"Now is the time to be kind to yourself both physically and mentally. Don't start any new major projects at work or home." This is a direct quote from my IVF instructional packet. So, what do I do? I get assigned a major project at work that is going to force me to work from home during nights and weekends for the next couple of weeks. I guess this isn't the end of the world, how often are we sitting around on a computer anyway?
Friday, March 28th is probably one of the most stressful and busiest days at work that I've had since starting there. At about 3:00 I get a call from Ryan. A new house showed up on our MLS access. It dropped in price by about $20,000 just minutes before, and we had to be the first one to see it. Of course, our realtor is on vacation for the next week. If there's a will there's a way. We know that he arranged for other agents in his office to assist him, so we call around. Finally, we get an agent to agree to show us this house, but not until the next morning at 8am. That worked for us. Now we just have to hope we are the first people to get in to see it. Nothing else we can do but go and celebrate my brother's 35th birthday.
Before we head to my brother's house, we needed to do our second round of injections. We were not nearly as nervous and we cut our time down by 50%. Hardly a disruption anymore.
The next morning, I was up by 5:15. I had a dream that we overslept and completely miss out on this house. My dad said he would come with us, so that if we liked it, we would be able to move forward right away. We met at his house for a quick breakfast then we were off. The house is just over a mile away from my dad's house.
We pull up, and Ryan and I love it. I hope the inside isn't going to be too much work or in ridiculously bad shape. This house is bigger than any other we had seen. It's a little different though, because the previous owners separated the main level and the upstairs. The upstairs is set up as an apartment over the main house, but is it a big deal to convert it back? According to my dad, no. After about 20 minutes of us inspecting the house, and thinking about what work should be done, we say bye to the agent who did us a favor and we walk around the property. If we put a fence up here... if we open the back porch... if, if, if.
Back at my dad's house, we pull up the listing online and were talking and talking about potentials. After about 15 minutes of excitement, we decide were gonna get our offer in asap. Ryan calls our actual agent and he calls on the second ring while on vacation. He knew we would be interested and told us that he would get our offer paperwork ready, as we pre-signed everything before he left, but there was a chance we would have to run over to his office to meet a different agent in case there was anything we missed. Another waiting game...
2 hours of nervously waiting and planning later, we call back to make sure that the offer went in without any issues. Good thing we did, because not only had it not gone in yet, our agent was having computer issues and couldn't get anything to work. He gave Ryan the number to another agent who actually lives in our new prospective neighborhood. She said she is out with other people but wanted to meet us in about 2 hours. Omg, were gonna lose it.
Time to go. We needed to not be sitting and waiting anymore. Errands, lunch, a short nap... its been 2 hours. Ryan gets his phone and its time to call her back. As Ryan is holding his phone, our new temporary agent is calling him first. Her showings ran late, she needs another hour, but she is so hopeful and excited for us.
We get to the office to meet her and I am already feeling annoyed. She didn't have anything prepared? We all sat together and things instantly turned for the better. Not only was she friendly and nice, she was confident in this situation and really seemed like she had a lot of experience with the listing agent. So much so that she called the listing agent! "Hi Carol, busy today? No? So you didn't get any offers on 704 Center St yet? No? Oh, this will be the first one? ok!" Ryan squeezed my hand and we were practically drunk with excitement. This isn't our first time, so she handed us the paperwork to sign and initial and within 45 min we were walking out to wait again. She told us that we might hear this weekend!
tick, tock, tick, tock....
8:00pm text - "still haven't heard back"
Friday, March 28th is probably one of the most stressful and busiest days at work that I've had since starting there. At about 3:00 I get a call from Ryan. A new house showed up on our MLS access. It dropped in price by about $20,000 just minutes before, and we had to be the first one to see it. Of course, our realtor is on vacation for the next week. If there's a will there's a way. We know that he arranged for other agents in his office to assist him, so we call around. Finally, we get an agent to agree to show us this house, but not until the next morning at 8am. That worked for us. Now we just have to hope we are the first people to get in to see it. Nothing else we can do but go and celebrate my brother's 35th birthday.
Before we head to my brother's house, we needed to do our second round of injections. We were not nearly as nervous and we cut our time down by 50%. Hardly a disruption anymore.
The next morning, I was up by 5:15. I had a dream that we overslept and completely miss out on this house. My dad said he would come with us, so that if we liked it, we would be able to move forward right away. We met at his house for a quick breakfast then we were off. The house is just over a mile away from my dad's house.
We pull up, and Ryan and I love it. I hope the inside isn't going to be too much work or in ridiculously bad shape. This house is bigger than any other we had seen. It's a little different though, because the previous owners separated the main level and the upstairs. The upstairs is set up as an apartment over the main house, but is it a big deal to convert it back? According to my dad, no. After about 20 minutes of us inspecting the house, and thinking about what work should be done, we say bye to the agent who did us a favor and we walk around the property. If we put a fence up here... if we open the back porch... if, if, if.
Back at my dad's house, we pull up the listing online and were talking and talking about potentials. After about 15 minutes of excitement, we decide were gonna get our offer in asap. Ryan calls our actual agent and he calls on the second ring while on vacation. He knew we would be interested and told us that he would get our offer paperwork ready, as we pre-signed everything before he left, but there was a chance we would have to run over to his office to meet a different agent in case there was anything we missed. Another waiting game...
2 hours of nervously waiting and planning later, we call back to make sure that the offer went in without any issues. Good thing we did, because not only had it not gone in yet, our agent was having computer issues and couldn't get anything to work. He gave Ryan the number to another agent who actually lives in our new prospective neighborhood. She said she is out with other people but wanted to meet us in about 2 hours. Omg, were gonna lose it.
Time to go. We needed to not be sitting and waiting anymore. Errands, lunch, a short nap... its been 2 hours. Ryan gets his phone and its time to call her back. As Ryan is holding his phone, our new temporary agent is calling him first. Her showings ran late, she needs another hour, but she is so hopeful and excited for us.
We get to the office to meet her and I am already feeling annoyed. She didn't have anything prepared? We all sat together and things instantly turned for the better. Not only was she friendly and nice, she was confident in this situation and really seemed like she had a lot of experience with the listing agent. So much so that she called the listing agent! "Hi Carol, busy today? No? So you didn't get any offers on 704 Center St yet? No? Oh, this will be the first one? ok!" Ryan squeezed my hand and we were practically drunk with excitement. This isn't our first time, so she handed us the paperwork to sign and initial and within 45 min we were walking out to wait again. She told us that we might hear this weekend!
tick, tock, tick, tock....
8:00pm text - "still haven't heard back"
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