Okay folks, its panic time. I just got the official phone call. Our closing for the new house has been scheduled for Wednesday April 2nd!!!! OH LORD HELP ME! What am I going to do? We just reduced the house another $5000 and haven’t had a bite in FOREVER! Help me please! Anyone need a starter home? Rental? Anyone want a “fixer upper”? Please please someone buy this house!!!!
Okay, the panic is subsiding. I have no clue what we’re going to do, but I can say I’m not going to go crazy just yet. Come April 2nd, if this house isn’t sold…, then we’ll have a problem. I may just go a little crazy.
So, an update on what’s been going on in the Morgan household; Cookie booths began this past weekend but unfortunately, our booths were cancelled at the last minute. I still haven’t heard the whole story yet but I know it’s going to be a good one. We found out Friday night (our 1st night of booths) that Wal-mart pulled the plug on all sponsorship except the Salvation Army. Us, “little guys” haven’t heard the whys yet, we just got an email that said all Wal-Mart booths were cancelled. Sucks, but what can you do? So, we’ve stocked up on cookies and are waiting for our 6 booths this upcoming weekend. WOO HOO! Unfortunately, a lot of troops are panicking because they really counted on the Wal-Mart’s and overstocked themselves with cookies because at a 2 hour booth you could easily sell 150-200 boxes of cookies at Wal-Mart and a lot of these troops picked up 3-5 Wal-Mart shifts. We’re all working together to transfer cookies to other troops (for those that need additional cookies) so that the over stocked troops won’t lose out on their profits. Hopefully we’ll find out soon what happened. Of course, a friend of mine said she was at the Wal-Mart at 103rd this weekend and they were selling. Chris said he spoke with his dad and they were selling down in Hernando – is it just our cluster??? Our area??? Our Wal-Mart??? Ahhh, the saga continues….
The new house is moving along quiet nicely. The cabinets are in and look BEAUTIFUL! The linoleum is in for the kitchen and bathrooms and the bathrooms are just about complete and look beautiful. We do have running water as Chris found out when he stepped into the Master Shower and turned it on… Luckily he didn’t get wet but it was a funny moment. I found out tonight that they poured the driveway today and also put the first round of base paint on the house. This is so exciting! Becca and I will run out tomorrow and take some pictures for Chris to put up on the website. I can’t wait!
Chris has pounded it into my head over and over to never open unfamiliar emails. I’ve learned this from him over the years and I’ve been very good at hitting that delete button, until the other day. As I was cleaning out my yahoo account, I saw this unfamiliar name with the subject noted as “about your dad”. It was the strangest thing but for some reason I just couldn’t allow myself to hit the delete button. I stewed on it a few days and this past weekend I brought it up to Chris asking how to open an email without worrying about viruses, bugs etc. I know, I’m not very computer savvy and I let Chris make all my decisions on that stuff. So, Chris tells me to go ahead and open it just don’t click on links and/or attachments. So, I wait a day or two, still seriously terrified of bugging my computer… I opened it today and WOW! I am so tickled I didn’t delete it. The message was from a man who knew my dad back in 73-76 when they were Navy recruiters. He found me through our website and wanted to see if dad was still around. This is way cool. I called my dad and asked him if he remembered this man and dad spent the next few minutes telling me all about his recruiter days. It was neat. So, I emailed the man giving him dad’s email address and forwarded the “unfamiliar” email to my dad for him to respond. I don’t know what made me pause before deleting this one but I sure am glad I did.
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