Queen of Rambles

This year has been a year of change for us, mostly for the good. Mike has a new job with new responsibilities. We signed a contract on a house. I stuck to a New Years Resolution and it changed my life (Be Vivacious! That’s my new motto). I know the [...]

I thought the sellers of our townhouse were not going to get back to us today even though we knew they needed to sell. Our realtor called around 5:30 with a counter-offer. We gave a counter-counter-offer, they gave a counter-counter-counter offer and suddenly we are closing on Jan. 30 for about $5000 more [...]

Now Livejournal is down. I swear I have a giant magnet attached to my head that takes down websites with a single SWOOSH. Only I guess the servers are no where near my head, so you’ll have to come up with another theory. I believe my regular blog is back in business. [...]

We spent the morning looking at seven townhouses in the area. I can’t believe the difference 9 months, a recession and dropping interest rates made. Even the worst place we saw today was better than the best places we were looking at before. We’re going to our realtor tomorrow to sign papers [...]

This site has been up and down and up and down and up again. If you are desperate to read about my life, my LJ almost always behaves itself. You can find it at carrieb.livejournal.com. They are saying that one of my sites is using up too much RAM because of a [...]

It’s been a fun day around here. For years I found Christmas to be the most depressing day of the year, but you can’t be depressed when you have a preschooler in the house. Preschoolers are the very epitome of Christmas Joy.

If you want to overload on holiday cuteness you can find a [...]

Despite Erik’s wretched cough, Grain_damaged and her daughter Sophie came to see us today! I was very worried about infecting them, but as she said yesterday she didn’t come all the way to the East coast to be a short 15 minutes away and not stop by.
I hope she doesn’t regret it in a [...]

I don’t think I’m going to survive today. I already had a little spat with Mike on the phone and ended up crying (totally my fault). Erik was up seal barking for several hours until I rubbed him down with Vicks. Then he downgraded to a regular cough. I doubt I [...]

I think I can finally relax! I was totally freaking out about Christmas today, but I went and stood in several long lines and think I have everything under control. It really helps to have a husband who is willing to help. I don’t know why I wasn’t considering the man power [...]

We went house hunting today and now we’re in the “I wants it” mode. Apparently things are starting to stabilize (according to our agent–no telling how trustworthy he is) so most of the houses we wanted to look at are under contract. Boo!
But! We saw a perfect townhouse in a perfect location [...]