New house!!!!!

So I'm coming to you live from my living room. Not my Mom and Dad's living room...MY living room. My living room that has so kindly put me in debt. My living room with my wireless interwebs and my DirecTV and my water from my fridge and my overpriced but super awesome tasting Mama's Pizza.

I got the entire storage shed unloaded today...which is like, 90% of my stuff.

Shame the other 10% is the super important stuff like my clothes and bathroom stuff. I have a few more chairs and my drafting table still to come, but I'm hoping to get all that put together tomorrow before clubhouse so I can sleep here tomorrow night. It will certainly be a shorter drive from here to clubhouse. I have a feeling it will be after Wednesday until everything is moved in...never mind put up and put together!!

But...I'm here!! It definitly needs window treatments before it can look like a real house with an actual person living in it.

I have a list of things to buy...none of them really dire and the contractor that did the remodeling work on the house is coming out Monday to fix the electrical outlet for the dryer and make a dryer vent for me...I think they accidentally drywalled over it...whoops!

Otherwise the plan for the weekend is a little Clubhouse tomorrow, probably late cause I'll need to shower fo sho and then I work Monday and Tuesday night and then more unpacking. You people feel free to stop by anytime after Wednesday and help!!!!

So I don't have time for a long blog...count on that tomorrow when I'm sitting at MY NEW HOUSE (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) waiting for all my appliances and stuff to be delivered!!!

I got my keys yesterday before work and went over this morning after work to let myself in and I can't wait to be able to move in...this weekend I will hopefully get everything moved in and then...party time!!! I am thinking of having a housewarming party sometime in February so I hope lots of you people can come!!

I should have internet at the house already so I have one more night to work (boo) and then I'll be able to start moving!

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I think the saying goes something along the lines of "If you want to hear God laugh, tell him all about your plans."

I'm pretty sure God is laughing pretty hard today.

Nothing today has gone according to MY plan. I'm trying to figure out exactly what God has in mind for today and for tomorrow, especially regarding this freaking house...but I'm at a loss.

I was supposed to close on the house December 29th. My downpayment grant fell through, which sucked, so we had to push the date back even though a lot of other stuff should have been done between the time the contracts were signed and the time we found out the downpayment fell through. I had a downpayment method ready the next day... But, the grant was an unforseen setback so we pushed back the closing date.

I was supposed to close yesterday. I still have not closed. I'm as close to livid as I get. When we had to extend the contract the first time my real estate agent asked the mortgage guy what a feasable date for closing was. He was told January 12th.

I had to extend my contract again.

The appraisal took two weeks. I was still faxing papers to the mortgage company yesterday. The appraisal person left out some wording in his papers.

My Mom asked me yesterday why I wasn't more excited about buying the house...and I just can't get excited about something that has been a massive pain in my ass since we started the process.

The seller has been shady about things, the mortgage guy seems to move at his own special pace, my real estate agent calls me to bitch about the mortgage guy (like I can do anything about that, or like I want to hear how badly my shit is getting fucked up by a guy that came highly recommended by my brother) and it has just been one fucking road block after another.

I spent yesterday setting up delivery and ordering stuff for a house I am beginning to think I will never get to move into.

I would LOVE to be excited about this. I would LOVE to close. I want nothing more than to be super excited about buying a house and being able to do this really cool thing. But...I'm not.

I want it to be over with. That is all.

I heart vacation

So nights one and two are in the bag and all I can say is "oh F."

Amber and I have lit it up the last two nights and like total rock stars, been in bed and passed out by 2am. We are CLASSY GIRLS.

Our days have been pretty lazy, not much of an effort to make it out to the afternoon shows, but honestly- I like it that way. This is my vacation. I feel no inclination to go see artists I'm not excited about just because they're there...these past two lazy mornings and afternoons have been absolutely wonderful. Tomorrow though, we will be hitting the afternoon shows, so I'll have to butch up and be a big girl about it.

It's been snowing since we got here Monday and while it is freakin' gorgeous...I wouldn't mind it snowing a little bit less.

I've gotten some stuff done for the house, some new insurance and all that good stuff. I'm super excited to close on Monday.

I talked to Melissa at Tugboat Monday night and had a good talk with her and realized how great the interwebs can be. We talked about me finishing school and closing on my house and growing up and moving on and being an adult and all the scary things that have happened in the last 5 months and how she's so proud of me (!!) for growing up and doing all these things. I guess it was just good to hear that even though I have people I don't see every day or even every month or any more than just once a year...it doesn't mean they don't care and that they don't keep up with me and that they don't want good things. It's a nice thing to know.

I am getting geared up for some Adam Hood tonight...a little Boland.

Yay!!

Tomorrow, I will work on my Willie Braun Theory.

Happy Place

Yay!!! Amber and I have arrived in Steamboat safe and sound! The drive up from Denver was absolutely gorgeous. I don't remember any of the last four years making the drive through the mountains on a day that was so bright and clear and pretty...we could see EVERYTHING and it was SO pretty. Plus...the roads were clear, which was a vast improvement over last years death defying snow storm.

We, as always, stopped in Idaho Springs for some Starbucks and pictures by the pretty pretty frozen waterfall.

We are unloaded and settled in and we have jello shots setting up in the freezer.

I am officially in my happy place.