Do you ever lie and why should I believe you?

I’m one of those people who is easily entertained, even when alone. When I say, “I crack myself up,” I am not lying. I really do. Often.

I was doing accents in the mirror this morning while I was getting ready and really cracking myself up. Suddenly it occurred to me, someone else might think this is funny too! WORK FROM HOME FRIDAY VIDEO!!

For those Bronco fans out there who love to trumpet the Bush administration’s “reckless spending on an unnecessary war” (*cough* Ghosty *cough*), let’s step back and take a look at real facts. I know that’s uncomfortable for people who prefer to argue politics on emotional grounds and rhetoric rather than quantifiable statistics and history, but humor me.

This graph depicts the U.S. budget surplus/deficit since 2000. The right end of the graph shows projected values published by both the Obama White House and the Congressional Budget Office.

You can see how the Clinton “surplus” (which was largely do to Clinton removing Social Security from the equation, i.e. cooking the books) was eaten up right around the time some nut-job Islamofacists crashed airplanes into our financial sector and that evil and scary Bush fella spent a hundred billion here and there trying to strike back.

But then, Bronco Bomber came on the scene and spent exponentially more in six months and plans to spend that much more for years to come. Also, keep in mind that this does not include the current proposed socialized health care, which the CBO is expecting to top $1.6 trillion over ten years.

There’s some idiom about a “glass house” and “throwing stones” but I’m sure it’s not important. Let’s all just be mindful of the facts, mmkay?

Ok, so if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you must know that we have been house shopping. And you know that we made an offer on a house yesterday. I’m sure you are on the edge of your seat waiting to hear what happened.

Frankly, so am I.

We toured about a half dozen houses last Friday night. Then about two dozen on Saturday. It was fun, but at the same time, it was a beating. By Saturday night we were exhausted. I had taken pictures of every house, inside and out, because I knew they would all run together in out minds. I ended up with over 100 pictures.

The market around here has been crazy. There are a ton of homes for sale, but the good ones, the real deals, are only on the market for a few days. We had several on our list to see that were contracted before we got to them. So we felt some urgency on picking one to make an offer. We finally decided and started the paper work.

Then I realized, there was a lot about our choice that I didn’t remember, so I asked for another tour. Monday, around lunch time, I met our realtor and went over the house with a fine-tooth comb. There are some little issues, but nothing we can’t deal with. So, I submitted the offer.

I asked our realtor when we should expect to hear back. She said she had talked to the selling realtor Sunday night and Monday morning. He asked her to send over our offer as soon as possible. He would be waiting for her email. Now, to an average human being, like you or me, that means the sellers were eager to get the offer and we should expect a prompt reply, right?

At 5:30 (PM!!), I left a message for my realtor. I apologized for bugging her, but we’re property virgins and overwhelmingly anxious. She called us back about an hour later. (She had been with a client.) As soon as she listened to our message, she had called the selling realtor. (He was also with a client.) Finally, he emailed her with this… (This is his entire email.)

Seller is on a cruise ship you most likely will not hear from them for 3-4
days.

GAAAHHH!!!!

Stay tuned for further updates as they develop… eventually.

This, I believe, is a first. This week’s white board quip is a bit of self glorification. I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve ever had a white board quip in which I was the original author. When I said it, those present told me that I must put this in the queue for my white board.

I would say that it is not in the specs, but… HA HAAA!  WHAT SPECS?!  FOOL!!