intro to house hunting with doreen and dave

i have spent the day trying to figure out how to start this. so much pressure to make this as much fun as the wedding blog (seriously, i am losing it). i can only hope that this "adventure" ends as well as the wedding adventure did.

so here we are. i know one person is reading this (what's up kenzie!), so i guess i will get started with how we got to this point in our lives.

dave and i spent our one year anniversary meeting our new real estate agent - marge. we loved her as soon as we met her, and we started our adventure that same day. we have been following the real estate market online (realtor.com & zillow.com have become addictive), and we were ready to put all that we had learned to practice with finally looking at homes. we were so naive.

this is our house hunting story...good and bad...funny and depressing...crazy and boring. take it or leave it. i am not making you read this, you choose to waste your time reading my run on sentences and listening to me freak out about the process that hgtv and tlc make look like such a happy experience. they are crazy. i have yet to see people on house hunters, my first home, property virgins, etc. break down in tear or scream at their husbands because of something as trivial as counter tops in a kitchen or the age of a roof.

it is also important to note the following:

• i will not be talking about work or my employer. i love what i do and who i work for. yes, everyone has bad days and i am sure that i am a little more stressed out because of the career i have chosen. oh well.
• i will control my language. promise. it will be hard and it will allow me to break out my thesaurus for creative ways to express myself, but maybe i will learn something in the process.
• please leave my grammar alone. i write as i speak. this isn't for a grade, soliciting a donor or trying to win the pulitzer prize. just pretend that we are having a phone conversation or chatting online, ok?
• dave will not be posting on this site. yes, the site is named "the adventures of doreen and dave" but dave has no interest in this blog or any blog. proof is that i am still waiting for him to write our honeymoon blog -- waiting for 375 days to be exact.
• in place of addresses, names and other items that could hurt me or others, dave and i have created nicknames for things. you will see us talk about homes with names like "yellow ghetto", "area 51" or "old marianne". we want to protect the innocent from my insanity and my need to vent online to others.

now i can get started. sorry for my bitter tone, but this post is coming on the eve of...well...i don't want to ruin the surprise....i am a little late in getting this story started, we are actually already deep in the process of our search, but i will get you caught up quickly so you can be here with us real-time when everything either falls apart or we find our first home...

happy hunting,

doreen