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remember the blue moon house ? its back ! and not blue at all!! bummer... i kinda wish they would have kept at least a little blue...

so i'm addicted to house porn. well before we ever started looking for a house i was watching house hunters and hgtv. i would also frequent assorted online real estate sites. when were where looking at houses i would go online and look to see if anything new had been listed multiple times a day. i would also look at the million dollar homes and even homes that were just out of our price range. on occasion i would be chatting with a friend from college on facebook (hi colleen) and i would send her the links to the million dollar homes. she told me i was sending her house porn. now i know i'm not the only one out there who is addicted to house porn. don't all speak up at once... so anyway, last week my husband and i were having a discussion about a set he had worked on. (he builds sets for tv shows) he was referencing something and so of course i googled it. sadly i could find no real pictures of the set although i did find tons of video. i just don't really have the p...

so.. a lot has happened in the past month. we found a house, and we'll be closing on may 4th!! we went back to the east coast for a family visit and to become godparents to the little ball of pudge ryan! (my brother's second kid) AND!! we finally set a date for our wedding!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! july 31 yes this year not next! yes we know it only gives us 3 months to plan a cross country wedding and close on our house and get some basic stuff fixed and move i'm getting tired just thinking of it but the good news it it will be a backyard bar-b-q low key wedding like us unless my mom does something crazy (please don't i know you are reading this) i will not be a bride-zilla but there is a slight chance for a mom-zilla i get the fact that i am her only daughter and she's excited but i am not one of those girls that has been planning my wedding forever i'm currently focused on planning the house the house!!! i can't wait to post pictures,...

its been barely even three weeks since we saw our future home! after our our offer was accepted and we opened escrow its been a whirlwind of activity!! we found out we were closing in 30 days!! we had the home inspection we had a sewer scope we locked our mortgage rate we found out that we still qualify for the 2009 first time home buyers credit! we had a termite inspection we got a partial credit for the termite inspection we found out that ca signed a state first time home buyers credit we pushed closing back a week to qualify for the ca home buyer credit! (we have to close after may 1) we get daily emails from either our real estate agent, her assistant, our mortgage broker, or one of the many people who has done some kind of inspection on the house we got our appraisal we found out our appraisal came in low :( we had a true miracle happen the sellers agreed to drop the price of the house to the appraisal price which by the way is just a smidge lower than what our or...

we saw a house sunday they wanted all offers by sunday nite we put in our offer sunday they countered on tuesday we responded wednesday they accepted our offer thursday we opened escrow friday i am in friggin shock !!!!! home inspection monday once that is ok pictures will come!

the other nite i had a dream...or its possible i was awake and thinking then drifted off to sleep. i had mentally written an entire update that was dry, wry, and humorous (like my updates normally are, RIGHT?!?!) when i woke up i had no idea what i had mentally written, just that i had done it...so i figured i'd just tell you that... it might had had something to do with our abysmal continuing house hunt...our most recent prey is a house 2 door away from us! how awesome would that be?? its laid out just like ours..duplex. we only got to see the front unti, which is what we live in already so it was like a vacant version of out house! just wish we could have seen the back unit! its a probate sale and laws for probates in california are a pain in the ass!! it requires court confirmation..oh and we put in our offer over 2 figgin weeks ago and they still have not gotten back to us. so the house hunt continues... i hate the real estate market in southern california... we have been...

so we did it..we put an offer in on a house!!! i'm dying right now. here's our problem--its a short sale so i was doing my daily perusing of new listings on redfin my preferred real estate site (great inter-active map if you don't know neighborhoods or zip codes!) and this house came up on a block that is awesome and we never thought we'd get into. i clicked on it and its a short sale. i decided to email it to the real estate lady anyways. she lets me know that the listing agent is someone they have worked with prior and she is difficult. great. so we wait a week. then i called the real estate lady to see if there was any word on getting in bc we were very very interested! she suggested we put in an offer pending an interior inspection if we felt that strongly about it. so i talked to the man and we were like HELL! YES! so i sent the real estate lady an email. then she calls me to say we can get in! OMG!! ok so with out getting into too much detail: craftsman! interio...

so i've decided to start a blog. my intention is to post about stuff i like. so what do i like... i enjoy baking and cooking, and have become quite domestic in my old age...i'm gonna post recipes i like houses and am OBSESSED with house hunters (currently i am a house hunter). once i get the house i'm sure i'll be all about decorating. I enjoy 60's and 70's kitchy stuff. my goal it to have an avocado green kitchen! i watch lots of crappy reality tv! so expect me to share a thought or 2... i thought this would be easier..ah well..i guess i can add another post when i get inspired, right?