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.

Hi all...did you miss me?????

I knew you did!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas.

Mine was pretty great. I was tired from the whole night shift business, but Christmas was great.

I am in MUCH better spirits since my last two Debbie downer posts. Mostly, because things have turned back in my favor, as I prefer them to; and as I am accustomed to.

I am SUCH a princess.

So, in news as I know it, I got the money for a down payment, which is good. I was VERY VERY relieved. Now all that's left is making sure the seller will let us push back the closing date (not much of a choice, really) and getting all the stuff taken care of. I am really hoping to get this all over with because the last two weeks have been such a pain in my ass that I have been thinking "why didn't I just get a freakin' apartment...." I know in the long run this is a smart move and I will be very grateful for it...but I'm ready to get the show on the road so I can get all my crap out of storage!!! I'm really excited about the house and I'm very much hoping it will all still work out just like I want it too...I guess I just thought it would all be a lot easier.

Anyway...I got a washer and dryer for Christmas, which I am very happy about...two less major appliances I have to buy. Really I'm only needing a refrigerator now. And a tv later. And a new bedroom suite. And this, and that and blah blah blah. Already, the house is a money pit!!! Alarm system is a must though. Probably also a dog. Which means I need a freakin' land line. Blah blah blah. Like I said...money pit!

Got some towels, got various decorative accouterments for the house and a sweet gift certificate to Lowe's that I KNOW will be my bestest friend ever.

I am VERY ready for Steamboat. I haven't had a vacation since Steamboat last year and I'm very excited for a real week away with no actual responsibilities besides drinking and singing along to my mostest favoritest songs ever.

One a different, sad note: It's been a really shitty week for a lot of people. A friend most of you are already praying for and a lot of my ICU families lost loved ones right before Christmas...so keep them in your thoughts and prayers too. I may not know all of their names, nor can I really tell you anyway...but just send up a prayer for the countless families who have lost people. It sucks.

Not much of an update, but there you go.

Oh!!! Any plans for New Years???? I am thinking of Reckless Kelly at Gilley's in Dallas. Hotel anyone???

Don't even read this...Spoiled Brat talking.

So I'm still in a funk. I know I promised that today would be better...and it was! I woke up in a good mood, forgetting all the bullshit of last night (well, putting it behind me at least) and I was golden.

Then my mortgage guy called me and told me that the grant program we are using for my down payment isn't going to be basically effective until February, which blows.

My downpayment isn't massive, but it's still double what I have in the bank and I certainly can't double it on my own before the end of the month.

In all honesty, spoiled princess that I am, I am not used to disappointment and I do NOT like it and I do NOT deal with it well.

So now, I'm kind of stuck and I don't really know what to do. I don't know if my parents will help me out with the down payment. I've been looking around the interwebs all night for other options but I make too much money for most of them.

Plus, mortgage guy pushed a lot of other loan business, like my appraisal and FHA stuff, back in order to wait on this grant to process, so even if I had the money, I couldn't close until January anyway.

I can see the seller pushing the closing date back until January, but not February.

I know everything happens for a reason and all that crap. Generally, I believe it. I get through shitty work days with sad patients because of it.

But dammit...I don't particularly like it when it applies to me! Certainly not two days in a row.

I know in the grand scheme of things, I've spent my last two blog posts whining like the spoiled little bitch that I am and I need to shut my pie hole because things could be infinitely worse and I see people every day who would love to have had the advantages I have.

But I really prefer my shitty days be spread out a little further than one right after the other.

On an up note, I got some pretty lip gloss from Ulta today. I do love lipgloss.

Ugh.

Tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a good day.

Right?