My cousin pointed out that it’s been a month since my last blog.  I’m sorry ! Alot has been going on, but some of it has been bad work related stuff, and I don’t like to complain on my blog.

9 more days till we get the keys to our house. It has been 2 months and 15 days since we initially put in our offer, and almost a month since we closed ! Brandon put it really well (as he usually does) “It feels like we went to Vegas, won a crap load of money, and then they took it from us right as we left.”

We did however finally start packing two nights ago. I’m actually enjoying it, because I am not just putting stuff in boxes, I am going through everything, purging the junk and only packing what we would really need. It’s like a fresh new start. I am excited about being alot more organized in the new house, because I will have more room, everything will have it’s place.

The thing we’re most excited about is our deck. Brandon and I spend alot of time daydreaming about grilling on the deck at night, and just sitting there, sipping on a glass of wine till the sun goes down. For 3 years now we’ve been cramped in an apartment every summer ! We promised ourselves last summer that it would be the last, and I can even begin to express how proud I am of us actually doing it. We bought a house ! We’re 26, we each have our own car, and now the house. Not bad if I say so myself.

Besides being super excited about the house. There hasn’t really been much going on in the Davis household. We went to see Coldplay, which was as awesome as the first time we saw them back in ‘05.

I got a 10% pay cut at work, stupid recession ! Brandon has been pretty busy though, which is always good and thankfully I have the part-time job at Merle Norman, so it’s not affecting us much financially. Brandon has been making some big impressions on some huge companies, which is leading to more work for him. I am glad because he sure can get down on himself when business is slow. Luckily it’s summer now, so he can keep himself busy by going to the golf course when there’s nothing else to do.

I should get back to work, just wanted to update so you know were still alive !

So here I am sitting in a 5 bedroom beach house, overlooking the ocean, and there is gail force winds blowing and we haven’t seen the sun since Tuesday.

The good news is, when we get home, we close on the house Tuesday. Yes, the house that we thought we lost again. Long story short, we were threatened by the seller’s agent that the deal would be off if we didn’t close this past Monday (she didn’t seem to give a crap that we would be in Florida, on a vacation with 8 other people that we paid for back in January already) Oh and did I mention she wanted an extra $3000 non-refundable earnest money that same day ?

We had a sneaky suspicion she wasn’t communicating with her client and that these demands were coming solely from her, so we drew up a revised closing extension agreement, saying we will close the 26th, after our vacation, if we can’t they can keep the original $1000 earnest money (we refused to add another $3000) and we extended the possecion date with another month, giving them ample time to move out. We also added that we wanted the seller to sign this agreement (forcing her to show it to them) We also stated that if these conditions were not ok with them, the deal was off.

A coupe of hours later the seller’s realtor called our realtor and he says she did a complete 180 and was a s sweet as can be, saying her client loved the new arrangements. What an emotional roler coaster ! That night I slep well for the first time that week !

I thought buying our first house was going to be a fun, memorable experience, but so far it’s been quite the nightmare !

Anyway, here are a couple of vacation pictures….

We lost the house.

Heading to Florida for a week.

Fill write a full update about it when we get back.