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Another showing
Yesterday after I posted here, i received another email detailing a second showing for the house. All good news, especially if something happens to the current contract. I don’t remember having this many showings mid-week for quite a while. Maybe it means the market is picking up over all? Or maybe it’s just a fluke?…
Next day, new pain
So my neck is much better today. I can at least drive and feel like I can look over my right shoulder so I can merge into traffic. These are all good things. Unfortunately, now my back hurts from the muscle strain from yesterday. (Or something.) I did go to the doctor. She said the…
Flowers, fragrance, and funerals
Orchids and chrysanthemums smell like death to me: the cloying sweetness of casket-side flowers, wilting from the heat of bodies pressed too close as passersby sob their payment to Chiron. The trees outside my apartment complex have a sickeningly sweet scent: not pleasing like honeysuckle, but of something decaying like fruit left too long in…
Offer on the house!
PARTY!! I have an offer on the house!! (Running around with a crazy grin on my face.) The offer is close to what I’m asking, so that is close enough. So, basically I make enough to almost cover the $15k loan I took out for the sewer and roof repairs last summer. Whee!!! Closing date…
The Seeker: Movie vs. Book (Spoilers)
I have my copy of The Dark Is Rising (both a first edition paper back and a SF book club edition with all five volumes bound together) out and I am watching The Seeker (if you search for it, you’ll find a video of the movie on Google Video). The Seeker is a recently-released adaptation…
Game of Thrones theme on cellos
This is awesome. I hadn’t heard about the group Break of Reality until a post on Jezebel featured a video of them playing a cover of the Game of Thrones’ theme. Three cellos and a drummer playing is just about perfect. Related Images: