No More Excuses!

Sean informed me yesterday that I wasn’t supposed to tell you all that we’re house hunting, so please ignore everything I’ve said about it up till now…

In other news, I finally made it to exercise last night after what’s seemed like 2 whole months without it. I have been going to classes intermittently throughout November, December, and January, but it really seems like I can’t catch a break (and I’d also rather sleep when the decision comes down to the two).

Sleepy Kitty

Mitten says, “Get in bed. It’s warm in here.”

I feel like I can get back on track now as things are starting to slow down. I’m done being sick (knock on wood). My mom’s recovering well from hip replacement surgery. Our apartment has recovered from flooding… I think. The situation that I’m not supposed to tell you about (see above) may be ending soon.

SO! I’m getting myself back on track. I also talked to a girl at my gym last night who was telling me that she also has a membership to LA Fitness because they are ALL OVER ATLANTA and the surrounding area, so she can go there before work, during her lunch break, after work, etc. because she’s always near a location.  She said their classes aren’t as good as the YMCA, that’s why she keeps her Y membership. But when you just need an excuse to skip the gym, location can’t be your crutch.

Sweaty

Get your sweat on!

I might look into that, because apparently LA Fitness is only $30 a month and if the unsaid situation occurs (see above), I know I’ll always be close to one since there are about 50 million throughout Atlanta. Seriously, I can get to 2 locations in 5 minutes from our apartment. Pretty neato cheato.

ANYWAY. Tomorrow’s the first day of February! Can you believe 2013 is already 1/12 over? Ha ha. I’ll let you know where I’m at on my 2013 New Year’s Resolutions (here’s a forecast: failing a lot so far).

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According to Tesla’s reports, you’re failing hard!

Happy Thursday!

THE House

House hunting has been weird. We’re obviously first-time buyers, so we don’t really know what we’re doing. Fortunately, we have Connie and Ed–the best team of realtors Atlanta could offer. Connie is always keeping us up to date on the latest homes to come on the market at our price point, and Ed is there at the drop of the hat to show us the home and answer all eighty thousand questions Sean will inevitably ask about everything that ever existed in real estate.

A few weeks ago a house popped up on the radar that I thought was THE house.

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We went to check it out after I left work, and I loved it. I love love loved it. It was airy, had good light, tall ceilings, big bedrooms, lots of windows, even a skylight in the living room! No lights during the day! Sean was ok with it until Ed started to point out some of the issues that could affect us in resale: lack of a big dining room, no real laundry room (just hook ups in the garage area), and the odd layout that I thought was amazing would be off-putting to some people. So Sean decided we should look at other houses to see what else was out there.

I still kept this one in the back of my mind, of course, since I thought it was amazing.

Well, last night after looking at a house with a giant (I mean, 20-foot) pit, which scared the hoo-ha out of me (I mean, what kind of bodies could be buried there?), we decided to go back to the house I love and give it one more look. And who happened to be there, but the builder/renovator!

Success Baby

We got to ask him questions and hear his wonderful German accent (oo la la, don’t tell Sean). He was super nice and said he’d be willing to make some of the changes that we were interested in and asked our opinions about his layout, etc. And?!

Sean asked our realtor to make an offer!

So, please send us good thoughts today. I really want this house out of all the houses we’ve seen. It’s in a good neighborhood and pretty good school district, and we’d have an older couple as our next door neighbors (I love old people)! I can’t wait! (Note: I may be getting my hopes up too soon…)

Happy Wednesday!

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