early morning thoughts

i realized last night that one of my favorite things about blogging back when i was doing this for my wedding was having my webmaster/editor call me and laugh at me whenever i sent her my current update. anita also served as my filter in many cases -- like right now...if anita were still my webmaster, i would think twice before send this to her to post, probably would have chosen not to waste every ones time. but i am on my own now (evil smile), and here i am at 4:21am writing a random blog for a couple of reasons:

1. i got up extra early to write an article for work...that isn't going so well because
2. i think that the local international airport was using a different runway last night and we had planes and possibly helicopters flying over our apartment complex starting at 2am (or it could have been the ambien i took that was making me hallucinate...or maybe it was aliens...either way, they were loud!)...and
3. we have new neighbors that just moved in upstairs that have no clue how to live in a shared community (like an apartment) because they were planning guitar hero loudly until after midnight...and now i think they are vacuuming again (it is 4:24am people!!!).
4. and of course there is still the fact that we are waiting for our agent to get back to us about buff's place.

quick update on that (because that is why i am here, to vent about house hunting...not the fact that i am over renting with college students or stupid people).

so friday we put in our offer on buff's place. we didn't hear back from the seller's agent until sunday morning with a "non-counteroffer" -- my definition of a non-counter offer is when the seller comes back with the asking price and no help towards closing or the very generous offer of upping the asking price and offering some pennies towards closing. we countered their non-counteroffer by slightly increasing our original offer.

buff's place held an open house on sunday, and afterwards the selling agent came back with a counter-counteroffer, with which we waited until yesterday to counter back to them with "we are not going any higher than we already have".

we gave them until today (tuesday) around noon to get back to us.

probably not getting this house. bummed but just want to move on already. this process sucks and i can't imagine another three months of looking for homes.

wait...it is silent in the apartment...kind of spooky. i think i am going to go play wii bowling at top volume and see how the kids upstairs like it (or maybe i should start writing that article for work...hmmm...).

happy hunting,

doreen