Thursday, February 25, 2010

Short Sales, Pigeons and Fake Boobies, Oh My!

Currently our kitchen looks like I burned something. You know when it's a little smokey, lines aren't as clear and it could just be your eyes getting old and not burnt toast? I didn't burn anything but insulation dust is coming down from the attic...where we are getting new insulation.

Why is this a big deal? Well, I'm over it. I'm over all our housing issues. We are renting and this price tag for insulation is not ours to pay but what is money compared to your health? Recap: We moved out of our condo and into an apartment in hopes to be here a few short weeks until we close on the short sale.

The short sale from hell.

My baby has never been sick a day in his life and since we lived into this new apartment, I've been dealing with illness. Yesterday I woke to throw-up all over his bed, then later in the day I was cleaning throw up off OUR bed and then again off the dining room floor. Green snot runs down his face. My boy is healthy but something tells me this apartment isn't. This place we live in is nice, it really is, but there is a pigeon problem. There are bug problems. There were feathers spewing from the vents onto our living room floor. After putting it all together: feathers and bugs and sickness, we complained-or I should say, we brought up this situation and they reacted quickly. Our vents are suppose to be sealed after finding pigeons living in them. All the insulation was torn out and today is being replaced. They say after today, we should see no more bugs, no feathers, no crap. It's just a little scary that a place you live in, the air you breath all day and all night was being ventilated through pigeon poop and feathers. The rats of the sky were living right above our heads and crapping in our ventilation system. As one of the workers cleaning out our attic says, the place was "BAD...two dead birds and trash bags full of shit." Nice, right?

We were offered a place to go tonight if the insulation bothers us, and now I know we are taking them up on that offer but as my puking boy went down for a nap before the kitchen situation was pointed out, I sit here and wait. I need to pack our stuff, get all the things we need for a night, including laptops for my hubbie's work, diapers, wipes, toys, food, etc and I'm spent knowing AS I think about the tasks ahead, I'm breathing in particles that are unhealthy for me, the 27 week old that resides within my uterus and my toddler boy.

We shouldn't have to deal with this. Since we have lived here, we've been inconvenienced. I don't need to be inconvenienced anymore than I already am waiting for this house to close.

Intermission: Are you really sticking by me while I complain? You are SUCH a good friend and I will buy you a beer.

The short sale: the further we get, the more hoops we have to jump through. My biggest piece of real estate advice to anyone and everyone is to NOT BID ON A SHORT SALE. I'll try to shorten my newest update. They are trying to get us a different type of loan so we don't have to put 20% down, that new loan requires a new inspection with a working kitchen. Fathom that, a WORKING kitchen! Since the owners (The male of the house is a CHRISTIAN author) STOLE the appliances, we must purchase more FOR A HOUSE WE DON'T OWN. Forgive my all in caps yelling, I'm a little pissy. The propane tank needs to be filled so the power is on and guess who pays for that? OH, and in order to get anyone there, we need to plow the driveway but that can't happen until we get access to the house and we can't get that access. Then, the loan people say they don't give out loans to people buying their second (or third, or whatever number besides first) house after January 1st, 2010 even if you can afford it and qualify. Too bad. THEN, we realized there are ways around that, like if your family is too big for your first house, then they WILL loan to you for a second. They will loan to us because we were irresponsible and got knocked up in a place too small but not because we have great credit and can afford it. Is this backwards to you? I mean, sure, lets all reward bad behavior, go AMERICA. ( I told you I'm pissy.) The second lien holder decided it wants more money and the owners couldn't afford it, so the realtors took a big commission cut and are paying off the second lien holder so they will approve the short sale so we can all close. Did you read that right, the REALTORS are paying off the 2nd lien holder. Yeah, true story. After all this, still no word from the second lien holder, our realtor is growing more and more upset and the guy in the middle (our negotiator) that is suppose to get things done, talk to the banks, keep us informed, yada-yada but can't spell a word to save his life and sends tweets to, you aren't going to believe this, SPENCER PRATT! True story, I googled our negotiator and was not surprised to find, he describes his negotiating and closing style as "patient". No crap, he's patient, I have other words I can describe his style with but will bite my tongue. For craps and giggles though, let me give you a lil chunk of his blog, you'll love this...

"Fannie Mae is now condusting their own appraisals behind those the lender or servicer orders. Fannie takes its own seet time to get this done, too. "

"We have to determine that we are here to hel pa public understand where we are..."

So, yeah, you get the picture. This is our negotiator's professional blog, this is the guy that closes the deal, and he can't even proof read... probably because he's shooting the S with Speidi. Nice.

Perhaps our negotiator and the prior owner, aka: Christian author, can get together and internet stalk Heidi's fake tits and let the rest of us actually get something done. In the meantime, I've got to pack.. again.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Why I could never be a Crips or Blood.

The big story in Denver is some guy going to trial over murdering a Denver Bronco. Or, I think he was a Bronco, I wasn't really paying attention but I did perk up when someone said they were being DISRESPECTED.

Don't disrespect.

I guess someone else said according to this gang, if you were disrespected, you have the right to take an innocent life.

Wow, what a way to stick to your word. And I thought I was rough by enforcing time outs.

Then I found out, this "disrespecting" was someone spraying other people with champagne, ON NEW YEARS!

