Month: August 2017

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Brain Dead

Bonjour……Mon marie and I started intensive French School today – with a private tutor for EACH of us, no less.  (That’s really cool.) How long has it been since you really worked out your brain?  Five years ago? Twenty five years ago? My brain has been stretched today and is leaking out of my ears.  🙂   I even had homework.  12 hours of one-on-one for me this week, and about 20 hours for Tanner.  Now THAT’S INTENSE!  The axiom says, “You are never too old to learn….” Yeah, but does Axiom know how to speak French?!?

We have a signed contract on our house!  Which is wonderful and a blessing.  And strangely anti-climatic.  You build up this frenzy of getting everything JUST SO, and then the sugar low hits…….IF the appraisal goes well, and IF the inspection goes well, we’ll be SELLING OUR HOME with a closing date of September 29.  Selling was the goal, but now that we are actually DOING it, what the heck are we doing??????  I think I must be sleepwalking.  Darn that Advil PM.  You know the song, Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell (and later the Counting Crows)?  “Don’t it always seem to go  That you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone…”
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Pray for Houston

Please pray for Houston now.  Poor people, rich people, students stranded, patients in the huge medical centers, doctors and nurses that can’t get to the hospitals…………the fourth largest city in our nation is suffering.

Psalm 147:3    “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”

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You Eat Elephants One Bite at a Time

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK.  Now that THAT is out of my system…..

Wish you could have seen me last night, standing on the bed in pj’s banging my wooden back-scratcher on the A/C vent in the ceiling, trying to get the squirrels in the attic to PIPE DOWN!  (Great visual, huh?)

We have a good offer on our house!  In 24 hours!  Not sure if it will all work out, but sooooooo encouraging.  Countdown to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, 8/26 for their reply to our counter-offer………

Now starts the mandatory real-estate-mambo-#5 negotiation dance, so we’ll see what happens!  I’m telling you, God’s hand is everywhere in this.

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Every Day’s a Winner…..(repeat. repeat. repeat…)

This is me after tonight…..photographer coming tomorrow am to take house pictures for online realty marketing.  Our home of 23+ years is for sale Wednesday…..this moving business is HARD.  Herculean.  I already posted the sale announcement on newsletters, FB, and neighborhood outlets to start a fire.  We’ll see what happens.  New roof – check.  Mulch – check.  House spotless and tidy……ummmm…….yeah, about that…..

Eclipse was super cool, Brendan and Co. came up from Atlanta, a fun afternoon of supernatural events!  Helped take my mind off my deer-in-the-headlight paralysis. You know, my outlook is already changing… Continue reading “Every Day’s a Winner…..(repeat. repeat. repeat…)”

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Maintaining Sanity Is Not as Easy as it Sounds!

The additions to the ‘list’ of MUST DO items seems to be accelerating at a rate 2.78x faster than the completions!  Right now it’s a complete balance of mental exercise and physical work, which is probably a great combination, or else I’d not sleep at night!

Backwards planning:  Looks like launch date is first week in October…..(the sooner you get there, the sooner you finish, eh?)  Packers and movers, around Sept. 18-26.  House goes live on the market, 5 DAYS from now……..no pressure, take all the time you need…..   Continue reading “Maintaining Sanity Is Not as Easy as it Sounds!”