2000-09-16 - 21:10:14 - Exciting News

Wow! In the last day, so much has happened I don't even know where to start!

I guess I'll start with house news. Yesterday, we did put in an offer on the house!! However, because the current homeowners were in Eastern Washington, we had to fax the papers to them and thus gave them until Saturday (today) 9:00pm to respond. Luckily they didn't keep us in suspence that long, and in fact, sent back the paperwork this morning with just a few changes. But surprisingly they accepted our offer price!!!! They wanted to take their washer & dryer with them and pushed the closing date back 10 days. We would have preferred the closing date we chose, but considering they agreed to our price and we are extremely fortunate in that we don't have to worry about vacating our apartment by the end of the month, so we agreed to their terms and signed the papers today.

Actually, that's not completely technically correct, we actually ended up going back to look at the house again before we signed the papers. We had only walked through the house once before we made the offer, and at the time, it was the last house of 5 that we looked at that day. Also, since we had just started looking at houses, we weren't really looking at it seriously. So we went back today and luckily were able to spend a good hour and a half looking at the house and the yard and the outside of the house, etc.

After looking the whole house over again, we were completely ready to sign the papers. In fact, I looked around and couldn't believe that we were starting out with such a wonderful house! And, it was right in the price range we were hoping to stay in. I'm so unbelievably excited!! (I'm a bit overwhelmed and scared too, but mostly excited.)So depending on how the inspection on Wednesday goes, and provided we get the financing (which shouldn't be a problem), we will be homeowners in a little more than a month!!

Well, here is the realtor's picture of the house :

I'll fill you in on the details (how many rooms, bathrooms, etc) along with pictures as soon as we get some pictures. But we also want to give our home a name, so if you can think of some good names for a house, send me email! It does have two beautiful birches next to the driveway, so I'm playing around with something with "Birch" as part of it, but I don't know...... We could definitely use some help.

But that's not the only exciting news! Yesterday, my manager called me into her office (and I thought I did something wrong) and told me that another co-worker of mine was going to take another position within the company, and both my manager and her manager thought I would be a good person to fill that position and wanted to know if I was interested!! Of course, I'll still have to interview, but it sounded like the job could be mine if I was interested! Boy did that throw me for a loop -- I was not expecting that, nor was it a position that I had particularly coveted at any time. However, I'm at the point that I desperately need a change from what I am doing, and so I'm going to go for it! It's a little scary since it is more responsibility, more visible, and above all, something new. (I think it is the 'something new' that is one of the most scary aspects.) But it would mean a pay increase, it would be salaried and I could come and go as I pleased, which would be a nice change. And as I said before, I desperately need a change. So there is yet another change in my life when I was least expecting it!!!

But, more than the new house and more than a new job, I want to be a mom. I long to be a mom more than anything in the world. It's all I've ever wanted. But with everything going so well, I have such strong hopes that perhaps I will be fortunate in conceiving as well. I dare to allow myself to hope that I actually could get pregnant either this cycle or another one in the near future.

I want to stay cautiously optimistic, but I find myself thinking more and more, "well, if I'm pregnant when we move, I'd better be careful about picking up heaving things" or "if I got pregnant this cycle we could surprise my parents on my birthday or better yet, on my dad's birthday." So I guess my hopes are up, but I don't want to be crushed if I get my period either. I hope I won't be, because even if I manage to get my period by myself this time around, that would be a positive step in itself!

So tomorrow I go back for another ultrasound to make sure I actually ovulated. I guess they look at the follicle and can tell from the way it looks if it actually released an egg or not. It should be interesting at any rate. My temperatures have definitely jumped up and stayed up the last 3 days, so all indications point to the conclusion that I did ovulate, but only tomorrow will tell.

I'll continue to keep you posted....

Currently....
Cycle day : 17
Feeling : Excited, happy, nervous
Reading : The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Watching : The Olympics - Men's Gymnastics