Day 26: I hate this.

Day 1: Our house is on the market, yeah!

Day 3: Let's go check out some houses! This is fun! Can you picture us living here? How about here?

Day 6: Oooooh, I really like this one! What? You do too? Alright! Let's buy it! Yahoooooo! It's exactly what we're looking for!

Day 7: Beauuuuuutiful day. Our first open house! But not one visitor. Boo.

Day 10: Bad news... that house you love is a foreclosure and the bank isn't accepting contingency contracts... you could get a bridge loan, but it would be kind of risky... and they aren't allowing any contingency, not for financial reasons, home inspection, or title search... so, we should probably move on.

Day 11: Boo hoo.

Day 12: Boo hoo.

Day 13: Boo hoo.

Day 14: What house for sale? The whole thing is way too stressful. I'm in denial.

Day 17: Okay, let's lower the price, offer closing cost help, add more photos to the web listing, and attach a box of flyers to the For Sale sign, and plant lots of pretty yellow Open House signs out on the road.

Day 17 (later): Already one flyer gone! Yahoo!

Day 19: Someone wants to see the house? Finally! Hooooray! Our first visitor! Clean up, make the bed, leave the house in a hurry, don't forget to bring the dog.

Day 20: Oh, they didn't show up? Darn it.

Day 21: Second open house. Another beautiful day, flowers in bloom, house looks great. One visitor. An "older guy". He loves the house! What? He wants to buy it? Holy cow! He'll call tomorrow and wants to start drawing up a contract right away because he has to be out of his apartment in 60 days? Great!

In the meantime: Crap! Where are we going to go? Hmmm... what about that one house? The one we both loved? I know!! Let's get all excited about it again, thinking it actually might be possible to buy it, if we get this contract! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Day 22: Huh? The ol' guy has a cold? He wants to wait until the end of the week? But he's still really really interested? Oh, um, okay.

Day 24: Another appointment? Alright! Someone else wants to see our house! Yipee! Make sure the house is utter perfection, take dog and make selves scarce for the whole evening.

Day 25: Ugh. Another no-show last night. But they want to reschedule? And she did sound really interested? Well, I guess that's good.

Day 25 (later): Oh, damn (horrible sinking feeling). The same guy who couldn't wait to write a contract last Sunday suddenly thinks 60 days is plenty of time? He's not in a hurry now and he wants to think about it some more? Damn.

Damn!