I hate limited releases!!!!

So want to see this - too bad the closed one is several hours away! I don't think I can convince Andrew to drive to Philly to see it. Ilsa is in Boston this weekend she could see it --- so Jealous!!! http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/boondocksaints2/theaters/

First five minutes http://screenrant.com/5-unbelievable-minutes-boondock-saints-2-saints-day-pauly-32298/

Also I'm highly disturbed by Southpark this evening - Cartman singing Lady Gaga's poker face = WTH??? this gets mixed in with the Sea Shepherds (if you have no clue what they are - the guy founded and then got asked to leave Green Peace for being too extreme http://www.seashepherd.org/ they have a crazy show on Animal Planet)

Quick update

I posted a few more house photos of what we've been doing here http://ingridandrewhouse.shutterfly.com

We are still lost in the maze in the garage - I have way too much stuff. Ilsa said she is stealing my yard and having a yard sale during yardsale weekend. I think I'm putting stuff out too and the rest of it is going to Goodwill. I'll get through the boxes sometime. Need to finish it soon so I can finish painting the foyer. Dad is suppose to help me put in a bookcase railing. We knocked the other railing down a little earlier than we wanted too. Now I just need to figure out the design for the case.

We've both been busy with work. I'm suppose to writing my thesis proposal so I can register for thesis prep and graduate by December. I lack any sort of motivation to write it. The thing has to be 4-8 pages long, and I have most of the information written for it - I just need to put it together. I think it is just one more of those things I'm having trouble facing. I seriously feel like I"m going to lose it some days. Must go on with the plastic daisy grin like everything is going well. Maybe one day I'll be able to sleep through the night again or fall asleep sometime before o dark thirty. Finally, had one night that I didn't wake up every 45 minutes or so... in 6 months.

We have about 2 months until we leave for Europe - so looking forward to vacation. We still need to figure out what we were doing and how we are doing some of it and book 3 more hotel nights now that we have our cities down.

Busy

It has been a crazy few weeks... several coats of primer later we have paintable walls. A semi finished new floor in the kitchen - I have to redo the grout it didn't set correctly. It was determined we had bad grout. Got the new fridge & stove installed - along with the waterline for the fridge - DH got a quick lesson in plumbing - after breaking a pipe that we thought had a screw off cap - it wasn't 4 trips to Lowes later we had a working waterline. We had an interesting trip to IKEA - after which I had a couch on the roof in the rain on the way home.

With some help from mr & mrs too much help AKA Falk & Fi - we got everything primed in time for the MIL to come down and help us paint. Miss Fi left paw prints all over the dining room and walked into a wall - she got primer all over herself several times. Fi was finally out of heat by the time the MIL came down last weekend to help us paint. We got our bedroom painted, the kitchen painted, and part of the living room painted. I got the one bathroom painted later on Sunday - the color is horrible and I hate it - it is WAY too yellow - it was suppose to be brown.

We got the bed moved over (that was a trip - DH didn't think we needed a truck for a kingsize mattress - hence the reason it got tied onto my roof rack - that was FUN trip- though we tied it on really well and it didn't move at all - it was still nerve racking to drive w/ it on the roof. I've done smaller ones before and had no problem - on 300 + miles. I freaked out and this was around 10 miles) and are finally sleeping in this chaotic mess that we are now calling home. The deck to nowhere is still up - we've been too busy to take it down - DH did manage to mow the lawn last weekend - it already needs to be done again. We have most of the furniture in the living room together - I still need to find an area rug, unpack the books/dvds/games, and hang pictures. I also have to convince dad to help me build a new bookcase/railing. We knocked down the railing that was in the living room moving the couch (oops there went my pretty paint on the wall too) - DH told me not to hurt the couch, the tv, or myself; he said nothing about the railing.... We have some curtains and blinds up now - so the sun isn't in my eyes when I wake up. Also now the living room isn't on display to the world outside.

