Signing the papers was easier than people made it up to be. I thought…
Buying a fridge is more expensive than closing on house… Kind of ironic. But at least we managed to get a fridge we both love 
Now if only work would be more pleasant… and tell me when I’m leaving the floor! Grrrrrrrr…
And it’s hard to believe that it is. All the waiting, uncertainty, set-backs finally come to an end. We’re closing on our house today.
Yes, there still are some rather annoying steps to take (move phone service, organize trash, sign-up water and electricity…) But the big steps are all done!
I actually find myself looking foward to more honey-do projects….
…though it is not really Monday, though technically it is…
I just realized that overall, it seems we haven’t moved forward really in a year. Though a lot of things have changed…
I guess change is just not happening fast enough!
This whole house buying thing actually has me excited. Walking though Lowe’s today… having all these ideas on what to change, how to make the house ours…
I think Roo put it very well today: in a house, you are better off leaving your mark, changing it to your needs and one day leaving behind a cared for and loved home. In an appartmant, you pay them so you do not leave anything behind.
Sad.
Two more days!
Can it be that british people are losing their accent??? I was going through some old charts, and I swear that Elton John’s 1988 recording of “Candle In The Wind” sounds more “British”… I mean his pronounciation is more British and less American, if that makes sense…
Scary.
I love the way Brits talk
I was reflecting last Saturday on the last few weeks/months… it seems that ever since the shift change, both work and off days have become quite crazy. Of course it was a pretty radical schedule change, and finding and buying a house didn’t make it any easier either.
But still… It is quite entertaining to think back on it.
I wonder what the next few months will have in stock for us!
Even though Saturday ended on a frantic note that we’ll have to cut some branches off the roof of our house (that we don’t yet own!) and level some soil, since the current owner doesn’t want to do anything, Sunday ended up being quite different… though interesting, if tiring… ending in a lovely discussion on what types of people we surround ourselves with.
Then today, with the kind help of McKay, that’s what we started out doing. I found myself actually getting excited about our new home. You’d think it was about time, two days before closing!!! So we’ll see how the rest of today goes But it’s looking G-O-O-D!
This week has been so busy at work, it’s almost sad! I’m way behind in everything. There are 20 to-do items waiting, I had 2 people get at each other today and I’ll start the new job probably as early as next week part-time!
Speaking of which, it is eerie how fast all that came about. It wasn’t even 2 weeks ago that out of the blue I sent a note to Kevin and today I had an interview… Goodness, it’s all very overwhelming…
Isn’t it just lovely when your first day back at work, after a long weekend, turns out to be a catch-up-race? Goodness. By the time 7:12 came along, I was still hopelessely behind and I had just caught up with 7-8 mini-projects within the last half-hour.
Why did it get so out of hand? Mostly training… training a new supervisor, filling in for a supervisor to ensure a breakage is being investigated thoroughly, doing someone else’s job…
*sigh*
All in all it was more frustrating than it’s been in a long time. And it would have been even without someone moving the database again screwing up every report we use. Dufuses…
Poor Roo didn’t do much better it seems from her calls.
But now I’m home, the cuties are about to be in bed and everything is better
Oh goodness. I’m afraid Roo was right. I can feel myself sink in this pool of self-pity where all I can hear is that voice in my head telling me how much of a loser I am for not providing adequately for my family and not meeting the expectations everyone (including myself) had of me. Looking at the castle where Arnaud is going to have his wedding reception sure isn’t helping much. After 6 years of marriage I still can’t afford to buy my bride a wedding band.
Surprisingly taking those trains of thoughts out of my head and putting them to paper (so to speak) makes them look silly… The opportunity to better myself is still there after all. It’s not too late. And chances are is that the wedding reception is not as much as a reflection of his success in life but much more of his parents’ (as well as inlaws’).
There I go again basing my entire definition of success on financial achievements… Though from a different angle I seem to be decently successful as a husband and father, judging from the reactions and the feedback of my three loved ones…
Still wish the financial thingie was in a better position and that I wasn’t such a daft loser when it comes to doing something about it!
I love error messages…
21:51:55 – Something is wrong with the recording procedure!
21:51:52 – Image file loading aborted!
21:51:52 – (F:) Matshita UJDA330(1:0) Recording failed!
21:51:52 – Undocumented Error Message!
21:51:52 – (F:) Matshita UJDA330(1:0) – [Write ERROR], LBA: 96128, Length: 16
So in essence, something went wrong and the program doesn’t know what but it then follows up with “please send log to technical support”? What are they going to do? Say “Oh, look, an undocumented error message! We better document it!”
Whatever… One more coaster…