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Pre-approvedI’ve been pre-approved for a mortgage. I find it scary that a company would trust me by giving me so much money. My credit seems to be pretty good, it seems that my credit score is 769 and the two lenders I talked to said that I can pretty much get what I want at the best rates. So yay for that. I knew it was going to be a good day when I went to a Pepsi vending machine to grab some breakfast and I found a $1 bill on the ground. So the next step now is to start looking at properties. But I don’t want to close until middle of February so I don’t want to start too soon or wait too long. How exciting. Shopping for homes is more fun than shopping for vacuum cleaners. UPDATE: We’ll start looking at houses with the realtor on December 8th. In the meanwhile I’m going to drive around and see what else is out there and I’ll also get some of those free books and magazines with home listings and I’ll report to him anything that I see and like.
And so it beginsToday I got in contact with a realtor. *girly scream* *waving of hands at eye level* He came highly recommended and I see why. I think he is a little hyperactive, but that’s probably not a bad thing when it comes to this. We talked about what I’m looking for, location, etc, etc. We then talked about my financial situation, he thinks we can work something out and he referred me to his loan lady to begin some type of pre-approval process. So now I’m waiting to hear back from that lady to see what information she needs from me and then we’ll take it from there.
Home sweet homeUntil recently, a vacuum cleaner purchase was about the most adult purchase I have ever done. But now I’m considering the ultimate adult purchase. No Madonna, it’s not a baby. It’s a home. I’ve only been in Florida for about 9 months but I love it here and renting is a waste of money, for a little more every month, I could own my own home. The home prices here skyrocketed, just as they did everywhere else but they are now starting to go back down to more realistic levels. They are still a bit high, but they are more reasonable. There are a ton of condos for sale out here. So many that they are now having a hard time moving them and I have even heard of a couple condo communities that were planned and not built at the last minute because of this problem. So I’m thinking about looking for 2+ bedroom homes, hopefully between the area where I live now and Disney World. Why those restrictions? Because I do not want to have to drive through Downtown Orlando to get to work everyday. Not that the I-4 is a child’s game during rush hour, but at least it’s not full of toll roads like the 408 which does go through the downtown area. Besides, I go to Disney World at least once a week, so why try to move even further away from it? Say I moved right next to Disney, that would increase my daily commute by about 15 minutes, not bad. More, of course, if there was traffic. I work about 5 minutes north of Universal Studios. I’ve been looking at homes on the Internet and I found a few that would fit my budget, some even have a pool. How cool would that be? So maybe it’s time to grow up (just a little) and call a realtor one of these days and see what’s up. Scary and exciting at the same time.
Self healingLast night I woke up to use the bathroom and I found two small cuts on the palm of my right hand. They hurt a lot and I wondered how they got there. But now this morning, they are gone and there is no trace of them. Am I like the cheerleader?
Votes are coming in*crosses fingers* Here’s hoping…. ~~ NOV 8 UPDATE ~~ Yes! Sina Nauahi in Apia won the Miss South Pacific Pageant! PS: Congrats to the Democrats too.
I need a lesbian friendThe “check engine” light came on in my car. I have no idea what it means, but it scares me. It’s there from the moment that I start the car. Laughing at me with its dangerous looking orange glow. If I was still back in Kansas, I could just drop it off at the Jeep dealership and have a friend pick me up on the way to work. Here in Orlando those type of logistics are more complicated and require bigger favors. I did notice that it came on after I put gas in my car. The Internets say that sometimes that light comes on due to an improperly closed gas cap. So when I parked at work this morning, I opened the gas cap and closed it again. That’s about the limit of my car-fixing skills. I will find out if it worked when I get back in my car after work. If my car was paid off, now it would be a good time to figure out how to reset that light and sell it quickly. UPDATE: Apparently the gas cap trick worked. Lesbians can now stop sending me myspace friends requests. Thank you!
Morning commute OF DEATH!It’s no secret that I hate Orlando drivers. Today I had another reason to hate them. There was a pick up truck in front of me with all kinds of crap in the back. We both needed to merge into a major street. There was no traffic coming our way, well, there was, but it was almost a block away. There was plenty of time for the both of us, and several other cars, to merge. So he starts going and suddenly he stops for no reason whatsoever. I had to slam on my brakes and I ended up inches from him. But that was the least of my problems. He finally decides that he can merge and I follow him. This is a 3 lane road. I had gone to the left-most lane, he was in the right-most lane but then decided he wanted to be in the middle lane. So he does it pretty quickly only to have this humongous metal tube come out of the back of his track and fly towards my car. What followed was something out of an action movie. Thankfully I was able to avoid it. I still have no idea how I did it without hitting any other cars that by that point were around me. But somehow I ended up OK.
SegwayYes! I finally got to ride on a Segway! (what’s going on in the back on that picture anyway?) I love Orlando. There’s so much to do. After work today, I went home, put on some shorts and a t-shirt and I drove over to Epcot. I went into Innoventions and they had a Segway exhibit. I waited a couple of minutes and they let us into a room where they gave us a demonstration of the Segway, asnwered our questions and then asked us to sign a release form. After that we went on to a small track where we each got to ride our own Segway. It was great. As you may know, to go forward, you sort of lean forward and it moves, to go back, you sort of lean back and it goes back. Well, the Segway is self-balancing and it does what it can so that you don’t fall. But so does your body. So I got on it, the Segway started to balance itself so that I would stay safe on it, so it moved forward a little, and my body leaned back a bit, which made the Segway start to go back, so I leaned forward, and the thing would start moving. So basically it vibrated, it was all tiny movements between my body and the Segway. But then you learn to look ahead instead of down and you learn to trust it. And suddenly, the thing is still. And you can move around so easily. You just glide back and forth. It’s awesome. Now I want one to go to and from work.
Storm of the centuryErnesto. The storm of the century. Or at least that’s what the news channels wanted us to believe. And it’s hard to blame them since they don’t have any sensational stories to tell us about and scare us with. The hype was so big that all of the schools in the county closed for today. That includes my place of work. I woke up at 8 am, looked out the window to see that it was just a plain old boring cloudy day. At around 2 p.m., Josh decided to come over to kill some time since he had the afternoon off. So we went to Blockbuster, rented a couple discs from Arrested Development Season One, we stopped by the liquor store and got some girly drinks and then came home to watch the DVDs. Finally around 4 the rain came. And it’s been raining non-stop since, but really, we’ve had heavier rain here several days this summer. I think that the worst of the storm is passing over us right now and it’s just some heavy rain but nothing I haven’t seen before. Yawn.
Tourist bingoLiving in Orlando you get to live among tourists every day of the year. Some are nice, some are annoying and you can’t wait for them to go back home. And then it hit us, why not have fun at their expense? So we created “Tourist Bingo.” It’s a bingo board with 25 spaces that you take with you to the theme parks. Each board has typical tourist sights such as: But it doesn’t contain extremely usual and easy items such as “kid crying” or “someone stopping in the middle of a path to read a map.” Although the center square does contain a common sight “Father breakdown.” Every afternoon or early evening, after several hours at the parks with the nagging wife and tired children, and after paying high prices for food and souvenirs, fathers get this look on their face that says it all. They’ve had enough, they are tired of their family’s complaining, they are broke, they are pushing a stroller and they are just about to cry. Disney breaks them down in a matter of hours. We are currently trying to think of new Tourist Bingo items so if you can think of any, feel free to post them as a comment.
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