Wait, wait, wait .. i'v never been good at waiting. If there is a choice between waiting and doing it myself, i would always opt to do it myself, however, i am not a real estate agent so i am not able to 'do it myself' here. 3 months have passed since we first put the house on the market and put our plans in place to move and start afresh in the Sunshine state.
In 3 months of being in the real estate market we have endured, a whole heap of "sorry guys, it just isn't the house for them", a pinch of "we have an offer, but it's $50 grand under the asking price" a whole heap of cleaning and an army tank full of stress. I HATE selling a house in the best of times, and i hate it even more when it's a 'slow market' and there is so much waiting for us on the other side.
I guess the part that makes it so stressfull to me, is that we have already tried this move to QLD before and it failed miserably and we ended up back here buying another house. I do think we are better prepared this time and more determined, however what if it fails again?
Im a thinker, a planner .. i don't do spontaneous, it just doesn't work for me. If im going somewhere i have a big bag packed with everything the kids could possibly need and then some.What if theres an emergency, i need to be prepared! A cyclone? A trip to the beach entails a picnic bag with lunch, snacks, water, usually a few Cougars, and some more water. Oh, and Vinegar incase of Jellyfish stings! And we cant forget the bag of clothes, the kids swimming clothes, plus the spare clothes, plus the clothes which they will wear back home. Then there is the shade tent, and the bag of towels, and the bag which will contain my phone, camera, a spare memory card, sunscreen and other essentials. The bag of beach toys, soccer balls etc. And dinner would usually have been prepared in the morning so i didn't need to do that when i got home. And the washing machine would have been switched on before we left so it was free to wash all the beach clothes/towels as soon as we got home. Im a planner, things just work better for me when they are planned. Can you imagine the jumble my head is in right now with so much uncertainty of waiting for the house to sell .. will we get the asking price? Will it be the quick settlement we need? We have to choose a rental house off the internet, will it be okay? Will Gregg find work? Will i find a part time job which is flexible enough for me to be with the kids as much as i and they need? And then there's the quencher .. this one is the one that is really giving my brain a chinese burn .. Heaths school .. i think by the time he had his toe prick test in the hospital at a few hours old, i had already chosen his school and now it has all changed, thus the chinese burn on my brain! Ouch!
People who are planners, do not like change!! No sir-e. Change is something that we do with our undies daily, but other than that it is really not welcome. I would slam my door in it's face if i could. I have narrowed my list down to a few favorite schools in QLD, but of course i need to be there to see them and make the final decision (which naturally, Heath will also have some say in as the choosen school needs to be one where he feels comfortable too) ..
.. and then i am left with the thought that the house may not even sell in time for us to start him at school in time for the new year, what then? I haven't looked at enrolling in the schools here as that wasn't in the planning!! IT WASN'T IN MY PLAN!!! I didn't write it in my diary! Or my calendar!! If it's not in the diary or calender then it simply can't happen! .. oh hang on, i think i just solved my own problem .. i didn't realise it was this simple ..
perhaps i just need to write in my diary the date for the house to sell, followed by the settlement date, the date we set travel, the date we arrive, the date we begin afresh, the date we visit the schools, the date we choose the school, the date Gregg finds work and last but not least .. perhaps i should consider a date where i become more carefree, consider burning the diary and becoming more spontaneous? Meh, i will just pencil that bit in in greylead. Very lightly. With no exclamation point. And i certainly wont be using my highlighters on that bit.
Planning things, it just works for me! I can't wait to read this back in a few months time, after having settled on a new house in the Sunshine state and thinking to myself "what was i worried about?" .. i will pencil that date into my diary too. In bold writting. Highlighted Yellow. With several exclamation points.
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