Give or take a few hours. I think we’ll be allowed to buy our house on Friday at 2:30pm. Our payment for a piddly $100,000 loan will be $915 until we file for the Homestead Exemption to bring down the property taxes – at which point will bring the payment to a still high $840 or so. Waaaaay too high of a payment for that size loan. But we have no choice in the matter (as they know) so we soldier on.

I got the perfect parttime job today. I’m now working the desk at Mimosa Spa down the street on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and every other Saturday. Except for Monday, the weekday hours are late in the day, so it leaves me plenty of time to pursue the other p/t job I got last week: selling coffee for Michael’s Coffees. I don’t know what will come of the coffee job, it’s gonna be commission and I’m not sure of the market, but I’ll give it a shot. With the steady income from the Spa, I’ll have the extra mortgage expense covered no matter what. Yes, I’m still a consultant, but even consultants need a steady stream, ya know?

And all this means that I’m going to cut loose Crescent Moon. ::sigh:: I really love the people there, but I can’t get any hours and it hogs up each and every weekend. I’ll still be the webmistress and all that and there may be some admin work in it for me at a later date, but for now that job’s got to go. I’ll miss it in an odd way.

Ok, I’ve been willing to put up with some crap with the lender since we’re doing this Emerging Markets plan thingie, but dammit! The loan officer is making me absolutely spitting mad. She tells us we have to do this stupid little mortgage quiz thing that took a week to get the info and do, now she says we didn’t need to do it. She’s asking for things that we’ve already given her. She’s making me crazy! Luckily, Nick has stepped up and he’s handling all that crap. I get to handle DeKalb county bureacrats and other house related crap.

I know lenders get all freaky the week before closing, but it still irks me. I just want all this to be over so we can proceed with our plans for the place and get moved.

::sigh:: Wake me when it’s over!!

Here is a pic of our newest kitty.

Her name is Missy or Miss Kitty, depending on her mood. She adopted us a few weeks ago, but we had to have her tested and fixed before we claimed her. She was already spayed and she is totally healthy, so we now have a new kitty. She is very placid and quiet. I’m convinced she belonged to an old lady! She is content to sleep on the bed all day or just sit very primly and stare at you.

The other varmints are somewhat irritated, but nothing more than a little hissing has ensued.

How did this happen? It was Monday just a couple of days ago! ACK!

It’s official: I’m out of my freaking mind with this house thing. I’m not myself right now, people, so if you tell me something important, please, please make sure I write it down!!

I screwed up the closing date, I screwed up several hundred letters I did for Christmas Decatur (which had to be redone) and I feel all lunatic fringe-y!

I did, however, manage to get some other stuff done without incident, but it’s tough for me right now. So, please bear with me. And buy me MANY drinkies!!

Here is a pic of our little bungalow. Isn’t it the cutest? :-)

All that brushy stuff in front of the windows is going to be removed as well as that nasty old cedar tree to the left as soon as we can afford to have a professional do it. That large tree to the right is a cottonwood, which is a bit rare in the city. It’s a water-loving tree that usually lives near rivers and lakes. It makes a heinous mess with its HUGE leaves and seed balls, but I’m happy to have an unusual specimen in my yard! That’s about it for the landscaping of the bungalow. The back yard, while large, has nothing in it other than privet hedge gone amok and green grass. I’m so stoked to have a big yard to play in!

Ok, the truck is booked for Sat, Dec 27th, so mark your calendars to help us that day if you can. We’ll be moving all weekend, but we’ll do the bulk of it that day. There will be beer and pizza (or something edible) for all who attend our Moving Extravaganza, so please join us!

Ok, now it’s off to post at LJ.