Big Purchase. Maybe.

My parents are quite fond of purchasing houses and updating them or renting them out. One time I went to EFY on Monday and I came home on Saturday and they told me that they bought a house while I was gone. Some people have parents who buy a pizza or perhaps go buy a new book while they're out of town for a week. My parents are just a little more ambitious.

My dad has been asking me for a while when I was going to join in the fun and buy my first house, and suddenly this summer it seemed like a good thing to really do. My sisters have been looking online at www.utahrealestate.com for some houses. I decided to take a gander and just see what was out there. My younger sister, Kristi, found out a house in Bountiful that she loved and ended up going to see it and things started progressing along for her to buy it. (She made and had an offer accepted, but it's a short sale, which isn't at all indicative of the amount of time it will take to close. Things are still in the works but she's still hoping it will all turn out well.) I sent my paperwork to the financial guy who was going to see what Kristi could qualify for just to see what I could qualify for. That gave me more hope and I went out with a realtor, Jill, and I've been looking through houses for a few weeks. Today I went and saw the very first house I went through the first time I went out with the realtor and I really liked it. It's not the fanciest house in the world, but it has 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, all recently remodeled and it seems like a good neighborhood to live in. It's in Sandy, not terribly far from my work. I decided it was worth a shot. I met with Jill tonight and wrote up an offer. Yep, I made an offer on a house. I don't really feel like I'm quite that grown up, but apparently I am! :) I kinda don't think they'll accept and I'm not 100% sure what I'll do with a counteroffer, but for right now I'm pretty excited!

mugged or a visit to the dentist?!?

A rather miserable event took place today. I will give you the facts and you can do your best to deduce what actually happened.
1. a man with the acrid smell of cigarettes mixed with other gross stuff was involved
2. the stinky guy was carrying a gun
3. I left the incident and immediately went to the bank to take care of some business there which was necessary because of the amount of money I forfeited on the spot
4. while at the bank, I could not hold a pen to sign my name because I was shaking uncontrollably (it was weird and luckily went away)
5. my jaw feels like it might've been kicked by a kangaroo
6. no kangaroos were actually involved in any way

Happy guessing!

Vacation Procrastination

I am not ALWAYS a terrible procrastinator, but when I do procrastinate, it isn't always just the boring/wearisome/dumb/annoying stuff I put off. I also like to wait until the last minute to do things like, say, plan and book vacations. My friend, April, and I are going to a Caribbean cruise (SO EXCITED!!!) in less than a month. In fact we'll be back in less than a month from when we booked it and it's a 9-day adventure! Somehow I feel even better about putting off the more miserable things because I also put off the fun stuff. I don't know how that justifies all procrastination, but somehow it does in my mind. I guess that means everything that was on today's to-do list can get moved over to tomorrow and it's time to relax. I mean, I'll probably have to look up fun things to do while we're there and I probably won't get around to doing that anytime soon, so why go clean out my car or something mundane like that?!

About that...

So, I planned on blogging (see post from 5 months ago) and here we are 5 months later. I never quite understood why people were always talking about how they had FINALLY caught up on their blog. It takes some dedication to keep one of these updated! I understand having a blog about this or a blog about that because whenever this or that happens, you know it's time to post something. I'm ready to recommit and blog about everything. Or at least some things. :)