House Selling

Wow what a difference a new agent makes! Today I had 2 showings on my house and I have to give credit to my new agent. He created the new MLS (Multiple Listing Service) yesterday and added the one picture of the front of my house with the new price to get it out there and already I had 2 showings. This was an issue that I had with my old agent, she added to the MLS but no pictures were showing. She had taken several pictures but they were not showing up. Unfortunately I was the one that found this at the begining of Feb. It was pretty upsetting to find this out after having it on the market for 6 weeks and to top it off, I had to find it.

My new agent Tommy, also came by today to take new pictures of the outside of the house since it was such a nice day out. He also helped me move the boxes I have packed already to the garage. Tomorrow (Mon) he and his partner are coming back to stage the house.

Here is his website if you want to check him out:
http://www.tommycirtaus.com/

Stay tuned!

Weight Watchers - Week 5

Well it looks like I am back on track....I lost .8 lbs this past week. Not too bad with eating lunch out this week so I could catch up with my work buds. I also havent been able to exercise, like walking as much as I would like to.

New Agent(s)

So as you read in my previous post I 'fired' my real estate agent. She was not working out. Anyway, I was able to switch to another agent in the same Remax office. He works with a partner and when I met with both of them yesterday. They took the time to explain key items about selling a house, price, location, etc. We ended up lowering the price by $4000. So it will now be listed at $154,900. They will also be coming back to 'stage' my house (on Mon or Tues) which is great because I was having a hard time moving things on my own even though my previous agent said I didnt need to change/move anything. They are also planning an open house and placing 'take one' flyers on the sign out front. So needless to say these guys impressed me already.

On an embarrassing note, Gizmo liked them so much he tried to hump their legs. I was so embarrassed.

You're Fired!

Well not any of you, but I did have to fire my realtor this morning. She was just not working out. I think she thought that posting my listing and sticking a sign in my yard and my house would sell itself. Not in this market and now that I recall, she didnt even put the sign in my yard, she brought it over and wanted to wait until she posted it before putting it in the ground and then she forgot! I had to get my neighbor to do it since I was out of town. I guess that should have been my first clue.

Oh well. I am meeting with my new realtor tomorrow afternoon and hopefully we can get this house sold, cuz my new one is looking soooooooo good. I cannot wait to move into it. It is sooooo beautiful. I went by today to look and there are only a few more things to do. Carpet, appliances, sod and thats about it. I am sure there are some little things I havent thought about but those were the biggies. Again I will post pics of the new house soon too. Its late I am going to bed!

Oweee

So it turns out that I had an allergic reaction to adhesive. I ended up going back to the Dr on Monday to make sure by incisions were ok. 2 of the 3 didnt look too good (one still looked like a hole, yikes). However around each of he incisions I had broken out in a rash and blisters. Anyway, the Dr said despite the allergic reaction the incisions appear to be healing 'nicely'. He said they could re-try a butterfly stitch on the one that still looked like a hole but since the skin all around it was still inflamed due to the allergic reaction we could leave it alone and it will be fine. So we shall see. I am afraid I will have bigger scars this time around. I will post some pics soon. Actually I plan to post pictures I have been taking this weekend. I have some new ones of the new house to post as well.

Knee Update

I got my stitches out yesterday and will start physicall therapy next week. Unfortunately last night and this morning I noticed 2 out of 3 of my incisions seemed to open back up. The little strips they put over the incinsions after the stitches were removed seemed to come loose. So today I played nurse and went and bought those butterfly strips and tried to stay off it most of the day. So far it seems to have done the trick. I will post some new pictures soon.

Weight Watchers - Week 4

Hello...well I started back to Weight Watchers today after a brief 2 week break due to my knee surgery. Unfortunately with being homebound for 2 weeks coupled with the arrival of Girl Scout cookies this week, I gained a pound. Well I guess it could be worse.

Knee Surgery

Hi...for those of you that didnt know, I had knee surgery yesterday (Thurs). I am at home recoperating. I have had a lot of people checking on me. I have a great group of people that I work with. They have been calling to check in and make sure I have everything I need. They are an awesome bunch. I also have my neighbors across the street helping me out as well. Donovan comes over and plays with Gizmo and takes him for walks for me.

So my surgery went well. There was no torn miniscus (sp?) but there was some damage from arthritis that he cleaned up. I am pretty sore today and it is hard to get comfortable, especially when I sleep since I sleep on my side and cant really do that with my knee bandaged up and I have to keep it elevated too. I am attaching some pics. The one with the scribbles is where my dr and I had to initial to show that we agree the surgery was to happen on my right knee. :) I thought that was pretty funny. Then the blue bandage is the ice pack I wrap around the bandage.