Update

Hi again...so far things have been going well. Gizmo switched playcares. I dont think he was loving the zen den as much and I wasnt feelin it there either so now we are trying out Bo's Bunkhouse and so far so good. He seems to like it a lot better and so do I.

Tomorrow we are leaving for a trip back to San Antonio for work. Gizmo will get to go visit all his buds at the Palms. I called to let them know he was coming and they are excited to see him.

I am still searching for a new job. Its been a somewhat longer process than I had hoped. Its been about 6 wks now and no bites. I have posted for 4 internal jobs and about 6 or 7 externally.

In some ways I am kinda looking forward to not working for a while, but in others I am scared to death of not having a paycheck or insurance. I do feel like I am burned out and need a break but its scary not knowing if I will find a new job soon. I am sure it will all work and everything does happen for a reason.

Blog again soon!

First Days in Our New Surroundings

Gizmo went for his first day at his new play care today. Can you just picture him with his little backpack going off to play for the day? LOL. Anyway, they said he did really well and he seemed very happy to see me when I came to pick him up and he did is usual 'talking' when I picked him up and asked him about his day. :)

Poor pup, I pick him up last week on his last day of playcare and drive 5 hrs to Dallas and then the next day move him to our new apartment which he starts to get used to and 2 days later I have to leave to go back to San Antonio to close on the old house. Then I pick him up from Aunt Bonnie's and spend the next day at home with him (since I am working from home now) and then the next day I drop him off at playcare. I felt so bad when I saw the look on his face as I was leaving, it was like wait a minute you are leaving me in a strange place again so soon?!?!? What a trooper!!!

As for me, I am actually enjoying the opportunity to work from home. I wish I could do it permanently. I find that I am way more productive. Probably since there are really no distractions like people just dropping by your cube or getting caught up on the latest gossip. I do kinda miss the social aspects. So I guess there are pros and cons to the whole work from home thing. It definately saves on gas which I am excited about.

Its Official

I finally sold my house. I have now moved to Plano which is outside of Dallas. I found an apartment 2 weeks ago and I moved into it last Thurs/Fri. Closing was today. So I flew back to San Antonio on Sun and back to Dallas this afternoon. It went by so smoothly. I was done in less than 10 min. So I was able to get an earlier flight back to Dallas which I arrived 90 min before I was originally supposed to take off from San Antonio. Now comes the fun of unpacking, in some ways its almost like opening christmas presents. Finding things you forgot you had. :)

I am going to work virtually for the same company (Accenture) for the next month while I look for something new within the company and they hire a replacement for me. I have posted for 3 jobs internally but if I dont hear anything by next week I will have to start looking outside of Accenture.

Stay tuned!

Finally...

Finally I sold my house! I guess its true the third time is a charm. :) We close on June 3rd.

I also made the decision to move to Dallas. With everything that happened with the new house I was supposed to move into when I sold this house, I decided it was a sign that I should move to Dallas now rather than in a few years. There have been other signs along the way as well and as I firmly believe that everything happens for a reason; the time seems to be right.

More to come.

Difficult Decisions

This week I had to make a difficult decision to cancel my contract on my new house. The Sales Manager was putting the pressure on now that the house is pretty much done. I could sell my house quicker if I lower the price a bit but if I did that, I couldnt afford the down-payment on my new house. So after much thought and review of my options I decided to cancel my contract now while I could still get my earnest money back. Unfortunately that is only 1/3 of the money that I put into the new house.

I could have continued with an addendum to the contract where they would be able to put the house on the market and I would have right of first refusal. This is where I would have 3 days to either walk away or buy the new house without the contingency on selling my house.

The Sales Manager had already been rude to both of my agents when I first switched over to them. Which is unfortunate since they could have worked very well together not just with me but with other opportunities.

Anyway he was pretty rude with me when he called me to tell me about putting the house up and at one point laughed at me when I asked a question. I told him I didnt appreciate it and that it is unprofessional of him to do that. He also was totally denying that he had told me I would have until July to sell my house. Unfortunately I didnt have that in writing as I thought I did. So I after I drive by the house I saw that the sold sign was gone and that an 'available' sign was now up in the yard. So the next day I called and spoke to his boss and filled him in on everything and after discussing with him and my agents I decided it was best to cancel the contract.

So now I am pondering my next steps on what to do when my house does sell. We thought about lowering the price, but after reviewing the comps in the area; it really is priced right so I will hold off a little longer. There are some different options I am considering for what I will do when my house does sell. I will share those at a later time. :)

As we all know everything happens for a reason!

OMG! Why I dont like cats...

So the day before I was supposed to leave for my cruise. I was in the garage looking thru boxes for a few things and out from behind some boxes runs a cat. Apparently a cat has been hiding in my garage for some time now. My guess is that it had been there for about 4-6 weeks. I am thinking it got in when my agents 'staged' my house and stored stuff in my garage; which had been about 6 weeks prior. About 4 weeks before I had found poop in my garage and assumed it was Gizmo's but wasnt quite sure when he would have done it. Now thinking back I am pretty sure it was this cats. I immediately went over to my neighbors because they had been missing a cat for a few weeks now. Turned out not to be theirs but they have since sorta adopted it. We had a heck of a time getting it out of my garage. It was very scrawny and scared. I have no idea how it survived for that long in my garage.

I will post about my cruise soon. I still have to download pics.

Bummed

I am still bummed from last weekends news on the offer on my house...I was supposed to have a showing yesterday (Fri) from 2-4pm so I came home from work early to get Gizmo and we went to visit a friend of mine. She and her family just moved into one of the communities off the main road to my house. While I was there the showing service called to say that they rescheduled for 3-4pm and it was already 3pm. So basically I had wasted an hour. So I came home after 4pm but it didnt look like anyone had been by. Then at 530pm they called again to tell me that they had cancelled. Bummer!