Happy B-day to MEEEEEEEEE!!!

So I'm hitting 27 today. Not to shabby! :)

Only three weeks until we close on the house....

Only three days until the long weekend and fun in Cobourg with the parents...

Only three years until thirty....*sob*

Life is a bowl of bran flakes...

Cheers,

Kay :)

New Bedding...

SQUEEEEEEE!!!!

I had a blast this morning! I was going to Sears at the Carlingwood mall to look at shower curtains and ended up getting an entire bedset!

Got there way too early, the parking lot was half empty and I thought to myself I was going to be waiting a while to get into any stores. On my way in I saw this HUGE lineup for Sears. Turns out not only was it Super Sat/Sunday sales but for the first three hundred people through the doors, you got a $20 off coupon! I ended up getting the Aegean Comforter Set , the link is to a different catalogue then Sears but it is the same one. (The whole reason I'm getting brand new bedding is our current bed is going in the basement guest room so our old comforter set is going down there as well. We are getting this bed for the master bedroom.) I got the queen size comforter, the sheet set with pillow cases, and the decorative shams that look like they have the envelope flap. I also replaced all four pillows and got a mattress cover for the guest bed. Now here is the best part, THE DEAL!!!! So in total it came to about $470. If I hadn't gone in today I would have missed the sale and the coupon. If I hadn't gotten the savings it would have come to a grand total of $709 with taxes. CAN YOU IMAGINE!!! My mother somewhere is feeling proud of me and she doesn't know why! :) I'm going to be painting the walls the colour of lavender from the comforter. SO excited about my new bedroom! I think I have a bathroom set with shower curtain pinned down, but I'm still not sure if it is too girly for me...it's got butterflies all over it...hmmm....

Anyway, for other house stuff, J gets to go visit the house AGAIN tomorrow to measure the space for the dishwasher. I'm soooo jealous! I've only been in our house twice! :(

Much love to everyone,

Kay

Galaxy 90's...

I so love this channel on my Expressview! Currently listening to Prince's "Cream".

So for a house update.

ALL PAPERS ARE SIGNED!!! WOOT! We are now in count down stage. August 15th seems just around the corner but is still a million years away. So for the current checklist of things to do:

Get quotes on carpet installation (Was at the Sears flooring place in Carleton Place this morning. Tons of sales so the price shouldn't make us want to slit our wrists...too much.)

Get quotes on eaves-trough installation

Pick out new dishwasher 'cause the one that's there is dead

Get quote on installation/cost of a water softener

Get lawnmower/whipper-snipper

Now playing Britney Spears "Oops I Did It Again"...

Get quote on insullation installation/attic upgrade

Buy new bed and mattress for master bedroom (Ours is going in the guest room in the basement.)

Start the process on getting the utilities turned on for August 15th but not completely switched over until the 27th when weare completely move in.

Get Bell to install new dish for expressview at the new place.

Buy HUGE loads of Mr. Clean and CLR because the people before us did not like soap and water as a combination.

PHEEEW!!!! Well, at least we already have out paint colors picked out. Mom and Dad are going to be so awesome! Dad is totally construction-y and will install our laminate in the front office for J's while I'm painting and Mom is cleaning. It is going to be 2 weeks of HELL, yet satisfying because we're making positive changes to my family's new home. I can't wait for the day when The Boy asks to go outside and I can just let him out the door!

Now playing Chumbawumba "Tubthumpping"

Bye for now!

ps - Happy Anniversary Rae & Jim!!! :)
Kay

Blerg about MSN...

Okay, so if anyone has tried to talk to me for the past two days on MSN I have not been here. Sorry about this. One of J's computers has been automatically logging me in when it is turned on and I didn't know about it. I came upstairs and was turning off the machines for J last night when I saw about four conversations that people has tried to start with me and it looked like I ignored them. SORRY, wasn't here, didn't know I was logged on, would have replied if I had known. :(

Anyway, quick update. My parents are coming up today because the house inspection is tomorrow. Not only would I have wanted my Dad to be here for it we had a daycare conflict. The boy is home with us all next week because our new provider already had a vacation week booked. I didn't want to put the boy into a back up of our back up for one week and screw up his already tenuous routine. Mom will babysit while Daddy and Poppa go see the new house.

