Sold and Bought

We sold our house about 2 hours before I left for California to visit Matt. What a blessing. It turned into a battle between 2 buyers which worked to our advantage. Anyone know how stinking hard it is to get a reasonable price for your home in Idaho when so many of your former neighbors pretty much gave their homes away. I do. You're welcome future home sellers for helping to bring home comps back up.

I arrived in California on a Friday night. On Saturday we went home shopping. We looked at two homes and put a bid on one. We already bid on another the previous Sunday but they refused because our loan is going to VA. Bummer cuz we really liked that one.

Here's how the housing market works in Cali. A house goes on the market and it has 20 offers within 4 hours. I wish I was joking about that. There are actually loads of foreclosures but the banks hold onto them and siphon them out into the market in order to get their money out of them. There are just over 2300 realtors in our future county and only 400 homes on the market. Actually there are 399 homes now because our first offer came through. Thank goodness. We really liked the home and it is in the ward that Matt has been attending. And it has a pool and an extra 900 sq feet more than what we have now. It feels a little embarrassing but I know we will be spending a lot of time there and am grateful we found it.

I found out yesterday that the actions I took to get my California nursing license were only a tiny piece of what actually needs to be completed. Oh, California, how I wish you didn't have overcomplicate, over regulate and over price EVERYTHING. I am almost ready to change careers and go into landscaping design. I don't want to work in your STD clinics anyway. :0) Seriously, after interviewing with a local junior college and finding out that they call (coddle) their students to encourage them to come to class if they don't show up, I wonder if I'm a good fit for them anyway. Nursing school should be painful...always. I found this out after replying to her question of "What is your biggest challenge as a nursing instructor?" with "The sense of entitlement from today's generation is extremely challenging." How do you get past an inherent sense of brattiness and deserving? I am not without empathy as an instructor but I do expect competence, maturity and work ethic. You are crying to a girl who gave birth to her fourth baby 4 weeks before starting nursing school, while serving in a primary presidency and working. That was only my sacrifice. Matt and my parents gave up so much in order to help me make it through. Group effort for a Bachelors of Science in Nursing. We sometimes paralyze people with our so-called help. I know there is something for me there. I just have to be patient, come up with some more cash and send in a lot more paperwork. I have to include a tax declaration as well. Why? Go figure. Welcome to the People's Republic of California.

Enough trash talk. I am SO excited to live with Matt again. By the time we reunite and move in May it will have been almost 3 years since we lived together. Everyone is missing him and even I am so done with being the tough mom. So done. The boys need the Alpha male back in the house, the girls need their daddy and I need my husband. I miss him.

Traffic in LA. Yep, it's legal for motorcycles to weave through traffic

Matthew had one requirement for the new house. It had to be party-able. Nope not a word. I think the outside bar, pool and sound system meet requirements