Things I Learned This Weekend

Hello my darlings! So sorry that it's been so long since I updated last - but things have been very, very busy at our little household. The kind of busy when you (1) actually run out of clean underwear and (2) your Google reader hovers around 4 figures every day. I've been unable to read and comment on a lot of my blogs, but I hope to catch up by the end of this week and get back to posting regularly myself. In the meantime, I'd like to give you a quick recap of our weekend through the lessons I learned:

• While Indian food does raise your tolerance for alcohol, you will still feel like ass the next day if you eat and drink too much.
• When it rains a lot, worms come out of the ground.
• There does exist worms large enough that you will mistake them for (1) a snake, (2) shoelace for a high top or (3) the large intestine of a small household pet.
• When you and your husband see a worm this large, it's likely that BOTH of you will scream.
• When the worms raises the top half of its body from the ground like it's hissing at you, you might pee in your pants a little.
• Flash photography does not work that will in the pitch dark when you are trying to photograph a worm.
• Wine does not help this endeavor.
• However, it does help to raise your husband's tolerance of icky/squishy things in that he will take the time to coax said freakishly large worm onto a stick and place it out of harm's way.
• There is a 99.9% chance that your male dog will pee on a location where it smells you.
• Like, say - in the area where you just saved a freakishly large worm's life.
• Worms and dog pee do not mix.
• Do not reheat and eat more Indian food after you had a large dinner because you will NOT feel like cleaning up the mess.
• Sleep late on Saturdays if possible to avoid festering Indian food in kitchen.
• Don't get your hopes up about a house that you fall in love with through pictures. Chances are it may look like cheap crap when you actually see the house.
• Do, however, follow your instincts and drive by a house that you previously feel in love with but had certain issues you were concerned about.
• Do approach the owner of the house, even if the house was withdrawn from the market, and tell him you love his house but are worried about (a), (b) and (c).
• He might be a really nice guy and explain that (a), (b) and (c) don't matter that much.
• Don't giggle when you husband writes a number on the back of his business card that you would be willing to pay for said house.
• You will not feel like eating after you make an offer on a house - nausea will reign supreme.
• Do squeal with delight when the owner's agent calls to tell you that the owner enjoyed meeting you very much and has accepted your offer.

We are "under contract" for a house y'all! It was a house that I had visited weeks ago and feel in love with and I'm even more in love now. We are planning on having inspections on Friday so keep your fingers crossed that everything works out.

Hell, I'll even bring the worm with us if he survived Murphy's onslaught of urine!