It's Sunday Again

The store sale is still on! Whoo hoo again. I'm more relaxed that indeed it will go through.

I've been in a bad place for most of the past week. I wasn't as down as previous bad places, but it wasn't nice either. I'm just plain old sad and missing Ron. I know it will pass, and I know it's OK to cry when the mood strikes. It's a good thing that I'm the type who doesn't curl up in a ball and halt living when like this or else nothing much would get done.

This past week my painter guy (as I fondly call him.. LOL) painted the kitchen! It was a huge job because of all the trim and cupboard doors (cupboards are very old fashioned wooden -- decades old -- and had to be painted). It took him over 40 hours to do the entire job and I paid him more than he quoted me. He does a good job, and he's worth it. I also love the way the kitchen looks now. It's bright and airy and totally uncluttered. When I put the kitchen back together yesterday, I set it up as though the house will show tomorrow; almost nothing on counter tops; no "stuff" just sitting around.

My painter guy is also a flea market person. That is he, and his brother, buy stuff to sell at flea markets. I showed him my "yard sale/junk" room and asked if he'd be interested in buying everything. He is interested and though I will get less money than if I had my own yard sale, I don't care. I am sick & tired of the physical work involved in this estate stuff so anything that will make eliminate physical work is good for me. Besides I don't like yard sales: don't like to go to 'em; don't like to hold 'em.

The local antique house guy is coming on February 18 to go through my attic. He was supposed to come between T-giving and Christmas but didn't. I waited until now to give him a push and pretty much said he's got to come or I'll go to someone else.

Weather - It's been real warm for about 9 days now. Today we're due heavy rain, maybe 2" or more. Tomorrow it's going to get cold. The driveway will be an ice rink.

Whooo Hooo

I've had a serious, CASH offer for the store on Main Street from a local businessman. A big WHOO HOOO for me!! The RE agent is very sure it will go through. The buyer wants no inspection -- he knows about the structural damage -- and no inspection is needed because he's paying cash. Again another big WHOO HOOO!! All that needs to be done is a title search. Anticipated closing is before the end of this month.

The price for any buyer is good. It's been lowered many many times since first going on the market in November 2006. Oh well. I personally haven't put too much money into it so whatever I get after paying RE agent and attorney will be much appreciated.

Em spent this weekend downstate with her daddy. He's bringing her up this morning, and I'll meet them at soccer. I've missed my Grand Girl, while at the same time being grateful for the break of not having her Thursday. Even today will be a break because she won't come down for an overnight.

I put my free time to good use. Have cleared out a lot of stuff in Ron's Clock Room. Little by little things are getting done. As time goes on, though, I am less inclined to do the work myself and am thinking seriously about hiring somebody to finish up. Now that the store has sold (knock on wood), I'll have some extra money.

I daydream a lot about selling the house and moving back where I came from. It's only 35 miles, but it's a different world. I'll be much closer to Em. I'll be close to stores and shopping and my doctor. I certainly am hoping by next fall I'm in a new place, but something inside is saying it will be the fall of 2011 before I'm up there, just as Em starts kindergarten (YIKES!!)

Weather - It's been really cold, but nothing unusual for this time of the year. Spring is 10 weeks away yet, but time is going so quickly that it will be here before we know it.

Snowy!

It's snowing and blowing and it's really really cold. I just came in from filling the bird feeder and shoveling the upper terrace walkway. It's cold.. cold..cold.

New Year's Eve was OK for me emotionally. The day before, December 30, was horrible. I started cleaning Ron's office and as happens, I was overwhelmed with the work that's ahead of me, the idea that I am having to do the sorting and tossing and with missing Ron so much. The job and the office was Ron for so many years. The business was started by his grandfather in 1923, and here it is 2010, and I -- a relative stranger to the family -- am closing it up.

So I did a lot of crying on the 30th. Then the cold I thought was on the way out from the previous week was actually the start of a new cold and by mid-afternoon on Wednesday, I was sick. New Year's Eve day, I was really sick and pretty much dozed on and off all day, into the night and the morning. Friday, the 1st, I had to do a grocery run and then I sacked out again. Saturday I was better and today I'm even better.

2010: What can be said about that number that hasn't been said or thought by everyone else? It's pretty awesome.

I've hired someone to paint the kitchen. He starts January 18. It should make a world of difference in how being in the kitchen feels.

This coming week, I'm going to call the antique guy again and ask if he wants up in the attic. I need to get going on that.

I'd love to sit back, watch winter go by, and feel secure that the house will sell in the spring, but I can't so I have to keep on working for it. In the end my reward will be living somewhere that is newer (which won't be difficult considering this house is 218 years old) and easier to maintain (ditto about age of this house).