we all chowed down on the huge sopapilla with honey, cinnamon, whipped cream, chocolate dribbles and a huge 'blob' of vanilla ice cream in the center, we ran back home picked up a checkbook, the out to the house to sign a contract on the place and leave some earnest money and all. (Had to get it done because they had it listed in the newspaper this weekend and we didn't want them 'giving' it away.)

As we left, the owner's wife said, "We're glad you came back by because now when people call on the place, we can say it's 'under contract' and won't get an offer for $$$'s (She mentioned the full price number.) Sounded to me like she wanted us to have it. That's kinda cool.

Anyway - Monday we finalize the whole process with our mortgage company and try to get the deal sealed!!!

This 2nd week of 3rd trips at work is kinda wearing me out. I got back this morning and crawled into bed at 5am. The last two drops my body felt like a rookie again cuz it was feeling sore. That's just because I'm tossing/catching and extra load for the week, that's an extra 40,000+ pounds of snack cakes. WOW!!!

Sure glad the weekend and Sabbath is here. Time to rest!!! :)

Have a GREAT weekend!