Taking the unknown path

Ok so I decided today to officially sub in school districts and go to on call at work. Scary. Scary. Scary stuff. I want to go back to the world of elementary schools and out of the world of 15 2 year olds. So here I go.

This shows I haven't blogged in awhile...

As I looked back at my last blog just a moment ago I thought 2 things (as I usually do) first:: wow its been more than a month since we actually closed on our house and two:: I haven't written in a while...
So whats the new house like ( yeah I know your asking....and even if your not I'm goin to inform you...ha)
We are finally sorta settled in. We are no longer living out of boxes, the 2nd bedroom (or as we call the storage unit) is only half full of stuff to go through, and the house is starting to become one with us...HA
Problems that have come up...
1. we have mice and massive amounts of bugs
2. garage door motor or the thing that hangs down from the ceiling pooped out

Solutions to problems:
1. We called Orkin....yeah I wanted the mice killed with a bb gun but oh no ...we must be enviromentally friendly...So after Orkin left and had sprayed and left their "sticky" mouse traps I set out the decon (good old nasty poison) well turns out our mouse or small rodents poop the decon....I didn't even know that was possible, but at least they are eating it...hopefully it will get around to killing them soon

2. The garage door guy is coming out Thursday. The motor thing runs when you push the button but it doesn't lift the door. yeah..not a clue as to garage door things.

We are waiting for problem #3 b/c problems do travel in 3's...(but maybe not this time...) HA

..the continuation of buying a house...

Ok, so, today was supposed to be our closing day on our new house. But no. Its not that easy, never. ever. This was our day...
Went to bed unsure of the results of the appraisal (which was done last Friday and results were to be given to the bank in 24 hrs of appraisal..but of course it was not given within 24 hrs..hence the delay from the bank)
The roof needs to be replaced, we know that we have savings for it....but the bank led us to believe last night we might need wayyy more than we have in savings to put in escrow (what ever that is). So we went to bed worrying, praying, and wondering if in fact this house was the house and if we were supposed to be moving into and buying.

Woke up...the closing was to be at 10...I should have signed my life away 10 times over but no. The appraisal isn't back to the bank yet.

We spent 5 hrs wondering around our boxed up apartment...praying, and waiting for the phone to magically ring and say *ok u can close at 3 today cause everything is fine...* but the phone didn't ring with that to say.

Finally around 3 we find out that nope the bank has to push back our closing date to Tuesday....but there is a slight problem in THEIR plan...the movers are coming tomorrow as in Friday to move our stuff to the new house that we won't now own till Tuesday...

Had to reschedule the movers for Wednesday...

Now here are my problems...
I took off work today, Fri, Mon, Tues and Wed. Crap. So I called work at told them I'd be in on Fri. and Mon. That means we'll have 2 days to move our crap b4 I have to be back at work and the apartment has to be inspected...

And no Drew...Drew has to start his new position at work on Mon and has to be around the hospital next week...so who gets to deal with movers and boxes and heaviness and furniture...the girl with the pacemaker who can't lift squat gets to do all this...oh yeah...so I am glad the bank scheduled how and when we were going to move...

The house buying process

Well...let me start by saying that the home buying process these days is just not as yummy as it sounds. We found THE house, we did all the right things in the right order...found a great Realtor, got pre-approval, knew our price range, found THE house in our price range.....
Now we go to get a mortgage...golly gee whiz. Oh and just a note just cause your pre approved doesn't mean anything. Anyway, we go to the bank give them all our life history and our blood type and minor organs and got approved to buy the house...yeah sounds great right? WRONG! Drew got a call that we were not approved for the type of mortgage we applied and were approved for ...a week after we stopped sweating about getting approval. Liars Liars Liars. Anyways, we had to go through another bank to get actually approved for the mortgage we actually wanted again.
Ok heres something that will make you stop and think hmmmmmmmmmmmm...
We could have easily been approved no matter what if we had any of the following
-no school debt which equals no higher education which then equals going not to far in the pay check scale...
- a kid or 2 (which equals...DUH...more debt..kids aren't cheap!) and apparently I have waited to long according to one mortgage gal to have kids....no joke she did not get why we wouldn't have a kid by now.

This just made me stop and think....that to get the money to buy our more than "affordable" house we should have no education and a kid or 2...looks like we screwed up somewhere...

2 Offers later we have a house

Well we have a house...hopefully, pending successful inspections. We will close officially in mid May....pending all the inspections.

I want to be more excited but I kinda waiting in doom for the inspection to go wrong ...

I think...I hope...

We went back out today to search for houses...now let me tell you up front I have certain ...shall we call them *feelings* about some things. Apparently houses are not one of those things I have special *feelings* about when I first look.
I found a house on Craigslist (yes, I am a Craigslist junkie) anyways found it on Craigslist, its in a sought after neighborhood in one of the nicer areas of Springfield and it was in our price range. I sent it to Drew to send to our realator... the pics showed a great house. lots of room and yummyness. We got a time to go look at it and of course I had to tell Drew that this was the one (before I saw it) I said I had a feeling...I am telling you right now I did have a feeling a good one, and then we walked inside. My good feeling turned into a puff of smoke, this house was all ceiling, very little house. And so the cycle of my disappointment continues.

We go the next house ... which by the way has been on the market for almost a year...yes about 365 days aka long time...we went in thinking something has to be wrong with this house we just get to have another "adventure". We walked in and I tell you I got a good vibe, the kitchen made me gooey inside and the laundry room made me smile, but the secret crawl space (for the laundry basket) between the laundry room and master bath made me giggle and then climb through. Basically its a spot in the master bath that has the apperance of a cabnient on the floor...but then u open it and boom you just slide you laundry basket (full of dirty or clean clothes) into the laundry room. This made me giggle purely b/c I would not have to carry a basket of clothes all the way around to the laudry room from the master bedroom....or I could just crawl through it (which by the way is good exercise). The big bedrooms and openness in the family room and did I mention the kitchen...made me extremley excited...
and so we make our first offer on a house....here we go

House Hunting

Oh Perfect House ..where oh where can you be...

So Drew and I are house hunting...we have gone through about 10 and found a good one but then found out that wouldn't work out ...we had to keep looking... So we are going back out this weekend.

This business of house hunting and buying is just not for me. I'm used to going to the store, picking out what I like and going home with it...but with house buying you have to make offers, negotiate with the seller and the bank. To many hoops to jump through for me, to much unsureness (thats my own made up word) of what if we don't get it, will we get it and that evil temptation to imagine your stuff here and there, what colors would work for the walls...etc...

I just want to pick it out, buy it and have it...