We've done so much, but it doesn't seem like we've even scratched the surface on what needs to be done.
I need to go finish pulling tape off the walls. Need to pick colors for the other two bedrooms, the other bathroom, and figure out what we are going to do about the hall bath. Need colors other than blue & gray - the living room is a slately blue gray, along with the hallway. The kitchen is victorian sage, the dining room is still yellow, and our bedroom is a very pretty blue that goes very well w/ my new bedding - it was the color between the two blues on the bedding. The hall bath was suppose to be milky coffee colored/sand colored - it looks too yellow.... so need to go back over it with something. My sister's bf said to do stripes, which I think would look neat - but I don't have the patience to do that much work in there....
on top of it all I feel so sick and we are still packing up the apartment - which will then need to be cleaned. :-p

Puppy

My puppy didn't make it much longer, he passed way early this morning. Ilsa called me at work to tell me. He'd passed in his sleep. I wish I could have been there with him, but mom, Ilsa, & Martin, stayed with him all night until he finally let go. I feel so bad, I didn't even bury him. I let Ilsa and Martin do it. I couldn't face it. There has been too much loss this year. I'm seriously surprised that I can still shed tears. Dogs are wonderful creatures. So loving. They love you with out question - you can be as upset/sad/mad as ever - they don't care they will just come right up to you and sit there, at least Saint would. At least most of the time. He would act so upset and like I'd abandoned him every time I came home from school - for about 30 minutes after greeting me and going crazy. After the 30 minutes of sulking in his bed he'd come back and just want to be petted. He'd do this after he'd spend the entire day waiting by the window for me to come home. He'd look at you like something is wrong, just pet me and it will be all better. He had this wonderful ability to make everything better, at least in the short term. You could tell him all about whatever was bothering you, he wouldn't judge, he wouldn't interrupt, and he wouldn't tell a soul. He'd just love you.

Closed!

We closed - it took about an hour - our closing costs were a lot less than I thought they were going to be... now it is time to start the real work - off to go clean, clean, and clean. Then we start painting.

I have play referee in the mastiff wars at the moment. Fi is in heat AGAIN - she was in heat last month too - not sure what going on, but Velcro is being a PITA.

Closing

We are scheduled to close at 11 AM tomorrow morning - we couldn't close Friday due to some paperwork glitches. Hopefully everything goes smoothly tomorrow and the closing agency has all of the figures correct this time.

In other things, it has come time to say goodbye to my baby - my 14 year old puppy isn't doing very well at all. We aren't sure if he is going to make it through the night, but he is over 6 months past the when the vet thought he would go. I don't think she expected him to make it through the last two weeks, but so far he is still hanging in there and being happy. It breaks my heart to look at him he looks up with his big puppy eyes and wags his tail, and the poor thing is so skinny and the tumor on his side is so big. His walking ability has become almost non existent in the past few days, so he isn't doing much. He still looks so happy to see people and he is still eating. His gums are going white, I think the tumor which is suddenly expanding at a very rapid pace is sucking all of the blood from the rest of his body. I am so sick of death this year. There has been too much - I don't know if I can deal with losing him too. Pets just love so unconditionally. He has always been the best dog. He's been mine since he was minutes old, his mother tried to have him in a mud puddle. I swore up and down I was going to keep him - even though my parents kept saying NO. I went away for a week - and mid way through dad missed me so he said I could keep him. He slept in my bed for years before I went off to college. He'd always get so excited when someone would bring me home from school - though he would pretend to be upset and go hide in his bed and ignore me for half an hour after I got home before forgiving me and just wanting to be petted for hours. He mastered what sounded like "hello" and would greet everyone coming up the stairs with a big "hello" and his little sneer - which I thought he was growling at me the first time he did it and yelled at him - but then dad said he'd taught the dog how to smile. He is such a sweet, calm, happy, and loving dog. I'm going to miss him. I hope he crosses the bridge in his sleep - I don't know if I can face putting him in the car and taking that final drive with him to the vet. I can still remember multiple trips to the vet where he would freak out and have to be next to me in the car - he really didn't like being in the car. One time I had to pull over because he flipped out and tried to climb on my lap while I was driving. That didn't work too well he was 107 lbs at the time. I'm going to miss him - I just hope I can take him in before he suffers any more than he already is...

Clear to close

We got the clear to close around COB this evening. We can close after 2 PM tomorrow - we are waiting to find out what time and if the closing company can fit us in, in the afternoon as we were originally scheduled for the morning.

We finally got the clear to close after google saved us. They couldn't find the relationship between the two selling banks - I finally found them a pooling and servicing agreement that was dated in 2007 that outlined what they needed ie these banks have a legal relationship with each other and do business together all the time.

House Update

Pictures:

http://ingridandrewhouse.shutterfly.com

So the selling bank agreed to drop the price to the appraised value and FINALLY sent over the signed amendment tonight - they've should have sent it back my late Monday. They were the ones that wanted to close on Thursday - that won't be happening. Now we are waiting to see if they gave our mortgage company their one other piece of paperwork that needs to be turned in prior to us being allowed to close - they are missing a POA between the selling bank and the company handling the sale for the selling bank. The lawyers don't even have this - so it should be interesting. We are scheduled to close on Friday - we'll see if this happens. I hope it does as we are suppose to have the fridge and stove delivered and installed on Saturday.

