It's Official....said that [we] could do it and indeed [we] did

[We] knew it , [we] knew it.

Our offer's been accepted! Whew. Now to get all riled and worked up for closing on November 13th. Or try obsteniently to avoid getting riled up, however difficult that may prove. Which it will.

The house is not completed, so we've had the (should I say the word opportunity?) opportunity to pick out a few things like flooring, light fixtures, appliances, and a few upgrades. I had a nervous breakdown at the light fixture place. That may have been my AHA! moment. Realization hit with the force of a ton of bricks. I am OCD. I relish when I am in control. I grasp wildly at straws and want the unknown figured out immediately when I am not. Which leads to buyer impulses I'd rather not talk about right now (hang head sheepishly here). So what do I do? Go into counseling to figure out how to be less OCD? Try to work on it myself? Or just understand that's how it is with me. Is this OCD friend or foe?

I've made a list (yeah, okay a totally OCD thing to do).

OCD is FRIENDLY when:
-I make lists
-I teach Sunbeams
-I organize my closets
-I get a calendar together
-it's flu season
-I make cards
-I clean
-I make binders for easy access games, lesson plans and ideas for the future
-I take notes

OCD is a MEAN SOB when:
-I try to choose bronze fixtures from a pile of 15 different bronze samples (who knew they had that many types of bronze?)
-I look over wood color choices, "do I want oak expresso? walnut expresso? 3 inch across, 2 inch across? glossy(this is called traditional, I later learned) or hand scraped? Wait, will that lighter color still look good with the kitchen cabinets? But I want darker, right? Juan, what do you want? Oh, okay darker. But do I really like that?"
-try to organize items for a garage sale. It's all for a GARAGE SALE, no one cares, stop worrying about where to put the candles, will ya?
-I'm running on empty, yet the cleaning's not done...4 in the morning is not really all that late afterall.
-I am "dusting" levelors, which turns into taking a damp rag and going over each individual levelor 3-4 times til you feel smooth metal/plastic with no trace signs of the slightest dust bunny. Dare I say it....I washed the levelors.

So, all in all, I think I'll keep it. Surely the positive outweigh the negative. At least that's what I'm telling myself.

WOO HOO! Looks like we'll be in a house by Thanksgiving.

We're excited....but not official...

We made an offer on a house! We don't know if it's going to be accepted, but we sure hope so.

So we thought we made pics only exclusive to a few on Facebook, ends up we didn't. If you are looking at the pics on Facebook, know it's not official. We hope so and really want it to happen, but don't know anything yet.

We will let you know when we do!