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what i would really like to do tonight is give you an update on the house situation. you know, tell you that we closed last week on the columbus condo and are already planning our move here in rochester.

i would like that more than i'd like a cookie.

even a chocolate chip cookie straight from the oven.

i would like that more than i would like to have a thick chocolate milkshake just one more time in my life (i am lactose intolerant... the options available to me as chocolate milkshake substitutes are sad, sad substitutions).

i would like it more than i would like an extra hour in my day.

i would like it more than i like mustard.

wait. i hate mustard. so that's an easy one.

trouble is, i can't give you an update on the house situation because we have not yet closed on our condo in columbus because our buyer's lender isn't ready yet or some rot and because of this we're in total "please be kind to us and don't back out of our no-longer-good contract" land with our sellers here who included a clause in the contract we used to be in with them about transferring title in ohio by march 1st.

which was days ago.

so we're totally at their mercy. and in the dark still about when we'll finally be out of ohio for good. this sucks.

it sucks so much i can't even come up with a good metaphor to describe how much it sucks. except maybe to say that it sucks more than trying to read a rhyming children's book whose meter is way off so that you're constantly trying to figure out how to read each line and how to get the rhyme to sing properly.

it sucks way more than that.