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Chalk It Up

I'm on another mission. It seems like I'm always on a mission these days, which is fine with me. Keeps me busy. The new house that we are moving into has a decent size kitchen and I want to make another mirror chalkboard, but I want this one to be more classy and elegant. Kind of like these....




So, my mission is to find an awesome CHEAP mirror that I can do this to. So keep your eyes open for me! I would like to make it a chalkboard/magnetic board. That would be cool. That way I could display pictures or whatever as well. I'm pretty sure they make that kind of paint... Hmmmm...

We met yesterday at the new house to sign the contract. I'm so excited, I can't wait to start moving. I mean I'm not excited to actually move, but you know what I mean! I'm actually more excited to be back in Fort Smith and make a fresh start! Not to mention all the gas I'm going to save by not driving back and forth from Greenwood. I'm already dreaming of what I am going to spend that extra money on!

Finally

Yeah, we found a house! We are moving back to Fort Smith in two weeks and I am completely excited! It's in Park Hill, 2 bedroom, 1 bath, hardwood floors, awesome backyard with a deck and 1 car garage. I can't wait to get over there and start decorating.

On another note, it's HALLOWEEN! It is crazy in our neighborhood on Halloween! I mean there are literally a million people roaming the streets right now. I wish I was able to take a picture to show you that I am not exaggerating. Halloween is by far my favorite holiday and I'm sad that I wasn't in the mood to decorate this year. This whole house mess has really put a damper on my spirits, so to speak! I love decorating for the holidays, especially Halloween, but this year I just wasn't in the mood I guess. At least we'll be back in Fort Smith for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Slacker...

I know! I know! I'm such a slacker lately when it comes to this blog. I just haven't been motivated to do anything lately. I'm so frustrated about this house mess that I don't really have time to worry about anything else.

We are still in the process of looking for a new place to live. Our house is still in "escrow", but who knows what's going on what that. My Realtor is supposed to call my mortgage company today to try and get some answers. Apparently, the buyers are getting a bit antsy. Hell, I would too! They have $8,000 on the line! I honestly wouldn't blame them one bit if they decided to back out of this deal. I would have a long time ago.

As for the rental world, there is nothing and I mean NOTHING available right now. We are waiting on a call back from one, but they are taking their time about doing it! Oh well, we'll find something, eventually... I hope...

SERIOUSLY?

The rental house we were told we had, was sold. Apparently, the day after we looked at the place, King Realty strolled in and decided they wanted to buy it for a rental property. Now we are out of a place to live... again. I guess it is not meant for us to live anywhere! HA! We'll find something eventually. At least we have a little bit of time to continue looking.

By George, We Found One!

We have found a rental house in our desired neighborhood, Park Hill. Let me tell ya, there isn't much out there to find right now. It's a cute 2 bedroom, 1 bath, hardwood floors, formal dining room, nice backyard and in our price range where we can start saving money for our future down payment! The guy we are going to rent from is super nice and laid back. He is really cool with us updating the place and cool with us having dogs. He also mentioned that maybe sometime down the line if we wanted, we could do a lease to purchase type thing. Not a bad find! I can't wait to post pictures on here for you guys! I totally plan on going in there and painting and redoing a lot. There is wallpaper in the dining room that I want to take down and wallpaper border in the living room (which is HUGE by the way and has a gas log fireplace). The kitchen will need some improvements, but nothing we can't handle now that Brent is a pro with the peel and stick tile! Since we plan on being there awhile, I don't mind fixing up the place to make it more "us". He also mentioned to us that he is having the outside repainted and new custom shutters put up! Whoo Hoo! I can't wait! Although, it is kind of sad to leave our first home. To be honest, we haven't had a lot of good memories in that house. So, I'm looking forward to starting fresh in a new house, new town and a new outlook on life in general. I've been in a much better mood today than I have been in a long time. For once, something has gone right for us! I hope it stays that way.

Change of Pace

October is almost over, can you believe it? There hasn't been a lot going on around here blog worthy at least. We are still in the process of the short sale. We don't know when we'll hear anything from the bank regarding that, but we hope it will be soon. We have decided to start looking for a rental house that we can move into for awhile so we can save up some money for a down payment for when we can buy in the future. Hopefully, that will be in another year. It's a bump in the road, but we have to make the most of it. I'm trying to look at it is an adventure. I was pretty bummed at first, but what can you do? As long as I have my husband and dogs, wherever we are, it will be our home. We'll just have to make it work.

We found this house in the Park Hill area on South Q Street. It's a 2 bedroom, 1 bath with a den, hardwood floors, fenced yard for $675 month

We made an appointment to go and look at it on Monday. I can't wait to see what it looks like on the inside. The man I talked to said they are going in and completely updating the place...

We plan to drive around this weekend and look for some other rentals to look at. To be honest, there really aren't a lot out there right now. It's sucks to have to take a step backwards from owning my home to renting and paying someones mortgage payment for them, but hopefully I can find a nice house at least! Wish Us Luck!