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Sunday, November 25, 2007
make that THURSDAY.
When we sign the papers. As opposed to Monday, as we had previously been told. Ah, heck, at this point, what's three more days?
OK, so it's $180, taken literally.
This means that this whole process, which we were initially told would probably take two weeks, has taken [counts on fingers] six. And that's just the time it took for the bank paperwork. By the time we sit down and sign our names over and over and over until our fingers rebel and we say to heck with it and start just scribbling randomly on the lines, it will have been five months and eight days since we made our initial offer on the property. Can I get a little sympathy? Beck, you have no idea how your brief comments have made me feel better. Solidarity! I NEVER want to do this again. There are people (to some of whom I may be related by marriage) who like to do this sort of thing almost recreationally. Those people are either much more patient than I am, or they are a wee bit unhinged, if you ask me.
So how was everyone's Thanksgiving? Mine was eh OK. It didn't feel terribly holidayish, to tell the truth. I am such a consumerist American that nothing felt even remotely holidayish until the next day when I was shopping for gifts. (I blame it on the earliness of the holiday.) I skipped the whole 6-am-outside-of-Joann thing this year, because I'm not planning on sewing any presents this year, what with the whole moving-again thing, but I did go down to the valley and buy a few things around lunchtime, after the mob-shoppers had gone home to sleep it off. Now begins the rushed and crazy time of year when we not only have to get ready for the holiday that we always SWEAR will be low-key but it never is, but we also have three family birthdays to fit into our schedules (one of which is mine), as well as this year's remodeling and re-moving effort which kind of overshadows everything. Can I just go to sleep now and wake up on New Year's Eve with everything done, do you think?
Comments
I am consoling myself with the fact that at least we get an "extra" week until Christmas -- it could be worse and Thanksgiving could be on the 27th, like it is next year.
I'm sorry your house-buying experience is so sucky. I can't BELIEVE it's been 5 months. I just don't get what the heck is taking so long! What is the matter with those people? I'm just glad you've had a place to stay in the meantime.
Posted by: mary at November 26, 2007 05:56 AM
You have my sympathy. I don't know how long these things usually take, but in your case, it does seem to have dragged on *forever*.
Sounds like you may not be posting much in the next few weeks. Either that, or you'll come here for refuge from "real life"! ;o)
Posted by: Michael at November 26, 2007 06:12 AM
You certainly have my sympathy, although I haven't said much because I have no experience in the area.
I'm feeling rushed and crazy too... I have rather a large amount of knitting planned, and this coming weekend is the only one I'm home for until after Christmas. Ack!
Posted by: Kat with a K at November 27, 2007 08:57 AM
I need to get up there SOON.
Posted by: jenn at November 27, 2007 06:29 PM
