Y'know, I really JUMPED on some of this stuff! Must still have the adrenalin rush going on and in shock.
Meeting with one of the 403(b) reps today at Benjie's..Have to contact the other 403(b) company to t/f $.
Did paperwork, our Mutual of America rep Walter D'Souza is AWESOME!!!
- Bub and I had a Harbor Freight attack!!! We LOVE that place!!!
Just be-bopping around town, getting stuff notarized, downloading transcripts from college when I went in the Middle Ages, sending away for college transcripts from the Dark Ages, maybe they'll come by Pony Express. Or chariot. Or mastodon.
Now this is kinda funny:
I'd always seen classes in the Brea newsletter and the good ones I'd see were in the mornings!
We went to the pharmacy, I picked up another Brea 'what's going on' newsletter, and the GOOD NEWS IS
I can now take those morning classes!!
BUT...
The INTERESTING NEWS IS
that they're at the Brea Senior Center.
Huh.
This evening, I downloaded a lot of school stuff, i.e. orientation, assessments, forms, I can't beLIEVE how much paperwork and forms there are now! I'm going to start with a few online courses just to get my feet wet. They're actually hybrids, you have to meet the first day and then meet sporadically thereafter, but mostly it's online. Which is good.
Hope the transcripts from the monks come quick.
Lots of medical stuff for Bub i.e. Dr. appt for WC.
I got a phone call from the DOR and my counselor is someone who I was in occasional contact with when I was at Goodwill!!! Small world!! So she knew I knew what was needed, I told her my situations, it was a nice chat!!!
When Bub and I were waiting for the Dr., we were looking at ABQ homes and switching phones so we could both look at them. We saved a few and Jax wanted to see some. I wanted to compare them with what we have and what I really want to do at this house.
I wrote a couple of lists and included projects I want to do to our house.
If we ever moved there, I'd like:
Pueblo revival/pueblo contemporary/southwestern contemporary
I have a list of 'must haves' or 'don't want'...
1. Master bath has to have a nicer bathtub, you know one of those neat ones like you like BUT also has to have a small shelf around it, and a separate glass-enclosed shower (that glass-enclosed shower is what I want to put in our black and white bathroom)
2. A front of a house that looks relatively cool
3. (Jax and Steve taught me this) I HAVE to have a front window for a Christmas tree and the front window is NOT a bedroom!!!
4. The backyard has to be nicer for our grandson Stevie to play
5. Relatively close to Jax, Steve and Stevie.
6. Lots of light and windows (I really like Jax and Steve's house because of all the light and upper windows and that skylight in the bathroom!)
7. Not TOO much greenery, backyard only, just enough grass for da little sweetie to play on, but Barry wouldn't mind gravel 'cause you CAN'T MOW IT!!!
8. No cul-de-sacs, not enough parking there.
9. No HOA, or I want to see the HOA contract before I buy to make sure I can do what I want to i.e. put a pool in, put a pergola in the front (one of those neat small patio covers that would go over the entrance)
10. No 'deep' long entrance way, they tend to be 'dark'.
11. No way the neighbors behind or to the side can look into the back yard, UNLESS we make the fence bigger or plant some cypress trees or something to block the view.
12. POOL (if there isn't one, we'll put one in, TRUST ME!) But we'd have to have a big enough backyard to fence in the pool area. Maybe I'd get a lap pool, about the depth of our jacuzzi, and not quite the size of a regular pool, see pic below. For some reason, VERY few people in ABQ have pools!!!
My secondary list of "ok, I'd make this a 'must have' except I COULD live without it" and "I really don't want it but I'll cave if I have to" is
1. Kiva fireplace (that corner 'beehive' fireplace)
2. 'Bump out' kitchen or front window, like a bumped out window seat
3. I'd like it a little more 'Southwestern contemporary' style.
4. Nichos are nice (little wall indents that hold things)
5. Vigas (those wooden beams on the ceilings)
6. Small enclosed front courtyard with one of those adobe 1/2 walls. We'd probably put a small ornamental patio cover/pergola in front.
7.Master bedroom opens to back yard, OR if upstairs, opens to a balcony. Has enough room for a couple of dressers PLUS a couple of chairs and a small table.
8. A lot of gravel, in fact, almost all gravel
8. A lot of gravel, in fact, almost all gravel
In fact, here at our house I'd like to remove the front tree and put a pergola/patio cover in front. (see pic below the lap pool)
I'm tired, I'm gonna go have a root beer float.
MORE to come!!!
PS-to get to sleep every night, I'm reading the 50th Anniversary edition of "The Great Crash of 1929" by John Kenneth Galbraith.
It's really interesting, believe it or not!
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