Spirits are pretty low for me at the moment. I've called a few stucco guys and everyone is too busy or doesn't call back. It seems like this process might stretch on forever, and I am not a very patient person. A guy promised to call me back this morning and I still haven't heard anything. I guess he is only a few hours late but when I talked to him Monday he said he couldn't even see the house until Friday and our extension deadline right now is Friday at 5pm. It is giving me knots in my stomach as we wait around. I know no one is currently on my schedule but they should be! We want to pay you thousands of dollars to fix a house! Please call me back!

In other news, we took a look at appliances over the weekend and found the style of refrigerator that we like as well as looking over a few stoves and washers. Nothing we would purchase right away, but something for the future. I think we will stick with white in the kitchen because I had no idea, but all those dumb "brushed aluminum" refrigerators cost like $200 extra just for the aluminum. I think they look terrible anyway if you get fingerprints on them, so white it is.

Oh, and the seller was able to convince someone to come out and give him an estimate on the stucco so that will be interesting to see. Out Realtor brought up the idea of doing one of those FHA rehab loans and having the work done our self after we negotiate a lower price for the house, which would be fine as long as the work can go on while we can still live there. That way the seller could leave and we could get a check to do the work at our convenience.

In some good news, hubs got a raise which will help big time if we ever get to move!!