Day 181

What a long day and weekend. I don't even know where to begin. So we went to Chicago on Thursday to get all of our stuff out of our condo as the movers were coming Saturday. We saw some friends, ate at some of our old favorites (Hacienda, Athenian Room, Four Moon Tavern), and got everything together. We were eagerly anticipating the movers Saturday morning. They came around 9:45 and there was only two of them. The guys were tatted up to no end. Combined, I'd say they had 25 tattoos. Since there were only two of them, it took pretty much all day. Leah and I then had to clean the place spotless. Saturday night I got some drinks with P and Dave and Inn Joy. I will say that after being in Chicago for 3 days, it makes you realize that the beautiful people are all here. The women in that city compared to Cleveland are like day and night. Everyone around in Chicago seems to be in our age range. In Cleveland, all we see are high school kids and people our parents age.

Now onto the issues. So Friday afternoon at 5 PM, a message was left at mom's house from our lender saying that our documents all have to be sent back in by Saturday morning or our loan will expire. We are out of town, my mom is at Nemacolon spa in Pennsylvania with Aunt Nancy and Uncle Keith. So there is nothing we can do. Our realtor goes nuts trying to find this woman. Turns out, the woman who set up our loan quit the company two weeks prior and never told us. Whoever took over our loan never contacted us and completely dropped the ball. So now we have no loan. We get back Sunday around 4 and at 5 is our walkthrough for our new house. Our realtor sets it up for a new lender to come over at 7:30 Sunday night to get us a new loan. Now we have to tell the people we are buying the house from that we don't have a loan yet, we are getting one in the morning, and our closing, set for Tuesday, is going to have to be pushed back. Of course, we have everything set up to arrive Friday - Leah's mom, our movers, the companies, the TV, the bed, etc. As of right now, the earliest we can close is Friday, but more likely it will be the following Tuesday. Which means we won't be able to move in until probably next week. The people we are buying from are real pissed. We asked to move in and pay them rent and were shot down. Now we have to call all the companies and hope they can accommodate our new timeframe. Does anything ever happen easily for us anymore? I think as you get older, the excitement over life changes grows, but the let downs and stresses grow as well. I feel like I have seen that hard core over the last 2 years. Nothing comes easy these days. I'm hoping that in a few weeks, I can look back on this and laugh. But I am not laughing right now. I feel like the waiting to get into this house has been forever. Now we have to wait longer. Also, MD and the kids are coming in for the long weekend and we were planning on not living here at the time. Now, we probably are. Another weekend of the nut house will be upon us. A full house we will have. I'll know tomorrow, but keep your fingers crossed for the Friday closing - holding off the companies 1 extra day isn't nearly as bad as 5.

A few quick notes:
1. Cousin Steve left me a message singing "Dancin in the Moonlight" for about 2 minutes. I saved it and cried laughing it was so funny.

2. Jace is now playing on a soccer team. He is bringing his full uniform, the shin guards and all, to town this weekend and Uncle Todd is going to teach him some pointers. MD and I some how got on the subject of the MISL tonight - the indoor soccer league we used to watch. The 4 of us went to a ton of games growing up at The Coliseum. I used to love watching the Force. Kai Hasskavi, Bernie James, Bennie Dargle, etc. The photo above is the Darth Vadar character that used to come out before the player introductions.

3. How about this John Mark Karr. You just knew he didn't do it. What a low life. Who admits to a murder that he didn't commit. He is still going to jail for child pornography charges in California. Have fun in jail you pederass.

Days Until We Move into our house: ?????
Song of the Day: "Off the Wall" by Michael Jackson