Well, the showing didn't work out today; the person decided to go with another place with the city skyline view. At least that's another condo off the market and I haven't seen any new ones pop up yet.
I called the floor guy and he's going to do our main living area floors starting Wednesday. Could be a two-day job. We need to figure out where to stash our furniture. It'll be like tetris, but we don't have to do it until tomorrow.
And, our realtor isn't going to officially put our place on the market until the floors are done, since everything will be in disarray and the floors won't be walkable while the guy is working on it.
So that means we can relax somewhat tonight. I'm still going to tidy up everything in the morning to keep in practice for when we may have viewers at any time while we're gone. But we can leave blankets on the sofa (the new cover is white and we don't want kids/cat/us messing it up), which saves a bit of hassle.
So how do I relax? I started helping a friend with her budget. 
I made copies of my main spreadsheet and started inputting her numbers. Even though it's going to be a hard road, it was nice to be doing something that felt simple and straightforward compared with the madness we've got going on right now.
Had a good moment at work when a VP walked by and said my boss was singing my praises about a quick-turn project I did for him Friday. I haven't felt as focused at work, but I think I'm focusing on the right things, mainly getting extra work to prove to my boss that making me a writer is the right thing to do. 
Could really use a nice raise starting in August or September.
I managed to connect AS to a writer in my company who gave her a freelance assignment. We don't know how much it pays, but I think any money AS makes I'm going to try and stash as a hedge against September-December, when things will be super tight and she won't have a guaranteed income. (Starting in January it won't be as big a deal because NT's and my income will cover the budget, but those three months, we really need to replace her paycheck income to make the budget work.)
Any raises NT and I get next month, I'm going to stash the extra to help get out of this mortgage (hopefully); our realtor says we can list at $155K, but that we may have to take less. And then she reminded us that we need to pay 6% commission, plus about $2K for something else I can't remember. So it sounds like we're definitely not going to break even on the mortgage (currently at $152K, pays off $480 per month) and are going to have to cover the shortfall somehow.
But, that's something I can worry about another day. Tonight is (sort of) a "night off."
The closest to a relaxing night I've had in a while
July 15th, 2014 at 04:18 am
July 15th, 2014 at 10:42 am 1405420937
July 15th, 2014 at 12:48 pm 1405428486
@mamasita, update us on your move!
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July 15th, 2014 at 06:32 pm 1405449146
With your whirlwind pace, I doubt you've had time to review the pros and cons of renting the basement short term just to garner a bit more income until everything shakes out.
July 17th, 2014 at 01:58 am 1405562339
We did toss around the idea of trying to rent the basement, but we've been told in no uncertain terms by EVERYbody (inspector, broker, etc.) that the basement is NOT a legal unit and cannot be rented without a risk of getting in big trouble with the city.