6 years in our almost-ex-house and 4 years in rental apartments in the Elmwood neighborhood - now we're packing it up, purging the rest, and moving to the 'burbs. The only Elmwood THING I refuse to give up is
East West Yoga, so I'll make "city Saturdays" - come to class, shop, drink coffee.
Why - we live too far from my in-laws to be able to help them - their health is declining. So we're cramming in our stuff into the 2 upstairs bedrooms of their 41 year old house and chucking the rest (which is crap anyway).
When - now, as soon as I stop procrastinating, no later than this weekend. It'll take longer to really clear out all our junk, but we'll move all the need-to-live junk with us by Sunday night. Seriously.
A real estate agent called us today, a friend of our neighbor. I'm sure she's being friendly and kind to help us MOVE along in the process, but really we're not ready to face the market. First of all, there's no financial incentive since we'll have no housing costs in the 'burbs. Second, we're lazy. It's just so much work to make the house look presentable. We are getting fix-up work done right now, so we're not totally HGTV ignorant, but I don't want to hear the agent say, why didn't you put in a second bathroom? Seriously, just let me get my new life under way, live with my in-laws, one of whom has Alzheimer's, commute twice as long to work when the school year starts, help my 6 year old adjust to a new neighborhood and school (ok, I confess this is no work at all, the next 12 years of her education will be a vacation compared to our 3 years in Buffalo public schools), and when that's all squared away, I still refuse to worry about buyers who won't love what I love about this house.
We will find someone who loves this house and the history of the house and the families who lived here, just like we did.
I did hear something about a brawl but don't know any of the details. I have a problem watching baseball on TV. In person it is a lot of fun. There a pitch and you look to see if you what you thought the call was, was what was called. It is a sport where you look all over the field. But on TV it is boaring kinda maybe because on the screen you see everything and don't have any thing to do between pitches, I'm not sure just guessing. I don't know much about Beckham other then that his wife has a reality show and used to be one of the spice girls but no idea who she was. If you want to see more of him I'm sure a sports page on line can tell you when or if he has started playing for the LA team. MLS is on tv if not on any other channel there is an entire soccer channel. In terms of the secret greeting I have no suggestions really :) .
Did not know that - I really don't know anything about him other than he's easy on the eyes and he's a celebrity - I'm easily impressed.
Did you hear that yesterday's (Tuesday) Blue Jays/Yankees game had 2 brawls? (I confess - I don't follow, but I heard guys talking about it.) That would have been interesting to see.
Thanks for the welcome! It's been fun. I was around Elmwood/Auburn today and kept looking at people, thinking, are YOU blogging on estrip? I think we should wear a secret sticker or use a secret greeting or something ...
Since you like Beckham I'm sure you know the reason he was in town was that what ever the LA soccer teams name is was playing Toronto FC. I don't know when exactly or if he was going to play. The last I heard he might not even make the trip, so that was wrong. I was supposed to go to that same Baseball game but plans conflicted so I went to one a couple weeks ago. Welcome to the strip and glad you had fun.