draaaagging it out....

Who'da thought that we could still be dragging through negotiations and legal requirements after all this time? Everything is STILL up in the air and the situation honestly changes about six times a day, every day. When we take a few steps forward, something strange happens and then we have to add the strange stuff to our to-do list, which has changed completely since we started negotiations but still contains (at this exact moment) two large items that could squash the deal if not resolved, and there's no guarantee that they're resolve-able.

We are encountering problems I never could have imagined. We are encountering real estate problems that our realtor has never encountered before, and we are encountering legal problems that our lawyer has never encountered before. They asked their colleagues, and they've never encountered this crap before either.

I won't go into details, but I'm getting tired of hearing the phrase "I've never heard of that before" from everyone.

I am reminded, however, that I've got it pretty good. A friend recently found out that he has serious gall bladder issues that may affect his health for the rest of his life, and one of my dear relatives, who has already been dealt at least four VERY serious blows in terms of her health in recent years, now also has a malignant melanoma. She is the same age as me. We share lineage. She got ALL the hereditary health problems; I got none. Mark and I are both thinking of you right now, and we hope you get through this relatively quickly and painlessly! (You know who you are.)

As I was saying, my problems, really, are sort of trivial.

More next week - this has to end some time, right??!