I have a horrible habit of getting worked up which causes the muscles in my neck to tense up, therefore giving me a sprained neck type of thing. I also get massive tension headaches and other symptoms which have previously been described. I’m using this to calm myself down so I can actually move my head to the left.

So as you probably know, doing some research into the local housing market I found the perfect house. An older house needing some repairs with a basement, 2 car garage, decent yardage with a privacy fenced back yard, 3 bedroom 2 bath. Extras include fireplaces, a pond and hot tub. It was located in prime position near the interstate which would have cut my commute from nearly an hour to exactly half that. It had Carmel schools as well, so I planned on being there for awhile.

Short story is – I quickly got my mortgage information squared away and didn’t get to put in an offer until 2 days AFTER another offer was approved. I was unaware there was even another offer submitted. Had I known, I wouldn’t have gotten so excited about this particular piece of real estate. I was already planning wall colors and landscaping. Bad move.

So I then went to look at other houses. I found a really nice one in Noblesville that needed work. I ask to go see it and find out it had an offer accepted the same day I wanted to go see it. The other three houses I looked at yesterday were pieces of junk and not worth having the work done on them that they needed.

This is not the first time I’ve experienced this. Andy and I went house shopping first in 2005/6 in the Lawrence area, and even had a downpayment on a new house to build. One particular house we were all set to put in an offer and found out the next day it had an offer accepted by another family.

As you can tell, I’m pretty sick of all the let down with my search for my own home. The same shit keeps happening to me. I refuse to buy some new house in an addition with no yardage in a school system I don’t really care for. I don’t mind putting in the hard work of fixing up an older home that has some character and in a neighborhood of nice people. I need to be close to my friends and family but honestly with my luck, I’ll be renting until I hit the lottery or somehow get a $20,000 raise. I’m counting on that not happening since I work in education, so I’m pretty much SOL here.

It doesn’t help that we’ve had automobile and paychecks not issued on time dramabombs. 2006 sucked but it looks like 2007 isn’t going to be much better.

Oh I know the old schtick – it could be worse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah it could, but it doesn’t mean I can’t be unhappy about my luck. And yes it’s luck, there’s nothing I could have done differently to change the situation. I’m not sure about the saying “Things happen for a reason!!!!!” either, because I don’t know about there being someone out there that has a reason to take a dump on my wishes or to grant me happiness. Things happen that are out of my control and sometimes they’re shitty, other times I get my way (rarely). It’s just the way it goes, and I’ll deal with them in my own neck and body hurting ways.

On another note, I did buy gas for 1.85/gallon. I guess that’s the best way to end this sob story on a good note.