Bye bye house
Just wanted to let you guys know that as of Wednesday morning, our little house in houston is officially SOLD! What a relief for us, that it took less than two months, and that we got just under our asking price. Hooray! No more mortgage and rent at the same time.
We don't really know what we're going to do regarding more permanent residence in Austin, yet, but we will most likely move to someplace else in Austin once our lease is up at the complex. Yes, a one-bedroom apartment is a little on the small side. We could really use at least one more room. But we are making do, and very happy to be "alltogether" in the NEW telephone room. (And I'm still loving having a dishwasher and disposal at my beck and call.)
Zoey's doing well at school, and is only a little discombobulated during nap time. She loves being around other kids. We're just so lucky that she is a flexible, easy-going kid, as she's been subjected to so much change in the past two months: we moved; we weaned off bottle and breast; we started school. I think (as Bethany has pointed out during one of our nice phone conversations) it helped that there was so much change at once. Of course, now she has a cold, but we are in Houston anyway until the end of the week.
Which means I got to be in town for the Astros clinching the pennant. Unfortunately, I watched it at my parent's house, with just them, and all three of us were thrilled as we are all long-time fans. But I would have loved to have been at Rudyard's, where I watched so many games, or with ScottButt or Lynn, who were my Astros buddies during all those years where tickets to the games (at the Dome) were so easy to come by. I remember once walking up to see a game with Lynn L., thinking we'd just go buy cheap seats at the box office and running into a gentleman who simply asked if we wanted two field-level tickets cuz he had extra. Or the time me and Scott went to a game against Cincinnati, a game that came to be known as the "brawlgame" due to an abundance of dugout-clearing fights between the two teams. Or the one playoff game vs. Atlanta I went to that year the astros were so damn good they won over 100 games and then blew it in the first round. I've seen so many games, but Wednesday night's game was the sweetest. I just wish I'd gotten to drive around honking my horn and high-fiving strangers. And if I still had my house, I know I would have heard the sounds of celebration all around me, which would have been beautiful, if somewhat scary. My sister insists that I come back to Houston to watch some of the world series games with her, but I doubt I'll do that. I'll just have to find some fans in Austin to watch the games with me.
We don't really know what we're going to do regarding more permanent residence in Austin, yet, but we will most likely move to someplace else in Austin once our lease is up at the complex. Yes, a one-bedroom apartment is a little on the small side. We could really use at least one more room. But we are making do, and very happy to be "alltogether" in the NEW telephone room. (And I'm still loving having a dishwasher and disposal at my beck and call.)
Zoey's doing well at school, and is only a little discombobulated during nap time. She loves being around other kids. We're just so lucky that she is a flexible, easy-going kid, as she's been subjected to so much change in the past two months: we moved; we weaned off bottle and breast; we started school. I think (as Bethany has pointed out during one of our nice phone conversations) it helped that there was so much change at once. Of course, now she has a cold, but we are in Houston anyway until the end of the week.
Which means I got to be in town for the Astros clinching the pennant. Unfortunately, I watched it at my parent's house, with just them, and all three of us were thrilled as we are all long-time fans. But I would have loved to have been at Rudyard's, where I watched so many games, or with ScottButt or Lynn, who were my Astros buddies during all those years where tickets to the games (at the Dome) were so easy to come by. I remember once walking up to see a game with Lynn L., thinking we'd just go buy cheap seats at the box office and running into a gentleman who simply asked if we wanted two field-level tickets cuz he had extra. Or the time me and Scott went to a game against Cincinnati, a game that came to be known as the "brawlgame" due to an abundance of dugout-clearing fights between the two teams. Or the one playoff game vs. Atlanta I went to that year the astros were so damn good they won over 100 games and then blew it in the first round. I've seen so many games, but Wednesday night's game was the sweetest. I just wish I'd gotten to drive around honking my horn and high-fiving strangers. And if I still had my house, I know I would have heard the sounds of celebration all around me, which would have been beautiful, if somewhat scary. My sister insists that I come back to Houston to watch some of the world series games with her, but I doubt I'll do that. I'll just have to find some fans in Austin to watch the games with me.
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congratulations family pool!
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