CENDERA FUNDING SUCKS!!!!!!!!
Mood:  on fire
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Topic: Minda's entries
if you ever decide to buy a house, or take out a loan at all, do NOT go with these people. unless you want EVERYTHING in the world to get FUBAR.

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Topic: Minda's entries
i used to think having a baby in my lap made it hard to type. now, thank goodness, i have a baby in my lap helping me type.

we're supposed to close on a house today, but the bastard broker is lazy and irresponsible, and charges too much. of course we have our reasons for not being able to go to someone else--about the time we realized this guy was worthless, the people we're buying the house from decided they wanted to split up, and the guy didn't want to sell his house anymore. he said he'd sell it, as long as we closed on time, which wasn't possible if we'd've stopped to shop around, and we really wanted this little house.
we were hoping to find hardwood floors under the carpet yesterday in the walk thru, but it looks like there used to be stickdown tile on top of some particle board, and there's probably hardwood under that, but they might have glued it down to the original floor. maybe just nailed it, we'll have to see what happens when we tear it all up.


we had a good time in eastland over the holiday, met rockin' (rykin) michaela, jaxon's younger cousin who outweighs him by about 7 pounds. i can't believe it, jax is starting to crawl, they called it the army crawl, it's really cute and slow. if he stays at this speed forever it'll be okay, he's already gotten into a few things going at about 18 inches a minute :) well, not forever, but at least until we can get things mostly unpacked and the house semi baby proof...

here amy, that's 2 in 1 day ;)
Mood:  celebratory
oh yeah, happy anniversary, mom and dad!

a few new pictures, courtesy of amy
Mood:  incredulous
Now Playing: "yesterday in Dallas, someone was stabbed/shot/run over"
Topic: Minda's entries
it really is terrible. they shot a little 18 month old in her room. some gang inititation i expect. but we don't live near there at all. i'm more worried about where Holly is going to live out in LA.

so, as the closing-of-our-house day slowly creeps nearer, i'm starting to notice furniture sales on the tele, like IKEA is having a big summer sale right now in frisco (just north of dallas), but we don't have the money for any brand new furniture just yet. hmmm...furniture? hey, here's a cute picture.

Meet the Reids
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Topic: Minda's entries
Lubbock sucks, so we moved to fort worth, because their zoo is a million times better. than the dallas zoo. Lubbock doesn't even have a zoo. they have dirt. cool people, but lots of dirt, dust, sand, and you can't grow anything there but squirrelly beets. and cotton. colby's got family and lots of old friends out here, and i've got...colby. i'm about 5 hours closer to amy, but i'm still about 5 hours away.

we're living with his dad and wife. dad's wife. colby doesn't have another wife. wife's one of those words that sounds weird if you say it a lot.

we're not actually in fort worth, we're about 30 minutes south. people up there are crazy. you can get stabbed in traffic. we've been here a month and still haven't made it up to downtown yet. yesterday we were out house shopping, and it was 108 degrees, and they're saying that the energy is getting used up too fast so peoples power is getting randomly shut off, w/o warning. not down here though, this town's too small for all that. 108 degrees, and it's only april.

we've met some cool people though already, and colby really likes home depot, and jax loves his papaw and granny b.