I am not sure why life does things to you that are so awful and so consistent. My for instance, your results may be different, I often wake up early, near 430 am and don’t go back to sleep. A few times a week. Happened again last night in spite of having been up at 430 yesterday to get the kid and pets out the door to the vet. It is so wonderful to be exhausted at bedtime and then wake up early and exhausted again the next morning. I just love it. Last night I took a pill at 5am even though I have to be up at 630. That got me maybe 45 minutes more unconscious. Ok, not great.
Weigh in Wednesday. I’m at 153 lbs. almost a pound lost. Over the last couple weigh ins I have fluctuated very little in weight much to my chagrin. I am aiming at 150 which was my pre Christmas weight. Taking forever to get back. I guess next Christmas I will need to diet through the holidays. This diet repeat is certainly not worth the Christmas food I ate.
I have no appointments on the books today. My car needs a wash. Which car you might ask. Well, it’s the Fit. We drove to LA in it and the car is totally bugged out. I need to go to car wash. Too damn cold for self wash.
Marika just crawled out of bed. All the sleep I lose, she finds. I used to be that way too. When I was much younger. I grew out of it
Left for work. Stopped at the bakery and got a cherry danish. Celebrate the weigh in. Then to the car wash and try to get rid of the bugs. It was not perfect but it took off some of the crap.
Today is the day we should finally hear about our appraisal. If that comes in ok, we move next week. Yikes. About time really. This is the last piece of the new home pie. Yay.
Got to work, usual stuff going. For instance, I got my first phone call while still in my car. My consultant Ciara called me early this week. Today. Usually she is a 330 Thursday standing appointment. We discussed the usual, and where we were at on our plan. About 30 minutes. Too long.
Finally got inside the office. Nothing much there. The usual going on. My day was a large amount of paperwork. The phone calls are escalating, normal. The IRS has opened the floodgates so I now managed to exile several 17 and 18 tax returns. Behold, the first tax returns of the season! I’m excited.
I sit here, after dinner, and I have again forgotten my entire work day. It is so sad. And in many ways it’s not.
At 255 I got a text from my real estate agent. The appraisal was back and she was going to call later after a meeting to discuss. So she teased me and ran off. Next best thing I called the loan broker. She was not in so I left a message and waited. Back to work.
About 430 I got a call from the loan broker. The appraisal came in 45k under what we offered. Uh oh. Karstin, loan broker, had several ideas on how to handle this. All centered around my agent doing the work. I guess that’s how it’s done.
Later on my drive home I got the call back from my RE agent. We had an overlong discussion of all issues. She is calling Karstin to discuss. Then probably call the appraisers boss to discuss a rebuttal of the appraisal. After that, depending on the outcome, it will be time to waterboard the sellers and see if we can get movement on the price (down). After that, depending on outcome, we can drop the deal or pay more. And that’s it.
Went to car wash again before home. Want more bugs off and I thought a second wash might help. I don’t know if it helped because I never checked. It’s dark outside. I got a tank of gas too.
I got home. I like to do that after work. I may be out of this dump in a week or so. Nice. I do hate this place. Not coming here every day will be a blessing. And not the kind in disguise. And I will finally have room for myself and all my crap. Again. I do realize I will miss this area. I have lived in the Yolo Solano area for the last 41 years. 28 years alone in Solano county. The Auburn area will be a big change.
Emiky has made dinner, it was cooking, asparagus, sweet potato and lamb chops. Actually I had to cook the chops. It’s my job. Dinner was great. Marika even joined us for dinner. She has been a little weird lately. She is planning on chasing some boy to Hawaii which I think is a bad idea. She does not talk to Em or I about it. Surprise. Probably because we know it’s a horrible idea. I don’t know. Anyhow, she is more standoffish lately.
After dinner we did the usual. Bad TV and sitting around. With a somber daughter who has reverted to teenager behavior. Love that.