I’m not sure if this counts as a /HomeMade/ because we just bought our way out of this problem. But I like the progression from the kids making Cardboard Furniture to going to the store, to getting it delivered while the kids slept (at 10:30pm).

One added awesomeness is that we finally decided to go get the furniture because the day before we heard from our loan officer that we were “cleared for closing” or that we were vetted for our loan and could get our loan papers drawn up.

This, for us, was the signal that we could actually go spend some money on some furniture instead of sitting on the ground. BUT, when we pulled up to the store I got a call from our mortgage people saying that the whole thing was dead in the water because our escrow company had mishandled the fees sent to our mortgage broker for my loan estimate.

I had to call four or five people to sort everything out and for some reason, even though I have been unabashedly candid about my inexperience, I seem to be the most competent person involved in this home purchase. That is a scary notion.

We bought the furniture anyway.  My couch chairs showed up at the door 9 hours later and Mariel’s couch shows up some time a week or two from now.

 

“When you give a Matt a Muffin”

There’s a children’s book that most young parents know about lately called “If You Give a Moose a Muffin” where some moose wants a muffin, but needs jam, and a sweater, and sheets, and other things in an ever cascading list of gating events.

This morning I got in a good one. Needed to fix the irrigation valve, but needed my multimeter, which needed a new battery, but needed a jewel sized philips head screw driver to open the case and then I needed a good 9V battery which is packed away “who knows where”, then I found out that the fuse inside my /good/ multi-meter had blown so I needed to get one from radio shack, closest radio shack is… no where, they are all dead, so need to get one from amazon, but I might as well get those spa chemicals I needed so I check which of those I needed, and while I’m at it I might as well do the chem check on the spa, and while I’m out there I should look at the irrigation control to see why zone 5 and 6 aren’t working, but I’ll need a multi-meter for that… MAYBE COFFEE WILL HELP THIS SITUATION!