We are going to have a few things done...

We are in the midst of  refinance from 7% to 3.5%,  the appraiser was here and I shudder to imagine what he may recommend we fix before the bank gives its blessing. 

In the meantime we asked one of Tim's sisters favorite contractors to come take a look.  He has offered to fix the sun room roof, paint the house, take down all the blackberry and Ivy as well as service the TRANE for X amount of dollars,all done in two weeks, half up front please. Okay break out one of the plastic check thingies.  

 Um,which brings me to my second financial project, withdrawing X amount of dollars from my retirement account from a former employer.  Now I have to fax these documents to another time zone, hope to get the correct signature in the correct spot and get them faxed back, fax them to the place in Texas and then hold my breath waiting for a phone call telling me I missed something and start all over.

Oh and to top it all off I pissed of an official at the bank where we are trying to refinance by going in to get someone to notarize husbands spousal agreement to the disbursement. The officious insincere little snot said that her training precluded notarizing anything unless the form was completely filled out.  WTF??

Wait, I CANNOT fill it all out because I have to FAX it to ANOTHER TIME ZONE so The plan administrator must sign the thing.  And they won't do that without a notarized spousal agreement.

Wait, I'll check with my supervisor.  Nope,sorry.

Thanks for the help, not.

Went to the Courthouse and explained the situation who then cheerfully notarized the spousal consent signature for FIVE BUCKS so there, take THAT, behotch.

So today I took a half day off, we went to Sherwin Williams and picked out Snow something (dirty creamy white) and Secure Blue (medium blue with enough gray to look kind of like slate on a bad day).  We were told Sherwin Williams can give us numbers that will translate to Home Depot where the contractors will order most of the supplies. Short explanation: I picked these colors because they resemble the current paint color and I am sticking with these choices for the reason that if I chose yellow for the trim it would not cover the blue very well.  Yeppers.

I am excited to see what the old girl looks like after a good power wash. I shall post nasty pictures.

And you know what they say about remodeling, there will be surprises.  I think we have mold.   Yeah......no breathing in the sun room.