It's not you...it's me

It's been weeks since I last blogged.  Lots of major stuff has been going on and I have a TON of stuff to catch up on/blogs to read. 

Birthday

My birthday went off without a hitch this year (ok...well a couple days before I had a little sob fest, but nothing like last year!!) We treated it like a normal day and had a fabulous dinner at The Chart House in Old Town.

This was my gift from Geoff

The Colette Bed by Crate and Barrel

Savannah

The next week we drove back to Savannah and our wonderful friends threw us a BBQ and we had a game night.  We also had out of town guests that weekend, so definitley a full weekend for us.  I have to give a shout out to my WONDERFUL and SWEET friend Kristy for her awesome "remember Savannah" gifts.

For someone to remember my love of all things honey and all natural soap and candle for my freakish allergies:)

Speaking of allergies...

Remember those really bad allergies I had to the mold in Savannah?  Well looks like the mold followed me to Alexandria.  The basement of the house we are leasing to purchase is bad....and getting worse.  Which means I am back on the steriods that make me feel like crap.

Needless to say, all the work we did on this house will be in vain.  Thousands of dollars and hours of home improvement down the drain.  I can't stay here.  It would cost to much to redo the entire basement and clean this place up.  So we are out of contract on the house, and trying to get out of our lease.  Funny thing is, the minute I get out of the house, I feel better.  In Savannah it was the opposite, it was the outdoors that killed me!

Please cross your fingers we can break this lease. 

Mold I "grew" from the home testing kit.  I'm no scientist...but that's soooo not good!

House Hunting Again

So I blew it on chosing this house.  Lost tons of money. Geoff and I talked and we are getting something much smaller and in Old Town (town home). The place we are looking at is a lot cheaper than this place (but compared to the rest of the country, still a ridiculous price for the square footage.)  Great school district.  Great location.  Will need to build an addition.  Has no parking but a deep lot (in Old town that's VERY rare).  We can get awaywith 1 car here :)

Built in 1820 (yup, you heard me right).  NO MOLD.  Totally dry and finished basement.

This isn't a forever house, but a house that is ok for a few years.  Totally different from any place we ever saw ourselves in. 

Younger neighboorhood (all our neighboors here are in thier 40's-50's, the house 1/2 block down is owned by the former head of Capital One...talk about us not "fitting in"). 

Must learn to roll with the punches.