Adios September

Today is the last day of September. October is going to be a very busy month for me. I have the Wiggles concert, Thanksgiving, my birthday, Halloween (which still consists of finding Rianne a costume) and then moving on the 31st as well. In between October 1st and 31st I have to start and finish packing. I'm presently looking for bubble wrap so I can pack up my breakables that won't be getting used. We have to go to Value Village and buy old blankets to wrap our furniture in so nothing gets scratched up. Rianne's crib took a beating on the move here last year because it wasn't protected in the U-HAUL trailer.

I still have some Real Estate stress because Canada Post can't seem to deliver our deposit cheque to the proper address this time .. when it MATTERS!! One already got sent back to us. So much for Xpress Post. Spending over $14 to mail it out and then they want another $14 and change to return it to sender. Take it and shred it because you aren't getting another penny from me! We're still waiting to see if the replacement cheque gets to them. We had to amend the conditions date once already as a result of Canada Post's incompetence.
I guess one good sign is the house is no longer listed on the web site. That's promising.

I am on a roller coaster that I don't want to be on.
House hunting takes a lot of energy out of a person. It might be easier if we were there in person for viewings and to get the feel of a house but we are strictly going on pictures and home inspections.
We had an offer on a beautiful old Victorian house. It was new on the market and it was an Estate (meaning the owner(s) died and the trustee(s) of the Estate were selling it). We jumped through all the necessary hoops and got a mortgage, showed all the necessary documentation that we were serious and everything. Then came the home inspection the DAY BEFORE our conditional date approached.
The place was a disaster. Looked great but there were little hidden things like Asbestos, needing half a roof, back deck needed to be repaired, it only had 1 outlet per room, damp basement, broken windows, needed a chimney repair .. just to list a few of the issues. Don't get me started about the tacky wallpaper and paneling.
WHEW!! We really dodged a bullet by getting out of that deal without a shadow of a doubt. To top it off one of the sellers (children of the deceased owner) had the nerve to phone the inspector and give him a blast for losing their buyers. Seriously!! Who does that? It wasn't the inspectors fault that the house was a money pit.

A few days later we made an offer on another house. It's one we were interested in a while ago but heard through a REALTOR that it had a very wet basement so we put it on the back burner.
Well we decided to make an offer on the place and it was accepted the same day. We paid for yet another home inspection and a few minor things popped up but nothing too serious. No Asbestos .. yay!! The wet basement can be rectified by installing better rain spouts. Simple and inexpensive to repair to we proceeded with the deal and got a mortgage on that house which ended up to be less expensive than the previous house to all around it was a better deal.
Here are some pictures of the new Keachie residence:



We take possession on November 9th and I'm already anxious to get our Christmas decorations up. They've never been up because I bought them last year on clearance :)

The long weekend is fast approaching. Jon will finally have at least one day off (probably Saturday). We have passes to get into the Telus World of Science here in Edmonton so we'll use them up this weekend. Rianne loved it there the first time we were there. This time I'll have a better camera to capture more memories though and we won't have a Christmas Party to attend.

Rianne has been looking through the Sears Wish Book all morning pointing out her extensive list of things she loves. I hope Santa is prepared :)

We have tickets to see The Wiggles on October 11th at Rexall Place. Rianne doesn't know anything about it yet and she won't know anything until we get there. As soon as she sees the stage she'll know right away who we are there to see. It's going to be fun!!

Since Jon is working a lot we haven't been about to get out and about to do much of anything. We still haven't found a house to move to in November/December in the New Glasgow area so I'm stressing out big time over that. Jon is going to the bank again on Saturday morning to crunch some numbers so we'll have a better idea and another 90 days to find something and make an offer on a place. We found a few places and there's always something major wrong with it. One was a complete dump and totally misrepresented in the picture that was posted and another one has a wet basement and another one was sold.

Pretty soon it will be Halloween again. Rianne wants to be a pirate. Not sure how a costume is going to work out for that one. She wants a feather in her hat and everything. Thank you Captain Feathersword!
The stores should have their costumes out soon, if not already. It's been a while since we've been to the mall and we only go to Walmart for groceries so we don't tour through the entire store to check out the Seasonal section.

I want to get through September first :)