Making an Offer

At 5pm today Harry and I went to our Realtor Mary's office. We had decided to make an offer on the first house we saw in Agua Dulce. They were asking $369,900 so we put in an offer for $355,000. They have three days to accept, counter offer or decline... now we just wait.

Even though this is our second offer on a house our first one was really a back up offer and we knew it wouldn't lead to anything.. this one may actually lead to use buying a house. It's very stressful trying to figure out if this is the right house for you. I mean it feels like the right house, we like the area, we like the house's outside, we like the land, we like the inside of the house. Only thing that we really don't like it the distance to our friends, family and work. But we figure friends and family can come to visit on weekends and get away from the city. I'm sure I'll get use to commuting to work. I do have my Books on CD so I'll just get to enjoy those more. Of course all this worrying can be for nothing as we haven't gotten the house yet..... just breath.

House Hunting

Today Harry and I went House Hunting again. Up at 9:30am and went over to the Mary's office. We were checking out 3 houses up in Agua Dulce and one house in Winnetka. First we went up north and checked out the first house in Agua Dulce. It was a 3 bedroom and 2 bathroom house, located on a hill and had some beautiful views. This house is located on 2.2 acres of land. The bigger part of the land is a downhill slope and of not too much use but there was still a fair amount of land that we could use to expand the house if needed. This house was great inside and out and it definitely going to be put on our "maybe" list.

We then checked out the second house. This house was on 10 Acre land, but the house itself was pretty much a disaster. This house needed much more work then a fixer upper...it needed a complete tear down. The only reason to consider that property would be for the land. But for that, the price was way too high and neither Harry nor I intend want to become farmers anytime soon. So we removed that house entirely from our list.

We then went to house number 3. This house was okay and had 3 bedrooms. Neither Harry nor I felt that this would be the right house, although it had a really nice open floor plan, that we both liked. One thing we didn't like about this house is we didn't know where the property line was. There was small western town built right below the house and we weren't sure if it was on the property or part of the house down the road. So we moved on to the final house of the day.

The house in Winnetka had 3 bedrooms and was absolutely beautiful. It was located on a 8000 square foot lot, in a nice and fairly quite neighborhood. Of course it wasn't as secluded as the first house we saw. Overall a really nice house but I knew Harry really liked the open space more secluded house and to be honest so did I. So we never really consider this one.

So that was our house shopping day. We really liked our first house. It was a bit of a drive but was it worth it to have a nice piece of land and be in a very quiet and secluded neighborhood. As we drove back to Mary's office Harry and discussed it. I knew he wanted it and he said it was up to me as I will be doing more the driving. I came to the conclusion that it was right for me as well. It's everything we would want in a house. But before we made the offer we went home for a few hours and planned to meet back up at our Realtor's office at 5pm.. We would then make our decision.

Star Trek Figures

I swore I wouldn't be buying any of the new Star Trek figures, but after seeing the movie and told Harry I think I need to buy these figures. And today on my lunch I decided to stop into Toys R Us and take a look and see what they had. Well there was a huge Star Trek display. For the new action figure they come in 3 3/4" , 6" and 12". I liked the 12" ones because they had the most details... but as of now the 12" figures had characters for Spock, McCoy, Kirk and Old Spock. I wanted the entire crew. So it was either 6" or 3 3/4". I went with the 6" because they were the next best with details. I told myself I would only buy them if they had all 9 figures... well they had all 9 so I bought them all. It was kind of funny as the sale lady asked if I needed a gift receipt and I said no that they are for me. She then handed me a bag and said you want to bag them I don't want to feel the pressure of bagging these for a collector.

So now I own all 9 of the 6" Star Trek figures. Luckily the 6" figures didn't have a transporter or bridge set like the 3 3/4" ones.. now I must resist buying those. Ugg the life of a collector.

