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My dirt problem...*
Yay! Just won an eBay auction for a used Dyson Ball vacuum!! At about half of what a new one would have cost! I can't post it on Facebook, because I'm sure my mom would still disapprove of the price (even though she has a dyson), but since we can't find either of our vacuums (and both were in bad shape), we're considering this a necessary purchase ( Read more... ) -
Kids say the darndest things...
Took the boys to the drive-in last night and had an awesome time. We'll definitely do it again soon. I took Robbie to the potty before it started and as I helped him get dressed afterwards, we had the following conversation ( Read more... ) -
Exhausted.
I've been going pretty hard for a while now, and it's caught up to me. If I had a tv in the bedroom here, I'd go to bed right now and watch from there, but I feel like brainless tv, so the armchair it is. Oh, and as if I weren't mentally burned out enough, the computer just ate this whole post, so I'm recreating 3/4ths of it again. Hm, maybe this ( Read more... ) -
In case you didn't catch it on facebook...
We closed on the house tonight! It was a typical closing-- scads of relatively pointless paperwork for initialing and signing. It was great to meet the previous owners, however. We hadn't known anything about them or their situation and it's easy to characterize the sellers as the antagonist when you're negotiating, but they're very nice and it ( Read more... ) -
Woohoo!!!!! (You can breathe, now...)
The loan was approved today!!!! Closing is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. We're going to have the devil's own time trying to get all our stuff moved in between Wednesday and Friday (and get the house cleaned), but we'll manage. At least we know what's going on now. Since Jeff's not working, he can spend all day Thursday shuttling things over. ( Read more... ) -
Really, Murphy? Really?
One aspect involved in us qualifying for this particular mortgage was that we might have to pay off our car loan. But we didn't want to pay it off unless we were SURE the loan would go through, so we waited. And waited. And then the following unfolds ( Read more... ) -
If none of us breathe, this just might work...
The underwriter has deemed that all "looks good" and passed it on to the next step in the chain. Supposedly the next is fairly routine, but nothing is guaranteed until we've gone to closing so we aren't finished worrying yet. Since things have taken this long, we won't be closing on Friday (unless there's some sort of insane turn of events which ( Read more... ) -
WTF?
I've been watching a lot of home renovation shows recently and tonight it's "Price it out" where you get to guess whose renovation/interior design cost more. The *cheaper* bedroom design they just showed included sheets that cost $1900 and duvet/shams for $2000. Excuse me ( Read more... ) -
One step at a time...
Life proceeds apace. Still a fair bit of stress, but one way or another, it will all be over soon. If the house goes through (and that's still not a certainty...even at this late date), the the closing date will be June 8th: next Friday. Scary. I'm still having fun planning out where the furniture will go (Max and I have been playing with a neat ( Read more... ) -
Wow.
Finally got to see "The Avengers" tonight -- awesome doesn't even begin to describe it. Then I came home to eat a chocolate chip square (made another batch of the recipe I posted last week), drink a glass of milk, and watch the end of "Star Wars IV" on tv. Life has a ton of stress right now (including *new* problems with the house sale... ( Read more... )