The house that turned out to be too small *sigh*.
Good morning.
We were out with the houses again yesterday. We saw three.
The one on Munson was in bad shape so Rich thought it needed
fumigation. He said something about flop
house or something like that. He said
that it was a mattress laid down in the dining room that had caused that kind
of indentation. All the walls needed painting
and the floor was a mess. It would cost
extra money and the house was already at the top of our limits. I think too if it was a nicer model, it might
have made a difference, but it wasn’t the house that I thought it should
be. It was as if the whole place was
built around the staircase area – so the rooms were secondary in design to the
staircase. It seemed the small LR then
was in the hallway.
The other two were the same design I’d seen frequently in
the listings. They have 1/3 of the house
being a staircase also and the rooms on either side on the first floor was a 13
x 13 LR and a 13 x 11 FR, but there was really no dining area so the FM had to
serve as that … it was a carpeting change between it and the linoleum floors. The Hoffman one above was definitely the
better of the two. It felt like our current LR was bigger than the
kitchen/other half of the room by whatever name. There was a loft, but it only opened to the
staircase and then the two bedrooms. The
walkways were included in the room size so even the 13 x 13 LR was depleted by
the door and the space the door swung in.
If I were alone without Rich, it would do very well because we would
have been able to set it up as a “nest-like” home. It also only had one car garage like many of
them do on that side of the development.
I don’t think it’s a big deal, but Rich did. I think the hard part for me to let go of was
the appliances. They were newer and the
stackable – full-size washer and dryer were to die for. They were both front loading and minimally a
$2500-3000 set. It almost overpowered
me. And we gave Rich a hard time in
letting the place go. Man it was RIGHT
next (In a closet) to the BR!?? I know
many of them are, but it was like holding an ice cream before my eyes. The other thing was that the loft and second
bedroom faced out onto (over a farm fence) a small lake and that I thought was
something worth consideration.
Rich and us got over the argument that had ensued, but it
was hard. He came out with a flat no
before we could process it and then we were on an emotional plain like him and
had to deal with feelings before we could process emotionally. We’ll leave a few pictures so you get a sense
of the place. Rich said we could do
better, but he’d been leaving a lot of stuff out there about needing a bigger
place for less money and I thought his requirements were too much, and then
when he added that he NEEDED a two car garage AFTER we’d spent so much time
finding the few places that hadn’t been taken yet … I was just dealing with too
much anger. Before things cooled down we
said the HE would have to find the next place, because he didn’t understand the
difficulty of his demands. It did get
him looking and in the end we both looked, but he got tired of it and needed to
zone out to TV, and we just got tired and longed for bed.
I can’t fault him on any of this because his opinion is
obviously half the solution, but it’s a high-pressured point in one’s life to
be making such commitments and going through so many emotional excitements and
upsets. You know? I think we’re going to as we are writing
switch over to the mode where with the exception of a few things we’re going to
continue this note as a blog. I hadn’t
realized how much we would talk about things right out front. It will be ok Ann, It will be ok.
Ok, now we’re fully over to blog mode. We deleted a few things that were more
personal.
Damn time just happens … Posting at bedtime Friday, February
8, 2013 @ 11:25 PM
Cancer Feb 8 2013
The weather has been so wild in certain locations since the year began - from bitter cold to balmy sunshine to tempestuous winds. If you have lived through these variations, Moonchild, then it probably seems like you've been through a whole year in only one month. That's a pretty good metaphor for your life now. You have endured a lot of extremes in recent weeks. You have been low and high and everywhere in between, yet you have kept on going. You are a strong and brave person, and your courage is about to be rewarded. Hang in there - your time in the sun is coming.
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The weather has been so wild in certain locations since the year began - from bitter cold to balmy sunshine to tempestuous winds. If you have lived through these variations, Moonchild, then it probably seems like you've been through a whole year in only one month. That's a pretty good metaphor for your life now. You have endured a lot of extremes in recent weeks. You have been low and high and everywhere in between, yet you have kept on going. You are a strong and brave person, and your courage is about to be rewarded. Hang in there - your time in the sun is coming.
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