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[kiya]

Today was much with the parent-herding; not my parents, whispercricket's. I'm exhausted. Fortunately, no poly-drama erupted, thus, filed as success, if one that left me with a residual headache.

Nice early bedtime now. Was up way too early to clear the house for people-who-want-to-look-at-house. More people-who-want-to-look-at-house tomorrow, too. Maybe some of these people-who-want-to-look-at-house will want-to-buy-house and then we can start redirecting our stress entirely towards finding-new-house and buying-new-house.

Why is it that stuff I keep wanting to write about generally keeps coming out too personal? Meh.

Sleeeeeep.

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[surelars.livejournal.com]

Though the acceptable one is 'for value of needs serious work before moving in' levels of acceptable, so that's just a different bucket of augh.

Yeah. The house we bought cost me about 3 months of more or less all non-work time I had, plus a hefty draw on the friends-who-owe-me-one account in order to make it passable. We managed, though, since we where just moving across town and hence could stay in the old apartment during those 3 months.

Must look at more houses and also become less neurotic.

The former is far easier than the latter ;-)

[kiya]

I wouldn't be surprised if we wind up putting our life in storage units and crashing at some combination of friends and/or partners' places while finalising wherever we wind up going to.

The currently acceptable one is right by partners' place, but needs major electrical, roof, siding work ....

The former is far easier than the latter ;-)

Yes, yes it is.

[surelars.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be surprised if we wind up putting our life in storage units and crashing at some combination of friends and/or partners' places while finalising wherever we wind up going to.

Sounds like a good plan if that's possible. I'm all for putting in a big effort before moving in; but then, I know that once moved in, I'll get used to whatever, so things will stall.

Friend of mine purchased a "major project" four years ago. He and partner moved in right away, and have been living in a construction site since. There's always a currently-inhabitable part of the site. it just changes all the time. All the construction work is DIY. Oh, and they gone and had a baby twice during that time.

I don't think I'd have survived.

[kiya]

Wow, that sounds really crazy-making to me too.

We did a lot of work on this house post-moving-in, but most of it was cosmetic-level stuff -- stripping wallpaper and repainting type. Not, y'know, major project level construction.