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MAY 2005
this turns out to be a lazy day, we don’t do
anything except visit and watch the Nextel Cup Race on TV (yep on the
Had a nice dinner and the boys spent the entire day
in the pool.
After dinner Keith and I decide to ride around
Dad’s neighborhood, to look at property ( I have
been hunting on the internet and found a few) there are lots of for sale signs
in the area.
We find one within 2
blocks of Dad’s (one of Ian’s request’s was that he be able
to bike ride to Gramp’s house) This one seems to fit the bill. so I call the realtor’s number on the sign.
We have an appointment with the tech man at
We finish with him and head over to a local place
to eat (that the tech guy highly recommends) and then check out a pool place
for other options on pool prices. Then we check out a campground in the area,
in case it needs to be HOME for the first few months we live in
We are up EARLY today, Keith has a meeting for a
possible job at
We arrive in PLENTY of time and Keith heads in,
leaving the boys and I in the car. They are very good,
but even I begin to get restless when he is gone over an hour. My only
consolation is that the longer it takes the better it must be going.
When he returns the news IS good, tho they cannot
offer him a job NOW, they do want him. And could
possibly come thru with a great position by the end of the summer. It good to
see him happy about a job interview, this one went so much better than the ones
up north.
It has gotten so late and Keith is so encouraged we
decided to skip the Tampa Plant visit and we head to the Post office that is
looking at MY transfer request
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When we arrive, I put on my $45.00 LEGAL Shoes
(closed toe and 2” or less heel) and head in. I
wait in the window line and then ask the window clerk if I could have a few
minutes to meet with the postmaster. He says she is not in, but he will get me
a supervisor. When he returns he tells me that they are all in a meeting and he
can take my number and have someone call me. I say fine and leave feeling very
dejected, but what did I expect? That the caliber of people in the Post Office
would change from state to state. It didn’t, and
it is better to have my bubble burst now than later.
I leave with not even so much as a “hi how
are you?” other than to the window clerk. We are running behind and I get
a call from Kathy the realtor that I
called the other night We are to meet her at the 1st house at 10:30
and we are leaving the PO now and on our way The house I had inquired about had
been sold, but she had found others for us to look at.
I do believe it was fate that I found her sign when
I did. When I dialed her phone number, it had sounded oddly familiar. As I
looked at it again, it dawned on me, the last 4 digits
of her phone number were the exact digits of my birthday.
How scary is that???
So we look at 5-6 homes and there is one I really
like, guess where? The SAME development we are building in, except this lot is
70’ wide not 40’ and the price is the same as we have worked out on
ours. We look at it last which works out since we need to be at the
Kathy gave me several options and even set me up
with a mortgage person and she will check in with me sometime tomorrow.
We leave Kathy at
We spend the next 3.5 to 4.0 hours UPGRADING the
base house and end up with a price tag of $274,900.00 WITHOUT THE POOL. This
will add another $30,000 to $45,000. Oh, this thing is definitely OUT.
Thankfully, we have not given them much in the way of a deposit.
We head back to Gramp’s and I make several
phone calls, one to the mortgage guy from Kathy and a few others, but we are
not in a position at this time to purchase a home that is all ready to move
into. However, we are all pre-approved once we sell the
It has been a VERY busy day and I am pooped, and so
are the kids, tho you wouldn’t know it from the amount of Tsunami’s
Dylan is creating in Gramp’s pool. J
Today we
have to head back to
We look
at another 5-6 homes and find another we like, it is too high a price and has
no pool. But it does have 5 bedrooms 3 bathrooms and a
3 car garage + a bonus room over the garage with a full bath that Ian tried to
claim as his room.
Then it is back to Gramp’s and packing things
up to head north. Our flight out is at
The plane with the last attendant arrives and we
are on our way. It’s into Green around 1:00 am
and home around
Keith and I decided to let the boys skip one more
day of school since the plane was so late. The window contractors arrive at
The contractors are back and on the last window,
when I arrive home, there is a problem, the inside of the window was to be wood
grain, this one is white….ooooops. I talk to
the sales rep and we decide to order the correct window (it
was a factory screw up) and they will then come back and redo the window
again.
