on the market

I decided to put my house on the market to see what I could get. It is bittersweet but I am pretty pleased to have the staging mostly done.

Warmth

It is unseasonably cold and my furnace has not been working. I hate being cold. It makes me want to be under blankets all the time. But I also hate calling repair people when it always seems like I should be able to fix things myself. However, all my google-search repairs were falling short and I was about ready to cave when Mike told me his co-worker was an HVAC repairman.

So today those two went to my house and fixed my furnace (the part cost $20). Now I can look forward to a warm house when I get home. I am so relieved. This whole home-ownership thing is really damaging my otherwise pristine feminist independent image of myself. If Mike keeps this kind of behaviour up, my whole blog is just going to become an ode to him and his generosity.
THANKS MIKE!

Grass

The house I moved into had been vacant for a few months so the lawn was a little long. Then I moved in and didn't care so I haven't touched it. My boyfriend, Mike, apparently really cares about lawn maintenance however, so he has been nagging me for a while to buy a lawn mower and cut the grass.

Yesterday, I was chatting with Mike on the phone and he asked how my lawn looked. I jokingly (but seriously) replied, "Crappy, okay!" Then he quietly said, "But I mowed it today..." I went outside and sure enough my lawn looked perfectly mowed. I hadn't even noticed.

This taught me two things:
1) I really, truly do not care about how my lawn looks; and

2) I have a really, really, really nice boyfriend who does care how my lawn looks.