Just Another Bend In Journey of Life
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Week in Review....I'd have to say that the most exciting thing this week were the troops coming home! What an absolutely amazing feeling to know that they're ALL home safe and sound. They were over there for 18 very long months. I live on Lake Superior on one side of the bay. There's another town on the other side, about 5 miles away. That town houses the Armory and is also where I work. They guys came in on 2 buses. They went through the one town and then over to the other before going to the Armory. They were greeted with signs, yellow ribbons and a ton of flags. The streets were lined up, the cars were pulling over to the side of the road. To see these men that have fought for our country, back home, safe and sound was amazing. They were all peering out the windows, smiling and waving to all of us that came out to see them. They were followed by every single fire truck, police car, ambulance etc... between this county and the one north of us. By the time they left the Armory and headed north to the next Armory, when they got up to MTU, the "parade" was over 2 miles long!!!!! What a thing to come home to!!!! That and the foot of snow we'd just gotten!!! Quite the difference from being in the desert for 18 mos. Although I'm sure each and every single one of them didn't really care.
C agreed to sell me the house on Monday. I called the bank and did the paperwork on Tuesday and they were supposed to do the appraisal on Saturday. Hopefully they did. I'm still waiting on R to get the repair estimates so I can turn those in too. D was supposed to call me about the furnace this weekend but I didn't hear from him either. Fuckers! Oh well, hopefully I'll get it all tomorrow. I don't have a closing date yet. I wish I did so I have an idea of how much and how fast I should be packing. I'd like to have enough time to at least paint the living room instead of having to move all of the big furniture or God forbid get paint on it. I'm getting a new couch and chair for sure. They are soooooo nice and comfortable! I can't wait. I really need a new bed too but I guess that'll have to wait for now.
This is my soon to be new house! The yard is so nice and big. There's a nice apple tree on the side and a lilac bush in the front. I was able to sneek a peek of the sauna outside the other day when I was there and boy is that baby nice! I can see a lot of sauna parties in my future!!! Hopefully he gets lazy and doesn't want to move the hot tub. I am so keeping my fingers crossed on that! Although even if he does take it, it's behind a little L shaped fence and there's a little deck so we can still have nice party's back there! :) I so cannot wait!
Ok enough house talk for now as I'm sure there'll be plenty more in the near future and a lot of bitching about packing! I'm a HUGE pack rat so I'm sure I have plenty to sort through and get rid of. Oh I am so going to go through computer withdrawls when I have to pack this thing up! It's so going to be worth it in the end.
Enough for now. Ta ta bitches!
