4th July 2007

Happy 4th…

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I am not feeling happy.

After a humiliating piece of feedback about the house, we spent all day cleaning, painting, decluttering.  So, of course, the house looks even worse.

There’s something about a good dose of humiliation.  It makes you work like a dog.  I suppose this is good, in the generic philosophical sense, but right now it doesn’t feel good.  In reality, it makes me want to kick things, pout, and say “SCREW YOU!” to the feedback-giver.  Real mature.

In the meantime, I screwed up FY end because my brain has vacated the premises.  Anyone have an extra brain I can borrow?

Happy fourth.  I hope there were fireworks where you were; ours were cancelled on Monday.

In two weeks and one day, the movers come to pack.  They can’t come soon enough for me right now.

There were little puffs of clouds in the sky today, forming and reforming, with little veils of virga here and there.  This is promising; it means there’s moisture up aloft.  On the other hand, there’s absolutely no moisture down on the ground–our high relative humidity has hit 18% once today and once yesterday; yesterday’s low relative humidity was 2%, today’s was 3%.  Yesterday’s high was 93F; today’s was 96F.  It’s hot, it’s dry as a bone, and the beginning of monsoon season means we’re going to have a bunch of dry thunderstorms as that moisture aloft starts building up.  Let’s put 96F, 3% humidity, and dry thunderstorms together, why don’t we?

Maybe the house will just burn up and we’ll be able to get the insurance money…

Aren’t I just a little ray of sunshine?

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There are currently 6 responses to “Happy 4th…”

  1. 1 On July 5th, 2007, Johnny said:

    There’s a couple of shows on cable showing before & after on the home staging after the homeowners get the very negative feedback from professionals or people being filmed during the (first) open house. It is facinating.

  2. 2 On July 5th, 2007, Julie Pippert said:

    Oh yeah you need to watch Curb Appeal (the afore-referenced show).

    I know to our eyes as homeowners things look fine but few people have the ability to envision.

    Just pack it *all* up, seriously. All the books, all the photos, all the knick knacks. Even most of the clothes. Empty makes it look bigger.

    Walk into Bombay Company or similar and note the incredibly generic groups of threes, and have maybe one group of three per surface, or a clear surface.

    Did your realtor give you tips?

    Sorry about the hurtful feedback. But I’m glad you are making something good out of it.

    (HUGS) and GL!

  3. 3 On July 5th, 2007, Elaine said:

    I’m beginning to believe there is nothing as demoralizing as trying to sell your house while still living in it. Seriously. Today I just couldn’t do any more “staging” (MY GOD people, I have a 20 month old, she doesn’t stage)and took a nap. Actually inspired by your earlier post re: stress and sleep. Hope it gets better for you.

  4. 4 On July 5th, 2007, bh said:

    I’d lend you my brain, but I fear it is likely to hurt rather than help.

    Hang in there

  5. 5 On July 5th, 2007, kris said:

    i watched designed to sell for a year before we put our house up. i emptied my closets and packed away 90% of pictures and knick knacks, painted all living areas and had the carpets cleaned. we sold to the first person who looked at it. this was last august as the markets were supposed to be reversing. of course this was in ohio where there was no real boom to begin with. good luck. just clean and declutter…clean and declutter…

  6. 6 On July 5th, 2007, Theresa said:

    The more you can get rid of now the easier your move will be and the more roomy your home will appear to buyers. Hah! I say this as we continue to sit in our house piled high with all the boxes we took out of my parents’ house last week-with my dad sleeping in the midst of all the chaos on the pull-out sofa in the living room. No wonder he keeps waking up and saying “What happened to me?!”

    If you find out where you can get an extra brain let me know-I think I left mine in China 4 years ago.

    Watching Designed To Sell is very inspirational.

    You’ll get there. And when you get to Alaska you’ll feel better than when you finished a semester in college.
    These events are life finals! When you get to Alaska the first thing you should do is something fun, There will always be time to unpack later.

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