First off, I want to say that my bad luck on Friday, the 13th was that my Wednesday blog entry was lost (due to a technical glitch on the blog site)....so I've had to try to re-create it as best I can....nothing is ever as good the second time around....but sometimes it's actually better, right Kier!!
I had to go the other day and have a photo taken for my retirement ID. Now, this ID card will remain with me until the end of time, so I wanted it to be just perfect...okay, I'd be happy with just right... or maybe alright...yeah, yeah, okay, I'd settle for not hideous. I'm not a big fan of having my picture taken, especially with a stark white background and up close enough to see every blemish and all my ever so slight imperfections. Oh well, it's gotta be done. Well, you can suck in a belly, you can tuck in a muffin top, you can stand up ramrod straight so you look thinner, but you can't suck in a double chin! Try as you might....it can't be done. There are lots of tricks you can use when it's a full length, standing up photo. You know, turning slightly so you're hips don't look wide, standing in the back row so all the other skinny people block you out, yada, yada, yada. But when you're alone, in a sit down pose, up close...there's no hiding. You can tilt your chin up, but that just looks like the photographer caught you in mid laugh and was too lazy to redo the shot. Or you can stretch your neck, but then you look like an ostrich. You can sit up reaaaaalllly straight, but then it just looks like you've got a stick up your butt. Or, like me, you can just ask the photographer "Can you 'photoshop' out the double chin?" to which he replies "I can get rid of all kinds of things". Let's hope he's a man of his word. So when you see me next you'll know whether I'm pleased with my ID photo when you ask me to see it and I reply "Oh, I forgot it at home...."
WHAT I LEARNED TODAY: Some days you can just feel that luck is on your side, and others, well, the winds of fate are blowing against you. This week, we were walking straight into a stiff breeze! In preparation for our house hunting trip, we reviewed the MLS website and created a list of properties we'd be interested in seeing. Of course that list consisted of properties we were mildly interested in, some we were particularly interested in, and one property that was absolutely the TOP of our list. On Tuesday we communicated the list to our real estate agent and he got back to us with tidbits of info that served to eliminate some properties entirely. But the property at the top of our list, well, good news all around....it had been on the market for over a year....the price had dropped significantly since it was listed....the seller is MOTIVATED!! Always good to hear, right?? Well, by Wednesday morning we heard back from our agent advising us that someone had been through our favourite house on Tuesday evening, submitted an offer on Wednesday and it was accepted. However....(isn't there always one of those??)...the potential buyers offer is conditional, but they are going back to their bank to try to get the financing to remove that condition. What odds? Nothing for a year, and then just as we're getting ready to pounce....an offer is put in. Oh well, it wasn't meant to be; que sera sera; what will be will be; shit happens; whatever cliche you use in a situation like this....apply it now!!
***THIS JUST IN....word is that the potential buyers didn't get the financing condition removed....we have hope...who says Friday the 13th is an unlucky day???***
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