With a few signatures and turning over the keys marked my dad’s house as sold and moving on to its next owners last Friday.
I stopped by the day before to take one last look around the house, remembering how it was before the rooms were emptied of furniture and pictures taken off the walls.
It came back to the holidays and sporadic visits at my dad’s house. Usually we spent time in the family room in the back of the house.
We would chat and watch either a movie, NCIS or Walker, Texas Ranger. When I started working at The Clarkston News we spent more time watching Detroit Lions football games on Sundays and on Thanksgiving. It became our new ritual – eat dinner and watch the game.
There wasn’t much of a goodbye, just one more glimpse inside the empty house. I had said my farewells when I signed the paperwork with Jon Devine from Berkshire Hathaway to sell the house.
The house is now in the hands of a couple who can update it, give it a fresh coat of paint and fix all the little stuff. With a 9-month old baby we just don’t have the time. I know it’s just a house, an inaminate object but my dad lived there since 1978 and I lived there for the first 14 years of my life. All of my first memories were in the house. In some ways it’s saying goodbye to my dad all over again.
Now we continue on the search to find a home for our little family so Jonathan can make memories of his own.
As for my current plan with Nuview Nutrition I am up to 32 pounds lost and made it about 42 days without coffee. I am actually drinking coffee right now (oh heaven in a cup, how I have missed you.)
My plan is to get on to maintenance by November and get back on the program I am on in February.
It might seem like weeks away but National Novel Writing Month is right around the corner. My co-Municipal Liasions and I are already thinking about it as we set up times for prep and kick off.
I am not saying being on this hardcore plan would make me or break me during NaNoWriMo and the crazy goal to write 50,000 words in one month, but it makes it easier to be a patron at our write-in locations if I can eat the food there.
But yes the countdown is on for the writing frenzy of NaNoWriMo – 50k or bust.