Adventures in Homebuying: Drawwwww-mmmaaaahhh
One word describes the close of escrow... D.R.A.M.A. "D" for driving me crazy "R" for racing to the deadline "A" for asinine loan agents "M" for making it exciting "A" for AT LAST We are homeowners.... Stay tuned for more about the move ... Adventures in Homebuying Series: False Advertising Hide-A-Key In Escrow This Too Shall Pass

Adventures in Homebuying: Part 50- This too shall pass
Closing escrow is like waiting for a hurricane blow over.  I got over a flurry of emails yesterday between the bank, the bank's assistant, the loan officer, the loan officer's assistant, the escrow company, the designer, the building owners, and the real estate agents. I disguised the names to protect the knuckleheads involved. We STILL have NOT closed, and it is a week after we were

Question of the Day
How do you KNOW you've lost your mind? ..... when you walk out the door like this.... Yes. These are my feet. A few things are self-evident from the photo. I got dressed in the dark I own the same shoe in two colors. I'm a little preoccupied in the morning. Thank heavens....I was awake enough to notice this before I got in the car.

A Pioneer
After waiting an hour on hold, that is what tech support at LAUSD called me today.... "a pioneer."   I am savvy enough to know that is code for "we-dunno-what-the-heck-you-are-trying-to-do" and "we-are-under-a-budget-crisis-and-dont-have-time-to-chart-new-territories." Geesh. All I want to do is setup the outlook web express exchange server with my apple mail, ical, and contacts. It's not like

Sniff Sniff Booooooo... I miss Sepulveda too.
Thirty-Five Things I will miss about working at Sepulveda MS. The Budget.  ahaahahahahahahaha.... you thought I was serious. Tres Hermanos and the ten pounds a year it added to my petite frame. Saying "Sepulveda 8 to 9. Sepulveda 8 to 9. What's your 20?" at least a hundred times a day. Wandering around in search of classrooms 99-100 and wanting to know exactly who is responsible for numbering