Work up at crack as of dawn with a horrible headache - thanks wind and pressure system. decided to skip church and turned off the alarm. Then woke up in a panic that I had not brought my work phone in the bedroom with me and I am on call. I thought it was maybe 8am, nope, it was 9:50! I had missed 3 calls. Big wooha with power out at one terminal and yadda yadda production manager had to be called to deal with it and he's all mad. Things I did not say, but will probably have to say on Monday:
- I would have had to call him too, because I did not know who the power company is for that terminal and I did not know the blah blah machine could be operated on diesel.
I let him just assume I was at church, because I have told them over and over that on Sunday, even when I am on call, I will be at church and sing in the choir and will not have my phone with me from like 7:30 to 9:45. SO… totally in that window, I would not have answered the phone anyway.
So now I am up and made pancakes and coffee (I need to get in this habit more, cooking is good and good for mac and me to eat together). mac is out playing with neighbors and Bailey the dog is lamenting his absence with whines and pleas for constant attention.
Those are excellent excuses, msbelle.
My mac and cheese (that I froze last month and thawed to eat) is soupy. Disappointing. But still pretty tasty.
But she's totally going to want to use the cabin ALL THE TIME, and that ain't cool.
That house from yesterday? Went under contract before the open house today. It was listed late Thursday. This is the sort of market I am dealing with. Sigh.
I'd totally go with being at church, msbelle. That probably makes me a bad person, but I don't think employers earn the right to make you miserable.
I tried to buy my sister's duplex (that she is a tenant in) earlier this year. They never got to an open house. Listed Thursday, contract by Tuesday am with multiple bids.
I need my next job to be Mon - Fri with very limit overtime and no weekend on-call. I do not like the anxiety of having to take work calls anytime. My phone going off at odd time means family emergency to my lizard brain.
The house was on the market for several months last year, and came down several times. Even so I was thinking it was a wee bit high.
How do people get to see these places? We have jobs and kids, and I think it is occupied. And I worked yesterday and today. I think I need a more aggressive agent.
I feel like it was a mistake of the listing agent not to see of they could get more bids. But it might be the seller who would prefer a bird in the hand over an open house, esp if it was sitting on the market last year.
Weirdly my area is dead right now. Nothing really going on the market and homes are languishing. Sales are down 12% from Feb last year. I still lost out on a house of my dreams-- literally, I had an extensive dream about that f#%^ing house last night.
