I just may get screwed...

I'm trying VERY hard to think positive here. Still waiting for the appraisal on Joe's house - I'm going to be a battle of emotions if they try to ask for more money on it. Plus my dreams of helping veterans by putting his house up for rent for the homeless vets may go up in smoke. To make matters worse, I got a letter from OPM saying they are going to stop my retirement! They say I earn enough (it's a formula thing), but to hell, one leg is short than the other and I still can't do things like before. Worse yet, though not suggested by a doctor, I'm showing signs of MS, twitching, numbness etc. Great just great :(

oh no!

We have to start thinking the legal paperwork! argh - this is good and this is well, confusing

Just a few more weeks

and I'll have the "pink slip" to Joe's house - and all the responsibility thereof! Ok, I would like the kitchen done in white with red trim (basing this on research). I thought about a Sunflower motif, but I like the red/white cherry thing! but NO wallpaper! hate wallpaper!

No doubt I can find fabric (who me?!?!)  lol!

One of the first things we are going to have to do is open up windows (on a warm day) and air out the house. It does have a "musty" thing going, but then it's been winter too.

GRRRR

So this little twit of an ass who's helping to handle the "estate sale" next door touts himself as an electrician. And he's probably thinking I just fell off the turnip truck and as a female I'm ignorant, takes me throughout the house, him showing ME what he thinks needs to be done (and it's hard to really gauge where the existing plugs are). This ass tells me that in the Dining room, I need GFI (kitchen/bath) plugs, and then I KNEW he was BSing me! So I let him babble, but I was getting madder. He told me that he thinks he can rewire the house for "just under $10,000" - he's out of his ever-loving idiot mind! I don't deal with liars and I don't deal with thiefs, and this guys is BOTH.

good news

The li'l house should be mine by the first part of May. Legal mumbo jumbo.

Am still wanting to turn the big house, once I move to the little one, into a female veterans homeless facility. The VA mumbo jumbo is on the back burner until I get the place and am ready to set it up. The big house will be "ready to go", but will need furniture, food, probably clothing and a way to fund it. I'm sure I'll find a way, as I always think 3 steps ahead and how many options. I'll try to call in the big guns - don't ask me what that will be, but I'm thinking!

it's awful

I normally take a small nap when I get home from work, and considering I didn't sleep well last night I napped. But had bad dream again (unusual when I nap). My aunt Olga's husband was in it, in a house. I don't know the town. There was a small dog. I kept asking where Olga was and I couldn't find her in the house. I kept trying to leave but got mixed up on the streets and wound up back at the house. I finally got so scared of him, that I am hitting him with a trash can. I can't find Olga anywhere. And I'm still tired!

This is why I'm exhausted...

Bad dream. I was in the hospital, not sure which one. I hear nurses talking about a girl who had a premature baby, then I hear Janessa's voice. Seemed she was pregnant and had the baby early, a boy named Nathan. I went to see Janessa and was upset with her about her not telling me. I can feel my heart pounding out of control. I try to find the baby, there is one of Nessa's friends with me as we try and walk the horrible maze of a hospital to the baby area. Bill and Rob were there. Nessa did not seem upset about what happened, not sure how 'early' baby was. I hate these dreams and the baby ones really get to me badly.

laptop back!

ok, 5 days without a laptop was ok, missed this and that, but not some other things. Work on the back house on hiatus until I get the pink slip - that's just the way it's going to be. I'm washing many blankets & putting them in space bags for storage (and moving if needed). Quiet here now, but Aric will be by later - no doubt just to play video games :(  It's ok, we'll do something together. I should tell others about my blog, but for now, it's private, sorta.

Yeah!!!

The guys who are doing the Estate Sale were at the house, I introduced myself. I wanted to check on the hot water heater, and to my RELIEF, it's a newer one! Just one less big expense. The frig looks so oversize for the kitchen, and I may move it to another part of the kitchen - we'll see as the kitchen is small but cute! I can't wait to have walls that are NOT all paneling, which is what this house is. It definately needs to be aired out, some Febreze. But yes, I'm so excited!!

and the bushes are all gone! Still need to clear the stumps (but hey it was really wet out there!). And we've saved the rose bushes on the west side

time to deliver

two huge boxes of fabric - taking them to Virginia Marti. Bushes in front of back house all bent down - Jim and I will cut them down later. We'll rent a chipper in a few weeks to make it manageable. Estate sale is 24-26 of March.

oh my

Just wondering how long it will take for the house next door to come to fruition. I've contacted the VA to see about having homeless veterans here at the big house - waiting for their call back. I'm lucky now, not like just over 20 years ago being homeless myself and no one to really help me. You can't imagine the Welfare office not giving me any help, me homeless with two small children (one in diapers) and no money, no food. They offered to help pay for rent then didn't. The veterans helped, so now it's my time to give back

already

some of the bushes have been cut down. Rain today and next few days will delay progress on that. But that's ok. Talked to folks about having a Veterans home here, and it will take about 6 months before I can further investigate. Once step at a time, and the most important one right now is getting the back house into my name!

and is thinking

that once I finish the back house (as I call it now), to move in there and perhaps, if it is meant to be, create a place for homeless women veterans to have a home. I'd need to create a 501(c)3 (non profit group) for it. But that's down the road. In other words, I'll move into the smaller place (so the dog won't have a yard haha), but we'll see...

And so it begins

Though the house is not officially in my name, Joe's sister has given us (me and Jim, who's be helping) permission to cut the bushes down. And all I can say right now after 2 hours of clipping these fat branches down - OUCH! It's gonna be a long work to get them all out.