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Archive for May, 2010

I finally got some info from the “middle man” that the person who bought my house is using about when I need to be out.  They offered me something called “Keys for Cash” program and I had until last Friday to decide if I want to do that.  I decided I did so I called the “middle man” on Wednesday and he brought the paperwork by on Friday for me to sign.  This is so that I won’t have the Sheriff come by and serve me a eviction notice.  So I need to be out on or before June 9th and it is good to have a date to be working towards.  I’m trying to keep things at the least amount of stress as possible as I need to move so there is no point in dragging this out any longer than necessary.

My messy house is driving me nuts but I’m using one of the spare bedrooms to put the boxes of things I’m keeping in which helps keep the living room not so crowded.  I’ve almost have all of the downstairs cleared out and just about everything that I’m selling is upstairs.  I’ve sold a lot by contacting friends, posting things online in a local yahoo group for selling items and I’ve put some things in the the local paper’s classified section.  I finally found  new homes for my Beagle’s, which was hard but for the best as I don’t want to travel with dogs and in California I will be living in an apartment.  There is a really good chance that I will be driving to California alone which is a bit scary but mapquest says it is roughly 27 hours and I only need to drive alone to Reno as my boyfriend will be working there that weekend, then we will drive on to California. 

One thing that I have learned in my life is that life is never boring and you never really know what will happen both for the good and the bad.  When I moved to Missouri I was pretty sure I would never go back to California to live but 11 years after I left, I’m going back.  There are things I really like about Missouri such as the snow and the storms though not the tornadoesthat sometimes come with them.  Missouri is really a beautiful state with its rolling hills which are always green in Spring and Summer.  But my youngest son, who right now lives with me, has decided to stay in Missouri so I will be back hopefully from time to time to see him.

Well I found out last week that my house was foreclosed on and since then things have been a little crazy.  My son has decided to stay in Missouri so he is looking for a place to live.  As for me, I’m moving back to California to be with my new love in my life.  We have been talking about moving in together but this just pushed things up sooner than we had planned.  I never really thought I would be living in California again as that is where  I was living when I met Barry but it is what it is.

So last week and this week I’ve been selling whatever I can and what I have left I will put in storage here in Missouri and then come back later to pick them up.  It will be less stressful as we will be able to plan it a little better to work it around his job.

I still haven’t figured out why the comments do not work on my blog so if you want to comment, email me at martha[at]easytoolbox.com and I will try and reply back.  I will still be continuing the business as I can do this from anywhere.