Stop Calling Me, Please

my mom has called me like four times in the last 24 hours and i finally turned off my phone this afternoon. i made the huge mistake of telling her about a house that i wish we could buy, even though it's literally down the street from her. the thing is, we are months, and i do mean months, away from having our house ready for sale.

even if we were ready, the housing market here is extremely sluggish. like nothing is moving. houses just sit because there's too much inventory. and the dealbreaker with us is that having a pool (that is now defunct), we are moving to another house with a pool. if the liner hadn't ripped last summer with almost two of the walls caving (it's 3o+ years old), we could have repaired it. but not for $30,000 (ouch!).

okay, so my point is, i need to re-set the boundaries with the mother unit. otherwise, i will be going nutso. to which the adorable one will point out, i'm already there. sigh!