Travel Plans
Aug. 31st, 2009 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unforthTomorrow evening, I leave for my trip.
I spent yesterday cleaning and resting, and this morning I did my laundry, finished the last bit of work I had to do, and then packed. I feel like I'm forgetting something, but then, I always feel like I'm forgetting something - and I usually am - and it always ends up working out. I have my passport, so I have the only thing that I really need - the rest, well, I'll manage.
In brief, my itinerary is (all times local):
9/2, 10AM - arrive in Paris
9/9, 3PM - arrive in London
9/17, 3PM - arrive in Amsterdam
9/22, 11AM - arrive back in NYC
I'm pretty excited, and getting the usual pre-trip jitters. Still, it'll be great to spend three weeks with my grandfather, and with my mom and brother and sister-in-law, too. I'll be sharing a room with mom, and the three of us youngun's will be combining to help my grandfather, who is 91 and doesn't move very well anymore, around and make sure he has all the help and support he needs.
I almost wasn't able to go on the trip at all. After all these weeks, I'm STILL waiting for the underwriting approval for my mortgage, and without that I can't submit my application to the Co-op Board. Without having met with the Board, I STILL don't ACTUALLY KNOW IF I'M GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO BUY THE APARTMENT! This, needless to say, has been causing me a fair amount of angst, but I've done everything I can, and every step just takes fricken forever.
The underwriting approval should come through any day, but of course, I'm leaving. Once it's set, I'll have my mortgage broker (or![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mistress_sin, depending on how things happen) fax it to my apartment broker, who has the rest of my board application all ready and prepared for review. The Apartment broker will submit it to the board, who will contact me to set up an interview.
Now, neither I nor the seller wants this process to take forever. Waiting to have my interview until I get back is almost certainly not in the cards, unless things take even longer I guess. Thus, rather than just not go on part or all of the vacation, my mother has declared that she's sick of my refusal of all financial help, and that she'll pay for the ticket to send me back to NYC for 24 to 48 hours in the middle of the vacation, so that I can do the $@%%@#@#$@#%@#!$^@& Board Interview without breaking my grandfather's heart.
I'm getting really, really fed up of waiting for other people, and really sick of not knowing the definite date of anything. When's my closing? WHO KNOWS! When's the interview? NO IDEA! Do I have a place to live? ANYONE'S GUESS! If I DON'T have the apartment, it'll really suck. I know understand - it takes two months to do this process - which means I won't have time to find another apartment before the deadline for getting the 8k back. Meanwhile, my lease expires the end of November, and I haven't done anything to line up any place else to live.
Fun!
I know it's not that bad. I can apartment hunt for a rental very quickly - it'll only take me a couple weeks to find a place to live - I'll be in the market for the same thing I'm buying - a cheap-ass studio, more or less any where in NYC (Flatbush Gardens, here I come! ;) ). I'll take all the money that should have gone to the purchase and re-invest it, and pay off my debt, and my fiscal situation will be as shiney as it's ever been in my life...so it wouldn't be that bad. But when I think of all the effort and angst and stress, it's kinda horrifying to think it might STILL be all for nothing.
I just wish I knew. :(
Annoyances and stress aside, though, everything else is peachy-keen.
As always, I extend my travel offer: Looking for something from someplace I'm going? Miss that tea you can only buy at Harrods? Always dreamed of tacky windmill-inspired kitsch? Dig Paris fashion? I will happily hunt down any item that is requested, and mail it to ya when I get home; all I ask is that if it's more than $10, you'll have to pay me back. Just drop me a comment or an e-mail (unforth AT yahoo DOT com) and I'll commence the hunt - I love tracking stuff down. ;)
I spent yesterday cleaning and resting, and this morning I did my laundry, finished the last bit of work I had to do, and then packed. I feel like I'm forgetting something, but then, I always feel like I'm forgetting something - and I usually am - and it always ends up working out. I have my passport, so I have the only thing that I really need - the rest, well, I'll manage.
In brief, my itinerary is (all times local):
9/2, 10AM - arrive in Paris
9/9, 3PM - arrive in London
9/17, 3PM - arrive in Amsterdam
9/22, 11AM - arrive back in NYC
I'm pretty excited, and getting the usual pre-trip jitters. Still, it'll be great to spend three weeks with my grandfather, and with my mom and brother and sister-in-law, too. I'll be sharing a room with mom, and the three of us youngun's will be combining to help my grandfather, who is 91 and doesn't move very well anymore, around and make sure he has all the help and support he needs.
I almost wasn't able to go on the trip at all. After all these weeks, I'm STILL waiting for the underwriting approval for my mortgage, and without that I can't submit my application to the Co-op Board. Without having met with the Board, I STILL don't ACTUALLY KNOW IF I'M GOING TO BE ALLOWED TO BUY THE APARTMENT! This, needless to say, has been causing me a fair amount of angst, but I've done everything I can, and every step just takes fricken forever.
The underwriting approval should come through any day, but of course, I'm leaving. Once it's set, I'll have my mortgage broker (or
mistress_sin, depending on how things happen) fax it to my apartment broker, who has the rest of my board application all ready and prepared for review. The Apartment broker will submit it to the board, who will contact me to set up an interview.Now, neither I nor the seller wants this process to take forever. Waiting to have my interview until I get back is almost certainly not in the cards, unless things take even longer I guess. Thus, rather than just not go on part or all of the vacation, my mother has declared that she's sick of my refusal of all financial help, and that she'll pay for the ticket to send me back to NYC for 24 to 48 hours in the middle of the vacation, so that I can do the $@%%@#@#$@#%@#!$^@& Board Interview without breaking my grandfather's heart.
I'm getting really, really fed up of waiting for other people, and really sick of not knowing the definite date of anything. When's my closing? WHO KNOWS! When's the interview? NO IDEA! Do I have a place to live? ANYONE'S GUESS! If I DON'T have the apartment, it'll really suck. I know understand - it takes two months to do this process - which means I won't have time to find another apartment before the deadline for getting the 8k back. Meanwhile, my lease expires the end of November, and I haven't done anything to line up any place else to live.
Fun!
I know it's not that bad. I can apartment hunt for a rental very quickly - it'll only take me a couple weeks to find a place to live - I'll be in the market for the same thing I'm buying - a cheap-ass studio, more or less any where in NYC (Flatbush Gardens, here I come! ;) ). I'll take all the money that should have gone to the purchase and re-invest it, and pay off my debt, and my fiscal situation will be as shiney as it's ever been in my life...so it wouldn't be that bad. But when I think of all the effort and angst and stress, it's kinda horrifying to think it might STILL be all for nothing.
I just wish I knew. :(
Annoyances and stress aside, though, everything else is peachy-keen.
As always, I extend my travel offer: Looking for something from someplace I'm going? Miss that tea you can only buy at Harrods? Always dreamed of tacky windmill-inspired kitsch? Dig Paris fashion? I will happily hunt down any item that is requested, and mail it to ya when I get home; all I ask is that if it's more than $10, you'll have to pay me back. Just drop me a comment or an e-mail (unforth AT yahoo DOT com) and I'll commence the hunt - I love tracking stuff down. ;)
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Date: 2009-08-31 04:19 pm (UTC)OH, but if you find some Jelly Babies, that would be awesome, too. (;
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Date: 2009-08-31 05:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-07 10:56 am (UTC)I'll see about getting the macaroons - can you send me an e-mail with your address so I know zhere to ship them? Cause they won't survive til I get back. :)