shame on you, you fool me once

Okay, so this has been building up in me for weeks now. But I'm finally allowed to shout it from the mountain tops. So where do I start? Right here on LiveJournal!

I guess this story should start last October/November. Back then my mom was searching for a house for us. Well, a condo or a townhouse really. And she finally found one. It was beyond perfect. It was owned by this couple that had recently gotten divorced and needed to sell the townhouse. The wife wanted to get as much money as she could and the husband just wanted out. So we made an offer and they didn't take it. Or we think it was the wife. But after they had gone to court, they came back and called us asking if we still wanted it. We made an offer and they accepted! Everything was great until the FHA loan didn't go through. The townhouse is in a complex that has apartments in it too. The ratio of owner-occupied and investment properties is what screwed it up. Because of the apartments there were too many investment properties in the complex to have the townhouse approved for an FHA loan. We were heart broken and we could never find a home we liked as much. We thought we were going to have to spend the rest of our life in this crappy apartment.

Well, cut to two weeks ago. Our real estate agent called us up the day before her vacation saying that the divorced couple's real estate agent had called her, informing her that there was a bank that was doing a first time home buyers deal and before calling, she had made sure that this townhouse would qualify. We were friggin ecstatic to say the least. Especially since the sellers had come down $3,100 in their sale price just to get people in, which they weren't getting anyone in the entire month that they had put it back on the market. All my mom had to do is take this first-time home buyers class (which she can take on line) and get certified. Because of my mom's job, she knows a lot of the information this class is covering. And because she's actually bought a home before. Legally she's a first-time home buyer because she hasn't owned a home in 12 years and the house she did buy she bought when I was, like, eight so that's seventeen years ago.

Anyway, that Friday we went to the townhouse and it was just the same: PERFECT. The sellers were willing to take just about any number at this point because the husband had since lost his job and they couldn't pay the mortgage. They were about to be foreclosed on. The townhouse was going to be auctioned off, but the husband got it postponed for forty-five days. The bank said they could have us closing in thirty. So in the end, we bought this townhouse for $6,000 LESS than what we had offered all those months ago! So, hello! Better deal!

The reason I've waited two weeks to say anything is because my mom said I couldn't post any of this on the internet until she told our landlords. So she told them last week. Now I get to post this wherever I want :D
In the end, we should be all moved in a few days before my mom's birthday, which is May 22nd. So happy birthday to Mommy! I'm all excited and can't wait to move. Plus, Blondie may be getting a bigger cage once we settle in. And Buddy is going to be able to run from the basement all the way up to the second floor! He's more than likely going to shed a few pounds, but that'd probably be good for him because the vet said he shouldn't get any bigger weight wise. He's at the max for his size of a cat. Although, I don't think he's done growing because his paws are just soooo big! And I also think he's grown in the past year that we've had him. So maybe he's not done.

Anyway, this is the most amazing news I've heard in a long while. I'm so happy and can't believe this is actually happening. And we have the lowest interest rate ever! Which is fixed for the first three years and then can be adjusted by one point and can never go higher than 8%. So that's awesome! Life is good, life is great.

Oh! Also, when we told my grandma about it, she said that she had been praying for a way for us to get this house. Seeing as she's a retired minister, I think she's got some sway with the Man Upstairs. So thank you to her for praying for us :)

So I interrupted my writing to write this journal post. I felt the need to make an update on life for a change.

