some peace and quiet.

i am doing nothing today.

nothing.

well, aside from the few things that need to be picked up and wiped down and wizzing the vacuum around just in case the house shows.

i plan to sit on my ass all day.
saturday we spent the day in san antonio and then cruised new braunfels and looked at different neighborhoods. you know, jumping out of the car and grabbing flyers out of the boxes on the for sale signs. we even had a few good laughs when we'd pick up a flyer for a house that was SERIOUSLY out of our price range.
sunday we seemed to spend the entire day at walmart.
and then monday we were gone all day again.
i am glad TJ went back to work so i can have some time to myself for a bit.

the grass needs to be mowed. but it has rained every day for the last 4 days or so so it is too wet.
so if any one comes and looks at the house they will just have to ignore the grass.

we have had someone come thru to look saturday sunday and monday.
saturday wasn't a big deal. we had gone out of town for the day. everything was ready. sure. come on by.
sunday was a little different b/c we had spent the last 2 hrs at walmart and had just sat down to a wonderful elegant lunch of chili dogs when they called to show the house. they were in the nieghborhood already so i didn't think i could ask them to wait too long. i told him we could be out of their hair in 1/2 hr. which would have been ALL fine and dandy had my house not reeked of hot dogs and hormel chili. ack! so we went back to walmart and puttered around some more! we had to get the truck anyway b/c it had been left for an oil change. OH! and i got up to the check out with a few items(TJ was in the back paying for the truck) the lady rang up my stuff and i couldn't find my debit card! i dug and dug for it. i had used it earlier that day! finally found it but had already gotten out of line and she had cleared the register somehow. so i asked for my stuff back so i could get back in line. SHE WOULDN'T LET ME HAVE IT! i even showed her my card and she said "well these items are already showing purchased so until i can clear them from the register and they go back on the shelf you have to wait."
WHAT????
i wanted to shake her til her head fell off. i thought you could just void the purchase out and start over.
i eneded up going back thru and getting all new items(thank GOD there were only 3!) and going thru another line.

and yesterday was the worst so far b/c we had been in new braunfels all day looking at houses there. we left the house at 8 am and got back home a before 4. we had been home maybe 15 minutes when a realtor called wanting to show the house between 5 and 6. all's i could muster was a very unenthused "i guess that would be fine" answer for her.that's right in the middle of dinner time at my house! they are allowed to show up until 8 pm which sucks! and i will be putting my foot down when it comes to bed time. Teege goes to bed at 7. anyone that wants to see the house then will have to wait til the next day.
so we hid all of the stuff we had brought in from the car and trooped over to the neighbors house b/c i was going to have a nervous break down if i had to get back in the car. not to mention poor Teege had been in and out of his car seat all day long.
we eventually took turns going in to look at houses b/c it was too much for us and him to take him out for 5 or 10 minutes and then buckle him back in.
oh, and i had to feed him cereal going down the road yesterday.
thank god for that stuff. you just mix it with water and hey, you've got lunch. i assumed we would stop for lunch but we didn't so i'm glad i thought to take something we could fix him on the go.

ah, but we did find 3 great houses. now it's just a matter of selling this one so we can get the VA loan rolling for the next. you can't have more than 1 VA loan at a time so we can't even make an offer on a home yet. that part stinks.

anyway, i'm going to go do my tid bit of sprusing up so i can do my all day of nothing.