It's Monday morning and I'm not getting ready for work. I originally took this day off so that I could stay home and continue to move boxes to the new house. Of course, we still don't own the new house. On Friday, in the midst of frantic phone calls back and forth while postponing our closing AGAIN, our realtor said "Come hell or high water we will ( Read more... )

this. is. so. f***ed up. this time we found out an HOUR before closing that something was wrong. i was so worried about this very type of unbelievable crap scenario that woke up at 3:00 this morning. i have a cold because my immune system is stressed as far as it can be. my back was already in knots. i made it through an awful morning at work, got ( Read more... )

dear the internet and all my friends therein. all my hopes and dreams were ruined today because our closing date had to be pushed back for about two weeksish. this is the worst disaster homebuying ever brought me. This morning we were arranging where to meet for settlement and when, and now it's moot. all because of our mortgage loan officer. he ( Read more... )

So, we found our house! We loved it when we first walked through it yesterday, and our realtor admitted she was having a hard time picking it apart...no red flags. So we quickly decided to make an offer, because the seller had scheduled an open house for today and we were hoping to make that open house not happen! And this morning, our offer was ( Read more... )

well, we woke up about fifteen minutes to find our bed was sitting in an inch or so of standing water. half our basement is totally flooded because the hot water heater for the building is spewing water. and it happens to be in the room adjoining our bedroom. so the emergency maintenance guy is downstairs right now, but i don't think there's much ( Read more... )

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Thanks everyone for the well wishes. My Mom's OK I think. She's still in the ICU, but is allegedly improving. My parents don't want anyone traveling there...my dad thinks the extra stress wouldn't be good for the situation. I think that if we al go there then it might seem real to them. Anyway, my siblings and I have been on the phone a lot. I like ( Read more... )

hi everyone. i know i never write in this thing anymore, but i have news. yesterday my mom had a pulmonary embolism and she's in the ICU. they're all the way in arizona, and i'm here, so there's not much i can do. it's also hard to get an idea of how serious this is, because i haven't yet been able to get ahold of my dad and my sister who lives ( Read more... )

For my birthday I got two of these glittery massage bars from LUSH. One of them was sitting on my bedside table last night and....Havoc ate it! He didn't get sick or anything, but I did remark that it would be awesome if his poop turned sparkly. Well, it did! SparklePoop!

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EEP. This morning I woke up with a feeling in the pit of my stomach. I’m getting married in less than three weeks! Up until now I’ve just felt this basic non-feeling, working through the planning and readying. Now, though, I know time is going to start sliding by and then it’ll be August 18, and then it’ll be over. Woah. I think this pit-of-my- ( Read more... )