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June 23, 2008
endings and beginnings
Today starts my last full day in Peoria.
I can't believe it's almost time for me to go home. Today we clean out most of the things from Mom's place (it's all either going to family or charity), tomorrow we load up a van and drive a bunch of stuff to my brother's place in Chicago, on Thursday we fly out to Seattle for a wedding, then we fly back home after that.
This time next week I'll be on my way to Sydney. Wow.
But as we know, there is truly no rest for the wicked...as soon as we get back we need to start packing because....drum roll please....we bought a house! Here's a little sneak peek for ya. We should be able to move in around the 14th of July. (depending on what we want to get done to the place before we move in) But yeah, we bought a house in the middle of all of this. Crazy, eh?
It was really funny actually. We had looked at this place last year and fell in love with it. We bid on it but the seller didn't want to come down on the price. Then, well, someone else ended up buying it. Or so we thought. The deal didn't go through for one reason or another then the seller rented the house out for a year. So, while we were dealing with all of this, the house (our house!) came back on the market. After a little back and forth with the price and some of the terms we came to an agreement and the house is ours!
We love it.
It's an late 60's/early 70's Pettit and Sevitt split level house. It is so cool! I still can't believe it. It probably wont seem real until I go home and step into it. But that's cool. The house needs quite a bit of work but we are up to it. But it you know how to paint (or fix a deck, or do some plumbing, or build a retaining wall....) and want to come to Australia, drop me an email. We are taking applications.
:)
So I'm going to hop in the shower and get this day started. We have a lot to do and I don't want to spend the whole morning on the internet.
-gg
Posted by gadgetgirl at June 23, 2008 10:29 PM
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YAY for the house and YAY for coming home- I know a bit about houses and bulding - enough to be dangerous and have some great contacts re builders, supplies, paint, plumbers electricians etc. I can't seem to link through to the house - but it sounds amazing.
Looking forward to seeing you again and back in OZ. All my love missfee
Posted by: missfee at June 24, 2008 09:00 AM
congrat's, and good luck with the day. can't wait to see those renovating pics, should be fun.
Posted by: ec at June 24, 2008 03:24 PM