{"id":542,"date":"2009-06-08T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=542"},"modified":"2009-06-08T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T15:19:36","slug":"youll-never-believe-thisbut-you-probably-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/youll-never-believe-thisbut-you-probably-will\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ll Never Believe This&#8230;but You Probably Will!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sunday June 7th un-published post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guess what our Realtor brought us this morning?<\/p>\n<p>An offer from the owner&#8217;s of THE HOUSE.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that they figured that we were LYING when we said that we had another offer that we were planning on buying if they didn&#8217;t get back to us.  SO STUPID!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so upset.<\/p>\n<p>This whole house buying thing should be an exciting time, right? I feel so disappointed and nervous and upset and bothered.<\/p>\n<p>I feel like we made the right choice in choosing the town home over the house.  We both felt like this town home &#8220;felt&#8221; like home when we walked in.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the unknown is stressing me out.<\/p>\n<p>Living with &#8220;the Strata&#8221;, and wondering how Jeremy will handle the &#8220;rules&#8221; of the Strata, and we read the minutes wrong in one area and totally believed that there was a rule that ALL the venetian blinds HAD to be down (<em>touching the window sills<\/em>) and the options were either opened or closed&#8230;..I would feel like I was in a prison.  Apparently, the Strata &#8220;tried&#8221; to pass this as a rule and it was denied 9 votes to 11 votes.  I can&#8217;t even fathom what kind of people live here.  Not only that, but the kids aren&#8217;t allowed to ride their bikes in the complex.  I&#8217;m not sure that there are any kids who are my kid&#8217;s ages let alone very many kids in the town home at all.  I know there are a few and in the minutes over the past 2 years there is exactly ONE complaint about some owner putting up a swing set (<em>which of course is going to get some flack as the rules clearly state that you CANNOT DO THAT under penalty of death<\/em>).  No Children related complaints, so that&#8217;s saying something.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure what it&#8217;s saying exactly, but it&#8217;s got to be saying something, right?<\/p>\n<p>I had this notion that when we bought our first place that I&#8217;d be so excited and that I&#8217;d be planning and dreaming and hoping and wishing and all I feel is&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;depressed.<\/p>\n<p>How horrid is that?<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with me?<\/p>\n<p>I could be lying.  I could tell you how excited I am.  (<em>I am excited to be putting money into our future and not into someone else&#8217;s future.<\/em>)  I could go on and on about how this is the best thing ever and blah, blah, blah, blah&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not.  I&#8217;m just being honest.<\/p>\n<p>This is all new for me and frankly a little scarey.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not scared of the mortgage.  Its just the blinking unknown&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Why do all my control issues rise up now?  I thought that I had made such big strides forward away from all that crap that terrorized my life for SO MANY YEARS&#8230;..why is it such an issue now.<\/p>\n<p>I can see the town home in my head&#8230;.when it&#8217;s been updated.  It&#8217;s beautiful.  It&#8217;s one of those things where you can look at it and even looking past the 80&#8217;s blue window treatments and curtains&#8230;.and the carpet in the main floor bathroom (<em>old man splash back, YUK!<\/em>) and the pink-tinted white walls and I can see us entertaining and enjoying it.  If we had unlimited funds, I would slightly rearrange the kitchen and put in an Island and shrink the length of one wall that separates the kitchen and dining room.  See, I can totally see it.  It&#8217;s a great place&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Monday morning now&#8230;&#8230;I started this yesterday&#8230;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I thought I had finished this post up and published it, but apparently Jon and I were talking so much that I totally forgot that I hadn&#8217;t even finished this let alone posted it&#8230;..nice.  Shows a little where my head space is.<\/p>\n<p>I had a good sleep last night, and even though I still don&#8217;t feel SO FREAKING excited about everything&#8230;.it doesn&#8217;t all feel quite so depressing.  <\/p>\n<p>I think that I&#8217;ll spend the day tidying my house and possibly packing a few things &#8211; if I feel like it.  I&#8217;m just putting it out there that I am also going to make a meal plan for this week AND post it.  It will help this week to flow just a little smoother.  <\/p>\n<p>Is it horrible that I am looking forward to September.  Things should be settled by then (<em>and here is here my inner pessimist says, &#8220;Yah, but what new things will come have come up&#8230;.isn&#8217;t that horrid?<\/em>) and we will be living in our house and settling into routines and I&#8217;m hoping that I will feel a bit less &#8220;outta control&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I am only slightly apologizing for my extreme over use of punctuation.  It&#8217;s a semi-accurate representation of how I feel &#8211; all exclaim-ey and everything.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m off to figure out a meal plan for this week and then I&#8217;ll post it and My next post after that&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m gonna post about something that has NOTHING to do with all this stupid house business.  YAH!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday June 7th un-published post Guess what our Realtor brought us this morning? An offer from the owner&#8217;s of THE HOUSE. I&#8217;m guessing that they figured that we were LYING when we said that we had another offer that we were planning on buying if they didn&#8217;t get back to us. SO STUPID! I&#8217;m so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/youll-never-believe-thisbut-you-probably-will\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You&#8217;ll Never Believe This&#8230;but You Probably Will!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}