A Crazy Week

I'm back from my 2 month, Telus-induced histus. I've actually had internet back for a few weeks now, but it's still been screwy and not always working right (and by right I mean at all) so I just haven't made it back here. It was rather frustrating with it all because I made the new blog because I wanted to post more and keep it updated, and I was in the mindset to do that and then I couldn't. But I'm back now and giving it another shot.

This past week has been really crazy. Our anniversary was last Thursday. We didn't really do much for it. We just stayed home and put the kids to bed early so we could have a nice, romantic dinner (and as parents of 2 very young children, romance for us is being able to talk at the table over the noise level of 2 kids, without food being thrown at us or little moochers stealing off our plates...Yes, I know, our standards are quite low...lol). So after dinner, we watched a movie and called it a night.

I still cannot believe we have been married for 4 years. We have been through so much in those 4 years, some good, some not so good. But we made it through and we are happy and in love and ready for whatever we might face.

In July we took our house off the market. At that point Jamie was working full hours and we were doing ok financially (getting caught up) and we knew that with the hit our credit had taken from his 6-month lay off that we'd have a very tough time getting approved for another mortgage, so when the contract with the realtor expired, we didn't bother renewing it. In the 3-4 months it was on the market, we'd only had 3 requests for showings, and 2 cancelled, so it just didn't seem worth it. Plus, for what we wanted to get out of the deal at that time, we knew it probably wasn't going to happen anyways.

Fast forward to this week. Jamie's hours have been cut for about a month, so he is making...well not enough anyways. It's going to be nearly impossible for us to catch up and we seem to be getting further behind. So we came to the difficult decision to relist the house. We have a realtor coming on Tuesday, so I have been busy cleaning and doing laundry and getting the house ready for painting and fix-ups this weekend. My mom is taking the kids and Jamie and I are going to be working our asses off getting everything done. And then I'll have 2 full days (with any luck) to finish the cleaning and organizing and get the house in viewing condition.

We're fortunate (as much as can be) now that we are willing to take a little bit less for the house. We are thinking of listing it between $172,000 and $175,000 and go from there. So we shall see what happens. Wish us luck!

I also had an interview for a job I am less than thrilled about yesterday. I was basically given the job (I'll post about the ridiculous interview a little later) but am unsure about what to do. Especially after this morning's events.

Poor Jamie hit a deer on his way to work. I've only seen a picture via our blackberries of the damage, but it looks pretty Bad. When I hit a deer with my Torrent, the damage was at the very least equal to the damage on Jamie's car and it totalled over $10,000. I am hoping that I am over-estimating and that they don't end up writing the car off, because we owe quite a bit more on it than we would get paid out from insurance, I am sure. So I'm a little worried about that. And with only one vehicle for who knows how long, it'd be difficult for me to be working part-time, because if we're doing evening and weekend showings, I'd have the other car and Jamie would be stuck at home with no way to get himself, 2 kids and 3 dogs out of the house for the showings. So yet another thing to add to the list of things to stress me out.

Today I have to do an employability session with some hag from the service Canada place...I am not happy about and don't want to talk about it. Other than to say my children will be very difficult and they're coming with me seeing as I have no baby-sitter and she is being a real bitch about me having to come in. Maybe once I am less pissed off about it and there's a chance of me not going into a rage and getting myself worked up over it, I will post about it. Until then, I'm off to get ready for my day.