housing schmousing

I have been feeling fantastic.
I just want to shout it from the rooftops. I really hit a major turn about, and I am feeling fine.

I am handling shit. TCOB like it is going out of style.
I mean nothing major, just being able to make decisions and handle minor setbacks as they come.

We are in the process of trying to buy a house. I was really hoping that I would be able to write bought a house by this time but no such luck. The three offers we have made have been outbid by 25K, 80K, and 45K respectively. Want to visit a real mad house? Go to one of these crazy open houses where the yuppies are swarming like flies to shit, and just as possessive. What an emotional roller coaster. Yes I love the house and want to go into huge debt so that I can have it. Yes, commit commit commit. Then no no it wasn't that great since we lost it, something better will come along, yeah right.
The San Francisco housing market, at our level, is really silly. Everything goes over the asking price. and basically if a house has been on the market for more than 2 weeks without any offers you have to figure out what is wrong with it, because there is something wrong with it.
example, we go and look at this place well within our budget, it is one of the most beautiful places ever. Knockout fireplaces, dark original wood throughout, pretty big. Perfect except it is over a bar and they obviously smoke in the bar because it was seeping up through the floor.
example 2, wonderful quirky property in a nice neighborhood, good size, distinct possibility, oh except there is a 60k estimate for termites that may or may not be undermining the foundation.

So it is like that.

My parents were just here they left yesterday. May I reiterate how much a hate Fisherman's Wharf and Ghirardelli fucking Square (my poison against Ghirardelli was tempered with arguable the best hot chocolate I have ever consumed).

oh and I got a label maker. OCD here i come...

Things are going fine. I can't believe this is how people walk around feeling, like all the time.