So we got the word yesterday that we will close on the house on Friday. OMG!!! There is so much to do between now and Friday. I have to get the rest of the house packed up and ready to move. I have to call the utilities at both places to have them turned off/on. We have gas here so the gas company has to come and empty the tank and give us credit. I have to pack up all my clothes and only leave out what I’m going to wear for the rest of the week. I don’t think I have any hip hop clothes but I’ll look. I talked to psycho couple yesterday twice and I’ve decided I’m not taking their calls anymore. I will call them tomorrow and let them know exactly when they can start moving in. I originally thought to let them move in as we were moving out but after the way they acted, no way. I am going to be completely out, the house will be clean and I will take pictures before I let them start moving in. I don’t trust them anymore, they really are psycho. So once the house closes on Friday we want to do the electrical and get the fence up before we start moving. There is so much to do I can hardly think of it all. I’m rambling. I’m going to go get ready for work now

Turns out there really is nothing I can do about the new tenants problem in the previous post. I talked to my loan officer and it turns out that renting the house before we close may screw up our loan. She said the last time a borrower did that FHA canceled the loan and they had to come up with 15% down instead of 3.5%. For us that would mean an additional $48,000. That is not happening. So I can’t move early and the new tenants have really screwed themselves. I did offer to call their current landlord and explain the situation and see if they could stay a little longer but I haven’t heard from them so I don’t know what is happening. I feel bad for them but I’m still a little angry at them for being so stupid and not saying anything to us until yesterday.

In other news, yesterday we were at Wal Mart and I saw some very cool tv stands. I really want to get a flat panel for the living room and I would like it mounted on the wall but don’t think my new house could support one. These tv stands have a mount for a flat panel built in with shelves below for cable box or DVD player. They were very cool and I’m thinking of getting one for the new house.

Okay, that’s it for today. I’m tired from walking the dogs this morning….

I’m so mad right now I could spit nails. Here’s the story, we are buying a house and have run into a number of problems getting the sucker closed. There was a lien that needed to be removed and an insurance problem and just one problem after another. We were supposed to close on January 27 but that didn’t happen. The next closing was February 27 and we almost closed that date but then at the last moment, almost literally, something came up. We waited last week hoping the problem would get cleared up but it didn’t, so now we are hoping for this week. All we are waiting on is a signature..It’s very annoying…. Anyway, the house I’m living in has been rented to a couple with a small child. They have been really good about the changes and were the perfect candidates because they didn’t need to be out of the place they were in for like 6 months. It was a perfect situation; we got held up, they could stay where they were – it worked out perfectly. The landlord here went out of town last week so the weekend before he and the new tenants came over and we walked through and talked about when they would move in and stuff like that. The owner left on Friday. I get a call this morning from the owner. Seems the new people have to be out of their place tomorrow. Tomorrow!!! Hello!!! Did it cross your mind to say something sooner??? Tomorrow!!!! Really? I just got off the phone with the guy and he really pissed me off. He said the girl had told us. Really?? When?? I didn’t know. The landlord didn’t know.. Hello!!! Who did she tell cuz it wasn’t us!!! So he goes on to say there should be something the Realtor can do, they have to do something. Okay, Asshat, it’s not up to the Realtor to do anything. Because you fucked up we are now supposed to jump through hoops?? I don’t think so. Anyway, my initial thought was that we could clean out the studio with all my fitness equipment and let them move their stuff in there. I was also trying to push my Realtor to get the sellers to rent us the house until we close. But the more I think about it the more it just pisses me off. First off, at the minimum they should have said something earlier in the week. Second, if we can rent the new house we would have to take time off work and move in a big hurry so they can move in. Why the hell should I rearrange my life because these people screwed up? Maybe it will teach them a lesson. Anyway, I’m really pissed but I’m calming down and I’m thinking I’m not going to rush anything. They made this situation, let them live with it. It will only be for a couple of days….

Since our “tsunami” on Saturday things have been quiet. The really cool thing about this whole event is that we had so much warning, about 9 hours, that people acted civilized and followed the rules. Also, the tsunami was videotaped from all angles. I’ve seen videos of Hilo Bay and you can see the water coming in and going out and water rising like 10′. It’s truly amazing. I have to say we really dodged a bullet on that one.

