Oh my word. I’m in a total tizzy! The stress level and anxiety has ratcheted up in my life by a gazillion percent. Life is out of control!!! I have meant to write a few times this last week and just get sidetracked. But here I am now…and I’ll catch you up and you will probably then understand why life for me is the way it is right now. (I am in such a tizzy that I posted this in the wrong place!!!! But hey...better late than never to get it to the right place)
Weight Loss
I had a good week last week. I wasn’t 100% doing what I needed to do. Honestly, I tracked less than 50% of the time. My water consumption was dismal. I mean, those two things are the base of success for me and I messed both of them up. However, I was a lot more cognizant of my choices. My lunch choices were much more in line. I tried to curb the quantity of food I put in my dinner plate in the evening. (Seriously, I stopped at two slices of pizza last night! And yeah, I was inordinately proud of myself for that fact.). My weight at my official weigh in was the lowest that it has been in the last few months. So my feeble efforts in watching and being cognizant was enough…for this week.
My goal for this week? Why the two base facets of weight loss (at least for me) of course. I am aiming to track all food and to drink at least 64 ounces of water.
Exercise
I am still doing well with my 2022 miles in 2022. I am consistently riding the bike during the day. I am not pulling ahead though. I am getting in about 4 miles on the bike a day….to pull ahead, I need to be getting about 8 miles a day. (Or more). But I am holding steady on my miles. We continue to walk every evening after work…so that gives me another mile or two. However, I’m not sure if I’ll be walking this week. I was walking in a yard the other day and stumbled in a hole and twisted my foot. It is a foot that was already bothering me and since then…eiiyiiyii my foot hurts! Time will tell if it’s well enough to hobble around the neighborhood after work this week.
We have gotten out a few times to hike (also known as mushroom hunting) in the last few weeks. It feels good to get out into the woods and to watch things start to bud and bloom.
House Hunting
After my last crazy story about the house in my last lost we were once again discouraged but we weren’t letting it stop us. As I had mentioned we had a few houses lined up for Easter Sunday afternoon. The first one had a fabulously landscaped yard. The house was very nice. (A cute cape cod) but was at the top end of our price range. It was also literally right beside the house and in clear view (I’m saying spitting distance) was a solar farm. Not exactly pretty. The fact that this house was already priced at the top end of its value (even in this crazy market) made us pause because the solar farm would reduce the value of the house. We liked it and we drove away contemplating the house, but we had some major concerns about that field of solar panels. (The house had a few issues…nothing major though). The next house was absolutely disgusting! The place reeked of mothballs and even with the oh so strong odor of mothballs, it still wasn’t enough to cover the smell of animal pee. Yes, they had a dog or cat at one point and apparently…we’ll it was just bad. The floor plan of the house was weird. The lot was super narrow and long…so not exactly usable. Everything was super old and NOT well maintained. It was a hard pass.
From there we drove north into Pennsylvania. We were going to look at a house a bit further north (by like 15 minutes). This is the house that checked off the boxes for everything we wanted. Furthermore, I was able to read the disclosures…it had a brand new metal/standing seam roof (well 8 months old), new fridge, new stove, heating/ac and water heater was replaced 2017…amongst other recent repairs. Most of the big ticket items to ‘go bad’ was already replaced and recently. Hmmmmm. We got there and we really liked it. The extra distance was the only issue. Everything else was what we wanted. Oddly enough we ended up meeting the owner, who is a neighbor to the house. We found out why this house was still on the market after a week. She told us some more about the house and property, what had been replaced and some history. We literally spent more than 2 hours there looking at the house, talking to the owner and our realtor had her inspector friend come in and do an informal inspection for us along with her informal inspection. (She also does home inspections on the side.). We left there and knew that the home owner liked us…and that we had a leg up if we wanted the house. Seriously, the owner flat out said ‘I really really hope you like my house’. And she later texted my realtor and said ‘they would make great neighbors’.
So we put an offer in. The offer was put in at 10:30 on Monday morning. I was prepared for the couple days of waiting…that had been the norm during the last few offers we put in. I had an answer by 11:10. She accepted our offer. What????? Oh my word! I have to say, the emotions were rolling. I literally cried.
Sooooo… last Monday was full of contract paperwork that I signed with the realtor. Tuesday started the paperwork with the lender. Never ending paperwork….little bits here and there. The appraiser has already inspected the property so the lender should have that hopefully soon. I have two more documents to upload. (Last paystub that we just got this weekend and a copy of a check that was written this weekend). They will be uploaded to the lender this morning (following monday when I wrote that) at 8AM. At that point our loan can go to the underwriter. I am still getting random things to sign and do....but it's all good I guess.
I am totally on pins and needles. I have watched the houses on the market for the last year. You see houses go onto the market…change to under contract…then go back active on the market. I don’t see any reason for our loan to have issues…and in fact the lender that I talked to on Friday said she sees no issues either. But, until settlement is done and the keys are in my hand I will be on pins and needles.
Settlement…5/16/2021
So I am in the throes of packing…organizing….purging…trying to prepare to vacate our apartment. (Had to give notice that we were not renewing our lease this week.)
So that is what is happening here. It was a crazy week. I envision some crazy weeks ahead of us. But I am determined to do it without weight gain!!!!!