Invisapeeps 2.0

What do you do when you have the house to yourself?

If I have the house by myself, I don't bother getting dressed (unless I'm cooking something that's "splattery" like bacon). I hate clothes (but, in deference to other people's sight and sanity, I do "cover up" when others are present).

I usually watch all the tv shows that DH doesn't like to watch. He usually doesn't watch tv, but when I put something he doesn't like he keeps criticizing the show and annoys me, so I change the channel.

Also I eat the things that he doesn't stand like pasta or picadillo.

The sleep over sounds like a GREAT idea!!!
Can I come? I'm not far away lol

I'll bring cupcakes! And cupcake decoration kits! Once we decorate the cupcakes we will take pics of then and then we will eat them!!!

I dropped him off today. I also went shopping. I have canned soup (because heaven knows I have no time to make myself real food these days), chocolate, ice cream, and a couple easy things to make for the kids for the days that we run out of time.

My ice cream was slush by the time I got it home, but it will re-freeze ok. It's less than half the price in the US as it is in Mexico. Ridiculous. And I get my favorite flavor!

I watched a movie tonight after the kids went down. Finally got a call from him, he made it ok.

I should go to bed, it's past midnight. Oops.

What kind of ice cream is it living?

:O oooooh
That sounds yummy!!!

I hope you were able to get some quality alone time in there somewhere, LR! Once a year, DH has gone on a mission trip with the youth from our church. This past summer he made a last minute decision to go and is signed up for next summer, but the handwriting is on the wall and he may stop going before too many more years.

I dread DREAD that day because I live for that week of solitude. The other 51 weeks of the year, we are together most of the time. Oh, sure, an hour or two here and there, but for the vast majority of time, we're Frick and Frack. Sigh.

Hope your drive goes well, tomorrow!

*yawn* Just pulled in. It's 1:30 here. But we're home!

They were pretty good. They napped a lot of the way up, and were troopers through the shopping. They were so excited to see DH! It was so cute. They didn't fall asleep until 10:30 or 11, though. Kind of cranky today.

thanks, des.

Not so much better. Dealing with some work issues that have really big real life consequences for those involved. And when we pulled in that night, we got an email from the landlord that popped up on DH's phone. We have to move soon, he wants to sell the house.

*deep breaths*

Thanks, Des! We're about 15-20 minutes away from downtown, and we'd prefer to stay in the area since we only have one car. We've found one place that we love, and I'm going to see if he'll consider dropping the rent from $500 US to 5000 pesos/month. We're good renters, and handy at fixing things, so maybe? I have to call today.

We can't buy the place we're in. He's asking for 1 million pesos, about 80,000 US. We don't even have 1/10th of that saved up. And we can't get a mortgage or the like since we don't have the right visas yet.

Aw, thank you! Hopefully by February we'll have our FM3 or FM2. It's a matter of making our income level appear greater than it is. They upped the requirement this year. Missionaries don't make that kind of money! Basically, we'll have to shuffle funds around from an outside savings to our checking account for three months in a row to make it work, and we have a large donation scheduled to come in November that we can move around. One church sends money for 6 months at a time, and it should arrive soon.

DH called the place. He's not willing to come down on the rent AND he says it's $600 US, not $500. I repeated $500 back to him in the original call, so he's full of crap, but oh well.

I know, we pay 3000 pesos rent now! These places are crazy to me- they're not much bigger than our current place. We do have a good deal for our house for our area, though. 5000 would be our ABSOLUTE limit. We know one place will be coming up for rent, but probably not until in January or February, possibly later if the new place they're moving in to isn't finished on time. Bah.

Mexican. I know, there's definitely a difference from when I call and when DH calls and people's reactions. I have a good accent. *blushes* They don't realize I'm american until I show up. Sad, but true. We call it the "guero special" around here when they give you a crappy price.

