June?

Wow.  That's hard to believe.  It's actually June.   2012 is speeding by at the speed of light.  

I don't have much to talk about today, but I figured I'd blog anyway.   I'm about as motivated today as the cat-kids.    I'm still waiting to hear from the mortgage company about the appraisal and loan.   I suspect they're not in a huge hurry since the closing date isn't until June 19th.   Still, I really wish they'd let me know something.


Last weekend I went browsing.   Not shopping, because I was looking for stuff for the new house.   I'm not going to actually buy anything until I know for sure I'm buying that house.   Buying things now felt like a good way to jinx everything and have it fall through.   But I did visit six furniture stores and the furniture departments in four department stores.   I didn't find anything that just said, yes! I need this for the new house, but I got a lot of ideas for how I can arrange furniture in there and what type of furniture I want in there.  


Besides the furniture browsing, I also went and made decisions about paint colors, carpet and tile.   I really do want to have some fix-up done before I move in, and although again I didn't buy anything, I figured it would save time later to have already decided on colors and styles.   So I spent a lot of time driving around and looking around and almost no time buying anything.  That's actually highly unusual for me since I love to buy stuff.   I did buy more packing boxes but that was all.


Nope, haven't done any more packing, but I'm ready to!   I now have a good stock of different size packing boxes, but again the only thing worse than packing them, would be unpacking them here if the house falls through.


So I guess I'm ready and poised to go forward.   Which is probably why I'm not being very patient about waiting to hear from the mortgage company.  


We got some rain this last week, so my lawn will need mowing soon.   It also cooled it off a bit.  We haven't officially hit 100 this year (yet!) but we've come darn close and May was DRY!!  This week's inch+ of rain was all we had in May, which is considerably below the monthly average for May.   Luckily we were very wet in December, January and February, so we're still above normal for this area for the year, but I really hate extended periods without rain.   Brown is not my favorite color when it comes to growing things.


I realized that if I don't sell this house, I'm going to have to come over here and maintain the yard - water and mow, etc.   Which means either buying another mower or lugging mine between the two houses.   And if it's a dry year, that also means coming over twice a week to water the yard.  Okay, I'm kind of slow, but I didn't think about it before.   Guess I need to see if a rental management company will also do that kind of thing, or make sure the renters do.


Anyway, I'll worry about that later.  That's about all I have to say today.