Thanks. You guys are the best. And can we be BFFs 4 EVA?
There are a number of very logical and normal reasons why I’m feeling ultra-emotional right now. But I’m struggling with feeling very attached to our wonderful neighborhood and my fabulous friends here. Yesterday we were pre-approved for a mortgage so the house-hunting can now begin in a semi-hardcore fashion. When I think about having a little tiny city yard for Berlin’s dog house I get all weepy. But when I think of being far away from our little neighborhood dog park and my dear friends who just walk over for LOST each Wednesday I get WICKED WEEPY.
And Smashing Pumpkins just came on during a TV commercial and that makes me especially weepy because it makes me think of Matt and what a great hubby he is and how I want him to have a nice big basement to build things in.
Home ownership is freaking me out – not because it’s home ownership and being stuck in the same place for nigh-on 5-10 years, but more because Obama is not fixing our broken economy, but instead freaking out investors who are the only ones who can really fix our economy. And I think I’m kinda crazy to be buying a house when the whole world is about to go bankrupt.
How do you feel about the run-on sentences thus far?
Does everyone feel like this when they move to the burbs and buy their first home? And are we going to want to reverse this immediately?
And even though I love the house with the wood paneling on the walls that needs to come down and the all-pink bathroom that will need to be gutted, am I believing in something more than I should? ACK! Make it stop.
March 7th, 2009 at 9:08 am
i feel the same way about eventually leaving narberth–though we want tons of land (of which there isn’t any that we can afford here), a fireplace, another half bath and a “dave room” (which has been promised for three moves now.)
March 9th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
thanks for the encouragement. i’m forcing myself to fall in love with a few different properties to manage my disappointment and fear, which seems to be helping.
March 9th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
P-La…I don’t envy the emotional rollercoaster you’re embarking on (falling in love with houses…practically moving your furniture in with your mind….then things fall thru…). HOWEVER. Your own little house is like your own little kid. They are naughty some times, they take tons of work. But strangely, you will fall in love with your own little house. It’s flaws will bug you but will eventually charm you. And you’ll be the boss of it. Paint it red, baby!!!!!!
March 10th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
mags, what an extremely accurate description of the way my mind is working right now. and i totally want to paint it red!