A Groovy Hello

            

Howdy.  How are you doing?  First day back to work after a 4 day weekend can be a killer.

The weather here is still fantastic.  You would never know it was November if it weren't for the calendar.  It frightens me.  I wonder how cold it will get (or how much snow we will get) when it finally decides to become winter.

Sitting here listening to a new CD I have of Josh Groban.  That guy can sing!!!!!!!!!!  If you have never heard him you need to check him out.  The only thing is he usually does a couple foregin language songs on his CDs.  I have no idea what language (but for some strange reason I am thinking Italian but I bet I am way off), so I don't know what he is singing, but it is beautiful whatever it is!

                           

Don't you just love the cat and fish above?  At first I thought they were throwing kisses.  But now I know the fish is sticking out his tounge and the cat is licking his lips.  If that fish thinks the cat can't get to him.............LOL

We were hoping my aunt's house would have sold by now.  It's been on the market for a little over 6 months.  We've dropped the price by $10,000 and still no one wants to buy it.  The real estate guy now says it won't sell unless we redo the kitchen.  That's not going to happen for several reasons but money being a big part of it.

So now we are looking at how much money we really need.  The house was paid for so we aren't out of money.  Every dollar will be profit.  Ideally what we want is enough money to finish paying off my house, pay the real estate agents, and it would be a HUGE bonus if there was enough to build me a bigger back porch.  Don't know how much of that will happen now.  We could keep the house on the market but it is costing money.  Taxes, insurance, keeping the electic on, and having to keep the yard up has been a huge pain.

I think the real estate guy is so sure he can't sell it that he didn't even get in touch when the 6 month contract with him was up!  Jerk.  Maybe we should get someone else to cut the price and let them make some money off it.  Maybe we could auction it off.  The house is in great shape but it does have a few things not so great.  It's a 2 bedroom (could be 3 if you count the little bitty room) but it has only 1 built in closet.  It does have 2 wardrobes though.  The kitchen is the big thing.  It only has a refrigerator and very little cabnet space.  It could use some work granted.  But there is no way we can afford to spend what 5 to 10 thousand to fix it up and not get any more in the asking price?

Mom is supposed to go have her hearing aids adjusted tomorrow (the first adjustment) and she is talking about turning them in.  Claims she can't get them into her ears right.  I did not want to hear that.  I said that me or dad could put them in for her.  She doesn't want that.  So we get to go back to yelling and her still understanding half of what we say?  I sooooooooo hope she changes her mind.

Guess I've rambled on long enough.  Oh, there are 2 new Christmas journals that I know of.  You need to check them out!

Happy Holidays!

Joy To The World!