House Hunting Blues part 2

We figured out we could swing offering and closing costs and the trip to New Orleans but it would be tight...we'd have to eat ramen and only rent free movies at Hollywood video (we're in that MVP program where it's $9.99/month and all the rentals (except new releases) free) and roll our own cigarettes instead of buying them (yeah we smoke...nasty habit i know) and wash laundry at my mom's and not go out at all to the movies or for drinks or dinner or anything....we could do it. So Kevin was all set to go to the realtor's office and sign the papers and make the offer this morning and right before he was leaving the house he got a phone call from Steve (the realtor) telling us the sellers had accepted another offer. Steve had called the seller's realtor last night and told her his buyers were interested and were going to make a lucrative offer and he would faz over everything tomorrow...she called him this morning at 8:30am and told him another offer had already been accepted. So he called us.

To be honest, I'm still a little upset we didn't get the house, but it's kind of a relief. We're still gonna live tiny the next few weeks (not as tiny as we would have, but still not go out, rent free movies, go to mom's to do laundry, thank goodness we'll eat more then ramen lol as much as i love it (with some eggs and onion) even I could get sick of it) I'm gonna send Steve some properties that I found on realtor.com that we liked and he's gonna check them out for us. We're gonna start looking again in a week or so. I have faith there's another house out there for us. And who knows, the other house we looked at Wednesday that we liked might still be on the market when we're able to make another offer. It was work, but it was gorgeous and almost perfect.

So that's the deal. I'm much better today. Actually, i knew we weren't going to get the house even before we got the call. It's gonna sound stupid, but I was watching House Hunters on HGTV last night (i love that show). Usually they show them looking at their 3 top houses, then they make a bid, then they get the call that it was accepted and show the house to us again after the family/couple/whatever has moved in and decorated. THIS show they showed someone looking at one house and they made an offer on it the next day and it wasn't accepted...they accepted another offer. So she had to look for something as close to perfect as she could get. So when I saw this episode, I just knew it was like a "sign" (I'm crazy I know that) and we weren't going to get the house. So when the phone rang early this morning I already knew why.