The galley slaves inside of my brain KNOW that the king wants to water-ski, right about now. You heard me. The drumbeat (is that my heart?) is getting louder and faster right about now because, you see, we are trying to ready our house for SALE and oh, there is this little annoyance of a show this weekend, for crying out loud. Uh huh. Normally I have the house covered in piles of yarn at this point in time and I had to take yesterday to corral the small piles into tagged piles and then into bins, so that Andrew (our buyer's agent) and Mom can come over here today to sign the papers for the bid on The Palace. I know that some of you think that we already did this but pulling the trigger meant that I said GO to Andrew, so that he could draw up the papers. Ok? He wrote a lovely letter to the other real estate agent and I wrote a lovely letter to the homeowner (got to give them the charm, if you can't offer all of the asking price, you know?) which will accompany the official offer and our big fat "earnest money" deposit. When THAT stuff gets into the hands of the buyer, we will wait for yay or nay. Belieeeeeeeeeeeeeve me, I will shout about it right away, one way or the other.
In the meantime, I have to get the spinning stuff away from the unused fireplace (smoke gives me a headache) so that the Chimney Guy can come in here and inspect said chimney for any damage that might have occured during the Loma Prieta earthquake. He comes tomorrow. Oh yeah...the show. That little thing. Am I ready? Not as much as I would LIKE to be but it WAS a last minute addition to the show line-up (added before all of this job and move stuff happened) and we will do our best to look pretty for the folks that come!
Back to real life? My great friend and colleague, weaver Georg Palmer, turned me on to her house painter last week and so he was on The Husband's list of calls to make. Sure, sez John, I can come over to check out your house and I prefer to paint this coming week. Do you hear the choir of angels singing? This is so unheard of that I just KNOW that some serious Mojo has been swirling around us. He has ONE week open and it is RIGHT NOW. The price was really fair for painting the house AND he is going to powerwash our deck and secure any places where the summer heat causes nails to pop up, screwing the wood down. He wants us to look pretty for our buyers, so that they fall in love with the house. Can you believe it? This guy, who came so highly recommended by my wonderful friend is another of my angels.
Tradesmen are beginning to line up to make us look pretty and we may just pull off the show AND selling this house AND getting The Palace. Keep your Mojo working, people. I feel it every day and thank you every time I feel that back straightening lift.
If you are coming to Oakland to the FiberArts Market (TKGA and CGOA) come say hi, will you? Alison, I can't wait to see your gorgeous shawl. Helle, you can be there in spirit and I will try to take a bunch of pictures of everybody, if it is calmer than Stitches. We'll seeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.....
Ohh yeah Lisa......i'll be there in spirit!! Or at least i'll try too!!
So.....do you know how long time it will take, before you know anything, about them "maybe" accepting the bid??:-)))
Posted by: Helle From Denmark | July 17, 2005 at 08:44 AM
Lisa, I had some old college friends who put in a bid on a house here that it turned out was $30k under what someone else was offering. Not just a possible-in-the-future, hoped-for higher bid, but one that was in the seller's hand. Uh, oh... Just in case that happened, they'd put a picture of their five kids in, and said how much they'd like to raise their kids in that nice neighborhood. Guess what. They got the place.
Buying from an artist... I'd give'em pictures of your work. Hang, for you to get the home of your dreams, *I* would come knit something for her out of your stuff as incentive!
Posted by: AlisonH | July 17, 2005 at 03:58 PM
Well, I for one am looking forward to meeting you and snagging some of that Earth fiber you showed a couple of weeks back. Yummy.
My only advice: Breathe.
Posted by: Milinda | July 17, 2005 at 10:16 PM
Since your world is chaos right now, I will try to spin more so the earth remains in balance. I'm only thinking of you. And my Deep Sea BFL. I spun nearly a bobbinful yesterday and I'm in love.
Posted by: Kerry | July 18, 2005 at 07:49 AM