Whew!

Whew, to be sure.

That's how my weekend has been. A total whirlwind. It feels like the weekend began, I blinked and now it's over. Whew!

We started house hunting early last weekend. We found the place we wanted then but didn't know it. After looking at about 2,846 houses since, we came back to the first one we liked and decided it was the one. Now begins the the fun stuff.

Has anyone else recently placed a bid on a home? Lars did recently I'm sure. Well I am curious to know if other states are as bad as this one. We had about 30-35 papers to sign JUST TO OFFER A BID! How rediculous is that? The whole bid process took over 2 hours. It was maddening.

If that isn't proof that lawyers and greedy jerks sueing everyone on a whim is ruining the world, I don't know what is.

That was yesterday. Today our real estate person came over to do the paperwork for listing our home for sale and we had to sign almost as many things just to offer it for sale. Sheesh! I can't wait for the closings. (Sarcasm intended.) I remember closing being annoying, but I think this time will be worse.

The good thing is that our real estate rep. believes our house is awesome and thinks that by next weekend we will have a mini-bidding war going on. It probably won't be on the market for too long is what we were told. Let's hope so.

Boy, it's a good thing we just spent all that dough on the front doors and remodeling the bathroom. (Uh huh, that was indeed sarcasm again, just in case you missed it.)

On the plus side, my Uncle is steadily improving. It doesn't seem unreasonable to believe he could be out of the hospital in 7-10 days. That would be such a relief, mostly for him, but also for those of us making daily visitation trips. It's a hard schedule to maintain. He's so excited that we will be back home again. We will be only 5 minutes from his house once we move.

So that's my weekeend in a nutshell. Hectic to be sure. But pretty OK. I haven't had time to catch up with the blog world, but tomorrow I should be able to. I think I'm having blog withdraw.

Just watch, sometime soon there will be shrinks and medications for people who are addicted to blogging. I can see that happening. Then the self help groups will start up; "Hello, my name is Yankeebob and I'm a blogoholic."

Yeah right. Thanks for sharing.