This’ll be a quick little update before I head out the door to join my friends and watch the pilot of “Caprica”.
Me and Helena went down to Söderköping again. The ice-cream place had just opened and it was a swedish holiday (valborg) so we figured “what tha heck” and rented a cheap room at a nice hotel so we could stay for two days and have even more ice-cream and maybe see more of this calm, old little town. It was abso-freaking-awesome! 🙂
You can find pictures here and as usual, log in as “guest” to see all pictures.
And today I went out to check up how the work on the house was going. Or maybe I should say the foundation cause that’s what they are working on now. Pictures are here. You might wanna make that into a Favorite since I’ll be updating it alot over the next two months! 🙂
And the summer is finally coming to stockholm so it’s even better going out for a ride today!
Have fun! I will!
I’m not that narcissistic that I left that update for this long, it’s just been really busy around here. Trying to sort everything out and making sure things are rolling and all the papers get signed and shipped to god knows who… but it’s getting along now.
They shaved off an inch of ground on our lot to give us an idea of how big it was and it’s pretty damn huge! You can check the image album here. You’d do best to login as “guest”. The password is the name of the company I work for.
Even though it’s been a year now some friends are still surprised that I actually have a girlfriend, that I moved in with, and am now engaged with and building a new house with. I get alot of nice congratulations (like this). But the best compliment have come from three different people (from a family member, a close friend and an estranged friend/former collegue) and that is – “proof that good guys can win”! I like that. I like that people consider me a good guy. I know it’s narcissistic as hell, but it still feels good getting the compliment.
Regarding our house building, everything seems to be set – except for that damn approval from the council that we may actually build the house we want and the way we want it!
Small steps every day for us to build our home! Right now everything seems to be on track, just waiting for the permit to start building and we’re good to go.
I can’t imagine people who have to deal with all of this plus do the actual building work, I’m going nuts just calling around and making sure everything is moving ahead…
But right now we’re on track to move in week 32 (late july/early august) 🙂
This is getting really complicated. Remember when I said that this house building stuff was gonna be rushed and if everything would click we’d get to move in early august?… it’s really not clicking. Right now there’s two key elements that are not happening. First it’s the permit we need from the council to build there. It’s a pure formality but we still haven’t seen anything. Then it’s the downpayment for the building lot that we thought was gonna be handled by the bank. Which it would’ve been, had she not been home sick all week! I called them today to find out and someone was gonna try to sort it out but as it looks now we’re fucked… so all change and reset target to november 🙁 … *cry*
Now we got the papers sorted. Not signed but they are right here. Just for the lot to build on we’re paying 850.000 swedish crowns. That’s more than I have ever paid for anything in my entire life. Not to mention the 2 million that comes afterwards for the house and everything in it!!
But I hope it’ll be awesome! Once we get the practical details (like “where the f*ck are we gonna get the 10% deposit for the building lot?!”) and we got the house, then everything will be worth it. But the road will be long and bumpy and I will have second thoughts a gazillion times…
Thankfully my Helena is a rock 🙂
Quite often you’ll hear me saying that “variety is the spice of life”, cause I do really like to have the option of doing things one way or the other. But since I met Helena, one thing has become clear – I excel at coming up with different options and ways to do something, but I suck at deciding which is best! Just a simple thing like driving from my parents home to Barkarby, there’s atleast 7 different ways to do it and I can’t decide which is the best! It’s getting pretty frustrating.
And now this entire house thing. I’ve drawn up 100 different ways we can do but can’t decide which is the best. When it affected me, no problem, I’ll go this way and suffer the consequences. But now that it also affects Helena I’m struggling. Which is really unattractive. But right now we’ve narrowed it down to 3 different options and a “due date” on April 1st on which way to go. Unfortunately, one way to go may be “keep on looking”…
We thought we were ready for bidding on a house but apparently we weren’t. An arrogant real estate agent, some things we knew were wrong with the house but thought “ok, for this price we can fix it” and when the price went above 2.25 million we called it off. We really wanted that house cause it was as perfect as a house can get for us!
But the real estate agent was really sucky, ignored our questions, was promised private showing but that never happened and can’t shake the feeling that we were bidding against something fictional.
Anyway, the search goes on… but we swedes really need to take after the customer care I receive everytime I deal with asians or even americans!
Today we went out to look at a house in Täby. The house looked pretty good for us, just the right size and everything. Even a little small door for the cats to run in and out as they wished. However, and this was the deal breaker, it was exceptionally close to the railway (I mean like 50-60 meters. And not 50-60 meters of forest, it was 50-60 meters of playground to the school that was right next to it. And right now that’s really not what we want.
We want a nice place in a calm environment where we can sit out and enjoy a nice juicy steak in the summer, and with a living room that’s ok to set up a home theater in and where the kitchen and living rooms are not that seperate, prefereably not at all. But that seems impossible to find and since this is the biggest deal we’ve ever done, yes we will be that picky 🙂