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Various bits of good news

February 13th, 2015 at 04:24 am

Seems like a number of good things have been happening this week. Let's see if I can remember them all!

First off, I weighed in at 133.4 tonight, which is where I need to be to win Dietbet! But I have to at least stay at that weight until Feb. 19/20, so I have to be careful on Valentine's Day and our potluck the following day. My ultimate goal is 129, so I'd love to keep losing. But I'll feel happy if I can just plateau through those two challenging eating days.

Our cats are still being kept separate, but they're finally showing signs of lessening hostility to each other, and maybe a bit of friendly or neutral curiosity from time to time. We're still taking it slow but encouraged by that.

Both our kids are going through some great developmental stuff right now. Our 2-year-old is getting gradually more responsive and agreeable, less rebellious and spazzy. She's almost 3, so we're braced for more difficult behavior, but so far she seems to be going in the other direction. Our 4-year-old can almost read; some simple words she can sound out. Both girls are just leaps and bounds ahead of where I feel like they need to be educationally and in terms of maturity, so it's a really exciting time to be their mom. (If only the 2-year-old would show more initiative about potty training; that's the only lingering issue.)

NT can finally volunteer for this group he really admires but never had time for while he was in school. We're actually going to cook a bunch of food for attendees to a conference next weekend, and put one out-of-town attendee up in our basement "apartment."

AS met with the college that was interested in having her teach a class on publishing, and it's a go! We don't have an exact amount for pay but think it'll be $4K. She also floated another idea with the woman who interviewed her, and the woman was really excited about that too. So there may be more work with that college after the fall semester of teaching!

We still have nothing definitive from our first interested party on the condo but know they're working on getting things figured out. Meanwhile, someone else is interested and their agent said they're thinking about putting in an offer. We also had 2 showings today and have 3 more scheduled in the next week. So we'll see what comes of that.

My dad sent me $500 out of the blue. Apparently he's got a different deal on the table in WV, this one for a gas company to build a road through his land. If it goes through they'll pay another $20K (my share would be $4K)! I had no idea about this one; my dad didn't say a word about it. Again, no idea if that will go through, but the $500 is a great surprise. I'm setting it aside to help us get out from under the condo.

I checked in with our mortgage broker about the refi option for the duplex and he's going to send me something in the morning. I hope we qualify and that it's a good deal!

Tomorrow I meet with our new tax guy and AS takes the new kitty to the vet. Fingers crossed we keep our good luck rolling with not much owing on taxes and a clean bill of health for Clue.

4 Responses to “Various bits of good news”

  1. VS_ozgirl Says:
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    Nice going with the progress on the DietBet!

  2. snafu Says:
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    yahoo for a week that goes well! love it, keep the momentum going

  3. MonkeyMama Says:
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    I remember *loving* age 3 with my kids. I don't think I ever had a terrible 2 or a terrible 3. (My kids are very verbal and that removed most the usual frustration at that age. Which seems fairly common in multi-adult households so I think your odds are good!) Plus, yeah, they were sleeping well and totally potty trained at that age. That may be also a lot of why I LOVED 3!

  4. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    Sounds like a great week!

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