This has really been a tough year for me both emotionally as well as financially.
This year seems to have started in May with such events as my 55th birthday celebration! All of the kids were there, my sister and brother in law and even my great niece Suzy! The celebration was wonderful and the gift of a scrapbook made by my daughters was and still is soooo awesome. It was the best birthday I have EVER had and I doubt I'll ever have one as nice again.
It seemed to go pretty much downhill from that point on....
At the time of my birthday celebration I was only a couple of weeks into being a diabetic. Since then I've lost more than 25 pounds, dropped from a size 16 (but should have been in an 18) to a size 10 and although I may look a little better on the outside....my emotional needs have been totally screwed up and are not being fulfilled. It's sort of like being a binge eater and not having anything to binge upon! (laughing a bit here)
Some good things have followed the bad.....I had to have my little dog put down because she was soooo sick and a few weeks later, Chuckie the Chihuahua came into my life.
I went out in search of my own townhouse, or condo or small single family home and have ended up with Brian adding his credit and his money to the pot so that we could have a nicer home in a better neighborhood. Without his input of credit and cash, he tells me that I would NEVER have been able to do it by myself. (And perhaps he's right, but does he really have to say it in that tone?)
As for the housing situation....I am not sure how I feel about my journey into being a home owner. There's a part of me that is very greatful and a bigger part that seems to be filled with venom. When I began looking for a house I was only qualified up to 150,000.00 max. So of course the market had many houses but investors were snatching these homes up very quickly so that they could turn them around as rental properties. I just didn't want to have to rent again and be forced to move, either from an apartment or from someone's rental house. I'm just getting too old for boxes and packing tape, much less the lifting and toting of things that should have been thrown out years ago when my marriage ended.
To make a very long story shorter....after looking at several houses, making an offer on one and having the bank accept a higher offer, we finally found a house that seemed even better to us. Unfortunately we were supposed to close on this house today and it doesn't look like that's going to happen. The bank is delaying the recording of the sale. All of this is out of our control. And so we wait.
Have I told you that one of my worst attributes is what I become when I have to wait on anything??
More on that later.