Andrew gets to sit around and paint or destroy the deck to nowhere early on Saturday while I go to a memorial service with my parents. An older friend of the family passed away last week while waiting for a heart transplant. He was such a nice guy it is quite sad.

If we don't get the clear to close on Friday - it looks like it will be Monday. I just want this done and over with....

I've been trying to make lists for things we need to do, things we need to change (address wise etc), things that need to be turned on, and what not. I now have 10 gallons of primer, two painting sets, three new door locks, and a programmable thermostat (that actually works with multistage heat pumps - of course it was 2-3x more than the regular ones) waiting to go over once we close - we are changing the locks and doing the thermostat right after closing. We need to get a lawn mower sometime in the next week - we haven't had much rain so it should be okay for a little while.

I need to get my rug cleaner from mom and get the dog hair out of it so I can see what the carpets look like after they have been cleaned to figure out if we are replacing them now or waiting a bit. I have to pick out flooring for the kitchen and a new counter top - I'm debating between butcher block and granite - not sure which one I want to do. I have to find a storage unit that will fit in the other corner of the kitchen - I want to find a tall one - we are going to need more dry storage. Then I get to pick out paint colors - but we are going to everything primed prior to picking out paint. Then I get to pick out my anniversary present - new bedding :-) :-) once I pick out a paint color for the bedroom. We also have to get Andrew his new hammock and grill.


random - I couldn't figure out why the guy on the news was so shocked about the way someone was driving in DC and the fact the guy tried to drive up the median - until I actually looked at the TV and it said under him "Indiana Tourist" that makes more sense he doesn't see idiots attempting to drive on a daily basis.

Insurance done.

When the insurance company is the easiest thing to deal with when buying a house - it just leaves me speechless. Doubt we'll make our closing date. I need a wall to bang my head against or a lot of Patron to make me feel better.... ice cream would be a bad idea...... At least they finally cleared most of our conditions at least the ones I can spam their fax machine with repeatedly. They still need to verify Andrew's employment - I gave the the numbers and his transcripts for school. They have the one info about your loan to sign and return within 10 days - that I couldn't return as they never told me the damn thing was coming by UPS - they said it was in the MAIL. MAIL = shows up in mailbox which I check everyday. UPS = shows up on back steps that I only use in the winter and only check when I KNOW something is coming by UPS. Other than that - there are several things that I still don't know what are - I've asked about multiple times still no answer. Forwarded them to the REA for him to figure out what the hell they are......

In other news there are still tickets available for the military tattoo in August - so if this whole house thing falls through I want to go to Scotland for a week. I don't know if Andrew has enough leave for that or not. He already vetoed my month long trip to Australia I was trying to plan last week when this mess started.

Idiots - I'm surrounded by idiots.

After finally getting the stupid loan officer (who keeps telling me things are too complicated to explain over email and not bothering to return ANY phone calls) to talk to our REA after a week of trying to get an answer - we found out why everything was so screwed up the online tracking site. It wasn't a nice computer error like we thought it had to have been that increased our DP. The appraiser used comps that weren't comps, two of which were in the next town over. All three of them were from almost a year ago. They weren't even close in size/shape. The fourth that was the active on the market house - nothing at all like the one we are trying to buy.

The appraisal came in way under our offer. Which the house is a foreclosure, but it was in good shape structurally and everything on the appraisal said it was in good shape, our home inspection went really well etc. But the appraiser put it well under everything we/our REA thought were comps in the area and claimed he couldn't find anything in the area for the past year that had closed. There have been 58 in the past year and 28 since Jan. The house 3 houses down and across the street that is the same layout on the same size lot closed at the end of Feb for $60k more than what he appraised the one we are under contract for... He didn't use it as a comp. Another one several streets over once again almost the same layout closed at the beginning of June - he didn't use that one. For the active one - there are 3 others that are regular sales and one other foreclosed one that you have to drive by in the development to get there. Now I just need to figure out if we have any standing to file a formal complaint for negligence against the appraiser.

The selling bank pretty much laughed at the appraisal and told us to get a second opinion and they weren't going to lower the price. Our lender keeps saying that the appraisal stands unless that appraiser changes it and they have nothing to do with it. We were suppose to close in 13 days. At the moment I don't know if we are going to at all. We need to give our landlord notice by today if we are leaving by the end of July - so now we are stuck with our apartment for an extra month.

I'm ready to say screw it all and just take all the DP money and go on vacation for a month somewhere really nice.