Week in Review

[trickykitty]

I found one house completely fixed up and with a pool, but it was on the small side. When we tried to book a viewing it was already under contract. It's an optional contract, so there's always a chance that it might fall through, but doubtful. That really had an awesome kitchen, bathrooms, and pool.

There were some really huge houses that would require complete gutting. They would probably be worth it to someone with the funds for that, but that would not be me. One house was crumbling apart - it's foundation was so amazingly borked the tile floor through the entire house had cracks running all throughout it, and one arched walkway was coming apart and on the verge of falling down. We got a little vertigo walking down one of the halls from how unbalanced the floor was. It was creepy.

I found another house that I'm looking to make an offer on. It's a foreclosure, and stupid Bank of America owns it and won't accept a contract without pre-approval through their financing department. I already have pre-approval through my own financing, so their strong-arm tactic just serves to piss me off and remind me why I am not and never will do business with them.

My dad's gung-ho about helping me look for a house. This is where he shines. He and I learned long ago that I'm going to do what I'm going to do, but it's always nice to have his blessing. So far, he seems to like my choice in house. He even brought home some house listings while mom and I were out looking with the realtor last week. I made a bid today on an auction house (another foreclosure) that was one street up from my parents', but the bids went just past my budget limit when they called me for the next round of bidding. I didn't care all that much for the house, but netting a $30-50k return on an investment would have made living there a year or two totally worth it. I could go chasing after foreclosures, but I'm honestly not that interested. I didn't know that the one I'm looking to make an offer on was a foreclosure until after seeing it.

I swear, I will get caught up at work. It's driving me nuts how far behind I've managed to get. I'm still working to train a staff person to do my job so that maybe in the next couple months I could take an actual vacation and not have to be around for a week. I had someone trained, and then he got stolen from me. Grrrrrr. Oh, a vacation sounds so nice, but I don't think my brain would let me enjoy it until I was caught back up at work. I feel like I'm going insane with how far I've let myself get behind, and it's really starting to show in my work performance, which makes me doubly upset.

Today I got to spend a little time (~2hrs) with my youngest nephew, along with the other two nephews and my sister. He's now a year and a half, and I've spent maybe a week in total in his presence since he was born. So far he's not being shy with me. I don't really get to see him that often, mostly because Mom forgets to tell me when they have him for a weekend.

BD2 is back in jail. Apparently, he'd been staying with my parents, and during that time had been arrested twice. My parents are now making arrangements for his stuff to be picked up by the other grandparents. The other grandparents are no more surprised than I am when I hear things like my sister's been arrested. So, Sis is living with a couple guys in Mansfield rent free while basically keeping things clean for the two bachelors, and one of them runs a pawn shop and gave her a PC tablet at no charge. *glares* BD1 is out of jail, and was actually allowed to see the boys last weekend. And BD2 is in jail. Everyone clear?

Dad still doesn't care one lick about Father's Day. He says the whole concept is a load of crap. My dad makes me happy.

Class is class, and I'm getting better with my stick work. Woohoo.

I haven't been able to work on the cross stitch this week.

I've barely read any of the three books sitting on my night stand.

All-in-all, it's been a great week.