After a CRAZY day, we have a CONTRACT!

 Yay!  

I didn't blog yesterday because I was completely and utterly exhausted, and you will see why in a second.   

Shea and I spoke the night before, saying that we would sign the offer in the morning.  We left it until yesterday morning because there had been showings on Sunday that may have resulted in a bidding war.  But that was not to be.  Sorry, but not sorry.  We are not good at gambling!  It takes too much out of us!

So I spoke with Shea in the morning.  She thought we should counter.  There were three issues:  There was no mention of the washer/dryer.  The buyer was expecting us to pay for the lot survey, and there wasn't mention of our personal belongings, which is standard for such a contract.  We agreed that Shea needed to send a counteroffer to the buyer.  She wrote it up, we signed it, and she sent it off.  

So we waited some more, and I settled into doing some office work.  At 12:08pm, Shea called to say there was one more person who wanted to see the house, at 1pm?  REALLY?!?  Less than an hour?!?!  Lucky I was dressed already (which isn't normally the case, but I thought I had an online appointment, but that got switched).  But the beds weren't made, and the house wasn't in ready condition.  I scurried around and got all the stuff cleaned and polished and put away, and I made the beds.  I loaded Poor Kitty in his bye-bye box, and started out the door, and was met by OMG!  A foot of snow had fallen.  At least 6" since Bryan had left for work.  

I managed to get a skinny path shoveled to the car.  I made sure that our Bridge to Nowhere (a couple pallets we always set across the roadside at the sidewalk, to keep us up out of the standing water and mud that are inevitably part of Mud Season every year here in Kremmling) was shoveled off so nobody took a header off it if hidden in the FOOT OF STUPID SNOW.

I drove to the local grocery store and sat, panting in the parking lot, having just escaped in time.  And I waited.  

Shea texted me that they were done looking, so I went back home.  Today being trash day, the garbage can was sitting out.  The Bridge to Nowhere was now covered with snow and I couldn't really see it.  The snow plow had been through, so there were banks of snow everywhere.  I forgot about the Bridge to Nowhere, and shot the drift between the garbage can and where the lawn would be, to end up in my parking spot.  Too late, I realized, the snowbank contained one of the pallets from the Bridge.  My front end flew over but my back wheels got hung up on the pallet.  I was stuck.  Luckily in front of the house.  But now, the pallet was jammed up underneath my car.  

I didn't start crying, which is my "per usual".  I got all of my crap back into the house, including Poor Kitty in his box, and I just sat down.  I texted Bryan what I had done.  I texted Shea, and said that I could not do any more showings, please LORD, because I was stuck and could not go anywhere.  She laughed and said she wouldn't bother me again.  And I just sat there.  After a while I turned on the TV.  I sat there until Bryan got home, and I hoped that my car was ok after what I put it through.  

Bryan got home.  He wasn't mad, but he had that Eeyore look of exasperation I normally get when he's tired of my shit, hahaha.  He worked the pallet free, and after that, he was in a better mood, because it came out easy and there seemed to be no damage.

But while I sat there, Shea texted me again that we had a contract.  The people accepted our counter offer and we were GOLDEN.  So all is well that ends well!     

Now we have serious work to do.  I have to get the carpets cleaned.  We decided if it is possible, that we will get them professionally done, just to save us a lot of headaches.  So therefore, I need to get everything out of the bedrooms and staged in the living/dining area.  I have to get the place cleaned.  Again, I might just get it done professionally, because I just can't do it in the timeframe that it needs done, and still be able to function.  We need to schedule a trip to Wisconsin to haul our first load and get it stored.  We have one easy chair and the old shower stall to get Facebooked out of here.  So, crazy busy starts today.