Houses & Running

We continue to view houses.  So many houses...  The good news is that we've found another house that we both like.  It is nearby, is in good shape, has a large yard, and is in a good location.  We're trying to figure out the best way to proceed, either by doing the contract writing without a buyers agent, or negotiating a kick-back from an agent.

It's newly on the market, and we'd offer substantially less than what they're asking, so it's not a sure thing by any means.  Even if we managed to arrive at a deal on this house, we'll probably have to move in to temporary housing for a bit.  We've been spending time each evening packing up more belongings, and taking them to storage.

I had a bunch of guys lined up to help move the heavy equipment out of the garage, but the weather didn't cooperate.  It's been a very rainy/snowy spring here, it doesn't much feel like spring.

We did manage to make it to Grand Junction last weekend to meet up with Katie and Jordan for a race.  Kristen, Katie, and myself ran the 10k variation, while Jordan manned-up and ran the half marathon.  I think we were all happy our times, it definitely inspired me to get more serious about running.

This Saturday we headed down to Denver since Kristen and I had long ago signed up for a half marathon.  It seemed like a good idea at the time, and only cost $20.  We both weren't in half marathon shape, but spurred on by my experience last weekend, I decided to give it a try anyway.  Our friends Mike & Sharon had signed up too.  We met them for dinner on Saturday night, then got up bright and early today to run.

It was fun, although by mile 10 I really wanted to walk the rest of the way.  I made it across the finish line with my worse 1/2 marathon time ever, but was still happy I did it.  This race is about five months earlier than our typical 1/2 marathons, so I have some time yet this season to whittle that down.

Kristen headed to Dallas tonight for a work thing.  She'll be gone until Wednesday.  Will I just lay around in my underwear for three days, or get stuff done around the house?   Only time will tell...

A lot of stuff

It's been an exhausting whirlwind of activity around here.  We're looking at houses a lot, but haven't found the right one yet.  We're continuing to move stuff out of the house.  I can fondly remember packing everything I owned into the '78 Pontiac, hauling everything back and forth from Rapid to Cody.  That seems like forever ago, and apparently we've accumulated additional belongings since then.

Zack was diagnosed with Feline Diabetes on Saturday.  We're going to change up his diet and hope that improves things a bit.  He's fairly normal healthy so far, but we expect that won't last forever.