And a week later....

I have another binding agreement. I'm excited, but now I'm even more scared, because I have actual real people counting on me to not screw this thing up. I'm pretty sure the other agents in the office are ready to toss me out on my behind for asking so many questions, but everyone has been just wonderful about answering even the most silly questions.

I sold a house!!

After several weeks of coming into the office every day and nothing happening, I got a duty call on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 from a couple who was looking for a house. I did a search and sent them some listings I thought they might be interested in. Within minutes they had called me back about one of them. I thought we would go see it the next day, but NO, they were on their way out there and wanted me to meet them RIGHT THEN. David and I jumped in the car, met them, I showed them the house and they loved it. They made an offer yesterday, signed the counter-offer today and it's a deal!! Yes, I know lots of things can still go wrong, but I'm so excited.

I've decided to blog again

Of course, when I temporarily closed down my Photobucket account awhile back, I lost all of my pictures, so if an entry refers to a pic, you will just have to use your imagination.

After leaving my job last August, I was in a funk, so I completely quite blogging (or talking to most people). Now that I'm back among the living and working, however, I figured it would be a good way to journal the happenings in our lives. I know that it has been interesting to go back and read previous posts, some have made me laugh and some have made me cry all over again.

It's a new day (and a new year) though, and I'm ready to tackle anything. Welcome to My World.....

Katherine's First Trip to the Zoo

David, Katherine and I went to the Atlanta Zoo today, while Josh, Mollie and Jeff went to Savannah with their dad. I needed to get out of the house, as the overwhelming anger I am feeling right now towards people who refuse to acknowledge what anyone with any sense realizes, many people in the Gulf Coast Region have died needlessly in the last week, due to the complete incompetence of too many people.

Anyway, I digress. We got up early and went while it was still cool, so the animals were active. Katherine's favorite were the turtles. But ONLY if they were swimming. She loved running around and pointing at things though, and enjoyed petting the goats at the petting zoo. We stayed about 3 hours, which was long enough to wear her out.

Beth's House of Bondage (I mean binding...)

I spent the last week hauling home my stash from the Warren Featherbone Asset Auction. Warren Featherbone was a long-time childrenswear manufacturer in Gainesville. They made Alexis Playsafe Clothing, plus Pool Pals swimsuits, plus lots of things for other stores like Nordstroms, Dillards and Baby Boutiques. A few months ago, they sold out to a company in New Jersey and closed this plant. Last week was their asset auction. Being both a sewing machine collector, and almost unemployed person, I went. I wanted to get an industrial machine and maybe some fabric or trim if I could afford it.

I showed up at 9:50AM for the 10:00AM auction. I made David come with me because I had never done this before and was really worried. We looked over the hundreds of machines and the various other lots (about 1000 of them) and decided on some things I would possibly bid on.

Fast forward to 4:00PM. I really LIKE this auction stuff. I am the proud owner of 20 or so lots, including 7 industrial machines (some way-cool antique Singers too,) nearly all the binding in the plant, 45 different types of buttons, a million or so snaps, cases of thread, numerous computer components, including huge factory printers and office printers, and tons of lace and trim. Oh, did I mention the shelves? 40 shelving units. All for an amazing price!! I made 25% of what I spent back before I left the warehouse, simply by selling off some of the metal shelving units.

Now I have to call David and tell him we need to get this stuff home. In case you didn't know, industrial machines are HEAVY!! But, I spent about 6 hours a day hauling stuff home on Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat, Mon and Tue. It was so much fun though and I met some really cool people who just GAVE their stuff away to me. I ended up with way more than I actually bought. The only thing is now it is taking over my house. Here are some pictures.

Next is the inventory, then I'm creating a website to sell off most of it. I'm getting to be quite the little entrepreneur.

Oh, and I've promised my family that they can have our house back soon. At least until the next time there's an auction.

Jobs

Well, I did it. I quit my job. I have until next Wednesday, when I am officially unemployed, or as David puts it, "freelance."

YEAH!!!

How I spent my Monday

Yep, with Mollie getting braces. She had an 8:30AM appointment, we left at 10:30AM and were back with a broken bracket by 2:30PM. It could be a LONG 18 months.....

She is doing just fine and they really look quite nice. She took the rest of the day off school (the 2nd day) and is taking some Aleve, but I think she'll be ready to go back and show her friends tomorrow