I have things to do today. Grocery shopping, mostly lunch food, but some other things. I like to check the meat on sale, prime cuts half off, you can’t bewt the price of almost expired meat or as I like to call it “aged” meat. I am having coffee this morning with Cissie which is hardly an appointment but it is. I have to show the house this afternoon which is probably pointless. We are, it appears as of yesterday, switching agents. Which means any offer made to ex agent will not stand. So today’s appointment will be informed of this, by me. What fun. But, best of all today, I have a phone appointment with the guy I want to build the house up in Auburn. His gal said to expect the first call to be about an hour. I say his gal, she is a client and has a kitchen and bath design company up in Newcastle about 5 miles from Auburn. Just kinda worked out for us. Erin, “the gal” was a new client last year and she knows several builders here in Auburn. I am just lucky I guess.
Cissie is late. I guess across the driveway is too far to go. She’s here! Look what Cissie brought!!
I am thinking it will be perfect as a welcome mat at the door of my teardrop trailer.
I weighed in this morning. I am at 151.4 lbs. a couple more to go and I can start working out. Emily believes I am too thin. But, when I move to maintenance and work out I am sure I will gain back a couple. Emily got more muscular from her yoga and I don’t say anything. Will see next week.
Just got a call from a clients lawyer up in a Reno. I never get tired of intelligent people who don’t understand taxes and tax returns. The para legal called for her boss asking for tax forms for a mutual client. The forms are not part of the final return. But the lawyer wants them. My response, give the moron a blank form. Or, write clients name on a blank form and give him that. I hate idiots.
I am sitting here ready for my noon phone call. Hurry up. I want to see whether his contractor is the man or not. I have little faith in scheduled calls. Especially with a contractor. Though he is a referral, I have no faith.
The call was late but that’s ok. I had a nice chat with George. He has his own custom home building company. We talked about many things, it was a conversation. What type of home, permits, septic, etc. It got down to he will find an architect or home designer for us. As he said, they pay attention to him since he brings lots of business. He will call on Monday with his results and we will go from there. Finally moving forward.
The day was dull after that. I managed to go grocery shopping. I only forgot two things I really need. Par for the course. Nice to get out and do something. I had a couple productive calls after that with my attorney. That’s always good. I pay by the hour for those. Sitting here now I am not sure what else I did.
At 430 I showed the house. Agent Chad is son of agent Curtis. I have known both just as long. When Chad was little he was taller than me. He is about 6’6” or 8” now. Taller than his old man and the old man is tall. Always a kick to see the little kid grown up and working. Took an hour to show the property. Nice folks but they are not buyers, at least not buyers of this property. Fun to see Chad again at least. His family has shown the property three or four times. But only prize is for selling.
Emily was home about 415 when Chad got here. She had a chance to catch up on things before she left for yoga. She should be back around 715 and I hope dinner will be ready.
So at about 545 I started dinner. We are having a pork roast covered with ground bacon which has a strong dose of maple sugar in it. Those took awhile to finish but got them into the oven by 625. The roast cooks fast when covered by the bacon. I finished off with a salad and some steamed asparagus. I am hungry.
Emily got home just after seven and he roast was done, it is fast like I said. I switched on the asparagus and we ate salads because we are both hungry. We got down to business when he asparagus was done. The pork roast was so good,both juicy and sweet. Definitely worth the extra work.
The World Series is on right now. Probably about time to watch it. Towards the end. I have been following it a little on my phone. Don’t want to jinx anything. But Emily has put it on the TV so I guess it’s time to watch. Bottom of 8th. Well, I just finished watching. The Series is over. And, fantastic news, huge, stupendous news: the LA Dodgers LOST. Thank you, God. I hate the he Dodgers. I have always hated the Dodgers. 28 years to get back here and they lose. I could not be more happy. Sports Illustrated says best team ever and they lose. I am ecstatic. I just need a few fans to berate. But I don’t mingle with that type of person. They are beneath me. What a great day. Oh yeah, congrats to the winners. The Astros. Appreciate you beat these losers. I am eternally grateful. I will sleep the sleep of the happy.