No More Waiting, Now just Scurrying!

Well, I suppose if you tell the world via your blog about the impatience you feel...the world listens. Within 24 hours I knew that we were NOT going to be able to purchase the house we are currently renting, and I received my first legal documented contract from the animation company in China.  So, in other words, we didn't get the house, but I feel positive about getting the writing job :) I guess if I had to choose which I wanted more, it would have been the writing job.  I dread the idea of moving again, but hopefully it will only be across the street.  There is a very nice house for sale, and would suit our families needs quite well.  Of course, it is a little above what we were intending to spend, but it will be well worth it in the end.  So please say a little prayer and cross your fingers for us, as we pursue the purchase of a new home.

Life is so funny when you think of it.  We all think we have things mapped out, and that is such a joke.  Life comes at us in all directions.  We have to be ready to rock, roll, and run if we need to!  Or pack in my case, which I have had enough of in the last eight years for certain.  What I really need is my super duper amazing cousin Terry Howerton to show up like a tornado and have my stuff packed, moved, unpacked, and pictures on the wall before the sun has set!!! I have never, ever, EVER seen anyone move like that pretty lady can.  Definately a gift, and to have a beautifully decorated home ready for pictures to be taken for Better Homes and Garden's to boot!  Moving and decorating is very much NOT my gift.  Ask me to write a book in a day, I can do it.  Ask me to keep fifty kids busy for two hours, I can do it.  Ask me to pick paint colors, wall paper, or fabric and accessories...forget it! I once picked shutter colors for my first house Bill and I lived in after getting married.  The color was basically Smurf blue, which was not well received by Bill, friends, or the neighbors.  I mean, hey, it looked good on the color swatch at the paint store, LOL!

So although I am not looking forward to moving; I am looking forward to the extra space we will have in the new house. I am very excited about being able to put some roots down, even though it is far from my family and friends back home.  And best of all, my daughter is thrilled she will continue to be near her new friends she has made in the neighborhood.  This...all contingent on us getting the house across the street.  If not, then our back up house is about three miles away.  Nice house, just different neighborhood, but our hope is Lily will have friends from school in that area if we have to go that route.  Whatever happens with the house, I at least know how to get to work and make something happen, and I'm not waiting around to find out.  And I am super pumped about the up and coming writing assignment adventure.  Guess I will smile and just move on :)

Waiting, waiting, waiting...(Sigh)

Ok, so what is worse than not knowing? WAITING!  I have been waiting now for a week to find out if they are going to sell us the house we are currently renting...still nothing! And I am waiting for an email about screenwriting for an animation, nothing. I usually check my emails fairly often, but I may wear the checker button out checking for these two important emails. Patience is totally not my cup of tea.  I am that person that decides what I want or need, then sits down to figure out what it will take to get it.  And surely not the kind of personality that shrugs and just sits patiently! No, no, no...must do something quick to get quick results is my motto! This is why I am dying here; I would like to do something to hurry these emails, but its pretty much impossible :( I have no choice but to wait.  Did I mention I am not a fan of waiting? LOL!

Waiting can be difficult on anyone about any number of things, eh? Waiting on the contractions to begin the birthing process, waiting on test results from the doctors office, waiting on test scores at school, waiting to hear a loved one is okay after a natural disaster strikes their home, waiting for Santa to come while you are sleeping Christmas Eve, or waiting to go on a relaxing vacation. Some waiting is going to end positively, and others, well...not so much.  I realize I am not the first or only person who has trouble waiting. As a matter of fact, I bet I have quite a bit of company in this area, and many of you struggle with waiting and patience too.

I suppose for those of us who lack patience, and often worry while we wait should at least try to just not think about it. But that certainly is a tall order for a professionally impatient person like myself. Of course, my impatience and worry over whatever I'm waiting on has little to no influence on what I'm waiting for each day.  So, in that case, I guess I will try not to check my emails two hundred times tomorrow, and be as patient as I possibly can be under the circumstances.  Nothing else really to do other than smile and just move on :)

Not Knowing is the Hardest Place to Be!

If you are like me, when something in your life is undecided or up in the air, it can send you in a tiz!  I am one of those "just tell me what it is and I will deal with it" kind of people.  But when things like where we are going to live, or other large variables that are important to the stability in my life...I catapult into high stress mode.  This is where I am today, so I will be brief.  Especially since my Luke just informed me he "puked" in my room on the carpet. He must have gotten choked, and then gagged, and then well...you know :)

Don't worry, I cleaned it up before I came back to write this, LOL!  So, when we knew we were going to be moving to Wake Forest, NC, due to the current housing market, we had to sell our house before we could put in an offer or even look at houses here.  Needless to say, we sold our house, they wanted us out yesterday...so we ended up renting here in the area we felt best suited us...and now we are just shy of 60 days from needing to either buy this house we have been renting, or purchase another house.  Sounds easy enough, right?  Of course not!!

The people we are renting from live in Australia, and although we have given them an offer, we have yet to know if they even want to sell to us at a reasonable price.  This is where the unknown is driving me nuts.  Should I stay or should I go now??? I am a planner so I have to put a contingency plan into effect in case they say no.  I have been scouring the internet for homes that would best meet our needs, the best price per square foot, and making sure my daughter is still close enough to her school that it doesn't change, or else off with my head it would be!  I just want to know, if we can relax and enjoy the Christmas season, or if we will be driving around looking at houses to secure a place to live.  We were hoping to know whether they were selling to us by Sunday.  We are still waiting.  And we must let our leasing agency know by Friday if we are staying or not.  I will be a ball of nerves this week for sure.  Now, if the backup houses could just not sell until I know, I will not have a heart attack. What else can I do but wait, smile and just move on :)