Fire drill, Wire brush, Unisom
When my house went live on the market I got an email instructing me to sign up for some service that is used to receive and confirm showing requests. I signed up, no problem. So yesterday about 1PM I get an email and text message saying that someone wants to do a showing at 1:50PM that I needed to confirm, WTF?? My level of WTF went up way more when a couple minutes later I get a text/email saying the appointment was now CONFIRMED. What the hell?
So I immediately try reaching out to my realtor and her assistant. I get a hold of the assistant. I asked her how this appointment got confirmed without me doing anything? She said she confirmed it. Now I was angry. I told the realtor when I filled out the questionnaire regarding listing availability that I needed a minimum of 4 hour notice. Sandra, the assistant, said she sees that. I also reminded her that I work downtown, the house isn’t picked up and I need to get my dog out before a showing. I asked her why she would confirm a showing without contacting me. She didn’t answer that question.
So she said she could reschedule the appointment but that it was important to not outright decline any showing requests, which makes sense. If a request comes in that I can’t honor I will contact her and she will reschedule. So as of now I have two showings scheduled for this evening and another one tomorrow morning. It is of course not convenient but it’s a good problem to have, the more interest the better.
Last night after work I got to play organized volleyball for a solid two hours. Most of the players were pretty novice in their skills but to be honest with as rusty as I am, I looked pretty unskilled at times as well. There were a handful of old men, much older men out there, one was 77 and another was 80. It was amazing they were even out there. We had 9-10 people so we played a combo of 5 on 5 and 4 on 5 which was fine for me. This was basically an experiment. I wanted to see how my body would react to playing sand volleyball at this point in time.
My play was ok at best, I made a lot of errors but also was able to make some decent plays as well. I at least didn’t hit one serve out or into the net all night. As expected trying to jump out of the sand is sort of a joke but would get better with time. I had the expected ouch moments when my body wound up in odd positions, primarily my knees. Overall I liked everyone in the group and I was glad I got out there. I am walking around today sore but not limping so I take that as a win. My short term plan is to try to get out there every Tuesday night to see if I can progress towards at least a small semblance of what I used to be on the court, which was never spectacular in the first place.
My Unisom arrived on Monday. I have switched over to using it instead of Nyquil. I’m happy to report that it seems equally effective in allowing me to sleep solidly through the night. Even if I have to get up to pee in the middle of the night, which quite often would result in not being able to go back to sleep in the past, I can now fall back to sleep quickly. It’s like all of those thoughts that were running wild in my brain are instead shoved into a closet, out of sight and out of mind, at least until I wake up.