'Dogs and Cats Living Together - Mass Hysteria!!'

Quick - name the movie from which the title line came from (cue Jeopardy theme)..................if you said Ghostbusters, you'd be our big winner! I use that line often, and usually when life is just plain crazy, as it has been the last couple weeks. Check this out, yo;

After having our house on the market for nearly three months, and having several folks go through it, we got a call on the Thursday before last about a couple that was very interested. They needed to work out some financing, and then our guy would be in touch with our people, blah blah blah. They made us an offer, which was silly, so we gave them our bottom dollar. On Tuesday of last week, we got a call that they were willing to accept our price, and the financing had worked out. Exciting stuff, right?? Except that we would be homeless come July 1st if we hadn't found another home.....gulp. All of a sudden, we realized that if we had not found a home, made a deal, worked out our financing, and set a closing date all within a few days, we would never be able to close and move before July 1st. Holy &*%!

Okay, so, we sold our house last Tuesday, and immediately called our realtor with a list of houses we wanted to look at the very next day. He hooked us up, and we visited two or three, the last of which was one we had seen over and over and just kept coming back to see again. We finally figured it out; we needed to make an offer. So, back to the realtor's office to begin the billion sheets of paperwork. We made an offer, and gave the sellers until 6:00 p.m. that evening to respond. I went on to work, anxiously awaiting a call from Mandi as to the news. And call she did, at about 6:45, to say the seller had accepted our offer.

That's right, I said the seller accepted our offer!

Are you processing this, people? In about a twenty-four hour period, we sold our house, made an offer on another one, and set a closing date. Again I say, Holy &*%! We are now set to close on the 20th of June, will do just a bit of painting, and move the last weekend in June. It has been a whirlwind of a week, but quite an exciting one! Oh, and on top of all the happenings, I moved to third shift on the Thursday after we made the deal on the new house. If you've ever worked the night shift before, you know it takes some time to adjust, so you can imagine how crazy these last few days truly have been.

And, I don't anticipate things letting up for quite some time. Y'all have probably moved enough to know it's quite the task, so the days and weeks ahead will be filled with packing and general preparation, as well as last-minute details with the new house. I'll keep ya posted.

One more comment before I close - I previously promised I would tell you all about the new product I am proud to be a part of, and I still intend to do so in the near future. It's exciting stuff, and look for more on it very soon!

Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!!

Peace.