Sunny Skies

It still appears that our house sale will happen. We are past the inspection process and the appraisal went fine. We also have the lease for the Wallingford townhouse, which is exciting. Now we are getting down to the more physical tasks of thinning down and packing up. We're renting a self-storage room nearby. That will make it easier to vacate by closing. We are selling a number of pieces of furniture at a consignment shop. The movers are coming tomorrow to take those pieces away. I'll make arrangments with a piano mover tomorrow. I figure that we are letting go of at least half of our possessions. It still feels like I'm packing up a lot!

Partly Sunny

Today my spirits are partly sunny. Things are rolling along with the house sale, so I am feeling more and more optimistic that it's really going to happen. We have taken care of most of the 5 conditions for sale the buyers are requesting after the inspection. They are easy fixes. We also submitted an application to rent the townhouse in Wallingford that I like so much. We apparently are first in line for it. Our realtor removed the display of brochures from our house, another good sign, although she hasn't yet put up the sold sign. Next week, after the results of the appraisal come in, we're going to spread the word among our friends and relatives--those people who don't read my blog.

Phil has started to help us pack. We've talked about strategies. We will designate a parking stall or two in our garage for staging areas. We'll do the thing with three piles--one for the dump, one for Goodwill, and one to keep. We'll work on the garage, then go room by room packing and labeling so we can find things again. I'm having a woman from a furniture consignment shop come to give an estimate on what our excess furniture can bring. I'm checking with relatives to see what they want. It feels good to get going with the packing and not just going over plans in my mind.

Persistent Cloudiness

I'm still in overcast mode. We've had a pending offer on our house and are waiting to hear the results of the inspection. We can't imagine that the inspector would have found anything major, but you never know. Inspectors have to find some things or they wouldn't be doing their jobs. Once we resolve inspection results, then we will really start to feel like the deal will go through. Our buyer is certainly acting like he expects it to. He set an appointment with me to walk through the property the day before closing and has asked me to see if he could park his cars on the driveway a couple of days before closing. Those are positive signs. The next big step would be the financing coming through on his part. They have sold their house already, so that shouldn't be a problem. In the mean time, I have been running through my mind on what we'll need to do to get ready for our move. We want to rent a storage room for a couple of months while we thin things down. There is a large complex of self-storage just a mile away. We want to dispose of some furniture we no longer want. I found a consignment shop that will take it. They told us we'd make more on Craigslist, but going through consignment would be easier. Finally, of course, we need to find a place to move to. I have found a townhouse for rent in Wallingford that Phil and I are excited about. Larry isn't totally on board yet. That place would be fun and should be OK for a year until we figure out the next step.

What I'm doing now is priming myself for action in my mind. I don't want to do anymore such as actually getting rid of furniture, arranging storage, committing to a lease until we find out about our deal. Fortunately, I have a few sewing activities with friends in the next few days to distract myself from my worries. That reminds me--I need to thin down my sewing stash a little more also!

Grey Times

In my last post, I said I was going to keep blogging along because it was therapeutic. After I said that, I found myself avoiding writing. I suppose it has been that so many things seem grey to me now. My fuzzy feelings make it harder to focus. The weather has been grey. It's hard to plan to do anything outside because of the rain. Phil is full of greyness as he tries to figure out what to do with his life now. He has been staying with us off and on until the summer quarter begins. We decided to lower our asking price for our house. There is greyness there, too, since we wonder if we are doing the right thing. We did get an offer just a few days after we lowered the price. I suppose that means we are in the right price range. We just found out that our counter offer has been accepted, so our house is sold pending inspection and money coming through. Since this is the third time around for us with a pending offer, it's hard to get our hopes up. Things should be moving along briskly, though. The buyers want to move in as quickly as possible--July 9. I will start thinking about packing up and thinning things down even more now. I'm also looking at ads for townhouses in Seattle. There are some nice ones available that make it exciting to think of moving. The weather is supposed to change this weekend. Maybe then the greyness will lift off my mind.