Happy freaking Friday to you too

What a day, already. It's 9:30 am, and I've had enough.

First, I wake up at 3am, and toss and turn until I finally decide to just get up and at least try to make a buck or 2, since I'm up anyway. Get out of bed at 4. Log into to ChaCha. I get 5 questions, then get booted. Log back in, get 2 more then nothing for another hour. At this point, it's 6 (I didn't' say the 5 I got were fast). I go back, shower, dress, make coffee and little frozen sausage biscuits. I'm tired, but for a change I'm on track to be on time for work! Yay, me!

DH comes out. He doesn't say anything for a minute, then says "Let's talk to M (real estate agent) and have her list this place, and we will use this to pay off the 2 bikes, and lets get the house." He's still not thrilled, but willing. YAY! Oh...did I mention we went to look at a house last night? And we were expecting lots of work needing to be done because of the price, but there is NOTHING that we can see wrong with it? And it's a HUGE house, big yard (front AND back!), nice neighborhood... Anyway. More on that later. So, this is one mark toward an ok day. I mean, we still have to get approved...but at least he agreed to it.

So we finish getting ready. We walk out the door. The truck isn't where we left it. As in...it was on the parking pad, it's now on the grass. Ummm... We look at each other. I ask DH if he decided to go somewhere last night after taking his ambien...he says no. We call the cops, then go inside and look at the security cameras (for those that don't know, we have 4 cameras outside that save to the computer that we installed after my scooter was stolen in Feb-they've come in handy more than once). So we look at the cameras. Evidently, a repo truck pulled up at about 4:30, looked at the truck, and decided to take it without confirming the VIN or tag. How do I know it was an error? We made the payment last week. And it's not due until NEXT week. That, and 10 minutes later, the cameras show him pull back in, drop the car in the yard (not the driveway...the grass, where we found it) and head off further down the street. Couldn't tell who he actually was after...but needless to say, he left no indication (aside from moving the truck) that there was an error. *censoring a series of profanities*

I get on the road to work. I'm in the left lane, behind a van going about 70-ish. I'd like to be doing my usual 80, but I deal. Well, evidently, the guy behind me ISN'T so patient, as he comes speeding up toward my back bumper and only slows when he is about 2 feet away, if that. Mind you, I'm already pissy. And I'm a bitch when I drive anyway. I hit my breaks 3 times real fast. Dude backed off. I was hoping he'd buy my car for me. *another series of profanities*

So, it's 9:30. I finally made it here. I've had all I can deal with today. God help the first person that even looks twice at me.

Oh...and on the house. Last night we went to look at this one, and one other. The first, our agent sent us just before Christmas. List price at the time was $114K. It's 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2300 square feet on 1 acre. Seriously...what's wrong with it? Oh..."Full renovation to be completed 1/8/09." Ok. So they are doing something, but what are they leaving? Right? But we finally decide to take a look. And, oh by the way...the price dropped $5K since she sent it to us. So really, what's wrong with it? We walk in...couple carpet stains. Eh...I can deal. Cover em with the couch. Wow...real tile floor in the kitchen. New Stove and dishwasher. Needs a fridge and washer and dryer. Ok. No biggie. We have the washer and dryer...fridge is easy. Go upstairs. Couple more stains...still, nothing major. Showers are a little dirty, but nothing a little bleach won't hurt. Master bedroom...WOW. It's huge. And there are 2 little cubby cabinet things that are attic space, but easy to get to. That's nice! Bedroom 1 is...PINK and green. Little girl colors. BRIGHT. But $30 in paint can take care of that. Bedroom 2...evidently, they had 2 daughters, because this one is PINK and purple. Again...$30 in paint and done. #3 was a nice neutral white. All three were nice size. Pass through bathroom was cool. So really...what's wrong with it? Aside from little stuff, none of the 3 of us saw anything. Agent says we can probably offer $99K for it and she thinks they'd take it. We decide to still check out house #2.

#2 is the complete and polar opposite. Now, she had warned us about the broken windows, because they dropped the price 32K because of them, though the estimate to repair was 3200. So we expected that. And it wasn't in HORRIBLE shape, but it has no appliances, and it just had a totally different FEEL to it. We weren't big on the neighborhood. There was actually TOO much space (formal living room, formal dining room, family room...we don't need all that). And it had some fantastic 80's stuff about it...sunken den, fence between den and kitchen. The only semi-cool thing was lots of little cubbies that we know the cats would climb up onto. But really, I'm not buying a house for the cats. I love them dearly, they are my children, but they get what we pick and they will love it. So even though this one is $30K less, it needs at least $15K in work all together...and we just didn't like it as much.

Today, I will be calling the agent to see about selling our trailer. We wrote up a potential Craigslist ad for it yesterday:

Mobile Home For Sale! Must See INSIDE!!!

Mobile home with 2 master bedrooms and 2 full baths available in Sweetbriar Mobile Home Park, very close to I-85. 25 miles to downtown! Easy access to Union City, Peachtree City and Newnan.

Home has 2 large bedrooms that each fit a queen size bed with room to spare. Each bedroom has it's own master bathroom with separate shower and garden tub. Many renovations and improvements done! Open floor plan features living room with laminate wood flooring. Kitchen has new counters and new floor (to be completed prior to sale), and features a custom island cabinet with breakfast bar. New Electrical panel and additional outlets throughout. Dishwasher and refrigerator replaced in 2007. Washer and dryer hookups. Situated on large corner lot.

$20,000 Sorry, owner financing not available.

Lot rent is in addition to purchase price and is buyers sole responsibility to qualify with Sweetbriar Management or make arrangements to move home at their own expense. Seller does NOT guarantee acceptance by Sweetbriar, nor will seller sublet current contract. Estimated monthly rent (at the discretion of Sweetbriar-check with them for actual amount): $325/month, due on the 1st.

Wish us luck...we are gonna need it.