You know it’s bad, when you go to visit one of your best friend’s and when he asks you how married life is, we both respond, ‘stressful.’ But, even he assured us that it wasn’t because we were married, but because of life. Haha, that sounds bad too.
The last blog I wrote covered our ferry breaking down. Well, life in Juneau for the 4 days we were there only got worse. Eric started his first day at his clinic that Tuesday, May 25th. Coming home he said it was a great first day and thought he would really like it there. On Wednesday, we had our condo closing at 2pm and our final walk-through just before that. When we got to our walk-through, our realtor told us the title agency did not have our paperwork to sign and so that we would just wait until they got it. Well, 30 minutes later the bank, Wells Fargo, cancelled our closing. Saying that they couldn’t get our papers to us to sign that day. The reason… well all we were told is because they wanted to relook over Eric’s employment verification letter that they had in their hands for over a week. So, by 6 p.m. I was finally called to say that the closing was rescheduled for 10 a.m. Thursday. The flaw was our movers were supposed to deliver everything at 8 a.m. Thursday, so the next morning we had to wake up early to call the movers and explain our situation. At 10 a.m., Eric and I arrive at the Title Agency for our closing, to only find out that they still don’t have our paperwork. When our realtor arrives, he gets on the phone with our mortgage consultant to try to find out what’s going on. She has no explanation. It is the underwriters who are taking their time and she doesn’t even understand what the problem is. So our realtor tells us that we are just going to wait there until the paperwork comes in. By 11:30, still nothing. Since this is now Eric’s second time getting out of work for the closing, he needed to get back to work. We told them we would not come back until the paperwork was here. At 2, the papers were in, but after some more hassle and other deadlines that needed to be met this story could go on and on. We did officially close and the paperwork all got recorded on Thursday, making us official homeowners! But, now once I get back home, I need to fight with Wells Fargo. They have a closing guarantee – if they miss your closing they’ll pay your first month’s mortgage payment. Well… they missed two and they will be doing something about it because this was such b.s. Luckily our mortgage consultant is 100% on our side and was working last week to try to help us get something in return for all the crap they put us through.
Our movers then came on Friday. Everything got loaded in and the house is a disaster zone. But, since this is our lives, something had to go wrong. Well, they broke just about every large piece of furniture we brought with us. My bookcase is shattered, my couch – they broke a recliner in it, they tore our mattress, they dropped my dresser chipping off wood and forcing it to swell at the bottom, they snapped a wheel off the sport cart we put all our gear on, and they broke the gear shifter off of my bike. The only other large furniture we brought was another couch, dresser and mattress. So they broke like 80% of our large furniture. Isn’t this why we pay professionals…so that our stuff doesn’t get broken? It really makes me angry thinking about it all. I can understand one or two pieces, but almost everything? Really? But the mover’s response was that everything just got stacked too high or dropped. Granted it went through 3 moving companies, so we can’t track who did it exactly, but it’s all under the military move and that’s who we go through to fix all this. The process is that they will see if they can repair it, if not, then they see if they can find a comparable piece of furniture that they can purchase for us in Juneau. And lastly, if not, then they find a comparable price and then give us the money for it. While most of our stuff is old and it’s not a huge deal, it’s the principle and the hassle. My bookcase and dresser were part of a set with another dresser and my bed frame– so how do you find new ones to match? Just another thing for us to do.
On the bright side of things, we have already seen two black bears from our living room window!! Meet our new neighbor, Carl:
See how close he is to the grill? He was a big one, about 250 pounds. The second one we saw, Leroy, was about 130 and happily crawled around on his stomach to lick up as much birdseed as he could. He hung out for about an hour, right outside our window! I love it! Eric has been the one naming them. We also had fantastic weather that week, although we barely got to enjoy it - 75 degrees and sunny, everyday. We hear that’s unusual. Damn. We did fit in a short bike ride to explore the Twin Lakes that are just down the road, along the bike path, from our new home. I was shocked to see people swimming in them! But it looks like a great place to grab some intertubes and just float on the water. I will be doing that once it gets warm. ☺ We already have about 14 hours of sunlight, getting light at about 5 a.m. and dark around 10 p.m. It’s been awesome!!
We had a great time during our last week in Chicago. Good friends, good family.. although not enough time to see them all. We flew back home last Sunday and arrived very late. Monday, Memorial Day, my Mom did an awesome job setting up a last minute barbecue with all my close family friends. It was great getting a chance to better catch up with them, since at the wedding we were all over the place. Thanks again, Debbie and Jim, for letting us use your home for it. Tuesday, we spent the day with Eric’s Mom since she was off work. His brother, Fred, joined us and we spent the day in the park playing Boom Ball and tossing around the Frisbee, then went home to play our usual card games with them. Then for the first night in what seemed like forever, Eric’s Mom cooked us a home-cooked meal. It was glorious!! No more crappy fast food or restaurant food, we had been dying for something from home and finally got it. Wednesday, we spent the morning spending our wedding gift cards and taking care of some things we needed to while in the city. Then in the afternoon we headed over to Matt and Meagan’s place for our favorite meal with them and to play our favorite game with them. It also happened to be Game 3 of the Hawks/Flyers run for the cup, so we spent the evening with them drinking margaritas and watching the game. On Thursday, Eric had Part 1 of 2 of his Pharmacy Board exams and I went shopping with my Mom, followed by another home-cooked meal with both of our parents. On Friday Eric took his 2nd Board exam, I got a mani/pedi for the wedding, and a whole bunch of other stuff that we had to do. That night was the rehearsal and the dinner. After all that, we went to celebrate our buddy, Joe's, graduation at his party on the south side. We had a blast getting to hang out with all of our friends, but we didn't get home until almost 1 a.m. The next morning we had to get up before 8a.m. to start getting ready for the wedding - mainly me for my hair appointment. The whole day was devoted to the wedding. It was beautiful and of course a good time! Our last hoorah before leaving. Congrats to Matt and Meagan! And thanks Pharmacy friends for yet another great time! We will miss you all, so start planning your trips!
We are now officially back in Juneau and starting to get more settled. The boxes are all gone, our couches are cleared of stuff and I've seen our 3rd bear, 'Annie'. I'm going to start naming them alphabetically so by the end of the season we know how many we've seen. I didn't get a picture of her either, she was just walking by, but now my camera sits on the window ledge. I'm ready. :)
Once we get a little more settled I'll take pics of the place. We've continued to have great weather this week, but today and this weekend seem to be nothing but rain. We've gone for a couple walks this week and I've laid out in the sun reading. I've met a lot of nice people this week too, and competent - it's nice to know those people still exist in the world!
Thanks to everyone for putting up with my super long posts. They should start getting a little shorter now that we are in the same place for a long period of time, as I hope to make updates more frequently. Oh and did I mention? I've also received all of the high-res photos from our wedding. I'll leave you with a few of the favorites... although there are a lot! Our photographer took over 1300 pictures!
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