Homeowner

B and I are officially homeowners as of today at about 4:15pm. Got the keys to the house...with a list of things that we have to do - all the utilities, get a mailbox, homeowners association, etc.

We're going to my having movers do the bulk of the moving for us...lookin forward to lettins some other people do that for a change.

Going to get my taxes done tomorrow - looking forward to getting to claim that new $8000 tax credit for buying our house :)

House Issues

Well, we were supposed to close on our house last night...the paperwork hadn't gone through yet so we weren't "cleared" to close yet. Had some last minute paperwork that this company needed from me...verification of deposit (to make sure we actually have the money for our down payment) and we didn't have one after the "ernest money" had cleared (the money we had to put down when we signed the contract). Then we needed to put initials by all of these things on the contract. I think I finally have everything they want...but since it wasn't going to be done today either we also had to make an addendum to the contract to change our closing date to be by the 25th now instead.

FUN FUN FUN

House Stuff

Last night, my hubby and I bought our fridge for our house. It is a stainless steel Maytag french door fridge. We had actually gotten close to walking out at hhgregg and going back to Best Buy as this fridge was a little pricey, Best Buy didn't even have this one in the store either. But then a guy came over to help us and we found out that they have deal with our builder and we could get it at commercial price, about $150 less than the most reduced sticker price, plus they had 12 months no interest which definitely helps.

We are set up to close on the house on Thursday. Don't think we will be moving in until early March though. We are looking at actually hiring movers this time instead of trying to find people and all that jazz. We found one place that is $74 an hour for 3 guys plus a $60 trip charge. Since I don't think it should take much longer than 4-5 hours, this realy isn't too bad of a price!

Honesty is the best policy?

We get our electric/gas bill from the same place. The first few months I didn't think anything about the fact that it said that we had no gas usage - just figured we weren't using the furnace and maybe the water heater is electric, you know? Well, looking more closely at our last bill, it still said we had not be using any gas...and on our furnace, it says "gas furnace", so of course we had been using it. So I called the company and they have now sent someone out to look at the meter that they think is broken. So now, with my luck we will get backcharged for the last few months. My mom works for a gas company, and I asked her about it. She said that they would calculate an average usage for the time frame and probably give me a bill for about 70% of it since I let them know about it. She also told me even if I wouldn't have said something, it would have caught up with us eventually! So I guess I did the right thing?

Shopping

On Saturday, I did something amazing...I got out of the house by MYSELF :) I finally got to use my New York and Company giftcard from Christmas. I also had a coupon that was save $30 on your purchase of $75, My original total came up to $93ish and I had gotten a pair of denim capris and three nicer shirts. After my $30 off, it came up to $60.13 - which I also got $15 City Cash for every $30 I spent...so I just came in with two of these to use in a couple of weeks. Then after my $25 gift card I spent about $38 (with tax).


Then I went to Old Navy since I had a 40% of coupon for a single item for myself which is what the picture is... and I am wearing it today since it is supposed to get close to 60...we can pretend it is Spring. I got it for about $14.

Finally, went to Once Upon a Child and got O a few spring/summer tops...got 3 for about $13...not too bad :)

Pictures of my sweet cheeks

Christmas in KY


Christmas at Grandmas

New Homebuyers stimulus

Well, B and I are new homebuyers and we were going to take the 2008 tax credit of $7500 that works as an interest free loan that you back back over 15 years ($500 a year). However, I have heard things in the news that Obama is looking at revamping this bill so that it doesn't have to paid back for homes purchased by the end of this year. Now, it sounded to me like this was going to possibly be retroactive back to a certain date (which has some people upset if they don't meet that cut-off point). Again, this is what I have heard (and read a bit). Anyone know more about this? That would be awesome if we didn't have to pay it back :)

Oldy but a goody

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe"

Aenr't we all a liltte srtgane?

Say what?

Now, I am not one who buys those magazines or papers that are at the checkout line in a store, but I heard something sad about it... does it really make sense to cut President Obama out of a picture to make room for a picture of Jessica Simpson "losing a weight battle?" First, I don't think that J.S. should ever cover up the President, but more importantly, the people that are giving J.S. a hard time about gaining a few pounds are probably ugly, fat people who will never get close to looking like that! I would die to look like that right now :)