Have I mentioned that we are very excited about this? HOLY COW ARE WE EXCITED!!!! We were at Home Depot, or as we call it Home Despot(the home store run by Hitler), twice this weekend. Picked out the possible flooring for the office, got some paint chips and picked the colors for most of the rooms. J is in kitchen heaven going through appliance reviews and picking out what he is going to have in his kitchen! Also, BIG news for me! Instead of getting a cheap new bed for the guest room downstairs, we are going to buy the matching bed frame of our current furniture and a new mattress for us! WOOT and DOUBLE WOOT!!!! I'm not going to be sleeping in a hole anymore! The guests get to!!! :)

Anyway, must go. Got all the vacuuming and tidying done but I still have to mop before the 'rents get here.

Buh bye! :)

Signing your life away...

So It's now 10pm and the agent has left. All papers have been screwed up once on behalf of J and I, re-copied, and then correctly signed. (At the exact same moment we both put our initials on the "seller" section of a page. Oh well, nobody's perfect.)

This is a very good reason why I missed M&G, right? Please Teddy/Raevyn, fill me in on the dirt! :)

Anyway, both J and I are doing phoning for lawyers/mortgage/insurance/inspectors tomorrow. Overall, we are looking at moving on Labor Day weekend! YAY LONG WEEKEND!!!!

It's been a great run here at the apartment. I was pregnant here, was proposed to here, brought my baby boy home to his first night here...anyway, there are tons of good memories that include friends and family alike. I can't wait to start making new ones across town.

Cheers,

Kay

ps - The boy has new daycare, she is fine, the boy is doing well, everything a-okay on that front.

THEY TOOK IT!!!!

So we broke and emailed the listing agent that we would go up another $2000. Just to see if they would bite. They did! Anyway, they ended up coming down $1900 themselves. We are EXCITED!

Okay, I'm more then a little bit speechless right now. Just know that we are happy and we are going to be moving before September.

DOH! An-ger-ah, this means that KG is cancelled for me. Wanna use my tent? It's enough for one with space for a VERY good friend. Would be more then willing to lend it to you. Let us know!

Love you all and thanks for all the advice along the way,

Kay

Smeh on them...

So we didn't get the house. Rather then come down they took the friggin' place off the market. Can you believe it!?! The agent alluded to they are feuding and that they are not sure what they are going to do with the house. Anyway, at least we are preapproved for a mortgage and can now look at our own pace. Blerg.

Kay

Tick tock tick tock...

So we put an offer on the house...it was turned down. The people came down all of $400 dollars from their asking price. NOT acceptable considering they didn't take good care of the place and we are going to have to replace/rip out and put down hardwood before we can move in. We are going to let them stew for a week before coming back with our last offer. They really don't have much choice, they have had the place on the market for a month and a half and we are the first offer. She took a new job in Deep River and is already there! He is only there on the weekends to keep it "warm" so to speak. Anyway, we want this place. It's perfect for our needs, and it's spacious enough that we won't feel hemmed in. Anyway, will update when we have more news...

Kay

Breathe...breathe...

Okay, J and I have now been officially pre-approved for our mortgage.

HOLY SHIT!

When Mom and Dad and us go through the house tomorrow we can make a conditional offer on the house.

Once again, HOLY SHIT!

By for now!

Kay

DUM DUM DUUUUUUUM *evil music*

So I have a real update to do. To start off, my baby.

Ryan is at home right now mostly because he has the croup. He woke me up at 4am barking like a seal so I got up and turned the humidifier on and shut his door so he would be in his own personal rain forest. Of course I couldn’t get back to sleep because of all the stress that has been going on for the past two days.

