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November 1, 2007 at 10:44 am · Filed under Blogroll, House Woes
I’ve been taking a couple of days off from posting because I just haven’t been feeling too hot. I have all day nausea and of course many times that’s followed by a good ole’ run to the toilet.
Plus, I’ve been subbing.
Today I’m subbing elementary music and on my lunch break.
Tuesday I subbed high school math and that was a breeze because I had a student teacher that taught all of the classes!
The latest news is that our furnace has two cracks in our exchanger and so we’re in the process of not using it (since it releases carbon monoxide) and getting quotes for a new furnace.
We have two quotes that have come in so far - one for $4,000 and the other for $3,400. YIKES.
I guess you’ll see me doing more blogging in the upcoming months!
October 29, 2007 at 2:41 pm · Filed under House Woes
I’m sitting here at the Border’s cafe and I can’t stay awake! I keep dozing off and I woke myself up snoring!
Last night I slept really good but of course I was up every hour to go to the bathroom. Margot even let me sleep in today and took Graem to daycare.
Of course, I woke up right before they left because we have what appears to be septic issues. I called the plumber and the septic guy and both deny any problems until crap is literally backed up in the house.
Our worry is that there seems to be a warm spot on the grass where frost didn’t occur and Margot has this idea that it’s either clogged up or a septic pipe has burst.
I think I’m scared to go home.
October 22, 2007 at 2:10 pm · Filed under House Woes, The Boob Tube
Our living room needs a serious overhaul. Our rug has stains on it from kids and the animals have picked it to death.
Our television is starting to get dim corners and I’m afraid that our home theatre system has bit the dust a few times and keeps coming back to life.
I guess if I’m dreaming I should think of an upstairs family room with discount home theater seating, a sweet new big screen television, and those tiny speakers that sound amazing.
October 22, 2007 at 1:44 pm · Filed under House Woes
Before we moved into our house the good ole man that owned it had the house hired a remediation company to come and put footer drains around the house so that the basement wouldn’t leak.
Thank God, we’ve only had one instance that we’ve had water in our basement due to rain.
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October 16, 2007 at 11:58 am · Filed under Finances, House Woes, PP
We just had dinner with our friend Cheri, Ashlyn, and her mother last night at The Pines. She’s thinking about moving back and with that comes looking for a house and looking for cheap mortgages.
Since Cheri already has a monster house in Dallas that she plans on keeping she really doesn’t need a huge house here in Ithaca. She is considering renting as an option too.
More than likely it’s going to take sitting down and really crunching the numbers. (Good thing Cheri’s a CPA!)
When we were home shopping we made sure to compare mortgages and that allowed us to negotiate a really good rate and also get some closing costs included in the deal.
I really can’t imagine having to pay two mortgages! Heck, we can barely afford our one mortgage!
NationsFinance.co.uk offers a great website full of financial information that will make your mortgage shopping a walk in the park! Not to mention, they also have the option to compare different mortgages available.
This post sponsored by: NationsFinance.co.uk
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