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March 30, 2006
That's Funny
"That's funny."
That's a term I use once in awhile. Most of the time it means, "that's interesting." Sometimes, it means, "that's humorous."
A couple of times somebody takes it literal and calls me on it. That happened today. I was speaking to a client who was in need of a photographer for an event. She had already scheduled a photographer, but he was called away to take pictures of some migrating animal or something. I thought it was interesting, so naturally I said, "that's funny."
Very matter-of-factly, she said, "actually, it's not funny at all. It's rather inconveniencing."
Sorry, lady. I guess I'd better speak more literally next time.
March 29, 2006
Up With Grups
Great article!March 27, 2006
Condo On Moving Day
March 23, 2006
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Looking out the door i see the rain fall upon the funeral mourners
Parading in a wake of sad relations as their shoes fill up with water
And maybe i'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you're on my mind so you never know
When i'm broken down and hungry for your love with no way to feed it
Where are you tonight, child you know how much i need it
Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run
Sometimes a man gets carried away, when he feels like he should be having his fun
And much too blind to see the damage he's done
Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, he has no-one
So i'll wait for you... and i'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return
Oh will I ever learn
Oh lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
Lonely is the room, the bed is made, the open window lets the rain in
Burning in the corner is the only one who dreams he had you with him
My body turns and yearns for a sleep that will never come
It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when i slept so soft against her
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever
Well maybe i'm just too young
To keep good love from going wrong
Oh... lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
Well I feel too young to hold on
And i'm much too old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb, and blind to see the damage i've done
Sweet lover, you should've come over
Oh, love well i'm waiting for you
Lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
by Jeff Buckley
March 22, 2006
Spin the Black Circle
For some time I have been wanting to mix some weight training in with the cardio I regularly enjoy take part in suffer through. Due to some wise financial decisions I have had a significant amount of surplus cash, so I walked in and plunked down the full two years of membership dues to a brand new Gold's Gym that was running a pretty good sign-up special. But since I paid for the entire term of the contract they threw in a third year for free.
For over a month now, I have been going several times a week and am happy with the results I'm seeing. It feels very good to be lifting again and strengthening parts of my body other than my heart and my legs. That is until I discovered the spin class.
I peeked in the room where all of the top of the line spin bikes were located and thought I’d warm up on one of those rather than the regular bikes. A few days later, when talking with a friend, she invited me to join her in a class. Enthusiastically, I agreed.
That first class was very interesting. First, I had to get used to the bike. The shifter takes some getting used to, as do the handlebars. Second, I didn’t even think about bringing water. I worked my butt off and sweated a ton, but despite the annoying instructor (who looked as if she taught aerobics in the ‘80’s, hibernated for the ‘90’s and awoke in front of the class), I decided I’d try it again and picked up a schedule on my way out.
A week later I came more prepared. I brought water, a towel and my cleated cycling shoes. The instructor for this class was a lean, tone cyclist. She was very knowledgeable and fun to ride with, yet pushed the class very hard. I left excited for the next class.
It has now been over a month that I’ve been attending spin classes and I feel amazing. Last weekend, I took a spin on my real bike and felt stronger than ever. I climbed effortlessly, stood for longer periods and rarely got tired. Going into the spring season I feel very good with the work I’ve put in over the winter. I’ve lost some weight, toned up, and improved my fitness. Last week, a coworker who rides asked if I’d like to join her cycling team. It’s not a huge honor or anything, because anyone can join. But it is going to be fun riding with some experienced cyclists who can share their knowledge with me.
March 09, 2006
The Things You Own End Up Owning You
Well nobody knows if I'm going to close on my house today. There's a massive snow storm happening right now and apparently the underwriter is snowed in somewhere and by the time she gets to her office it may be too late to close today. Stupid, right? I mean, you live in Utah. UTAH! We anticipate it can snow any day all day from October through May. We know it can happen and are ready to deal with it. I just don't understand why one person can hold up an entire deal because they're incompetent.
It seems to me that the real estate process in general needs some serious retooling. Throughout the last nine months that I've been looking for a place I've jumped over so many hurdles and through so many hoops that I'm thoroughly exausted from it at this point. So much of it is based on a few individuals opinions. But at the same time they require the buyer to provide proof after proof of documented income and debt. To give you an example, I provided current balances and balances averages for all of my accounts three times in the last month. Sure, my balances changed, but the averages stayed the same because it was all within the same month.
On top of that my credit score has dropped almost 40 points this month because of the four times they ran my credit. Four times! Credit scores aren't going to change that much in a month. Unless of course you run it several times.
Alright, I've taken a moment to cool off. I'm sorry, but I've been getting so frustrated I just needed to rant for a minute.
March 08, 2006
Closing Time
Looks like I'm closing on my place tomorrow morning. Excited, nervous, relieved, scared shitless: all would be adequate descriptions for me right now. It should happen, but I won't believe it's actually mine until the keys are in my hand.
March 06, 2006
Rapid Hope Loss
As of right now I am still unsure if I'll be closing on my condo tomorrow. It looks like the previous owner has a lawsuit against them for something and although it shouldn't be a huge problem it may set it back up to a couple of weeks. We only knew about this lawsuit a week ago. Apparently the lawsuit is pretty simple, cut and dried. Both sides have agreed upon a settlement price and me buying this condo may be delayed simply because the lawyers haven't gotten anything in writing. Once all the parties sign then we can close. I've been told this can happen today or if the people take their sweet time it could take up to a couple of weeks.
What a joke, huh!?
I'm hopeful today may be the day as I'm sure everybody just wants to get this going, but then again I've been about this close before on two other properties and they didn't happen. My real estate agent, broker and even my mom told me that these kind of things happen fairly often when buying a house and that I shouldn't feel as though I'm any exception. But that doesn't make it any easier. I've been living in a state of limbo, the state of "half-moved" for the better part of a year. I'm sick of it. It's time for this chapter to be closed and another to begin. Hopefully it happens today.
March 02, 2006
City County Building
March 01, 2006
One Step Closer
Jill's not the only one who's having work done on her home. Oh wait. Technically, she probably is since the work that's being done on my home is not officially mine yet. But it is looking as if I am getting awfully close to closing on my condo in my filing cabinet. The closing date should be Monday or Tuesday next week. But we'll see. I can't help but be skeptical. I've been in this situation before. I've gotten this close to closing before and its fallen through.
The work that is being done is fixing a water leak from the shower in the filing cabinet above mine. It's made its way down between our floors and started coming through the ceiling in my master bath. Small issue, really. The builder has come in and torn out the ceiling already and a plumber is coming today to fix the leak. Tomorrow they'll patch and paint the ceiling. By Friday it'll be good as new.
It's kind of nice in these situations to have a home owners' association because they are responsible for fixing anything wrong that occurs on the other side of my paint. I insisted on having this done before we closed because I didn't want to deal with these people coming in and out while I lived there. I feel lucky I have that liberty.