Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Gggrrrrrr!!!

Actually, I think I snarl more than I grrr. Let me share my day. I woke up early this morning, got myself showered and groomed, got Lauren up, got her showered, dressed and ready. Woke Lily up, nursed her, dressed her, changed various daughters diapers and they were ready. Then I woke Ethan up, which can be quite traumatic, got him showered dressed and teeth and hair brushed. I fed everyone, fed the mutt, threw some packed up stuff into the car to go into my new house later on, and we were off. This is like a 3 hour process and I wanted to make sure and be to the title company on time to sign for our new house. I got there and the title lady says oh sorry, we don't have your papers. She said she would call us when they were ready. Great. About this time Brett showed up. He had to take off work to drive 15 minutes to Caldwell to sign but since no one was courteous enough to let us know things weren't ready, we came anyway. So we left and I decided to get a few things done while I was waiting.
I first got my driver’s license renewed. This was frustrating beyond anything else. I spent the next 30 minutes getting horrible directions from different people that kept having me go to the wrong place. Once I got there I got to sit next to about 20 Marilyn Manson(or however you spell it) look alike contestants with Ethan asking me loudly why the boys were wearing ear rings. "Boys don't wear ear rings Mommy, that's silly, only girls do. Mom? Why are those boys wearing ear rings? Mom?" "Ethan, stop talking right now!"
Then I got to have one of my favorite things happen, it was picture time! So one more ugly picture got taken of me to be plastered on the front of my license for the next 4 years. The guy asked me if I wanted an 8 year renewal. I was thinking, no thanks, I at least want a chance every 4 years to get a picture that doesn't totally suck.
So it took less time than I was afraid it would but I was still holding Lily's car seat on one arm, holding Lauren in my other, and trying to hold onto Ethan's collar with my finger tips. I was just waiting for some moron to ask me if I knew how babies were made. I can't tell you how many times I've been asked this and every time the guy thinks he's come up with something new and clever.
After this was over I headed to my new house to hang out and clean while waiting for the call. I was frustrated, and scrubbing dirty stuff till its clean helpsme to relax. Now my back and shoulders hurt, but man, I've never seen cleaner floor boards! And I can almost see myself in my kitchen and dining room floors. Beautiful. Of course my fingers are pickled now from all the vineger I used.
I kept on with this in between calling loan officers, title companies and insurance companies trying to do the job I'm paying them to do, and trying to get all the different parties working together to get things done so I can get into my house. I mean for goodness sake! Two months they've had to get this done and now that we are ready to move in, they suddenly realize they haven't done half of what they are supposed to have done.
So tomorrow, if I do not get to sign and start moving into my house, I'm going to be extremely grumpy, because I'm not already.
Oh, and then I got onto my favorite toy(laptop) to play and relax, and ended up spending the next nearly 2 hours trying to fix it. Brett got it done, but we still have no idea what was wrong with it.
Okay, now I get to do it all over again tomorrow.
End of vent.

8 comments:

*LaUrA* said...

This is when you buy a machine gun. Enough said.

Oh...and try the child leashes. Then people will no longer ask you if you understand the reproductive processes because they will be ogling your children and make comments like "oh look a kid on leash...what's his name Fido?..hardy har har har ow..."ow" because the stupid moron ran into a beam because he wasn't watching where he was going.

Man...I shouldn't be...but I am constantly amazed at how moronic so many people are.

The Cook Clan said...

Wow Cheri, that sounds like quite the day. Sounds like there is never a dull moment in your home.

Roxanne said...

I can totally relate, we all have these days. They are frustrating. You just brought back memories of our last title company experience. I agree what the heck are they doing before the date is set. The same thing happened to us but times 50. Long story. I hope you get it done and are able to move in.

Sage Hanks said...

Man... i love Ethan!!! He makes me smile. Good luck with everything!!!

Unknown said...

Wow...super woman! You MUST eat your wheaties. I can't wait for pictures. Check out the one we just put an offer for. Pics on our blog.

Sarah

BeCcA said...

There are not enough hours in the day to get everything done. Hope things will settle down for you guys soon!!!!

Tim and Laura Allen said...

Kind of the same thing happened to us last week. We had an early appointment for Lilly to get her 4 month shots. When we got there and the receptionis said that the nerse had called in sick and they weren't doing shots that day. When i asked why the doctor couldnt do it she said it was because he didn't like to do them. GRRRR!!! it still makes me mad when I think about it. I dont know why it is so hard to pick up a phone and call. People like that obviously don't have kids!

julie said...

I think you are amazing for going places with your kids. I can barely handle 2! I hope it gets better. I hate days like that. And people that are stupid and say stupid things. Sorry about that.