Weird, because I invite that behavior in. You guys are all invited to spray me with champagne and I promise no injuries will ensue. Unless we all get really drunk because I'm not that graceful. In fact, it doesn't even need to be new years but I would prefer good champagne. No disrespctin' with bad champagne, then you might get a time out.

Gawd, I would make a terrible gangster.

Friday, February 19, 2010

How the Hell

did Kate Gosselin get hot?

Monday, February 15, 2010

You Know how I Know my Husband Likes my A$$ Fat?

He bought me this for Valentines Day.



And now I'm making stuff like



and


and


I love you husband, Happy Valentines Day! In return, you will have some insanely strong arms... you know, from rolling me up and down the street. Now pass me the frosting.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

26 Weeks

Every time I get sick I’m amazed by the human body. I mean, yeah, being pregnant is a miracle and the things the woman’s body can do is just incredible, beyond words but have you ever been sick and wondered, where the hell do all these bugers come from? I mean, non-stop, it’s crazy! A box of tissues a day?

Okay, so, yeah, I’ve been sick. It started with Sawyer, he got sick and just wanted to cuddle, which I would of LOVED if we weren’t in the middle of moving and instead of packing boxes and moving things out of our condo, I’m freaking out over his temperature and cuddling my little boy to sleep. Two days later, it hit me and I understood why he would cry every waking moment. He would follow me around crying until I would lay down with him or pick him up and not even a minute later he would be snoring. Once his bug hit me, I wanted to follow Geoff around crying. I wanted him to pick me up and let me fall asleep in his arms. The problem: we had no furniture, a deadline and were moving on virtually no man power. Some of Geoff’s friends helped out a few times and without them, I don’t know how we would of made it from the place we were in to the place we are now.

And there I go again, NOT talking about being pregnant so let me tie this all in somehow. The last few weeks I’ve been craving salads, fruits, veggies, anything and everything healthy. THEN, I got sick and didn’t have much of an appetite but my belly grew. It’s been getting bigger and bigger and BIGGER. Everything about me is getting bigger. My butt, my legs, my arms, my emotions, EVERYTHING! With all the junk I’ve turned down for spinach and asparagus, I wasn’t too nervous to step on the scale.

You know where this is going right?

I’ve been eating SPINACH!

Do you know how much I gained? Don’t eat your greens, skip the salads, SCREW EATING HEALTHY!

I gained EIGHT pounds in five weeks. EIGHT! How does that even happen?

I’ll tell you, losing your appetite after eating like a rabbit. Don’t do it, it’s overrated! After telling the doctor this, she laughed and said, I started out really small and she expected me to gain a little more than average but if I gain over 35pounds, she is going to get on me.

I only want to gain 30 and have already gained 20. I feel like I’m losing a game of chutes and ladders, like right before I stepped on the scale, I was at the square almost at the end, almost a winner and then I saw how much I gained and it’s like I slipped down the slide back to the beginning, back to loser-ville, but really it’s like gainer-ville cause I’m gaining all this weight. Whatever. I guess I just feel like I have a long way to go and no pound allowance in my fat bank. Ugh.

My new plan is to just eat raw cookie dough and chocolate almond milk. I mean, that was my Christmas diet and I didn’t gain that much. I’ll let you guys know how it goes!

We moved into an apartment right next to my husband’s work and we are here until we get a closing date on the house.

The house.

Remember that house that I talk about? Yeah, that. Anyway, they gave us a closing date but we all know they are liars and I don’t believe a word they have to say. Until keys are in hand, I don’t believe anything SO we are in this like, temporary place and I got all bad attitude on it and then I saw some bugs and then had DREAMS that bugs were crawling all over my eye balls and I wanted out! I wanted into OUR house. Not this apartment. So, I killed a bug I found yesterday and Geoff was like, “ WHY did you kill it?” after I asked if he was proud I didn’t cry to him making him do it.

“Because it’s a bug and its gross so I smashed it!”

“If you just asked me to do it, I would of just placed the little bug outside.”

I told you guys my husband is WAY too nice.

“Babe,” I said “what if you put the bug outside and it creeped back in and had a million babies in our house? A MILLION babies! Bugs do that you know! Aren’t you happy I smashed it? They are so rude to just spew their babies out and walk away and expect US to deal with all their offspring, I don’t think so! What if I broke into someone’s house and spewed out a million babies on their rug and just walked away. WALKED AWAY and they had to deal with my million babies all doing stuff in their house?!

“I would puke if you did that.”

Okay, case closed, KILL THE BUGS!

So we are here and there is no internet and I’ve been missing on the world wide web but in place, I’ve been sewing some spiffy crib bedding for this baby girl in fatty mommy and the sewing is making my attitude a little less sour. Who would of thought?

Okay, I’m note even making sense anymore. I need to stop embarrassing myself. This WAS suppose to be a pregnant update right?

Ummm:
I feel good when I’m not sick.
She still kicks me a lot.
I’m afraid she is really a he and I made a song for my current and maybe future son.

To the tune of Daughters by John Mayer:

Fathers be good to your sons.
Sons will love like you do.
Or else, sons become players and end up like John Mayer
So mothers be good to your little guys too.



I love you little girl (or sneaky boy), stop making me gain so much weight, keep up your fun wiggles, sorry about all the salad, I’ll never do it again and please, WHATEVER you do, don’t end up like John Mayer.

Love, your mommy.

Now check out how HUGE I am, it’s like a circus side show!




Please excuse our boxes and half crib and whatever else in the pictures, honestly I have no intention of organizing in here.