Cars and Football (soccer, if you're perverse and convinced that football is a sport with helmets and padding and frequent stoppages)
Received this in our market report for the week:
"The house was priced too high. The condition of the home was excellent. There is no further interest.
Liked
kitchen and location, but not as large as another home I showed them.
Turns out they have credit issues and will not be in position to
purchase for some time."
Our agent said in an email this morning that she has no idea why that agent would be showing them homes if they aren't pre-qualified.
Why, indeed?
I asked her about the pricing thing since the last agent who showed it at the higher listing price said it was "priced about right". It is listed at a mere 5% above what we paid for it 3 years ago. That means we will lose money due to cost of sale even if we get the current list price. Hence, I don't think we can go any lower.
Blech.
Some good news is that there aren't as many homes for sale in this price range - the supply has dropped from 6 months to 4 months in the past two weeks. We have scheduled a broker's open house on Thursday and another regular open house next Sunday. And we still have tomorrow's showing at this point.
In my quiet time this morning, one word continually came to mind: wait.
Double blech.
Don't pay for expensive online storage systems. Instead, take advantage of gmail's hundreds of megabytes of storage just for you, and mail yourself files.
Really.
I do it, and I'm still only using 0% of my storage space.
Sophie and I got a girl's day out today. Victoria had a slumber party and Josiah went to Six Flags with his bestest friend in the whole wide world.
I had to track down a movie theatre in the area that was still playing the American Girl Doll movie. Seems it got bumped from a bunch of theatres because of The Dark Knight. I had been promising her all week we would go. Most of the showings were too early. I finally found one in Annapolis that was showing at 4:10pm.
I got everyone else to where they were going and we headed out. I was super excited because there is an Amish market AND a Whole Foods in the same shopping center. I needed more truffles (Yes, I finished off the box I bought Monday night, but in my defense I shared with the kids, my mom, my sister in law, and broke them out on TV Thursday.) and wanted to grab some creme fraiche since no local store sells it.
The movie was good, but a bit of a tear jerker. Not once, not twice, but like 5 times at least. The Great Depression was definitely depressing. The cool thing was almost every group that came in consisted of a mom, some kids, and a great grandma (at least, I'm assuming it was a great grandma, they all looked like my Mom-Mom). There was even an elderly couple by themselves. I couldn't help but think that my Mom-Mom would've enjoyed it, considering she lived through the Great Depression herself.
After the movie we hit up Whole Foods. I bought my truffles and creme fraiche. I also picked up some cute grocery bags that were made from recycled plastic bottles. I love me some reusable bags. I hate plastic grocery bags with a vengence. They always seem to multiply and it's gotten to the point that I feel horribly guilty throwing them away knowing they are just going to sit in a landfill somewhere. The hardest thing is making sure I remember to take my bags into the grocery store when I shop.
On the way home, Sophie was dropping hints about going to dinner at Sakura, a Japanese hibachi restaurant. I was trying to steer her toward a local Korean restaurant, even reminding her that Jon and Kate Plus 8 just made Korean food. She could have some just like they made. She wasn't buying it though.
Steve got home shortly after us, and was like, let's go to Sakura, without Soph ever saying a word. Needless to say, she was thrilled. She was also thrilled to find she is too old for the kid's menu, so she got an adult portion. Nothing like a good dinner and enough leftovers for lunch the next day. Knowing Sophie, she may just break it out for breakfast.
So, anyway, I'm rambling. Soph's in bed, so Steve and I are going to curl up and watch a movie.
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DVD Released: June 22, 2008
Director: Paolo Barzman
*****
For all the real world misery and inhumanity the Holocaust has caused,
films (and the novels which inspire them) are in love with the
material. Not so much because any particular story knows how to mine
the event for all the teary-eyed melodrama it can; no, it is rather due
to the short hand it can provide. Less work has to be done inside the
confines of the story if it can all be explained in one way. Holocaust
survivors. That´s perhaps the most damning aspect of "Autumn Hearts: A
New Beginning" in film form: instead of creating three dimensional
characters, the adaptation flounders about like a bad television movie
from one obvious character scene to another without adding anything of
its own.
*****
Autumn Hearts: A New Beginning DVD Review
Tonight's showing has been rescheduled for Sunday at 1:30 PM.
SUNDAY!?!?
This really sucks.
We have the second showing of the week scheduled for tonight between 6:30-7:30. We do not have any other Intel on it, nor have we heard a peep about Wednesday's showing.
This is soooooo hard...
I went to a special "sneak preview" of the movie last night and I loved it! It's okay to look further! No spoilers!
Two words: Heath Ledger...an outstanding performance that hit all the right notes. When people say his performance is "fearless", they're not lying!
Two more words: Gary Oldman. Such a great actor! He imbues all his characters with life, transforming himself so that you don't even see ol' Gary, but the part he's playing.
I like the choice of Aaron Eckhart for Harvey Dent; he's got the perfect look for "white knight" Dent. Ryan Phillippe was rumored to be have been interested in role. I like Ryan, but don't think he would have been a good fit.
It was a really good movie, but 2.5 hours is a bit long. I wasn't ever bored though! I was exhausted by the time the movie ended.
For those of you who go to see it, I'm interested in your opinions about the film.
Here's an interesting EW article.
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R.G. Ryan tagged me yesterday. Somehow I usually avoid these, but there was no escaping this one!
The rules are posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions and at the end of the post tags 5 suckers, friends and posts their names. You then go to the poor unfortunate soul's blog and let them know you've tagged them, begging for forgiveness and asking them to read your blog. Then you let the person who tagged you know that they are hated, you have posted your answer.
1) What was I doing 10 years ago?
Wow, 10 years ago, 1998, eh? Well, I had a 3 year old and almost 1 year old. I think I was spending most of my days packing for my upcoming move to my first house. I think I around July that year I was a counselor at my church's teen camp. Lots of fun. Oh, and I was in the middle of trying to lose my last bits of "baby weight".
2) What are 5 things on my to-do list for today?
1. Laundry (this is always on my list, not that I always do it)
2. Vacuum
3. Cook a yummy dinner for "TV Thursday"
4. Clean out stinky rabbit cage
5. Water newly planted flowers so they don't shrivel up and die
3) Snacks I enjoy:
Currently, Stacy's Parmesan Garlic and Herb Pita Chips and Whole Foods Organic Caramel Truffles. I also keep a jar of pepperocini handy. 10 calories a serving and oh so yummy!
4) Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Wow, um, give a bunch to my "garage" church so we could buy some land and build the perfect building. Buy an antique store to run with Steve, or just spend my days buying antiques with Steve. Buy our dream home, something historical and fix it up. Travel with my entire family. (I would love to take the kids to Europe so they can experience all the history.)
5) Places I have lived:
Ferndale, MD (different houses, same street from birth til 28) and Waldorf, MD
6) Jobs I have had:
Babysitter extrodinaire, cashier at the electronics dept at Montgomery Ward, day care worker (YWCA and a christian school), temporary receptionist at a pyschologist office (that was interesting!), hanging ads on doors, wife and mom
7) Bloggers I am tagging who I will enjoy getting to know better:
jamie, kelly, hannah, steph, and jenny
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