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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Re-reversal of fortune!

So... patience, and getting a little clever with the bank, and hey presto! I get the little motorhome after all! The water heater next... though we have to relocate where the water to the house turns off, and it is under several years of undergrowth, since it was last used. Hoping the landlord (mobile home is owned, land is rental) know just where it is. Other matters... trusting them to be taking care of themselves. If they don't work out, then in fact, I didn't have what I fear to lose. It can... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Disappointment.

I thought it was all sorted. It isn't. The bank's preapproval as it turns out was based on not actually knowing what I was buying. I didn't realize this. I had supplied information, but it was not looked at. Once they got those details, the whole picture changed. It looks like all the stuff I've been gathering out of the house to make that Tioga home, has no place to go. Yet. It isn't the only deal that's fallen through lately or the only thing that seemed to be working as it should, that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

Things are about to change...

and I have to wait for it. I want to know now, I want to understand now, I want to be on the other side of all the uncertainty, the tumult. But it takes time. Time. The time that is just... minute by minute, hour by hour passage from future to past, I can't control, I can only experience it. The timing of others, also, I cannot control. Nor should I. This... time thing... is part of living in the real world. Suddenly, it seems easier to do that. It is the impatience that makes the waiting so... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 18, 2011

gah...

Well, the bank messed up a little of this, a little of that... now promises (?!) to get back to me by late afternoon. But numbers have been spoken aloud, and paperwork is in the works with the salesman... waiting, waiting... I have to drive up and sign the offer. Questing in Middle-earth is diluted practice for dealing with real life challenges. How many hit-points does a banker have? Sign in to see full entry.

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pacing, waiting, waiting, pacing...

The bank has the application, has had it since yesterday morning, said they would call yesterday afternoon... or this morning... the morning is nearly done... pace, pace... How can you make an offer when you don't know what the bank will say? The seller wants an offer... Dealing with car sales is such a tricksey game, and they of course want you to do business their way... I explained I also have a way of doing business, and what we need to do is maybe work together with both our ways. The lad... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Second looks, and pre-emptive buyer's remorse...

Sitting around home and thinking about that mini-motorhome, those feelings of... Really...? Do I really need this... to spend all that money... to borrow all that money... Whatif Whatif Whatif...?? So I drove back up to the lot today and looked again and kicked out the doubts, put a few dollars down to make sure no one swoops in and takes it away before the alternator part arrives, and I can test-drive it. Need to look into a couple of matters before I know what to offer... Why can't they just... Sign in to see full entry.

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Making a bleak day...something else.

Thank God for cameras... http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/sets/72157626054019362/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 14, 2011

I've hardly slept...

I keep thinking of the little motorhome I found yesterday, one that maybe I can actually have! It is not the little 19-ft Airstream Bambi (I didn't name it, they did, it's a line that has been around since the 50s) which is the one I have my heart set on, that is about 3 times the cost of this one, if I could find a good used one. But this would do for starters. Everything I know about it so far is good, or good enough. It needs some cleaning up, a few days worth of work in that, getting into... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

Charlie's Characters

They have moved along, from the kindergarten days when it was all done with attitude and actings-out... Here are a few of his costumed creations, masks and make-ups. http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/sets/72157625907498149/ Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 11, 2011

Charlie

Do you remember in kindergarten, how kids are told that they have to leave their favorite toys at home? They told my son that he had to leave his characters at home: he was confusing the other children. http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/sets/72157626028278210/ Sign in to see full entry.

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