We are still waiting to close on the house, though now it will really be any day….. I’ve learned a lot through this whole process and, although I knew credit was important, I never realized how incredibly important it really was. I’m still confused about checking your own credit report though. I’ve heard that if you look at your online credit report it doesn’t affect your credit but then others say it does. So I don’t know who to believe. I guess I’ll stick with the once a year free report you get…

That’s all I got. I have some school work to do so I better get on it….

Hawaii is under a tsunami warning. There was an 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Chile and it has generated a Pacific tsunami. It was quite frightening to wake up to Hubby’s alarm and hear them talking about evacuations and such. That certainly woke me up and made me listen. The absolute worst part is that there is really nothing to do. The tsunami is expected to arrive around 11 am and until then we just sit and wait. All sporting events have been canceled. Malls are closed. Hospitals are even canceling elective surgeries and procedures. So even if you have Mesothelioma Cancer there will be no treatments today. The good news is I’m not in a tsunami zone. Yea!!!! But this is crazy, just crazy…..

Between the emotional rollercoaster that is the house and work, I am beat…. The house is definitely going to work out it’s just a matter of when – so that’s good. The really good thing is that I just walked outside at 7 pm and it’s still light. It will be dark in 10-20 minutes but it is still light now. That is great….That means that very soon it will be spring….Yea!!!! I know I live in Hawaii but winter is cold and windy and rainy so we look forward to spring too. That definitely makes me happy.

As for the house, I don’t even know what to say about that. It will, absolutely happen but it may be a few more days. Ugh!!!! I did get some home owners and flood insurance lined up. Now I need to see if they do car insurance quotes.

Okay, I’m not even making sense and I forgot where I was going with this. So I’m going to bed soon, very, very soon.

I have so many things I want to blog about but I don’t even know where to start. I think I may have hit on a topic for my thesis – that’s good. We’ve run into some more problems on the house – that’s bad. But it should only be a couple of days – that’s good. We got a new bird – that’s good. Now we have 10 birds – that’s just crazy. Work is busy – that’s good. I’m snowed under with progress reports going out – that’s bad. I’m pretty tired and I have some skin id reviews to check out. Weird, I know…. So now I have to go get some work done – that’s bad. But dinner is almost ready – that’s good cause I’m hungry.

I have Google analytics on this blog and my other ones but I rarely look at them. Every so often I will check and I like to look at the search terms people use to get here. I was looking tonight and some just made me laugh. One was “unusual places to put art” now what could they have found on my site about that??? I’m not really an art lover…. Another one was “what happens when you start thinking too much?”, now that has nothing to do with my blog because most of this stuff is thrown up without a lot of thought. There was one that said, “hair loss treatment reviews” ummmm…..not a problem I have. Anyway, these just struck me as funny.

I need a topic for my thesis and I don’t have one. I’m not even sure of the general subject. I’m not sure what I want to spend the next few months living-breathing-writing about. I could of course just pick a topic and run with it. Whether I liked it or not I could write a decent paper about anything. BUT… I have a great desire to continue on and get my PhD. If I do that my masters thesis becomes very important. Also, you generally continue on with your research in the PhD program. So if I pick a topic I’m not absolutely in love with and I have to live with it for the next 4 years this really could get ugly. So what do I do? Pick a topic just to get started and hope I can work with it for the next few years or delay starting my thesis and try to find a topic I love? I’m obviously leaning towards finding a topic I love but the search is the hard part and I’m tired of searching. I wish I could do something like what is the best multivitamin? That is something I could definitely sink my teeth into.

I work at a Catholic School and as you can imagine, that means a lot of religion. I don’t have a problem with that at all. I do believe in God, or a collective consciousness, or a higher power, or whatever the heck you want to call it. I do have some issues with organized religions for a variety of reasons but that’s not what this post is about.

Many of the people connected to the school are very religious, it’s run by a nun!! And they frequently pray for things they want. One of my colleagues says that when you pray to ask God for something you have to be specific. So I’ve done that. Last week when I wanted the whole lien business I asked God to make it end that day and it resolved itself. Hmmm…. Today we ran into a small snag and I asked God to straighten it out and wham!!! It got straightened out.. Hmmm….. As I said I believe in God and I absolutely believe that you get what you put out there, karma or whatever, but I find it so strange that I get very specific and ask for exactly what I wanted and I get it. Twice. Just something to think about.

I do tell you that a strong belief in God must be the world’s best anti wrinkle serum. The nuns around school all have beautiful skin and they are pretty old. Just another thought…..