1. This is a crazy week in my life. I may or may not escape it with my sanity intact.
2. We listed our house for sale on Sunday. It was on the MLS Sunday night. The lockbox was to be installed yesterday afternoon, which meant people could start showing it after that. I thought, realistically, that meant it might start being shown today. At 9:00 yesterday morning, an agent called wanting to show our house and couldn't wait until the lockbox went up! I actually had a few things on the top of the counter on our linen cabinets that I still wanted to clean off completely, but otherwise we were ready. The for sale sign went up today, and the house was shown again today. Tomorrow is the agent caravan (where our agent's firm does a tour of all the new properties they have for sale), and then we have two showings tomorrow night. Sunday afternoon is our open house.
3. At work, the other neuropsychologist is out all week. I knew this would make for a lot of extra work. I had no idea that I would come in on Monday and find out about a tragic suicide of a former patient that has impacted our staff greatly. For any psychologist, a patient committing suicide is a huge blow. For our non-mental health staff, it's something that they haven't ever had to deal with and has just devastated them. We've also admitted some very ill, distressed, and impaired patients who take a lot of time, care, and energy, either emotional or mental or in terms of marshalling patience.
4. Last night when I left work at 7:00, I was just glad the day was over and we could start fresh today. It was such a relief to come in this morning and find that all was well. Tonight, I left work at 7:00 and felt good that my peeps were all safe and taken care of. I realized that this is in stark contrast to how I felt after the crises at CONREP last year, which is what has made this such a different situation.
5. Thank you Lord that this is also the week that our cleaning ladies come. They are coming Friday afternoon. I have to have my house in the kind of condition that people who might want to buy it could come in and look at it at any moment while we're at work, since we only get 30 minutes notice that they are coming to show it! Yikes! I wonder if our cleaning ladies might want to move in....
6. Do you know about Bakerella? If you don't and you like to bake or you like to eat sweet things that have been baked (and if you don't fall into that latter category, who are you and what is wrong with you?), then you must get to know her. She has a wonderful food blog with drool-worthy pictures of the magnificent things she concocts. She also happens to be a kidney transplant recipient who is back on dialysis and praying for another transplant. This week, she posted about a site that sells the most gorgeous cake stands...among other things. I spent quite awhile on that site perusing the other night, while also considering that if I buy a single other platter, serving dish, or similar, my husband might divorce me.
7. Have I ever mentioned that I have a bit of an obsession with cake plates, serving platters, and mixing bowl sets? Seriously, it's a problem. I have five sets of mixing bowls, gorgeous things, beautiful bowls. When I'm actually mixing something, however, I tend to use my glass Pyrex that cost $4.97 at the Walmarts.
8. Last week, I calculated my hours and realized that I will hit the number of hours I need for licensure sometime this summer. This means that I really do have to study for the EPPP. In fact, I need to go ahead and submit my licensure application like now, because it takes the California Board of Psychology months to process these things. I guess that means the stack of practice tests and volumes of review materials deserve to stay in the house instead of going to storage.
9. Did you know that I'm a control freak? I took the pictures of our house to go on the MLS, even though the realtor was planning on doing it at the listing appointment. I wanted the opportunity to take 45 pictures of the same room from multiple angles and then photoshop them to be sure that the lighting was perfect. It also bugs me that we don't get feedback about what potential buyers think (unless of course they want to make an offer or have questions). I really want there to be some kind of debriefing after each showing in which I get to know what they liked, didn't like, whether they thought the reed diffuser scent was overpowering, if the guest room not being feng shui was a turn-off, if they liked my shower curtain, if I should move a lamp from this table to that.... Do you think that might turn people away?
10. I know, I know. I have serious issues. Julie, can I schedule an appointment for therapy?
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