Sold!
Sorry to everyone for falling behind on the updates! It’s been a bit of a perfect storm with moving, cleaning and selling our old house, RJ’s birthday party, and the actual perfect storm that rolled through last week and destroyed the city.
The good news is that the house has sold, which is a huge relief. Mad props to Mum who has spent day and night cleaning, tidying, scrubbing, gardening, dusting, disinfecting, digging, planting, licking, painting, herding, preening, fluffing, tending, washing and generally preparing the house for the hordes of potential buyers that we expected to come through. In typical was-it-all-really-worth-it-I-can’t-believe-we-just-wasted-two-weeks style, the house sold on the first day it was shown, to one of the first four couples who came to see it.
This is incredibly annoying. It’s as if we had prepared an amazing five-course meal, selected the perfect wines to go with it and they’ve wandered in, picked at the salad and left. They didn’t even see it during the daytime! I feel like we need to call them up and point out all the fantastic stuff that we’ve done to the place in the past month. After all, if we’re not going to be able to enjoy it, I want to make damn sure that someone out there appreciates it.
And yet, after all that, we are incredibly relieved and thankful to these wonderful people who have, with a few simple scribbles with their pen, saved us from the horrible world of stress, endless negotiation and financial anxiety associated with not being able to sell.
Thank you mystery people. We’re glad you like our house. We’re going to miss it a lot.
P.S. You had better be nice to our neighbours.
