Everything is coming together this week.  Last week we didn't know if or when the movers were coming and our house was still on the market waiting for the perfect people for it.  This week we have an accepted offer on our house and the movers are coming on Wednesday to pack us up. 

We have to be out to California by next Wedensday (at least that is what they are telling us at the moment, it could change) to beat our stuff to our new place.  The cross country drive may have to happen sooner and faster then we planned, but better that then the three or four weeks they were estimating for us last week!  We are leaving La Crosse on Friday to spend sometime with family on our way out of the midwest on Saturday.

A little over three weeks ago we received our first offer on the house.  It was disappointing and discouraging.  It didn't help we were away from La Crosse for a few days and supposed to be camping somewhere where our cell phones couldn't reach us.  Anyways, after things didn't go our way with that offer we opted to drop our price a bit.  Last Thursday morning as I was getting ready for work, it occured to me that we hadn't had any showings with the new price.  Joel and I also were discouraged by the news that the housing market was not improving.  But all that would change with a message from Josh.  Someone wanted to see the house on Thursday and Friday.  Friday's showing went so well we had an ok offer by Friday night.  Saturday we countered and the buyers accepted our terms with a closing date of September 17!  Now we can just wait and hope that the home inspection goes well and everything else falls into place as we leave town for our new home in Sacramento, California.

Hopefully, things will continue to go well this week.  Our next challenge is making sure that everything the movers won't move either is gotten rid of or fits in the car.

Due to the nasty weather on the 4th we opted to go to the movies instead of the fireworks.  We saw Knight and Day with Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise--good but not the point of this post.  There was a new (to me at least) Gatorade commercial with a catchy song in the background. The song has been in my head all week and it didn't help when I ended up going to a second movie, Eclipse, this week and I heard it again!  This evening I decided I must find the song.  I started looking for it on iTunes, but had no luck.  Instead of doing the obivious thing and going to the Gatorade site I Googled it.  I found a blog post from someone who also had the song stuck in his head.  He, like me, didn't start with the obivious and after a hour discovered the mp3 was free to download on the Gatorade site.  Fortunately, it didn't take me that long!

And so you can get it stuck in your head as well...