Say goodbye to the ghetto

Well we move out and in tomorrow. I had my final walk-through yesterday and the couple who live there now are so nice. I spent 45 minutes with them going over how things work and what they are going to do next. They were leaving to do missionary work in Honduras but that fell through after they had already sold their house and quit their jobs so they are just going to travel the south pacific now. Kinda cool. The backyard has so many extras that the owner put in so I really feel like I am getting my moneys worth. He's leaving behind most of his speakers in the house. The whole house is wired with surround sound, including the backyard. I am very excited to get out of the ghetto! The new neighborhood has tons of man made lakes and there's a golf course down the street, it's private but we'll just play at night with flash lights! Plus it's so much cooler at night now that we're averageing 110 degrees and we're not even out of May yet. I am glad I have 5 days to unpack and get settled and adjusted to my new secluded surroundings. I don't do well with change, something tells me I may be crying a lot this weekend, mostly out of joy but some out of panic of leaving my old surroundings.

what is the deal with episode III?

I waited in line for 4 hours last night to see the first midnight showing of Star Wars Epidsode III. Lots of middle-aged weirdos in costume, really lame costume that looked like they used their mom's drapes. Well, I haven't yet decided what I think of the movie yet. I could talk about this all day. The dialogue was even worse than episode II. The story moved way too fast and they rushed over important stuff like the killing of all the Jedi and the love story which is pretty much what the whole movie is based on. They fluffed it out at the end and gave too much information we already knew from watch the original Star Wars. The duel scene between Anakin and Obi Wan was long and completely unbeleivable towards the end of it. What they did do well was the gruesome transformation of Anakin into Darth Vader. But Anakin was much too remorseful and moved over to the dark side for a more substantial reason, after all he kills off all his friends as a result. So the all anticipation was almost a total let down. I hate that it ended with a fizzle. I've been waiting for this episode since 1999 when the first one came out. I didn't even like Star Wars until they re-released it in theatres in 1997. Before that I hated Star Wars but those movies sucked me in and now I am a quasi-geek. The girl sitting next to me was actually crying when Luke and Leia were born, get over it freak, I mean I wanted to cry cause it was so disappointing. George Lucas let me down and I am going to write a strongly-worded letter... just kidding I am just going to blast his movie on my blog.

AZ Hair Co. Can kiss my ass

Went to get my hair trimmed today. Went to this shop the last couple of times with a photo of exactly what I wanted. Didn't have the photo with me today as it is packed up. Tried to tell the girl I wanted to distinct layers, shorter in the front and longer in back, with my longest layer sitting just below my shoulder line, so I could still put it up. I walk out with one length just below my ears. I can't put it up and I look like I am 12 years old. What the hell am I supposed to do with this? It'll be at least 4 weeks before it gets to a length that doesn't make me look like a child. I didn't even have this style when I was 12! Ridiculous.

Back in January during our back to school rush I had an angry customer complain to me about my worker Garn ( you remember him from some earlier blogging.) Well I thought she was completely full of shit and didn't really give her any satisfaction she was looking for. So she went to my "boss" on campus to complain about her incident in the bookstore and how the manager wouldn't apologize to her for what Garn "did' to her. I ended up having to give this woman tons of discounts and I did apologize because I knew it was the right thing to do from a customer service point of view. Although my on-campus boss said she saw my side and agreed with what I did but apologized to the customer on my behalf to appease her. Fine. I left it at she's a winy baby who didn't like the price of my books and complained enough until she got them all at discounts that cut deep into my profit margin. She won't be the last person to freak out when something doesn't go her way in my store. I've been yelled at by much worse.
So my beloved Jamie is leaving the bookstore to pursue her nursing degree. I have been recruiting replacements for a couple of weeks but have come up short. Finally I decided to send out an e-mail to the campus for the position. Well, not even an hour after I send out my email does Bitchy McBitch come in to apply for the job. I mean how much nerve does she have to want to work for the person she complained about 4 months earlier. She even got a co-worker come to me and give me a sob story about how she's going through a divorce and really needs the job, blah blah blah. Of course I was sweet as candy to her when she cam in, letting her think she stood a chance. She's got to be pretty God damned stupid to think I'd even let her empty my trash let alone help run my store. All I gotta say is karma is a bitch and you get what's coming to you.

The inspection turned out to be not too bad. The buyer brought over his realtor friend who posed as a know-it-all (jackass) inspector. They were over a half hour late and showed up just as Chad and I were sitting down to eat dinner. They poked at my house, climbed into the attic, commented on how one of the columns that holds up my front porch is leaning ever so slightly to the right. What he didn't notice was the hole in the carpet in Aunt Lucy's room, the giant crack under the laminate flooring in the kitchen and dozens of other small but important flaws that will need replacing if he expects to make any sort of profit on this house. In the end he listed 12 things that needed fixing or replacing and opted to take a $2500.00 credit on the selling price instead of making me fix them. Some of the things on the list were as follows:

• roofing on shed needs complete replacement
• guest bath needs to be stripped and re-painted
• exposed wires in attic need professional electrician inspection
• fan in master bath needs replacement
• front base bib is "weeping" and needs replacement.

and so on. I think I did OK. By the time he finds all the other stuff he would have spent his $2500.00. I consider myself lucky because if his friend had actually been a licensed inspector they would have found everything and I would have had to fix these things for a family to take posession but since he' s just gonna gut my house anyway, the small stuff doesn't matter as much. so now I just need to have my appraisal on my house and then I think all the hard stuff is over. My appraisal is today at 5:00.