Y MOTHER’S DAY Y
We are headed down to
We arrive around
When we get to the restaurant, my niece notices I
have a dent in my car. Sweet, I have a dent in the front driver’s
side-wheel well, and I have no idea how it happened. After thinking for a
while, I can only venture a guess, that on the few hours my car was parked on
the street while the window contractors worked in my driveway the little nit wit across the street backed out of her driveway and
into my car. She is such a nit wit, she most likely
didn’t even notice it. GGGGGGGRRRRRRRR!!!!!
The dinner is great and Ian even eats well. He has
2 servings of prime rib (ya at a Chinese food place the kid gets prime rib) we
have to head home from the restaurant since Ian has not yet had his medication
for the day.
We get home and give Ian his meds, only to have the
Cyclosporine make everything come right back up. Poor kid, he was upset not
because he threw up, but that he lost that really good dinner. L
Then it’s off to Home Depot to pick up more supplies for
home repair. We get 2 new doors, a piece of lattice
for the deck, exterior trim paint and kitchen paint. Whew!!
Lots to do. We even pick up a pressure washer (it’s cheaper than renting one) so Keith can wash the
house before we paint it.
Mom played hooky. I found out Saturday that most of
the summer is already tied up with other people’s vacations (every
weekend is booked) and I can not get any thing that I want for vacation time
and I am going to be all alone Memorial Day weekend on a 3 person job. L
I spent the day cleaning the boy’s room and
tossing a lot of junk, more in the getting ready to move mode.
Keith is in the ready to move mode too. He has been
really moving around here. He has cleaned up the shop
and today he mowed lawn, fixed lattice and a few other things around the house.
Today he played with his new toy. He pressure
washed a quarter of the house. Man, what a difference.
Ian came home with a grade of 75 on a test and a
note that it needed to be signed. It seems as if he just didn’t
bother to get the notes that he missed last week and therefore couldn’t
study for the test. He was told he had BETTER have the notes tomorrow. Neither
one of the boys got much playtime today. Dylan spent most of the day farting
around and taking 3 hours to do 15 minutes worth of homework. And Ian was manditoried to give me
another page of his Power Ranger report that is due in a mere 13 days.
Just as I was getting ready for bed, I checked
Dylan’s Best Book, to find a note from the teacher on Tuesday that he had
not told me about. He is back in his vacation mode again. Mom laid down the law
again and he has lost the video games, TV and Colin again. He will be doing
make up work tomorrow. And his brother will be right
there too, working on his report. Hmmph!
^ MY
DAD’S BIRTHDAY ^
Keith is off to Umass to pick up a transcript,
seems someone got a hold of our plant manager and is interested in Keith. J J
I have Ian dismissed from school, so that I can get
his Blood work done, Dad picks him up and I get him at work at 2:00pm and we head up to the Lab. We pick up the slip at
the Dr’s office and head downstairs for the lab work. Ian has on his EMLA and is all set. That done we swing thru the near by
cemetery and I pay me respects at my Dad’s grave. Ian comes too and helps
me pull the tall grass away from the headstone. Then we head for home. Mom
orders pizza and it’s a quiet night.
I get a
phone call from the lab, they seem to have misplaced a vial and need Ian to
come BACK in so that they can get the test done, this is one that the Dr.
really wants done. So I need to find time to get him
there yet again. Fooey. He is not going to be happy about that.
Dad and
Lois are up from
Ian’s
Project due , he has been giving me the required page
per day and I did the visual aids for him, I did show him how I did it, so he
can explain if need be. With all the info and the episode list
it is up to 23 pages and he only needed 8.
(when
he got the grade back, he got an A, but a comment that he should use his own
words. HE DID!!. I am surprised at some of the words
he uses on his own. But use them he does and I wrote
the teacher a note to tell her so.)
Mom has
to work… Ian leaves for a sleep over at a friend’s house at
This is
the 1st weekend that it has not been raining and miserable
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