Hey guys -- yesterday was the escrow paper signing day. I think its now out of our hands and making sure the lender people are fine with everything. It's supposed to close Friday. the few people who I've told think its weird that I've kept this as a secret from most people (leading to a variety of people thinking I'm pregnant), but its weird because I need to keep a reserve of caution to make sure if this doesn't go through, I don't have to deal with everyone talking to me about it, you know? I think everything is fine, but we'll see. It's not feeling so great right now! In my GFE they neglected to put in the prorated taxes and the impound taxes which were another 5K that I hadn't taken into account when I was moving my funds. I barely had enough in our checking account to make the final check -- I have the cash but I *hate* it when things surprise me and especially when they don't need to be. The whole thing is turning out to be 10K off my original estimations a couple weeks ago, which again we can handle, but its like DUDE, that's not CHUMP change AT ALL. We went 20% down which in the good parts of LA is HUGE and there's sort of this level of, "how do other people do this?" (and then its like, oh right, subprime mortgages and all of our friends have ARMs instead of 30 yr fixed and took piggy back loans...) So, I'm a bit in the freak out stage where I'm like, I can still get out of this right?!?!?
Ahh, sorry for all those numbers but its all that's going through my head lately. I come into work like for half or a little more than half days and I can't do any experiments because I can't focus! I feel so bad about that too. And I've been pretty bad with working out. Imax2 felt great and today I wasn't sure what I was going to do and I just didn't want to do the circuit workout planned so I just jumped on the elliptical and figured I'd get off in 20m but I stayed there for an hour and I felt better during and after that. I do not have orthotics yet, they should come soon, but my feet felt fine. I always thought all I needed was a break to let the silly thing heal. I probably won't do more than 3 MAX of non low impact work and max 2 of serious high impact in a week to make sure I don't aggravate it. But we'll be packing and moving and cookie eating so we'll see what actually happens in the next couple days.
Kathy and Chris -- time does fly!! ITA with Vilma in how it felt like you just started...and now there's STS Cardio!
Vilma -- sounds like you're superproductive! Could you do my laundry too?
Beth -- that's awesome that your lat feels better. I like that Cardio Blast premix a lot actually. It's that Chicago cover...if I can get to that song, I can do the whole thing. It just lifts me up. And as for cookies, surprisingly yes. I keep on thinking i've eaten half the box every night and then Joe pointed out that I've said that for three days so that's impossible and there were even some for breakfast (yes, that's how UNclean my eating is now)...so a couple in the box. Oh and there are three more boxes unopened because Joe got me FOUR because it was on sale. So yes. Drive down, help me pack, and have a couple cookies.
Joanne -- you know, i don't care too much for BM2's warmup except that its all low impact so sometimes I used it these last couple weeks to make my body nice and warm. I'm sorry to hear that your son is having some issues in school (from yesterday's post). I'm really sympathetic to it actually -- my sister was a superb student and my parents' never let me forget honestly. I was sorta smart but I got BORED non-stop so I just wouldn't do the work. Even in college -- would break the curve in the hardest classes and get average in the easy ones. It was really hard for me right around the age of your kid so I imagine its going to be stressful for you. but a less stressful note, I put Step Boxing on my netflix queue because you suggested it a while back and Joe does not seem totally against it.
Ok, I'm off to surf the web while burning off cookies from the stress.