When you start to have over +10 home showings and feel like you are living more in your car than your home, you can start going a little… crazy. Soon anything other than house-selling activities are deceptively fun-sounding and tempting. You forget about how soul-sucking it already is, living your life to impress other people with where you live. Escapism is key but potentially dangerous.
When you get the opportunity to get out and go “skanking” (see Reg above) at a concert with punk ska band “Reel Big Fish” it is hard to say no.
Doesn’t the sax player (right) look like Ragnar (left) from Vikings?
Home showing has driven me to a kind of escapist-extremist-madness. Wearing a “Cute as a Cupcake” t-shirt to the worst area of Halifax with a cookie necklace on my? Probably not a great idea but it was fun.
Another thing you should know is planning what to eat when selling a home is next to impossible. You have no idea if there will be showings or not and when there are, you can not really cook before-hand because it impacts how the house smells and you really do not need anymore work making the kitchen pristine.
I finally got out to get groceries and I saw a young Thai coconut. I thought, heck, that would make a fun quick video for my blog! Me opening a coconut on camera and getting to drink REAL coconut water straight from the coconut? I thought it was genius.
It ended up being an epic battle which you can watch in my video. Not just because it was so bloody hard (literally) but because the phone rang, the batteries died… Sigh.
I hope you enjoy the video. The first two snippets of music are from Reel Big Fish and warning, there is lots of profanity! Thanks to Reg for helping me with the song selection. He is the king of punk music.
Yup, I feel like I am going a tad bit crazy. It is really hard to keep a foodie life going and well, just a life in general when you are selling a home. It took two days of bed rest for me to recover from the concert and my hands still hurt from “Whack a Coconut”. Still? I would not trade it. If life was just about selling the house, I really would lose my mind.
You always have to throw a little bit of adventure into life or you will go batshit coconuts.
This is your BEST foodie video yet, Suzie! Oh, how I laughed! (“with” you, of course, not “at” you!) Love the soundtrack — Reg picked very appropriate music (and “skanking”? LOL!) I must tell you that when we were in Tahiti, we enjoyed drinking coconut milk right out of the coconut a couple of times. The vendors simply give the top of the coconut 3 whacks with a lethal-looking super-sharp machete and voila! A little lid is created, they open it and stick in a straw and off you go. You just need more practice, my girl!
Oh Debra, thank you! You’re awesome and yes, so glad you laughed with me. 🙂 I watched all these little tiny skinny women on YouTube open a coconut no problem and when I couldn’t, I freaked out. A machete would definitely help!
You make the best videos for sure. So funny. Sorry you had a rough go,
all the way around. Not being able to cook in my house, I don’t know.
I don’t think I could do it. Food out makes me too sick.
Thank you so much! Well, it added drama to the video and made it fun so that’s good. Oh we have been starving lately because we never have food in but then we don’t want to have food out… It’s nuts.
I totally get the whole house selling thing. It is sooo frustrating! I wish you the best of luck and a quick sell. I close on mine in six days. Finally!!! 🙂
blessings
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Thank you Laura and congrats on closing in just a few days, that is awesome! Oh I can’t wait to get to that point.
Great video, great music! See, you should have a machete in your kitchen tools collection, Suzie, as per Debra’s post. Getting it in a kitchen drawer might be a problem, but you could always hang it on the wall. Perhaps not while selling your house. And guests might be a tad nervous if you ask them if they enjoyed their meal with the machete gleaming over your shoulder. Hmmm. Or are coconuts (and talk of machetes) going in the been there, done that, not going there again file?
I hope you sell your house soon and get some normality back in your life. Still, because of all this you probably enjoyed more outings with your sweetie than you would otherwise have done, even if Mr. Wallet took a bit of a beating. You’re very lucky to have all this time to spend with Reg right now.
And, FYI, my one and only battle with a coconut involved a hammer and screwdriver and was for the entertainment of my offspring. It certainly was entertaining (just not for me), and was educational as well, since they probably learned a few new words that they had never heard before, at least not from their parental units.
So glad you enjoyed the video Sylvia! Yes, I must invest in a machete, it is now clear as day to me. Yes, I’ll wait until I am on the west coast and not selling, LOL. Reg has been a real trooper during this time, taking us out and cleaning the house with me. He’s awesome. Oh no! You had to go through that with a coconut too and with a hammer and screwdriver? Good grief!!!