Happy Anniversary Daisy

Today four years ago we got our little miss Daisy. She's come a long way from this scared unapproachable skinny thing. She can drive me crazy sometime but I couldn't imagine my life without her unconditional love.

Getting My Hopes Up

Today our Realtor IM'd me and said "They accepted your offer on the Calvin house" This is the house that both Harry and I loved but someone put an offer in right before us. My heart started to pound. I wrote back "WHAT!! Really the Calvin home" I couldn't believe what I was reading. She then wrote "yes, as a backup" and my bubble burst. For a moment I thought the first offer fell through and they accepted our offer on the house. But I guess even though they have an offer in they still have to accept back up offers. So our offer was accepted and we are back where we began. Just waiting to see if the first persons sale goes through. Will continue to look..

V Trailers

I know I'm being a bit V obsessed but I was and still am a huge "V" fan of the original miniseries and series so I'm excited to see what ABC does with this re-boot.

Here are some trailers shown to the media.

More V clips

Gives me chills.. I love Morena

V Clips

ABC just released two V clips/scenes from there upcoming pilot...

They look so gooooooood!!!!!!!!!

V is Back!!!!

I'm a huge V fan from the 80's, use to run my own V Fan Club. So when I heard that ABC commissioned a pilot I was very happy and then today we heard that they actually ordered 13 episodes for a mid season replace show during there 2009/2010 TV season.

ABC released 30 cast and scene photo.. you can see them here. http://www.visitorsite.net/

Goodies Monday

Today when I got home from work there were quite a few packages waiting for me. First the wonderfully talented Robin Thorsen (Clara from The Guild) sent me some autographed photos for my Knights of the Guild Podcast.

Then I got a really cool business card holder for my new KOTG and Professional Business Cards.

And then I got our Knights of the Guild promotional items, Bookmarks, Magnets and Postcards.

Lot's of goodies...

Oh and we watched the finale of Survivor, and I'm so happy J.T. won. It was a shut out vote 7 to none. Folks couldn't resist his southern charm.

Photo Shoot

After house hunting I met up with Jenni, my co-host on Knights of the Guild, at one of her friends places who happens to be a photographer. We were going to get some pictures taken of us for promotional use for our Knights of the Guild Podcast. Also we have had listeners interested in getting autographed photos of Jenni and I.. crazy as that sounds so will take one of these photos and get head shots made.

It was such a weird experience, kind of awkward, not knowing where to stand and pose and I pretty much gave the same big smile each time. I have never had any aspirations of becoming an actor. I love the entertainment business and work behind the scenes. But getting pictures taking because fans want autographed photos never crossed my mind when I started KOTG. Not that I don't appreciate the recognition, it's just not something I was looking for.

House Hunting

Today Harry and I started out day house hunting with our Realtor. Our first house was up on Agua Dulce, which is a bit further north then Santa Clarita. It's about a 45 minute drive with no traffic from our current house. But the house was huge, custom made, had many levels and so many rooms. It was beautiful on the side and in the middle of no where. There was one other house next door but that was it. From the kitchen it had a beautiful view of the valley below. Everything was fantastic and I would have put an offer in on it right then and there but for one thing. Behind the property were two humongous electrical towers. You could hear the electricity flowing through them. When we first drove up I thought no way.. but then saw the inside and considered it. But then again thought no way as if we ever wanted to re-sale the house that would be a deal breaker and we can't "fix" that problem. So next we went do a house in Granda Hills but it was on a busy street and next to a high school. After that we went to a house in Northridge but the area was rundown and the house was a duplex and needed so much work to make it nice. And finally we did one more house in Northridge and it was nice, but needed quite a bit of work and had a very small backyard.

So it was a bust.. well almost. I know Harry loved the Agua Dulce house and so did I so we are keeping it on our list and will think about it the next few days. After searching for houses we went back to our Realtor's office and put in a back up offer on the Calvin house that we really loved. So far the sale is going through.. but until it is sold we can hold out hope that it will fall through.