oof

[jazzfish]

Home from wedding (someone else's) in nearly-Oregon. Survived the week of many minor stresses, to wit:

• House-hunting in Vancouver is stupid. The first realtor I talked to said straight out "I cannot in good conscience sell anyone a condo in an older building, and that's all you can afford. Have you thought about looking much further out?" Thankfully the agent we went with is willing to a) wait for the right place to come up, and b) do a lot of due diligence on older buildings if that's what we're interested in. Meanwhile prices continue to climb despite sales slowing down. I don't understand how that works either.
  
• Company got acquired. I'm still employed, I figure 60-80% chance of still being employed this time next month, but still, hectic.
  
• A couple of my good friends are having problems. Nothing that can't be worked out, I expect, but no fun in the meantime.
  
• Partly as a result of that one of them dropped out of RPG night, necessitating a scramble for a replacement and also some quiet freaking-out over whether I've done something stupid as GM. (Or as a human being, but I freak out about that all the time anyway, that's nothing new.)
  
• And to top it all off, on Thursday night Chaos (the arthritic, hyperthyroid, kidney-failing, stud-tailed, no-longer-diabetic stubborn-as-hell cat) started heavily favoring his right hind foot, to the extent of not being willing/able to put any weight on it, even to climb up onto the couch to sit with people. He spent Friday hiding under the bed, partly to get away from the piledriving across the street but probably partly because he was miserable and in pain.

Oof.

Fall over now, I think. Things what I fully intend to post about this week:

• Aforementioned wedding, incl. good conversation with Dr HawkWhale (WhaleHawk?)
  
• Twenty years on the Van Gogh boat, or, me and Julian Schnabel's Basquiat
  
• My senior year English teacher died last week, and I wish that mattered more to me (It doesn't; condolences aren't necessary)
  
• Housing in Vancouver is beyond stupid

Meanwhile, onward.

Comments

[novel_machinist]

oh the house hunt. So frustrating. Good luck

[jazzfish]

Thanks. Bleh. I am immensely grateful that we don't have to move Right Now, and can take our time with this.

[wohali]

I have such empathy for your situation right now.

Reason may arise in the next year or two for me to consider a house hunt in Vancouver. If it happens, I will have an adequate budget, but I still dread it. I can't believe how horrible it is, and I already know how hard it is here in Toronto.

[jazzfish]

Oof. :(

I suspect that if you're less picky it's not quite so bad. But, well, we're picky, especially when it comes to spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a place we'll have to deal with for the next N years.

And of course it's more likely to get worse than better in the next couple of years. :( :(

(Although let me know if you find yourself out here; happy to get tea / play native guide.)

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that finding a condo is such a pain in the butt. Good luck with it!

Sending well wishes for Chaos.

[jazzfish]

Thanks. It is deeply frustrating. I would really rather still be renting, but that's even more impossible, so.