Don't Bring Me Down....

Our living room

You got me runnin' goin' out of my mind,
You got me thinkin' that I'm wastin' my time.
Don't bring me down,no no no no no....

This is the song that is playing in my head when I think of my shrinking 401K, the inability for anyone to get credit/ loans and the mere thought that our beautiful home is not going to sell.

Kent and I put our house up for sell one (1) week before the wedding. That's right, instead of being like a typical bride the month before their wedding having their days filled with showers, worries of dress fittings and running to the mailbox to look for RSVP's I was working on getting my house ready to sell. This wasn't just cleaning the place up...oh no! This was serious work, like 6 days before the wedding I dug out a rock pathway. I cried to my Mother (who was also helping me) that this was no way for a bride to be spending the last week-end before her wedding. In the end though we finished all of our projects--a new staircase, a new retaining wall, new gutters and fascia boards and complete landscaping. Don't forget about the massive cleaning, staging and coordination of putting a house on this market.

So here I am, it's been 10 weeks since the house has been on the market and we get the same response, "Clients loved the house, the finishes etc, but due to market uncertainty they are holding off." The world is holding off now all because of the poor decision makings of our leaders. I am doing my best to focus on the fact that Kent and I are not in foreclosure. We simply would like to purchase our own home together and create a place for the both of us. Our current home is stunning, I mean really fabulous.

It is too small though and Kent has lived there for 7 years and is dying for a change. It is also not a home to have a baby in. We are months from beginning to try, but we had hoped to sell the home and truly start out our life in a new home. We will manage somehow, but it does get to be depressing. So Mr. Government, Mr. Bailout Plan, Mr. Anybody...please fix this financial crisis so that the economy can flow again and somebody will be able to live in our fabulous little gem.

Our fabulous triplex!