hahaha!

I feel like I am being laughed at by the previous homeowners of our house. I could really give those people a piece of my mind. A few days after we moved into our house we started ripping down the ugly wallpaper in the master bathroom. My sister happened to find these weird looking holes in the sheetrock. Then those turned into tunnels. Well if you haven't guessed by now that was from TERMITES which they apparently had less than a year ago!!!! Oh I bet you guess we knew that and still bought the house. WRONG! We even called them to tell them what we found and they still claimed they have never had termites. We called their pest control people who confirmed he had been treating the house since Feb 2007. I think the thing that pisses me the most off is that they didn't "disclose" to us that this was the case with the house and then lied again about the whole mess. Naturally I want to get them back. But at what cost. I mean for crying out loud we have the dang house. Long story short the Dept of Agriculture is coming out to see if we still have termites thanks to the wonderful people at Massey Services who we will be signing a contract to treat our house after the one on the house is up and force the pest control people who gave them a termite certificate to fix the damages. We are currently attempting to pursue legal action against the former owners. I haven't decided if it's worth it yet. But we are just getting advice right now. I'm just ill about the whole thing. What would you do?

Homeowners!

Well we closed on the house yesterday. It wasn't as emotional as I thought it would be. I was actually relieved because I might actually be able to sleep now. That seemed like it took forever. Then I had to go to work. What a blow, but after I ran payroll my boss let me leave early. Then the fun starts. Markus and I went to Lowe's because there is no such thing as a perfect house right? We of course wanted to paint, change the locks, light fixtures... blah blah. Sooo... now all of the sudden that I have my own house it's like I don't know what I like and can't make my mind up. Long story short, Bless Markus- we spent 2 hours in Lowe's picking stuff out. I miss the days where I would spend $20 there. We spent $600. I almost flipped. And to think we have plenty more of stuff to buy. I almost threw up at that. Funny how I didn't feel that way at closing when I borrowed all this money to buy a house! Markus told me just think of it like these shows you watch on tv, spend $500 make 10,000. haha! If it was just that easy. As I was starting to rip wall paper off in the Master Bathroom where it had begun to come away from the wall I noticed there was sheetrock underneath, not good when ripping off wallpaper. Always better to have a treated wall underneath. Bad news is the sheetrock was damp, THERE IS A LEAK SOMEWHERE! That was like a punch in the stomach. Oh the joys of homeownership. To think I was excited for this. haha... Markus was like that is why the seller's bought the Home Warranty for us. I'm reading up on it today and might call the inspector to see why he didn't catch this.

Tomorrow, Tomorrow, I love you Tomorrow

Well, well, well the time has almost come for Markus and I to close on our house. The last walk through was yesterday and I invited my Mother-in-Law to come with us. See she kept bugging me to come see the house and I kept telling her that I wanted her to see it when we got a few things done/replaced. Through this whole process I was a little annoyed at their lack of support. But I guess that was the way I was trying to take that out on them. Anyways, nonetheless I could not take her nagging anymore. She loved the house and even went as far to say she was envious of my bathroom. What a crack. So she insisted Markus and I take this picture in front of the house. She didn't know how to use the camera and that is the reason for the blurry picture, but Markus just looked so inthused I had to post it. Long story short tomorrow we close. I hope I get some sleep tonight. Yeah right! I am finally excited and it's starting to sink in, HOMEOWNERSHIP> here we come.

A Miracle

At first everything with the house was going okay. I wasn't experienced to know the difference anyway, right? So this week has just been hilacious. At one point my realtor was telling me we would lose the house if we didn't make people get up off their butts and get to workin. Apparently the kind of loan we are getting, RD (Rural Development), takes a little bit of time and that is the line of bull the lender kept giving me until yesterday. I told him basically that we cannot push the closing back any further or else we will lose the house. These people won't sign and extension.... blah blah. So he did what he had to do while I made our insurance agent feel the same way that he was holding things up, but for good reason. He couldn't bind coverage when a storm is in the gulf. Who would have thought. And lastly the STUPID realtor of the seller's decided she just wasn't going to answer her phone or return messages, (can't wait to see her in person) so the wonderful realtor that I have was sick of it as I was also and just went straight to the sellers home and demanded the termite inspection which had to be given to the RD people or they would not release any funds. AND SHE GOT IT! She was amazing. So hopefully today the good news will come that our packet will be ready and the funds will be wired to the title company's account. What a day it was yesterday. A Miracle to me. I almost think it was meant to be. :)

Let the GAMES begin

I have been really looking forward to football season this year. I think it has something to do with the fact that we had to buy our own season tickets this year. See Markus' parents always paid for them and we intended on paying for his ticket when we got married but it always seemed like something would come up for us and we couldn't swing it. Well this year his parents were like you kids are going to have to pay for your own tickets. See I have never had my "own" ticket for the 5 seasons I have been going with Markus to the games. So I was just interested to see how it was going to work. I never really knew when I was going to go to a game with Markus becasue it depened on if his sister would use her ticket or not. She didn't want to go unless her boyfriend could. So the sharing a ticket was always so annoying to me because I was never the daughter in the scenario and it always made me feel so uncomfortable. Long story short Sarah (Markus' sister) couldn't pay for "her" ticket, so the in-laws offered it to me. Which Markus and I jumped on that opportunity. We had such a great time at the game it was soooo... awesome and we got some really great shots with the new camera. So ultimately we get be together always now and not worry if Jenn comes to the game who will she sit with. I can be with my husband every play of the game!

Good Game

For some reason I had really been looking forward to Football Season this year. It probably has something to do with the fact that Markus and I actually had to pay for our season tickets this year. The past 2 years that we have been married his parents helped us out, but this year when it came time for my father-in-law to renew he made the kids pay for their own tickets. Well let me just say that for the 5 seasons I have been going with Markus and his family to the games I have never really had "my own" ticket. I have always borrowed his sister's when she didn't go or whatever the case would be. So for once I really feel like it's for me now and I have a right to go to the game. It was always a huge issue between Sarah (Markus' sister) and him. They would like trade off and Markus would never want to. It was so annoying because I'm not the daughter. But Markus and Jenn officially have their own tickets and it is GREAT! That was a huge lesson to us when the money came due, but I'll save that for another post. So here are some pics we took with the NEW CAMERA! I'm still trying to learn how to use it. Oh by the way that game was soooo... awesome. It was the largest attended game in LSU history. The other largest attended game I was also at and this one beats that one. We were a part of HISTORY. I know it sounds silly but it's cool in its own way.

Just Waiting

Seems like the older I get, I come to realize the Lord knows that I am sooo... impatient and helps me out with that. Right now I'm just kinda waiting around to hear from the realtor about a closing date everyone can agree on. Who was I kidding that the date I would choose would work out perfectly with everyone else?!? This process of "waiting" sure can be nerve racking. WOW! But I am getting very excited about it all. In my mind things won't be final til we sign on all the lines. I'm sometimes scared to call it my house yet. That will hopefully be over very soon. But until then I'll just wait and pack too.