[bizi]

I drank 3 dark beers tonight....I was bored.
went to whole foods and played trivia.
Surly I can come up with something else to do on a friday night.
my friend susan was working and could not go out like last weekend.
I saw some friends who I had not seen in a month.
It was good to see them.
I over ate as well.
Re group tomorrow.
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[Gethprime]

Just landed in Austin 3 days ago. Crashed on the couch as soon as I went into my apt LOL

[OhKay]

Originally Posted by Gethprime

Just landed in Austin 3 days ago. Crashed on the couch as soon as I went into my apt LOL

It must feel good to be home

[OhKay]

You have done very well being AF for a long time. You drank one night. You can just reset

It sounds like you have thought out all the aspects of the house-buying and are well prepared. I hope that the house-hunting goes well

[Gethprime]

Originally Posted by OhKay

It must feel good to be home

Yeah I just picked up my mom last night and we stopped by Joes Crab Shack.

[mymorgy]

were you really bored? did you need to feel a little high? or were you feeling low? How do you feel now? Might you beat yourself up?

[bizi]

Originally Posted by mymorgy

were you really bored? did you need to feel a little high? or were you feeling low? How do you feel now? Might you beat yourself up?

The scale went up a bit so that was not good.
I ate half a cheese tray, half a burger, and a piece of chantilly cake that was only fair.
I did stop drinking and eating at my 8 hour window of 7;30
so actually it was 2 1/2 beers.

my last client of the day canceled on me so i was done early.
Jeff was going to trivia with out me usually so I just thought it was something to do. It is raining here, should be raining all day.
My back yard is flooded half way to the house.
don't like it one bit. We look at 3 houses starting at 1pm so I need to get dressed and finish up my tea.
I could not sleep last night so at 3am got up and took 1mg of klonipin and slept in till 1030am.
Today is a new day.
I must figure out how to have fun with out drinking.
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[bizi]

Well after looking at many houses and then talking with a couple of realtors about our area that we live in.
We believe our house was built better than new homes. So we have decided to stay put and fix the foundation and remodel our kitchen and the bathrooms.
We are having a man come look at our front door to see about installing a new one. We have already picked out a new door. We like a certain one but it will have to be stained first. It looks like a frank loyd wright door, with geometric angles/lines.
First the foundation needs to be dealt with.$$$$
We will take out a line of credit against the house using equity to pay for the repairs and remodel. It will be cheaper this way. 5.5% on the line of credit.
The kitchen designer is contacting us next week to come to the house and measure the kitchen. The man/Jeff is someone that was recommended and works for home depot. We went there this afternoon to start looking at kitchens and cabinets. We have to bring in the sample of laminate flooring that we saved from 16 years ago from the kitchen to match the cupboards.
Brenda from home depot helped to make up a mock up of the kitchen on her computer. It is amazing what they can do. Next week The cabinet guy/Jeff will measure the kitchen and both bathrooms.

Had a coupon for a free bang bang shrimp at bone fish grill for my birthday. Went there for dinner tonight as we also had gift certificates from christmas.
Jeff had scallops and I had the lily's chicken dish, artichoke hearts, basil, spinach, goat cheese. A big side of spinach and brocolli. yum!
took home half for another meal. What a deal! only had one piece of bread and ate between my 8 hour window too. Now am drinking hot tea.
Chai rooibos by yogi. It is cinnamon flavored.
This intermitant fasting is easy.
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[OhKay]

I am concerned about how quickly you are jumping into this remodel after being so committed to buying a new house...
That being said, it sounds like you are getting a good interest rate, and I think you will be happy with all the improvements. You are already on your way to updating your home and making it pretty and more comfortable

[bizi]

Thanks kay.
WE have been toying with the idea of fixing up the house over the past few years. We took out a tree that was supposed to be affecting the foundation last summer and had the foundation inspected 2 years ago but never acted on it.
Recently we discovered many cracks in the sheet rock that were not there, lord knows how long they have been there. They split the wall paper!
Then there is the door we had picked out over a year ago but never followed thru. Right now it is next to impossible to lock the front door.
Lets see if we can finally follow thru on these endeavors.
They guy who could install our door is coming this morning to give us a quote. It needs to be stained.
Next week we will talk and set up an appointment for another man to measure the kitchen and bathrooms. Jeff is going to get more estimates from several companies about the repair to the foundation.
That will be a huge project!!!!
So this has been in the works for a while now. We have just not been committed to making the financial commitment to go ahead with the projects.
Last week I met with the bank about getting a new line of credit ours expires in 6 months. The new one will be for 10 years, but we can extend it after that.
We ignored the foundation and have issues with cracks etc.
I believe we have to address this firstly before we can go on with the other ares.
It will cost over $10k.
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