<p>What a fun thread! Good times.</p>
<p>I plan to watch TPIR online ASAP.</p>
<p>I Tivo’d the show and watched it tonight when I got home from work. Very cool! You looked like you were having the time of your life, and your son was cheering you on throughout the whole show, so happy for you! Like the other posters, I was wishing you’d win the showcase, even though I knew you didn’t. If they’d only give you time to THINK! It all moves so fast!</p>
<p>Really fun to watch - thanks!</p>
<p>Jillian,</p>
<p>Just watched the show. Would you believe this is the first time I ever watched The Price is Right? It’s was so much fun to cheer on a CC friend, even if the events were in the past.</p>
<p>You looked great and so relaxed. No one would guess what you’d been through. BTW: Your son is adorable.</p>
<p>I think you need the older L-shaped house for your player piano. Definitely a vintage vibe. Enjoy it all in good health. Thanks so much for sharing.</p>
<p>My girls and I are watching it (taped it) right now. They are absolutely fascinated watching my CC friend play Price is Right. </p>
<p>The piano is awesome!</p>
<p>Congratulations ! Very fun!</p>
<p>Started to post, then got interrupted, and Mstee took my words right off my post! :)</p>
<p>I watched it on the computer. Had a sticky note on my computer to remind me to watch the actual show, but I had to go somewhere when it was on. So I watched the tape. Then my H called just as Jill got her big moment, and I had to rewind. It was a lot of fun. I sat here smiling at my computer screen. You looked so happy and comfortable, and I agree with mythmom that no one would have suspected what you’d been through to get there. I love the piano. But, I also love the sleds. I was picturing all the same kind, but they’re all different. How cool. You need them for different ages, for different kinds of snow, for different size hills. I’m not sure I’d give any away!</p>
<p>I bet you could paint one all fancy, and use it as a garden sculpture. Use another as a coffee table. You’re artsy, O-Mom, you can come up with more ideas.</p>
<p>(Oh, okay, you can give them away if that’s what makes you happy.)</p>
<p>Oaklandmom/Jillian,</p>
<p>I saw the taping on the computer also with my 10 year-old D at my side. She kept on talking and asking a million questions…She was so into it! And she was sooo disappointed when you didn’t win the jeep (I didn’t tell her that I knew the results in advance). Great job nonetheless…You got so close!</p>
<p>I echo everyone’s sentiments…You are adorable and so is your son!! He and your girls are lucky indeed!!</p>
<p>“I was picturing all the same kind, but they’re all different.” Same here!</p>
<p>“I bet you could paint one all fancy, and use it as a garden sculpture. Use another as a coffee table. You’re artsy, O-Mom, you can come up with more ideas.” Great idea Binx! :)</p>
<p>well, O-mom; now that the show has aired and you’re moving onto another stage in your life, I’d like to say that you’re now the second person I’ve known to be on TPIR. Shortly out of college, one of my high school friends was visiting her sister in CA, and they attended a taping. My friend made it to the showcase, and won. It was kind of funny because she was still living at home, but won a washer/dryer, piano, suite of queen-sized bedroom furniture, and some other smaller items. I just remember her wondering where she was going to put it all. Funny… she’s also an artist by training, too - got her degree in art history. She about died when they insisted on her legal name on her name tag - she goes by Toni, but her name is Antoinette. </p>
<p>So now I <em>know</em> two people who have been on.</p>
<p>I can’t believe I watched an entire show and actually cared about the outcome. I read some of the original posts over the phone to a friend of my wife. I think she’s going home to read the thread and watch the show.</p>
<p>Aw mardad. That’s so sweet.</p>
<p>:) I’m still patting myself on the back for knowing someone famous! So, what’s happening on the house(s)??</p>
<p>right now I feel like I’m in house “H E double hockey sticks”. The buyers of the house are an unmarried couple. Due to financing, they keep wanting to change the contract - first he was buying, then I agreed to change the contract in exchange for a hefty non-refundable deposit so she would be buying the house & close in 30 days. As of this afternoon, it seems she may not be able to get the loan so they want to switch the contract back to him and close in 10 days. As for the L-shaped house, the seller is anxious about closing and wants a date by which we’ll close - but I can’t give that seller a date until I know when I’m closing here (I suggested to my agent that we put in something like on or before Dec 8 - but for some reason she wants a firm date not just on or about). I’m waiting anxiously to hear what the buyers of my Oakland house have decided. OH, I’d really like to just be planning Thanksgiving dinner…but instead I’m packing boxes. I really don’t want to close in 10 days…and I just realized that would mean DS would not be able to come and see the house one last time before we move out…OH! More to negotiate!<br>
As for fame, I told a friend last night, I’ve used up my 15 minutes!</p>
<p>I really don’t think you need to worry about the L-house. The seller’s anxiety is not your problem! Tell your realtor to handle all those pressure calls, leave you out of it, and you’ll let them know when you have something firm. That’s what the commission is for.</p>
<p>Wow!!! I “know” someone who was on the Price is Right! How cool is that? :)</p>
<p>Forgot to mention, I am watching the show right now on the internet. I can’t wait to tell my son, I am sure he will want to watch too.</p>
<p>Okay, son (age 13) watched the second 1/2 with me. He said to tell you it would have been cool if you would have won a year’s supply of Hot Pockets! (His favorite food, lol) ;)</p>
<p>If she had won the Hot Pockets, she would have Thanksgiving all planned.</p>
<p>Mardad, lol :)</p>
<p>ah, the thread is still here…we’re moving forward on buying the L-shaped/rose colored house. I’m excited & a little anxious. & very happy that this thread is wasn’t deleted. Its so much fun to read everyone’s coments!</p>
<p>OLM,</p>
<p>You house is sold on Dec 9, right?</p>
<p>YAY! Relax and try to enjoy the ride. Moving and the whole real estate closing business can be so stressful, we’ve gone through it way too many times, but have found that the best way to attack it is with an intense, determined, and genuine sense of humor. And buy food for the movers.</p>