There has been good and bad news lately. The house appraised above our offer, and the inspection came in fine, and the sellers ended up replacing the carpet in the house. However, we were supposed to close yesterday and we didn't. Apparently, the sellers are idiots and they went under contract with us before they were the owners of record on the house. The didn't close until a week and a half after they accepted our offer...so now our closing has been pushed back and we don't know till when, but it's supposed to be before May 15th...now let's just hope that we do get to close! I'm so sick of this waiting game, it's such a pain!
On a bright, non-housing issue note, Dominic found out this morning that the pay teirs have been changed at his work and he's going to get a $.25 raise. The base has also been doing so good that he's getting a $500 bonus. If for some reason he's already within the new pay range, he get's $1000 instead of the $.25 raise...or maybe it's just an extra $500 so that with the bonus it's a $1000...but either way, I'm okay with it cause it will completely help out with getting a house right now. We're supposed to find out later this week what he'll be getting.
All this housing crap is totally putting a damper on my excitement about my birthday. Dom and I were going to take Desei camping this weekend, and after finding out all this crap about the house, I just don't feel like it. Now we might take Desi to Vegas, but who knows, we might just stay in town. I'd really like to go to Disneyland since it's the happiest place on earth, but that's too expensive, so I'm not even going to tell Dom that's what I want to do. Oh well...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Update
Most of my blogs lately have been about trying to buy our house because it seems like that is all we are doing, but I promise it isn't! Dominic and I got to celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary on March 25th. We had decided that we weren't going to buy anything for each other since we were supposed to be closing on a house the next day. Of course Dom didn't listen and he bought be a pair of diamond hoops, they are beautiful and I love them. We went out to dinner on our anniversary and then we went on a date again that weekend. We have been really good about making sure we go out every week and we usually end up going out twice a week.
Work is going well for both of us. Dom is working like crazy, as always. He leaves at 5:45 AM and he usually gets home about 7 PM. I don't like having him gone for so long, but I know it won't be much longer till he is done with school and hopefully he'll be able to get a job with ATF or at one of the prisons in Florence. I'm still working from home. I just had my review today and I got a bigger raise then what I expected. My numbers at work are slowly improving, so hopefully I'll be able to keep improving on them so that I can stay at home. My work has been backed up and so we've been back and forth between voluntary OT and mandatory OT. I've been doing some of the voluntary OT, but not as much as I've wanted to because I've been so sick, but I know that every little bit helps.
We were planning a camping trip for my birthday this year. We usually only get to go for 2 days but we were planning a 5 day trip...however, we are under contract on our 3rd house in the last 6 weeks and we are set to close on April 26th, which means my birthday weekend would be spent moving...so camping got cancelled. I'm perfectly fine with moving for my b-day instead of camping, I'm just not getting my hopes up that this house is going to work out. It would be nice if it did, but who knows what will happen. This house is about 5 minutes down the road from where we are now, which would mean Dom wouldn't really have any extra commute time and I wouldn't have to find all new doctors or anything cause I like all the doctors I see. It would be really nice if this house went through because if it does, we would get the first time home buyer credit and if we get that money, it is all being used for the fertility doctor. I would love to end the year pregnant, but we will just have to wait and see what happens. Even if we don't get that money, we are still going to go to the doc, it'll just be a longer process as I'll have to save the money as we go....but who knows what is in store for us.
Our puppies are still good. We took them in to get shaved this week because they were starting to get too hairy. They look so cute when they are shaved...I love it! Plus they tend to not stink so much. Patton is so low to the ground that any amount of hair gets all nasty everytime she goes for a walk, Daisy doesn't get near as dirty as Patton, but Daisy also tends to avoid any puddles or wet grass while Patton runs right to puddle and wet grass.
Work is going well for both of us. Dom is working like crazy, as always. He leaves at 5:45 AM and he usually gets home about 7 PM. I don't like having him gone for so long, but I know it won't be much longer till he is done with school and hopefully he'll be able to get a job with ATF or at one of the prisons in Florence. I'm still working from home. I just had my review today and I got a bigger raise then what I expected. My numbers at work are slowly improving, so hopefully I'll be able to keep improving on them so that I can stay at home. My work has been backed up and so we've been back and forth between voluntary OT and mandatory OT. I've been doing some of the voluntary OT, but not as much as I've wanted to because I've been so sick, but I know that every little bit helps.
We were planning a camping trip for my birthday this year. We usually only get to go for 2 days but we were planning a 5 day trip...however, we are under contract on our 3rd house in the last 6 weeks and we are set to close on April 26th, which means my birthday weekend would be spent moving...so camping got cancelled. I'm perfectly fine with moving for my b-day instead of camping, I'm just not getting my hopes up that this house is going to work out. It would be nice if it did, but who knows what will happen. This house is about 5 minutes down the road from where we are now, which would mean Dom wouldn't really have any extra commute time and I wouldn't have to find all new doctors or anything cause I like all the doctors I see. It would be really nice if this house went through because if it does, we would get the first time home buyer credit and if we get that money, it is all being used for the fertility doctor. I would love to end the year pregnant, but we will just have to wait and see what happens. Even if we don't get that money, we are still going to go to the doc, it'll just be a longer process as I'll have to save the money as we go....but who knows what is in store for us.
Our puppies are still good. We took them in to get shaved this week because they were starting to get too hairy. They look so cute when they are shaved...I love it! Plus they tend to not stink so much. Patton is so low to the ground that any amount of hair gets all nasty everytime she goes for a walk, Daisy doesn't get near as dirty as Patton, but Daisy also tends to avoid any puddles or wet grass while Patton runs right to puddle and wet grass.
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