103 Days to Go and not a moment to spare! Today (March 19) we booked our little honeymoon cruise! And would you believe, we got the last outside suite available on deck 9?! We'll have a partially obstructed view - but hey, at least it has a view... I am so excited! I'm going on a real live honeymoon, yahoo! I'm so excited because I didn't really have a honeymoon the first time around. So, I am really looking forward to our shipboard romance!
Besides booking the honeymoon, we also met with our realtor. Things aren't so bad... Ron still needs to clear up those medical co-pays for us to qualify for better loan terms, but even so it wasn't so bad. I think when he saw it in black and white and what the difference would be once those things are cleared off, he became highly motivated to get things done. The other piece of good news is that home prices are going down and there are several homes in our price range and some even in the area where we want to live. It's still not going to be easy ... we're kinda walking a tightrope right now. Home prices will probably continue to drop over the next few months - which is good...but loans will be harder to qualify for - which is bad. So, timing is critical - plus just the timing of when our current leases end, the wedding date - needless to say, our heads are spinning right now. But we feel good about what we accomplished today. We are also feeling very comfortable with our real estate agent and confident he will help us find the home for us. He came highly recommended from my best friend, and he's a member of the the Baptist church where Ron is a member. (A funny side note - Ron's ex-wife is a real estate agent, too and actually wanted us to buy a house from her! I think not... Her name is Christina ... which is also the name of the lender Ron talked to at the mortgage company. But when our real estate agent said today he had received paperwork from Christina, I thought Ron was going to have a heart attack! The look on his face was sheer terror... he was thinking ex-wife, Christina! Fortunately, I realized what he was thinking and reminded him the mortgage lender's name was Christina, too. He breathed a huge sigh of relief. We laughed about it later, but at the time, he was wondering how in the world Tina had gotten involved - it was a moment!)
Besides all of that, I also managed to scrapbook a few pages, and go to my step aerobics class at noon! It was a good day.
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