So I was driving around earlier today looking for a new place, and I found one on a street I had looked at before. It's a 4 bedroom, two 3/4 bath (no one has bathtubs around here, IDK if they're more common where you are, Des?), and it's $3500 pesos/month! Right around the corner from our favorite taco stand, too. :P

We checked it out this evening and I like it a lot! Two bedrooms upstairs, two downstairs. A bathroom on each floor. More yard space than we have right now, although it's mostly dirt (which the kids will LOVE. Me... not so much.) Space downstairs where we could put our office things, a dining room area where we could also add a couch downstairs, a living room space upstairs, and a balcony ( :D ). Carpet on the stairs, and I *think* in the upstairs bedrooms, although I don't remember right now. Maybe not.

Get this- since the last people moved out, someone broke in and stole EVERYTHING except one huge tv cabinet. Ceiling fans, toilets, sinks, washer/dryer, kitchen cabinets. This is almost how our current house was when we moved in. They are going to replace almost everything (not sure about the washer/dryer) when they get someone who is going to move in, because they didn't want to do it and then leave it vacant. BUT, since we have our own kitchen cabinets and a bathroom sink/cabinet set, we asked if they would possibly take 3000 pesos and they could keep the stuff if we move out. They're going to ask the owner- who is the brother of the guy, owner lives in Los Angeles- to see if he'll take that. If not, that's fine, we'll still probably take it and just enjoy having extra cabinetry somewhere else in the house that we can take with us when we finally buy a lot and build. We'd definitely get the better end of the deal if they accept, so I'm cool with it.

DH still wants to see the property our friend found, which we're supposed to do Friday. I told him 1) it's waaay farther, 2) it's a 3 bedroom, which could be slightly problematic with our office stuff or the kids playspace, depending on how it's set up, and 3) it's 1000 pesos more, which is money we could be using to pay off our car so we can save up to buy a lot of our own. But we can go look.

So we'll see! Hopefully they can get ahold of him quickly, so we can sign a contract before we leave. ;)


Oh, and when we mentioned we have 3 big dogs right now, they said "GOOD!" They're really not thrilled that someone broke in. It's kind of par for the course in Mexico, unfortunately, so I'm not overly concerned. We get a house sitter any time we leave, and we leave the dogs. Shadow is going to be ENORMOUS; he's already slightly bigger than Bella and he's only 4 months. :blink: No one has bitten yet for buying him. It would help if all my LOVELY english speaking friends would stop posting sarcastic comments about people actually BUYING ???? dogs in mexico. Shaddup.

I know! There are some who don't try to cheat.

DH will go along with the house happily as long as the other one isn't something outstanding. It would have to be pretty great, for that price and distance.

We had bathtubs in our mobile homes, but they were imported from the US where it's weird to NOT have one. One still had a license plate on the back.

You spelled breed right! I know, he's so pretty. Very trainable, too.

For real! They were SUPER shallow, but they had them!

I'm going to put one in when we build our place some day. :P There are sometimes tubs at the segundas here.

We kick shadow off the couch for that very reason. We bought a HUGE pillow for him and Daisy, and he sprawls out on it, with his back legs and head hanging off opposite ends.

AWESOME update living!!!
And yeeeeiii on the decent colors for the walls.

When our second floor was finished( at my parents house) my dad let us pick the color of our rooms, to my mother's dismay lol. Well I picked a lovely mint, my middle sister picked deep purple and my younger sister picked cotton candy pink. My mom was beside herself with the colors my sisters picked.
It's very nice that you let your kids pick the paint!

When do you guys move in?

Oh how cool!!!
So you are in the middle of packmageddon?

Did you found a good price on those?
How does Buen Fin compare to Black Friday? I'm curious :D

oh oh oh purging is goooood
You get to start fresh! I love that.

Yeah I figured, on Baby Center they have this running thread about deals and on Black Friday some of the prices are really really low. My dad actually got a 50" tv with a free blue ray reader and a 200 gift card for zulu I think it was called for 8999.

I would love to get something on Cyber Friday, but the prices to ship stuff to here are outrageous! Think 60 bucks. I'm not paying that much to ship the cheap things here lol.