Show after sale, Quick 30, Lazy, Caring less and less

As I mentioned Friday I had 3 offers on the sale of my house.  During the day the potential buyers submitted their “highest/best” offers as requested.  I was pleasantly surprised when I saw them.  Two of them were 5K OVER my listing price.  After comparing the two I signed off on one of them which has a mortgage rate tie in that is likely to be satisfied, so bam, my house was tentatively sold after being on the market for something like 4 or 5 days.  The one thing I did request in my counter was changing their proposed settle date two weeks later.  By doing this is it should allow me a 10 day period after closing on my new place to make the magic happen, moving my life 22 miles closer to my office.  I was happy about the sale of course but not ecstatic, something I will talk about more later.

I got requests for more showings on Friday for Saturday.  I asked my realtor if I should accept them.  She said it cant hurt as they could potentially wind up being back up offers.  I shrugged my shoulders and hit the ACCEPT button on both, one was Saturday morning and the other Saturday afternoon.  In between the showings I took my Sherman S out for a long ride from the house to North Collier Park and back.  I have not done that route in a couple years at least.  The primary intent was to gauge the comfort of the new pedals I installed on the Sherman last weekend.  During the ride I talked about the house transaction and a number of other things.

On Saturday night I started watching Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime.  I have had a number of people recommend the series to me since it launched and I just never got around to it.  I really like it so far, it almost reminds me of 24 in some ways or Homeland.

My Sunday was super, super lazy.  It may have been the laziest day I have allowed myself to have in many, many months. I binge watched something like 5 or 6 Jack Ryan episodes.  Since I have now become a short timer at my house it has shifted my perspective.  For the last 21 years I had a revolving list of things that could/should be done at the house because I was going to be living there for a long, long time.  Now that that time is finite, the list of must do’s sooner or later has dissolved for the most part.  Part of this has also been due to a marked change in me where I sort of just don’t give a damn about a lot of things that I once did.

In some ways it ties in with my embrace of change in the last year.  Things that once were a substantive part of my reality either are or will be gone.  To make that mental shift has required me to deaden certain parts of my reality.  The end result of this has been my saying in a lot more situations, “I don’t give a f…”  In some ways it is freeing and in other regards it’s sort of sad, if I’m being honest.

Ali, Shugs, and Ferdie showed up for our small and cozy Super Bowl celebration. It was the first time they have seen the painted and depersonalized version of the house.  The visual impact on both of them was significant  Ali went out of her way to make my mom’s chocolate cake, complete with EAGLES written on the top of it.  It had been probably 10 years since I had her version of the cake and she again did a great job with it.  It was so good I got a second piece.  My contribution to the “party” was making two Costco pizzas and providing chips, salsa, pretzels and alcohol. I drank maybe four or five beers along with some wine that was shared with both of them.

The game was exciting and close.  The Eagles defense really had no answers though for the Chiefs who did not punt a single time in the second half.  They couldn’t even register a sack on Mahomes, despite being the team with the most sacks in the league this year.  The way the game ended was pretty disappointing where a penalty was called that allowed the Chiefs to run the clock down to basically zero before kicking the game winning field goal.  Technically it was defensive holding but there are far more egregious violations where the flag would stay in the ref’s pocket.  It changed the potential outcome of the game.  You never want a ref’s call to do that, especially in the last two minutes of the Super Bowl.

Of course I was disappointed in the result but I was not devastated or distraught like I would have been in prior years.  I think the lack of having F’s to give was in play here as well.  It was a great season and I think the team has a bright future, I’m good with that.

I thanked Ali and Shugs for making the long drive to hang with me for the game.  It will likely be the last time the house will be used for entertainment.  There are a lot of lasts coming up, along with a lot of firsts.  I’ll try to focus more on the latter.