Danny and I spent the better part of the past 4 hours downtown helping get things set up for the party tomorrow night. Neither one of us is really all that helpful when it comes to helping decorate or arrange things on the table. However, we are both pretty good at following directions – and I was happy to be able to sherpa boxes to cars, move flower pots and generally try and help keep the people who have no business lifting heavy objects away from doing that.
But holy crap am I tired now. My hip is still *really* sore from the tumble down the stairs last week. It is funny (well, not really) because after the fall and then a few days after that it didn’t really ache that badly. But, sometime over the weekend I noticed a dull pain and now it is just screaming at me. I really hope that it stops hurting before our trip next weekend – but, maybe 7 days lying around in the Caribbean will be just what he doctor ordered. Last night and tonight I am medicating myself with Advil PM and then tomorrow it is going to be dulled by alcohol. So, I should be able to push through.
In house related news, we are SUPPOSED to be closing on our house on Monday. My dad gave the mortgage people a talking to today about his close date, and basically Danny is now walking around calling my dad “his hero.” Should our house closing now happen on Monday, it is our understanding that the seller is not going to be quite so “cool” about rolling with the delays any longer. I think that Danny and I have both already decided that if things do not play out as they are supposed to next week with the closings that we are just going to walk away from the deal. It is not what either of us want to happen – we already have quite a bit of money tied up in this house and do want the property. But, I am so over it and really just tired of the emotional rollercoaster that it has caused in my life the past month and a half.
The things that I am finding so frustrating about the entire process is that we have done everything by the book in terms of getting this house. We both have excellent credit – we have done everything the lender has asked of us and have been more than agreeable in coming to terms with the seller. But, I guess if this falls through we can chalk it up to a learning experience and start over again sometime next year.
Time to get some rest – I hear that there is a big throwdown happening downtown tomorrow night.
