I’m waiting to hear from HSBC in regards to the loan.¬† It’s a pretty substantial amount of money so I want to assume it’s going to take a few days before I hear anything.¬† As of right now we have everything planned out.¬† Sean’s credit cards will be paid off within 24-hours of the check clearing, a trip to Ohio will be quickly planned and after a trip north to purchase a new car – we’ll be heading out to look into our available options.¬† My bookmarks list has grown quite a bit over the last few days and based on that list alone, about $2,000 is going straight to furnishing the place.¬† That doesn’t seem like a lot but I’m not only a smart shopper, I’m a cheap one too.
I don’t need a lot of useless items to throw around in the house, we have more than enough coming with us in order to fill the house up.¬† The larger purchases include a new TV, a vacuum and probably new flooring depending on how old the carpet is in this place.¬† The list is mainly limited to Best Buy, Walmart, Kmart and Target.¬† Depending on the condition of the couch – a trip to IKEA or any store in the area is going to be another “big” purchase for us, but nothing that will break the budget.¬† We know from the get-go that we’ll be paying taxes on the loan so that’s really not a big deal.¬† I just have the list all taken care of, now it’s just getting the money that’s holding us back.¬† It’s not easy to get tens of thousands of dollars thrown into your bank account over night, and I’m not exactly working for a corporation where I can take out an advance on my salary in order to make that happen so being as the only option is a loan – I want to think I made the right choice.¬† I just checked my email and saw that a notification for me is going to show up within the next 7-10 days.
Things on the family front seem OK.¬† My grandfather is undergoing his cancer treatment, my aunt seems to be recovering nicely from her treatment and knowing that it’s in the family on both sides, it’s had me in an “ehh…” kind of a mood for the past few weeks.¬† My grandmother (father’s side) died when I was about 8 years old of lung, bone and breast cancer it kind of just hit her breast and shifted its way into every other organ.¬† I haven’t gotten a mammogram in years and now it’s just starting to hit me, hopefully with this loan some much-needed self-insurance is going to come through as well.¬† From the tooth issues to the fact that I’m a high risk for cancer, my attention span has been close to ‘shit’ lately.
I called up the groomer this afternoon, she’s scheduled for an appointment on Friday morning.¬† I figure getting her shaved now will give her enough time to have a decent amount of hair on her before Winter.¬† From there I can keep her trimmed up until Spring.¬† I don’t really like the idea of going six months and may wind up doing it around Christmas and keeping a jacket on her, but for now I’m itching to get it done because she had a brutally hot summer to deal with and I felt horrible that I couldn’t spare the funds, or the time, to get her done.¬† I kept her trimmed up by myself but there’s just a lot of hair on her.¬† I don’t know how the larger dogs that are covered in thick long hair can be even remotely comfortable in the heat.¬† She’s only like 17 pounds and has thin hair and can barely stand it.¬† She plops out next to the AC vent on the floor in the kitchen and rolling around on ice-cubes are her only real relief.¬† Meanwhile, Sean is always freezing in the bedroom and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more content dog when she’s in here sprawled out on a nice cool bed…heh.
It’s knocking on 4:30, and knowing I need to crash by midnight tomorrow – I’m going to take a nap and then wake up to get some work done.¬† This should be fun.