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.
There is a paragraph that I recite just about every day. It’s the Gratefulness Prayer. I do it to remind myself of what’s important in life and to remind myself that every day, every thing is a gift. Good bad or indifferent, the lessons we learn are gifts of the Universe and we should never forget that. Anyway, this prayer does a lot to keep me on track and keep me honest about what I’m learning in this life.
I thought others may benefit from this prayer, so I offer it to my 5 readers (LOL) as it was offered to me by an acquaintance over a year ago.
Gratefulness Prayer
Thank you for the love in my life. Thank you for the love that surrounds me. Thank you for the miracle of life that I am and for the miracle of life I see reflected all about me. Thank you for the gift of life that I am. Thank you for my perfect body, my health and vitality. Thank you for the abundance that I am. Thank you for the richness of my life. Thank you for the money that flows to me. Thank you for the excitement and adventure of the millions of possibilities and probabilities. Thank you for the beauty and harmony. Thank you for the peace and tranquility. Thank you for the laughter and the play.
This prayer should be recited, sung or chanted every day. Your gratefulness energy will flow from you and allow the good things in life to flow to you.
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? :-) Our little corner of the world ca. 2003.
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!
I wrote an entry at LJ about the underwhelming Spanksgiving event that was held in a crackhouse in Midtown. I’m done talking about Fantasm and its peripheral events. They are a bit lame and not worth the money.
In other news, we had a great weekend of geeking and just laying around. We installed PHPBB over at the Crescent Moon site and now we’re going to start on the Application for Employment.
We are about 95% sure that we’re closing on December 19th, so we should be in our new home right after Christmas. What a GREAT Christmas present to each other!! We are so excited!
Today is Nick’s Monday off, so we are going to run errands and futz a bit today then come home and geek. Ah, life is GOOD!
