Eeeeearthquake!
Friday morning at 4:30 AM I woke up to the house shaking. I thought it was some drunk retard pounding on our door at first, then I realized it was a quake. It wasn't huge - dishes rattled and that was about it. At 10 AM an aftershock rattled work at the same level, and the nervous women in our office made us stand outside for 5 minutes. *rolls eyes* But all is well. I've now lived here and had flooding, earthquakes, tornadoes and freak blizzards all this year. God. Hates. Missouri.
Also: I decided to read all of the harry potter books, but it appears that someone borrowed my 2nd year book and has never returned it. I am very sad. :( If you borrowed it, can you bring it back please? I'm not upset - I just want to read them! I'm planning a trip to the library tomorrow to borrow it. Also planned for tomorrow is a trip to the zoo. Aeri is psyched. :)
We made homemade cream of potato soup with ham. It tastes amazing. We watched Evan Almighty with Aeri tonight, and she enjoyed it immensely. Justin is making a very happy pig of himself right now with the soup. ^.^
Problems continue on the house frontier: we got denied our loan because of the problems with the house (no shock there), but HUD is trying to say they won't give us back our $1k earnest money because we "knew something was wrong with the plumbing." They don't seem to realize that that's not the issue - the loan people weren't going to give us a loan if we can't check out the rest of the plumbing and most of the rest of the house. Being unable to check any of the plumbing past the burst pipe means we could easily pour $10k into the house if other things are wrong, and we don't want to risk that, and the bank doesn't want that risk either.
The good news? I got to put $4900 towards my Sallie Mae loan, which felt really great. I've also picked up a weekend job for the summer - we will have it paid off by August, and we'll finally be debt free. After that we'll start saving for our emergency fund and a house. We're so excited!
Six more months I'll have been here a year, and soon after that I can get a better paying job on the campus that pays more than $30k a year. Being patient right now is hard, but it'll pay off in the end. Thank god.
Also: I decided to read all of the harry potter books, but it appears that someone borrowed my 2nd year book and has never returned it. I am very sad. :( If you borrowed it, can you bring it back please? I'm not upset - I just want to read them! I'm planning a trip to the library tomorrow to borrow it. Also planned for tomorrow is a trip to the zoo. Aeri is psyched. :)
We made homemade cream of potato soup with ham. It tastes amazing. We watched Evan Almighty with Aeri tonight, and she enjoyed it immensely. Justin is making a very happy pig of himself right now with the soup. ^.^
Problems continue on the house frontier: we got denied our loan because of the problems with the house (no shock there), but HUD is trying to say they won't give us back our $1k earnest money because we "knew something was wrong with the plumbing." They don't seem to realize that that's not the issue - the loan people weren't going to give us a loan if we can't check out the rest of the plumbing and most of the rest of the house. Being unable to check any of the plumbing past the burst pipe means we could easily pour $10k into the house if other things are wrong, and we don't want to risk that, and the bank doesn't want that risk either.
The good news? I got to put $4900 towards my Sallie Mae loan, which felt really great. I've also picked up a weekend job for the summer - we will have it paid off by August, and we'll finally be debt free. After that we'll start saving for our emergency fund and a house. We're so excited!
Six more months I'll have been here a year, and soon after that I can get a better paying job on the campus that pays more than $30k a year. Being patient right now is hard, but it'll pay off in the end. Thank god.