Author: leilani

Okay, so I don’t really turn purple, mostly.  Almost never, anyway.  It just drives me insane when people throw trash beside trash cans, when it would take all of two additional seconds to actually hit the mark.  It happens at work: hello?  Paper towels go INSIDE the trash can, not next to, behind or on…

The house is still in limbo – the deal isn’t officially dead at this point, just got thrown into negotiations.  Seriously – the folks who are selling have already had two potential buyers walk away, so it would be idiotic to toss another offer to the wind.  Then again, there are a lotta stupid people…

Yeesh.  The idiot factor hath reared its ugly head.  The folks selling the house asked to close in June and rent back from us for a month.  That was reasonable and we were fine with that.  Then they started playing games. They wanted me to agree to waive the appraisal clause so if the house…

We haven’t heard any final word yet about the house, though we did get a bit of news.  Apparently the owners accepted a cash offer before ours, BUT the offer came attached to a required earnest money payment to be deposited by Friday, and as of yesterday it hadn’t appeared.  The current homeowners were actually…

Even an old fart like me can learn something new now and then.  I used to HATE figuring out – for the first time in a newish car – which way to pull up to the gas pumps.  So I did my best ostrich impression, pretending that with all my contortions I just might be…