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Selling it. Finally.
Our house will (cross your fingers) be sold as of next Monday, despite a few setbacks. Namely, home inspection items (nothing too major) and a stupid VA appraisor that came in $7,000 under sale price. That's right. Apparently our house has lost 15% of it's value in the last 5 years. Go figure. The good news is that we renegotiated the contract and it's not much difference to our bottom line. The buyer is very motivated, since she has movers already lined up for this weekend! And I personally just can't wait to have one less stress on these bony shoulders. :) Matt has been a freakin' rockstar with this whole thing, handling it like a pro. I don't know why I've been such a stable person with regards to this house up until now, and in the final stretch I've just completely turned apathetic and surly. Must be the Irish in me. Aside from these few blips, we've been watching the Olympics like it's our job. Back in the day we had ...
Fundraisered out
Listen people, if you have no idea when my birthday is, haven't been to any event I've ever planned, don't know the name of my first-born child, or in some other way register as a "casual acquaintance", don't ask me for money! I just received the 18th (18TH!!!!) request to donate my money to someone's event/race/charity flesh auction. It's annoying! And of course, with this comes the guilt of not giving back to the community, so I just signed up for a monthly donation to the Boston Food Bank and Catholic Relief Services. Take that you event training fools! (I know, I myself have asked for money in the past. I usually inflict it only on my true friends, because I would do the same for them. It's just that I feel that things like running a marathon should be done for personal fulfillment, not guilt-inducingness.) And now, to up the jerk factor, I remember that I promised people hand-written cards if they donated $5 to me a few months ago, ...
Pictures from my Bday
It was frigidly cold, but we still had a great time. (Nothing like running through the streets yelling "WHY AM I NOT WEARING PANTS?!?!?!?!?") Naomi organized an awesome evening that started with drinks at Top of the Hub, then we went to Tapeos for a tapas dinner... In the Prudential Center on our way to the Top of the Hub... Look at the pretty city way below. Reminds me of Vegas :P At Tapeos... I told everyone to model like they were the cast of some hot young show on the teeny-bopper channel :)
A risk
Until 2 years ago, home ownership was the least risky investment you could make. And of all our investments, it has cost us the most dearly in the end. But finally, finally, finally, we're selling our toxic asset. Poor house. It's such a cute thing, it doesn't deserve such a bad name... Anyway, we have a "ratified contract" on our house. That means that they made an offer, we countered, and they accepted. It's going to cost us about $21,000 to sell it. How insane is that? To put it in perspetive, if we take the money that we've been putting toward the mortgage and put it directly in savings, we will make that back in about 14 months. I wish I weren't so caught up in the money aspect of this, but I really am. It's stressful to wipe out your savings in one fell swoop, and have no concrete object to show for it. I'm excited that someone is buying it, and that it will no longer be this huge weight hanging over our heads, but it...