So last week I had a horrible fight with prettyzombiegrl. It sucked hardcore and I was miserable, as I'm sure she was too. But we worked it out eventually and things are great now. I'm so glad because she's one of my bestest intraweb friends. It also shows how far I've come since I was a teenager. When I was a teen, if we'd had this fight, I probably would have told her to fuck off and never spoken to her again. So in a way, it was nice to have a big blow up and be able to work it out. It makes me feel more like an adult and I like that. Although, I wish I could have felt that way without having to have a fight like that. But it doesn't matter now cuz we're all good =D

And just when I'm starting to feel really good emotionally, I start to feel really bad physically. I've got kidney stones apparently. They hurt like you wouldn't believe! This morning when I woke up, my entire back hurt. I thought I was dying. Luckily I have percocets to help with that. Two years ago when I got them, it took me six days to pass them. So this started on Saturday... If it takes me as long as it did last time, I'll feel better by Friday. Now I can't wait for Friday to come around. lol. But I felt so bad yesterday I had to cancel my therapy appointment b/c sitting up for too long makes me hurt. It's like, laying down makes it settle so it doesn't hurt. Then when I sit up and start moving around, it makes the stones move around and hurt. So, like, showering sucks. Even sitting at my laptop sucks. But I've been sitting up since 11:30am and I'm not out of my mind with pain, just a tad bit sore, so I'm loving it :)

Last night I told my mom that I wanted to get guinea pigs this week. She said no because this week is soooo crazy, but maybe next week. I'm so excited although she says I can only get one piggie. Mom said she was reading something and that getting them in pairs only makes them live longer so she doesn't think it's necessary to get two. I'm okay with that. But I told her that with rats you HAVE to get at least two because rats become neurotic if they don't have at least one cage-mate. But we're not getting rats, so that doesn't really matter to us. I still need to do a little research on what types of fresh veggies they can eat. Guinea pigs, like us, don't produce their own vitamin c, they have to get it from supplements or the food they eat. On one website the woman's g-pigs wouldn't drink their water if she put vitamin c drops in it and I actually read somewhere that it doesn't work as well in their water anyway. Also, just getting one means I don't have to get another bigger cage. The one I have will work fine as long as I give the piggie plenty of out-of-cage time. Which is something I'm definitely looking forward too. And in the warm months I can take it outside.... as long as I get it a harness & leash (which you can get specifically for g-pigs) or a critter play-pen. Anyway, that's something I'm really looking forward to.

Another thing I've done is figured out what to do with my birthday money my grandma sent me. Lion Brand Yarn was having a sale on this knitting needle kit. You get straight AND circular needles in sizes 2 - 15. Plus you get 4 different length cables for your circular needles. And they all come in a travel case. It's usually $90 for the whole thing. But the sale price was only $59.95! Plus, because I live in the US of A I got FREE shipping!!!! You know how I love that free shipping. lol. Since my grandma gave me $25 for my birthday, that means this $90 case of needles really only cost me $34.95. Can you say BARGAIN? Also, two nights ago I ordered a t-shirt from the Chapbros because their store is going out of buisness on March 11th. They said they don't have enough time to run it the way they'd like it to be run. So for a little less than $40 (including shipping) I got a black t-shirt that has "LBC" going down the side and on the back it sez "I've Got Your Back" and there's a picture of Leland B. Chapman.... As in Leland from Dog the Bounty Hunter! I'm so excited! I can't wait for it to get here!

So emotionally I'm doing really well even though I feel so painful at times. But really, the pain only bugs me when it hurts wicked bad and I'm trying to sleep and can't get comfortable. That's when I dig out the heavy duty pain killers. lol. All in all life is good right now. I'm having fun writing and I'm knitting a hat for charity, major karma points there :) And of course I love knitting so I'm killing two birds with one stone: doing something I love while making something for someone that needs something. Ya know? And I love the mental health providers I'm working with. Lene and Sheila are great! I miss Marisa, but Sheila is pretty awesome. And Lene is so cool. It's funny because we kind of have the same personality, except she's not all anxious and depressed and what-not. She's got the good parts of me in her. It's cool because we make the same kind of jokes and she gets the whole being able to go to concerts thing even though just going shopping can cause an anxiety attack. She's the first one to completely get it. Others have gotten it, but not to the point that she does.

What I'm really trying to say is that life is great right now. I'm happy. I'm having a great time writing and knitting and sprinting with my hanficsprints girls. Life is good and I hope it lasts until the sun gets here because once the sun comes out, I'm WAY less depressed =D