Reversal of Fortune?

I am always amazed at how quickly life can change. At how suddenly things can get thrown at you so that you feel like you've been hit with a brick bat.

We finally got a call back from the guy at Wachovia yesterday. Turns out it was his grandmother who died last Tuesday. Well, Thursday night, his wife's aunt died too. So that was why he was out of the office. But he ran some figures and got us an answer. The ironic thing is that I can't factor into the loan process because of my student loans. Doesn't matter that I've improved my credit score, etc, my debt amount is too high with them. (sigh) But Mike can get the mortgage by himself! He finds that highly amusing because last year he couldn't even get a Borders credit card because his credit was messed up. But because we've been working on it since January, his score is higher than mine and all but one blemish is fixed on his record. It's really amusing in the irony because we had to use my credit stuff to help fix his. So, the mortgage will be in his name but both of us will be on the deed.

We gave Hite our Intent to Purchase contract last night along with an earnest money check (good faith money that we will either get back or apply to closing costs). Our only snag was that we had to ask him to say that he would pay the majority of the closing costs because we don't have enough money for that in our accounts at the moment. Can we get it? Yeah, but it has to sit in our accounts for 60 days before they consider it truly ours. Whatever. The mortgage dude suggested that we have Hite claim it on paper and we can always pay him the money. I wrote up a contract to that effect and we signed it. So, now we wait. Hite gave the former owner until Friday as well to get in her bid. We beat her because we just want to get this over with. But I think that helps a lot that we pushed so hard to show how much we want the place. We'll see.

The other thing that happened yesterday? Jon calls me before he clocked in to work to tell me that Jessica gave her two week notice yesterday!?! "Oh my God!" and "What the Hell!?!" were my two favorite phrases for quite a while. Seems she got a job offer from out former district manager. Well, that explains all the phone calls. And it certainly solidifies my claims of them being friends, etc. Yeah, and they tried to make me look crazy on that one. So now what? I have no freaking clue. I am still in shock over this. But I spoke with Shannon in HR this morning and am currently IMing with Jen so I'll have an idea what the higher ups are thinking. I called and woke up Jon so he could get over here and we could go talk to Melissa. I need to know what she's thinking and I think the three of us need to keep the communication lines open.

This is so big. I have so much to think about. So, I'll probably do that a lot here. That's what I get for liking options. Argh! lol