Disappointed with Good News

Dear DC,

Have you ever felt like getting good news is a disappointment? For example, when you pay a bunch of money to have a mechanic look over your car only to have them tell you that nothing is wrong with it. Instead of thinking, "That's great news. I am happy," I end up thinking, "Well what did I go and spend my time and money for, only to find out nothing is wrong? What a waste!"

Backwards, yes. But it happens all the time even with doctor's appointments (spend over $500 out of pocket only to have a diagnosis of "take an Advil when it hurts and you should be fine"). Frustrating!

Today I got some good news and had the same reaction. Kyle and I did a "punch list" for our condo of things to have the seller fix. I came armed with an extensive checklist, tape measure, level and pen and paper ready to submit a long laundry list of items. We scoured every nook and even the cranny's in the condo looking for every little flaw we could find.

We found a grand total of three! That should be good, right? It must mean the condo is in good shape. Well instead of feeling that way, I feel a little disappointed, like I didn't do a good enough job of find flaws. If had been truly thorough, shouldn't there be a few more the just three?

Well now I've convinced myself to hire a professional to track down all the imperfections. What a happy thought!

So for now, our condo looks like it's in good shape...I'm just not happy about it! ; )

With "There's a Small Nick in My Baseboard" Love,

Julia

WE HAVE A CONDO!

Dear DC,

It is officially official and I am much too excited to be coy or clever about how I write this. If you didn't get it from the title of the post, we bought a condo! The contract was ratified today and we will potentially close in 30 days.

After tons of looking and me quitting the home search at least three times and threatening to quit about three dozen times, we finally have it.

With "WE'RE GOING TO BE HOMEOWNERiS" Love,

Julia

Monday Morning Quarterbacking

Dear DC,

It’s great to be back with you after a short blogging retirement that was brought on by a sudden onset of thinking that anything that was happening in life wasn’t really worth writing about. But, I am back in action now and trying to make a little fun out of the ordinary and mundane.

I am participating in my very first Fantasy Football League. For those who know me, I enjoy sports a lot…but not enough to really know anything about the players or teams. Unless, of course, we are talking about the Utah Jazz, then I know a bit more. When it comes to the NFL, I’m sad to say that I really don’t know much, other than the names of the star quarterbacks, but placing them with the correct team might be a bit of a challenge. Going into this Fantasy Football League, I thought I would have to know everything there is, about every player, in order to make a good decision on who to pick on draft day. Well, the draft was Monday night, and I knew just as much then as I did on the day that I said “sure, I’ll play….football is the one with the oval shaped ball right?”

It really isn’t that hard with limited knowledge. All you do is just pick the best player available based on their ranking, and hope that they don’t get injured in the first week of the season. And if that doesn’t work, there is always the strategy of picking the player based on how cool or not so cool their name sounds. And, by so doing, I got a pretty good team if I do say so myself. Not the greatest, but not the worst possible either.

I’ve decided that trying to learn everything about all the players and all the stats, and all the rules would just take up too much time in my life. I’m not going to bother with that. Mostly because I just don’t really care about how well my quarterback did two years ago, and who he was traded to in 1997. I just care about if the guy scores points right now.

I am disappointed to find out that Fantasy Football does not include players like dwarfs, elves, warriors, or sorcerers, seeing as how every other game that has the word “fantasy” in it has had all those characters. But hey, quarterbacks, running backs, and tight ends are cool too.

With fantasy football love,

Kyle