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After months of hardly any showings on the house, we finally started to get some traffic.  After a few weeks of multiple showings a week on average, we got an offer today.  It’s a little below what we have the house listed for but it’s a good offer.  Now, we just have to play the waiting game (2-4 week possibly) to see if the mortgage company will accept it.  If they don’t, I’m not sure what we will do…  So, fingers are crossed and we’ll see what happen.

There isn’t really anything to report.  Nothing that good anyway and I don’t really feel like writing about the bad.  The house is still on the market and we’ve lowered the price about $50K.  We have had more showings in the last week than we have in the last several months though so maybe something will finally give.  We are having an open house on the 15th of this month so maybe our buyer will find and fall in love with the house then.

Nothing eventful happened this summer.  No trips.  No vacations.  Mostly just work and more work for me, and work and school for Jenna.  My uncle retired from UPS which was the excitement for the family.  But boring can be good.  Right?

Trying out a new webhost.  Please be patient.

 

Well, we met with the Realtor last night.  It was a semi-tough choice but it’s the best one.  We will be doing a short sale on the house so that we can unload it start to focus on more important things.  When the market crashed a few years ago we lost about 25K in value on the house.  A house that was only a year and half to two years old at the time.  We cannot refinance and we obviously cannot sell it for what we owe due to the crash.  So, we were sort of forced into a corner.  But it will all work out in the end.

Not sure how long the site was hosed but it’s finally fixed.  I know it was at least a week but I can only assume it was much longer.  Of course tech support took forever to respond to my help tickets so I spent most of the last week banging my head against the desk.  But, we’re back now so maybe something worth posting about will happen.

I’m a little behind on this one.  Actually, I’m just behind on writing, I saw the movie opening week.  The A-Team was a fun ride.  It didn’t take itself too serious and it made it that much better.  They included all the absurdity of the TV show and it worked.  The team is best at what they do.  There is always a plan and the plan always comes together.  Well, usually.  It was nice to finally see the origin of the team and find out why B.A. is scared to fly.  I’ll you a hint, it’s Murdock’s fault.  It was also good finally see some people get killed.  Maybe it was just an 80s television thing but how can you fire that many round and no one ever gets hit? 

Overall, this was easily one of my favorite movies in a long time.  The ending CGI was not up to par with recent films but I can over look that when combined with the total awesomeness of the over all movie.

I decided this movie would be worth it to watch at midnight.  It would be the first midnight showing I attended in a few years.  I was totally right.  While Iron Man 1 was nearly perfect in it’s execution, Iron Man 2 was almost as good.  I’d easily give a 90% compared to the first.  There were a few scenes that should have been cut down a little, Sam Rockewell was a little over the top, and the end battle was a little anti-clamactic.  Don Cheadle was good as Rhodey and it was nice to see John Favreau’s role expanded a little.  And as with most Marvel movies, be sure you stay and watch for the scene after the credits.

We were going to refinance a while back but we couldn’t do that.  So we decided we would sell the house.  Now it looks like we cannot do that either.  With the value of the house having dropped would either have to do a short sale or have about 13K cash to bring to closing to cover closing costs and Realtor fees.  We don’t have it.  So, now we just have to hope that maybe we can get approved for one of these special programs that the government is making mortgage companies provide.  The problem with that is we are not in danger of loosing the house.  We are current on all of our bills.  We just want a lower interest rate so we can lower our payments.  And it’s not a small amount either, we could potentially save $400 a month.  But with our luck we will just be one of the families that falls though the cracks because we don’t qualify under the idiot programs.

Just thought I would take a moment and mention that Jenna’s aunt passed away Thanksgiving morning.  She had been fighting cancer in various forms for a long time.  This last round left her very sick and undernurished for a while and while in the hospital she was receiving IV nutrients.  They also decided to install a feeding tube which cause her to reflux and aspirate into her lungs.  Unfortunately she was not strong enough to undergo sugery to clean out her lungs and passed the following morning.  She will be missed.

I finally got around to getting my Single Decision Maker certification at work.  It doesn’t get me a raise but it does make things a little easier for me.  Basically I can now sign off on most cases without a doctor reviewing it.  The exceptions are children’s cases (which I rarely get anyway), cancer cases and mental cases that are a denial.  I can sign off on pretty much any physical case (except cancer) and mental allowances.  By not having to get things reviewed it will save me a little time on each case so hopefully I will be able to lighten the load a little.