So now it's Wednesday, and we're still in limbo on the house. I was able to get my work schedule rearranged so that I worked yesterday and have my vacation day today. It helped out a lot yesterday with getting my mind off of things.
My goal today is to reduce stress as much as I can. Writing helps a lot, and I'm going to a yoga class at the Y in a little while. Last night I decided that since we didn't close yesterday, our only hope is for today. So we went to this restaurant called La Margarita that looked like a hole in the wall. Inside it was actually pretty nice! We were having an OK time (the margaritas helped) until Craig called. He said they had sent back another condition- which are the things that have been holding up the process all week. They needed a certain pay stub from Bean's work. He gets into a funk and starts brooding because he felt like it was his fault, and started worrying that the person who can get a copy of that pay stub would be off today and we wouldn't be able to get it.
I felt like I couldn't say the right thing to make him feel better, and he just wanted to be mad for awhile. So we went back to the hotel and watched TV just like every other day this past month.
This morning, he had the pay stub faxed to Craig at 7am. And now we wait.
Yesterday we also had a final walk through at the house. The sellers were there cleaning up and had the lights on. Did I mention the electricity is in our name starting on Monday? (when we were supposed to close) So we are paying for whatever lights are turned on. Also, if they used any gas yesterday, we get the privilege of paying for that too. I was able to push back the start of that bill by a day, but it still started yesterday.
The ceilings in the living room are MUCH higher than I remember, so the popcorn ceilings will stay in that area until we get enough clout to bring in some scaffolding. We won't be able to remove the popcorn from anywhere else until we move in because our last night possible at the hotel is tonight. We have to get our stuff and the cat out of the hotel by tomorrow at 11am. Also, Bean leaves for work at about 5:15 am tomorrow, and I leave at 6:25am. Which leaves us tonight.
I'm a planner, and I can't just sit here and wait for things to happen. I need to know what the plan is, and figure out what's the best way to do it. If (when) we close this afternoon, we'll just pack up the stuff at the hotel, pull our mattress out of storage, and head to the house. So much for using my vacation day wisely to get some extra work done!
But back to the final walk through... it's funny how you have this picture in your mind of what you're buying, and when you go back there are tons of little things you didn't remember. Like how extremely hideous the wallpaper in all of the bathrooms and kitchen is. I felt like I couldn't really stand and take in the details of the place because everyone was there. And even now the place feels like it's so far away, like when will we be able to call it home? I feel like we're intruding if we spend the night there.
It's been such an uphill battle, that I can't imagine myself ever doing this again. I'm a basket case. When I get to talking about it, it feels like a hot wet blanket just covers my body and I can't move. And then I cry. I feel so incredibly out of control. And like I said, I'm really bad at waiting, and really really bad at going with the flow. I need a plan. So today, just like yesterday, I have a plan in my head of how it will go this afternoon. And although I'm trying not to, I'm putting my heart into it because there's nothing else I can do. I feel like I will fall apart if we don't close today, because this really is the end of the road. I can't stay in that hotel one more weekend. I can't waste another weekend off sitting around and watching boring TV.
Bean just called as I was contemplating the last paragraph and said that Craig let him know that everything's been turned in, and we should hear back from the lender in the next hour or two. After that, if they clear us to close, Craig will order the paperwork which takes about 2 hours. After the attorneys look it over, they will send it to the title company. They will do their thing which takes about an hour, and then we will be able to close. As for me, while I hope that everyone is actually doing their jobs, I'm going to get my Yoga on.
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