I'm mourning our loss, so bear with me. Adios, pretty house across from the park, two minutes from the train. So long, house with pretty chandeliers, huge living room, dining room, and family room, and beautiful backyard. And goodbye to the house with the SCARY, SCARY basement with asbestos-wrapped pipes and furnace and a very unfinished room full of mounds of dirt that we would have had to pay a crew to dig out and remove from the place. Goodbye to the house with the weird 80s bathroom, complete with a black toilet and sink.
Excuse me while I go drink root beer and stuff my face with Trader Joe's kettle corn. And TJ oreos. And sweet and salty trail mix. (Can you tell I shopped at Trader Joe's today? Yum. I have all kinds of treats to mourn with!)
I'll eat that while I scan the MLS again and contemplate if we could stand a house with an upstairs that looks like a log cabin. Or a house 10 blocks from the train. Or a house with hardly any backyard. What would you choose?
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that really does stink- if it makes you feel better that was a dang good post.
and this way you won't find out if there were dead bodies in that HUGE mound of dirt!
I liked this post too. I am SOOO sad for you, but your post put a little smile on my face. I want to come and mourn with you! All that yummy stuff - sounds good!
And you know it just wasn't meant to be... (GRIN!!)
All are welcome to join in my mourning feast of treats! But you're NOT invited if you say those 5 little words... :)
Oh dear, I'm sad for you too. But what a wonderful way to mourn--I'll have to remember that for my next disappointment. I usually end up eating chocolate chips out of the freezer.
*sniffle, sniffle*
We mourn your loss too since we were planning on moving into that house, too, if and when the Rau's house sells!
Oh Sara, I'm so sorry! We went through that before getting this house and I was devastated. We were actually the ones who were supposed to be getting "the" house though and then 2 weeks before closing it appraised way lower than what we were going to pay for it so our loan couldn't be approved and they wouldn't lower their price, which I thought was ridiculous! I was even more upset that Mike was glad we weren't getting the house since it turned out to not be a good deal anyway :-). I had been picturing where we were going to put our things in it, etc. I was pregnant with Addie and we had to move in with my grandparents while we looked for something else because we had to be out of our other place. Anyway, things did work out and I love the house we are in now. There are definitely things about the other house that I liked better, but as a whole, this was the best deal and the best for us - putting us in a ward we love, etc. I hope you find something that you can love nearly as much (because I think the lost houses still hold a place in our hearts :-). If the house 10 blocks from the train is cute I say go with that one, but maybe you can find a way to buy yourselves some time to keep looking for something else. I'm so sorry! Keep us posted.
Oh, I'm so sorry (this is the comment you are SUPPOSED to say when someone suffers a loss! I cannot believe how many people don't know that! I have faced those "It wasn't meant to be" comments,too, and I give you permission to slap the next person that says it to you!) Here's to something excellent going on the market in the next couple of days!
So sorry to hear about the house. Definitely don't settle for one with no backyard. Eli needs a place to play.
It wasn't meant to be.
You know when you make a post like that, that someone's GOT to say it. It was more for aggravated laughter than actual sympathetic words of non-comfort. Actually, we were just watching Eli videos, and I was looking for more... Adele wants to watch more Eli videos, more Eli videos!
Here's Adele's comment to you: "No one likes a frowny face (mommy sing with me!), change it for a smile! Make the world a better place by smiling all the while."
Sorry Emily, no treats from Trader Joe's for you! :)
So sorry I disappeared from the blogging world as you have been going through all this drama. Ah, the ups and downs of buying your first home. There is no way I could tell you all of our woes in buying our home. That would take hours (you could always call me). So instead of saying that it wasn't meant to be, I will say something a little different, yet basically the same. I honestly believe that the right house will come along for you. That doesn't mean that the cute house you just said goodbye to couldn't have been the right house for you. But I think that in a few months, when you are all settled wherever you end up, you will realize that you are exactly where you should be. I really wanted to move to Parker, but Sam thought it was too far from work. I looked at several houses in Parker, in the neighborhoods I was interested in. And Sam didn't look at any of them. And then one day we found our house on MLS, Sam drove over right away to look at it (10:30 pm), we walked through it the next day, put an offer on it the next day, and eventually it was ours. Now I can't imagine us in Parker or anywhere else. We are supposed to be in this house, with these neighbors, in this ward. And you will end up where you are supposed to be, too. But go ahead and drown your sorrows in food. I always do!
Love ya.
I guess the "it wasn't meant to be" comment can also be countered by the fact that, you'd never say that to someone if there was someone if they lost their health or something tragic like that. So actually, I really am sorry you didn't get the house you like - that TOTALLY stinks. I would actually wait to see if something you really like comes up ... if you buy a house you just aren't happy with, are you the type to keep regretting it, especially if something else comes up that you DO like? I know the 10 blocks from the train station house is maybe not worth the time away from Ben (and we all like Ben). Personally I wouldn't mind the look of a log cabin house, but if YOU don't like it, that matters! That's my two cents.Maybe it makes no cents.
Hi Sarah!!!!
You are so funny and creative when you blog. I always laugh out loud when I read your posts. I'm sorry about the house that didn't work out. I guess it just wasn't.......hahaha. Totally kidding. I mourn the same way you do....with lots of treats and then I'm depressed when I realize how much I just ate. We miss you guys!!!!!!!!
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