Part ONE

Ryan’s new daycare provider sucks. I have taken him there a total of twice and both mornings the basement door is closed, the kids are downstairs and chickie is upstairs with the tv on. I don’t know if she is just waiting for the other kids to show, or if her husband is sleeping because he works late and she wants to keep the noise down or what. All I know is I don’t like it. I called Wee Watch yesterday and told the boss about what I had seen for the past two days and the first and only word out of her mouth was “Unacceptable!”. They are sending the monthly inspector by today, but I am not sending my baby back there. I can’t knowingly consign him to basement living. He will be home for the rest of the week sick anyway but even if he had been well I would have only let him stay one more day just so that he would have been there for the inspector. Will blog more later about interviewing new people.

Part TWO

My office mate nearly lost her house on Monday. Let me give you the scoop about these people: one part crazy, three parts stupid. They moved into their house back in December, in fact, I helped to move them in. At the time J and I were basically taking bets on when they would get themselves into trouble financially. They bought the place with 0% down, got a line of credit to pay off ANOTHER line of credit with another bank from the last time they consolidated all their debt after they sold their last house to move in with their in-laws because they couldn’t afford to keep it because….Oh Fuck. ANYWAY. They kept saying, “Oh yeah, we are going to be so on the edge, but we can do it. We can cut back and not spend money.”. So they did things like, buy a third car for the parts, sink four grand into the other car that is only on the road during the summer, there was even a day when she got her friggin’ hair cut with money from the line of credit because they were short on cash. Not to mention they put one of their two sons into hockey for the bargain price of $300. The credit line is now maxed, all $12,000 of it. What a shock. So she gets a call from her bank on Monday, it turns out that they have been only paying the interest on this thing since they got it. That’s the way the lady at the bank explained it to them, that it's okay to just put the interest on it. But now the bank is saying that she didn’t know what she was talking about and now they need 3% plus interest. So the payment is from $80 to $380 or something like that. For the rest of the day all I can hear is her hyperventilating in the corner about how they can’t afford that and they are going to lose the house. The next day a solution has presented itself, her husband can basically do as much overtime as he wants so it he does four hours, four times a week they can make the new payment. Of course, they don’t want to punish their son for their mistakes so he is still going into hockey this winter.....*sigh*

Part THREE

J said yes to looking at a house. … … I KNOW!!! HE SAID YES!!! We went last night and looked at it.

We love it far more then we thought we would. Dad and Mom are coming up Thursday night to look at it. If they give us the high sign we are going to put an offer in. Of course we now have to go get pre-approved for a mortgage, find a lawyer, get the down payment out of the locked investment…

Will do more info about this later when I know more about what is going on.

Anyway, all of this combined in two days let me go to sleep after midnight, the boy had me up at 4am, I found J on the couch upstairs sleeping so I woke him and led him back downstairs and put him to bed, and I couldn’t get back to sleep. I got to work at friggin’ 6am. Slightly crunchy eyed but I would have been anyway if I had stayed in bed killing time listening to J snore.

I will be back again sometime before the end of the week.

Hugs to all!

Kay

Damn, Damn, Damn...

I am so not happy right now. I'll fill you in on the back story.

Sam, our daycare provider, has left us for the summer. Her father is ill in Venezuela so she has taken all 6 of her kids and gone there for the summer. No problem, I of all people know about family emergencies. Well and good, but this means Ryan is with someone new for the summer. We started with Ham today. I walk up to the door with Ryan and all his stuff and ring the bell. She is sitting in her living room watching daytime television. Okay, I think to myself that, the other kids must not be there yet. Oh no, they are all downstairs...with the basement door closed...so she opens the door and Ryan toddles down there to play with the toys. Am I freaking for no reason? Am I the only one who is wondering how much supervision is going on there?

So I cry my way to work and get myself under control enough to get inside and start the wait. Is she going to call? is he going to be freaking out? I don't know. All I know is she is not Sam and I am not happy! :(

I call at 9:30 and she said that the Boy had a little cry and asked for me, but after she told him that I was at work and would come at the end of the day he calmed down. He was having a snack of cheese and crackers when I was on the phone with her. Anyway, if I'm not more comfortable by the end of the week I'm calling Wee Watch and saying WTF!

:(