Obsessions

It has been a long time since I've had an obsession.  Normally I have two or three obsessions brewing at the same time- something I want to buy, some trip I want to plan, some rearrangement of furniture that I want to complete, some project that I want to do.  I think that I've just been too preoccupied and tired since Elliott was born to even find something to obsess over.

But all of a sudden that has changed.  First of all, I have a song obsession.  It's been a long time since I was obsessed with a song.  The last one I can think of was Creep by Scala & Kolacny, and that was the fall of 2010 (listen to that beauty HERE, and don't be alarmed when they drop an F-Bomb in this beautiful choir music).

So anyway.  My new song obsession is Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye.  I just want to play it over and over and over.  In 5 years when I hear it on the radio it will totally take me back to the summer of 2012 and I'll be able to feel in my core what it was like when Elliott was a tiny baby and we spent the whole summer at home.  Isn't music amazing that it can transport us back in time like that?

You can watch the totally trippy video HERE.

This song obsession is not nearly as bad as the summer of 2001 when I was obsessed with Yellow by Coldplay.  I was working for the Arizona Senate and I would drive from Phoenix to Tucson every weekend and put that song on repeat and listen to it for like 90 minutes straight (take a trip back in time, HERE). 

That was also the summer that I was obsessed with Sway by Bic Runga (don't know it?  You should.  Listen HERE).  If I didn't have Yellow on repeat I had that going the whole way to my parents house.  I will never forget when I told my friend James, who also worked at the Senate, that I was obsessed with it, so he borrowed my CD (remember when we bought CD's?) and emailed me 20 minutes later (our offices were like 10 feet from each other) to tell me he couldn't stop listening.

That's obsession #1.

Obsession #2 is that I want to buy a house.

Specifically this house:

We intentionally foreclosed on our house almost 3 years ago.  Arizona was hit so hard with the housing crash and we were SOOOOOOO underwater on our mortgage.  It turned out to be the best decision we've ever made.  I just checked and the house that we paid $220,990 for in 2006 was just assessed for $50,000.  The person who bought it from the bank after we left in 2009 is $30,000 underwater.

We are eligible for an FHA backed mortgage since it has been three years.  We also have enough money for a down payment.  Our lease for our rental house is up the end of November.  I have become obsessed with the idea of buying a house in October and being totally moved in by the time we have Elliott's first birthday party.  I'm also obsessed with the idea of once again living in a house that has pretty painted walls instead of the white ones we have in every square inch of this house.  Grass in the backyard would be nice too.

The house above is one neigborhood over from ours, has a great elementary school like 3 blocks away, is significantly bigger than our rental, has a pool and grass in the backyard and would be cheaper than what we pay in rent. It also has really pretty tile.  And solar panels.  We could make money by selling power back to the power company if we lived there!  The kitchen is painted purple and the master bedroom and bathroom are shockingly pink, but that's just paint.  Easily fixable. Can you say win-win-win-win?

Don't you want to come visit us here?



So, that's it.  Just 2 obsessions.  One is pretty frivolous, but the other is eating all sorts of holes in my brain.