Buying a Condo

So yeah purchasing a home is really a royal pain. We had narrowed down to two condos. The nicer of the two had an oil furnace on life support, so we made an offer that would account for the cost of replacing the furnace. Well the seller wouldn't negotiate, so we said forget it and made an offer on the other place. That offer got rejected, couteroffered, which we counteroffered, and then was finally accepted. YAY! So after getting all the loans approved, searching for a condo, running the prices by the lender, and then finally getting our offer accepted, our lender informs us, oh by the way, the FHA loan you have is only VALID ON CERTAIN PROPERTIES, and your property is NOT ON THE LIST! Great! Thanks for telling us this when we took that type of loan, thanks for looking to see if the property we gave you prices for was on this list prior to us making an offer! Totally irresponsible on behalf of the lender. Ridiculous. So now we may not even be able to get a loan on this place, without 10% down. Anyone have a few grand floating around that they don't need? Sucks ass.

Trip up to Mapleton

Last weekend I went up with Greg, my mom, my sister Karen, and my niece Natalie up to Mapleton, ME (waaayyyy North) for Mapleton Daze. Mapleton Daze is a weekend long celebration for alumni of Mapleton School. More importantly, it is a weekend where most of my mother's side of the family all gets together. We had a great time visiting with my grandmother. We also had a big cookout up at my Aunt Nancy's new beautiful house in Fort Fairfield, where we spent the afternoon with Aunt Karen, Sarah and her kids, Jessica, Aunt Judy and Uncle Ken, Abby and Ryan, Chris and Katie, Aunt Nancy and Uncle Steve, Nikki and Matt, Uncle Darryl, Aunt Jan, Aunt Barbara and Uncle Keith, and probably more that I am forgetting. But yeah it was great to see the extended family.

Celtics Win!

The Celtics are the World Champions!

That is so awesome. I remember watching the Celtics with my dad when they used to be good. I was only 4, 5, 6 years old in the 80's, and I don't really remember details, but I do remember watching them. In all the years since then I've watched them pretty much suck, so to see the kind of domination that they were able to attain this season has been incredible. Then to finish it off by totally schooling the most arrogant player in the league...cough cough Kobe you are definately not Jordan...and crushing the lakers is just so great. Makes me want to go shoot some hoops!

Spaghetti

For several years, a man was having an affair with an Italian woman. One night, she confided in him that she was pregnant. Not wanting to ruin his reputation or his marriage, he paid her a large sum of money if she would go to Italy to secretly have the child. If she stayed in Italy to raise the child, he would also provide child support until the child turned 18. She agreed, but asked how he would know when the baby was born. To keep it discrete, he told her to simply mail him a post card, and write 'Spaghetti' on the back. He would then arrange for the child support payments to begin.

One day, about 9 months later, he came home to his confused wife. 'Honey, 'she said, 'You received a very strange post card today.''Oh, just give it to me and I'll explain it later,' he said. The wife obeyed and watched as her husband read the card, turned white, and fainted.

On the card was written:
'Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti, Spaghetti.
Three with meatballs, two without.
Send extra sauce

apartment hunting

yeah so we are still apartment hunting...been doing so for about a month. Such a pain in the ass! This has been the most frustrating dissapointing and long apartment searches I have ever had. We've seen several dumps, including one last night that was just horrendous. We want to get a puppy, but it seems like the only apartments where you can have pets are the crappy disgusting ones. We did see a really nice apartment last night too, but its expensive, includes no utilites, can't have pets, and flooded in both the 2004 and 2006 floods. AAAHHHH! It sucks! I guess we'll just never really find what we are looking for until we get a house. I wish we hadn't put our money in a CD now...cuz the rent we'll pay for the place we saw last night is the same as a freikin mortgage.

A couple quotes

Some of my favorites:
"Confusion is always the most honest response." - Marty Indik

"I never said most of the things I said" - Yogi Berra

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice." - Bill Cosby

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

And a couple for the times we're in:

"Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist.""

"Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours." - Ronald Reagan