Packing, Playing and Motorcycles

More news, not much of it good. A third person put an offer on the townhouse we were looking at, go figure all is quite for 90 listed days and when we turn our offer in they get flooded with them. Because it is bank owned it dose not matter that we turned in our offer first, we have the lowest offer so we are third on the list! Yay for us!

Our real estate lady is still determined to get us in a place and is diligently looking as I type...

Meanwhile we are packing things up and I am going today to get us a storage unit to store ALL of our stuff, even our new bed (sad face). The cats are very help full...




Zoey is obsessed with boxes she will (try to) crawl into anything no matter the size and attack anything that walks by.

R and I have been sanding on my motorcycle fairings for the last two nights hoping to be able to paint in two weeks.



It is almost that time again...

Broken Mirror?

Did I break a mirror somewhere and didn't realize it? I don't think I can handle 95 more months of this stress.

It all started last Tuesday when we got home from looking at a townhouse that was for sale and found a notice on our apartment door telling us that after three years of having a cat they finally decided they were going to 'inspect' for violations to our contract. Yes, we knew we were violating our contract and we knew this day would come, but right now?

So, Wednesday we look at the same townhouse but with my dad who knows much more about buying and repairing houses then we do. It turns out that the place is bank owned and has been on the market for 85 days and the price has already been reduced from $136,900.00 to $119,900.00.

We decide to make an offer, but we have to get pre-approved through their bank and through our own bank because we don't want to use theirs (it was out of Texas? I believe). Any who, we spent Thursday and Friday evenings on phones with banks or in mortgage offices finding out our options (which are actually pretty good). OOH and Thursday was the day they were 'inspecting' our apartment which means the cats spent Wednesday and Thursday night at Aunt Sidonies. When we got home Thursday there was no sign of them being there or bill or anything so we figured we were in the clear but should still get out of there ASAP. WRONG! Friday after my meeting at the mortgage co. There was an eviction notice AND bill taped to our door! We have to be out by the 17th of April YA FOR US!

Saturday we write up our official offer, making it low so we have room to make some of the repairs that are needed.

SO FAR:
GOOD NEWS - We put an offer on a house (Our very first offer!!)
BAD NEWS - We only have a month in our apartment, it has been taking 6-8 weeks to close in this part of the world.
GOOD NEWS - We can get a storage unit for our stuff and live with the in-laws for a few weeks! YAY someplace to live!
BAD NEWS - Two people and three cats in ONE bedroom (they have dogs)

BAD BAD NEWS - Saturday we do our taxes, turns out we owe A LOT of money (don't know how that happened we still have to look over everything.

Tuesday our real estate lady gets a call from the listing agent asking if we put an offer on one of her places, our lady says yes, the listing agent says I don't have it please re-fax...

Thursday night I get a call, turns out someone else has also put an offer on the place *surprisingly* at the exact same time we did! *wonder how that happened* coughlistingagetcough

Friday (today) we upped our offer a little bit and will resubmit it to the bank....

Congratulations Ladies!

I know its a little late but because I took two days off last week for the State Tourney I am behind at work. Soooo....

They took SECOND!! In STATE!! The Girls played their hearts out and gave it all they had, 110%. It was such a close game, a few questionable calls by the referees (or lack there of). Glasgow scored with about ten minutes left in the third period to give them a 1-0 lead. Missoula scored with about two minutes left, but the referees called off the goal because once again the goalies helmet 'fell off'. So Glasgow took state in a 1-0 game. Second is the best the girls program has ever done at state, last year they did't win a single game in the tournament!



Congrats Missoula U19 Lady Bruins, and thanks for the great season. You were a joy to coach and I look forward to next year!

This is it

The Missoula Lady Bruins High School team is about to play for the State Championship. They have fought hard to get where they are now, many ups and downs but they have had one common goal. To Win. They have banded together whenever a player need help or support, they have practiced hard and poured their hearts into this sport. They have one final game to play, and they are ready.

The Missoulian has a small article in this mornings paper you can read it here

Just a Little Rant

I walked into my office at 7:30 this morning and this is what I found.

I am not a morning person, 9am is early. Luckily I had a coffee in my hand and a bag of chocolates in my drawer because I could tell it was going to be one of 'those' mornings.

The person that sits here Friday afternoons got bored, nosy or both and went thought the pile of unfinished work orders, pulled out every single one and placed a sticky note on it asking me if it was done (in his terrible handwriting).

IT IS NOT MY JOB TO KNOW IF THEY ARE DONE!!!

The way things have always worked is that they guys in the shop hand me the 'hard copy' when the job is done, I attach it to the 'soft copy', price it out and call them or bill them.

Not only did he leave me 8 piles of paper (each with their own sticky note) he used all of my stickys! He could not walk to the top of the stairs and get me a new pack! It is little things like that that put it over the top.

So, the rebel that I am, I piled them all in the corner, sipped my coffee, read the news, you know real stuff (CNN) and the fun stuff (AOL/PEOPLE) and silently told him to ForkOff and I dealt with the piles after I had had my coffee.

Necklaces and Hockey

My hockey girls are so creative! They gathered broken glass from the rink a few months back when one of the boys broke the plexiglass that surrounds the ice and we had a little get together this weekend. We had a potluck type lunch and all sat around and made necklaces from the glass. A couple of the girls broke it into smaller pieces, then we sanded all the edges and wrapped them in wire. Well, Marisa did most of the wire wrapping because the rest of us hand never done it before. I think they turned out nice and it was fun to be around the girls off ice and away from the rink.





A few of us made other things, I made a pair of earrings to match and some of the girls made rings.

"Subway Style" Art

'Subway style' art has been popping up on all of my favorite blogs. They are usually a variation on family rules or holiday decoration. Well, we don't have family rules and I wanted something I hang on my mostly bare walls in our itty-bitty apartment, so I came up with this.



I started by coming up with a saying that makes sense to us, is not too sweet and sappy (we are just not that type) and is relatively short. I came up with my favorite verse from our first dance song, Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. I did a quick count of the different letters so I would know how may packs of vinyl letters I would need. I headed to Michael's a pick up a double pack of cheep canvas', two packs 1" of vinyl letters (found next door at staples) and a can of spray paint.

My verse is 7 lines long, but the last one could not, no matter how much I wanted it, fit on one line so I hand to make it 8. I measured the canvas and put tick marks along both ends, then used a piece of thin painters tape R had in is tool box to mark the top and bottom of my lines. This worked perfectly as my letters were 1", my lines were 1 1/4" and my tape was 1/4" wide.



Then I carefully lined up each word, well...I eyeballed most of the spacing, I did want it to look homemade and not like a computer/ machine did the work. I then applied two coats of spray paint, let dry and Sidonie and I peeled off the letters.



Voila!! Art!

I think I am going to use the rest of the spray paint to repaint the little table by our door that holds our phone charges and keys....