At long last, its time for the NYC Marathon. Mark your calendars for Nov 2!
For those of you who are interested in cheering, here is the map of the race.
If you can’t come out, you can get status on Pablo’s run at the NYC Marathon Site. Pablo’s Bib # is 48251.
In all the house and moving excitement, I forgot to blog about our new car! We leased a 2009 Toyota Camry. Its soooo pretty. And huge! The last car I owned was a tiny Honda Civic. This is quite the upgrade!
Check out pics of our car and our new house to be!
Here is a pic of our new home to be! We have an accepted offer and now we are waiting on an inspection, contract signing and mortgage closing. Yippee!
The timing couldn’t be better because we had to leave our apartment in Manhattan in a rush. We called 311 to complain about the conditions we were living in and they sent HPD to check out our home. HPD issued over 12 violations to the landlord that required emergency remediation. They have to fix all of our walls and our ceilings. We were informed by the landlord that we needed to get out as soon as possible. This weekend, with the help of some good friends and family, we rented a u-haul and moved most of our belongings to my parents house. We also setup our office in my parent’s rec-room. Its been quite a week!
We didn’t get the house but we went out and saw more houses this week. We narrowed our choices down to two. One of them is a boring, smallish split level in a great neighborhood and a good school district. The other, is a ranch in poor condition that is an opportunity for us to customize the space and create our perfect home. We will be making offers this week, so hope one of them comes through!
PS In pregnancy news. I somehow gained 7 lbs in one month and I failed my 1 hour sugar test. I now have to be tested for the 3 hour sugar test in case I have developed gestational diabetes. 
I haven’t heard anything yet about the house. I am feeling like they are not going to accept our offer.
The search continues.
Good news. My placenta moved out of the way, so I am back to having an uncomplicated pregnancy. Woo.
We looked at a lot of houses in the last couple of months. We drove all over White Plains, Mamaroneck, Rye, Tuckahoe, Eastchester, Bronxville, Ardsley, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington and New Rochelle looking at capes, splits, ranches. We looked at houses large and small and were very depressed at what we found. Every house had something wrong with it. For instance, we found the perfect split level house in Ardsley… that had the Saw Mill Parkway as it’s backyard. We found a very nice and well priced cape in Mamaroneck in a great school district… that was next to the metro north tracks. We saw a beautiful colonial in New Rochelle built in 1929 with all original details… that was just not right for us. Finally today, we saw a cape in New Rochelle that had it all. Spacious, great street, great neighborhood, hard wood floors, central air, space for our office, a guest room, and central air. It even has central vac! One little problem.. the house is way out of our price range. We put a low offer on it. Please cross your fingers for us! I really want that house!!!!