True Story - I love these lyrics

I am a gifted artist. I've learned to paint this canvas well. I work until I've finished an ideal image of myself, but you know better.
I am a storyteller; quite brilliant if I do say so. I tell them tales they want to hear, and they believe it's me they know. But you know better.
The world might think me foolish if they could see beneath my mask. They might find my dreams laughable or be embarrassed by my past, but you know better...

You see my imperfections, still you say I'm a masterpiece. A marvelous reflection - the image of yourself in me. You paint with strokes of grace undoing my disguise. You say beauty lies in the true story.


If only we could all see the true story...in ourselves and in each other...

Rain

Anyone sick of the weather pattern yet? Got to be setting a record for the number of days with rain in a summer...what crap.

Shout Out

Just wanted to give a shout out to the best carbonated beverage of all time! I hope you agree. If you don't, well, then you have inferior taste buds. That's all for today. Thanks for reading my blog.

spreadsheets

Having to use someone else's spreadsheet is like having to wear someone else's pair of underwear....you just shouldn't do it. And if you're forced to do it, well, that's like having to wear someone else's pair of underwear that has skidmarks in it. I know, disgusting. If you've ever had to use someone elses spreadsheet you know what I mean.

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.