My mortgage broker is a control freak. I really appreciate that about her. She's terrific. My realtor is also really good. Whatever I ask him to find out or do, he's right there. My lawyer - eh - but he does his job. There was a death and the whole law office was closed, so I'm assuming it was somebody close to them. That probably was what he was focused on.

I'm having the appraisal done Tuesday or Thursday (a "T" day) and as soon as that's written up, and the signed contract is sent to my mortgage broker, the bank can sign off on the mortgage. All the paper work for the mortgage has already been done.

I don't know if anything else has to be done, but I went to the beach yesterday with a friend and had a lovely day.

New house pictures
 

Good for you," relaxing", it is out of your control now.
Be sure to let me know about the appraisal.

Oh Elaine your in big trouble a Brooklyn guy, retired cop and ITALIAN!! I feel for you j/k. Where is your hubby from in Bklyn?, how old is he? maybe we went to school with him , as Judy mentioned we are both born and raised Bklyn girls and I am italian to...oh boy...lol We should meet with Judy, myself and Teri before Judy moves. We can do lunch by Pier Village that would be nice.. What do you girls think?


Judy good luck with your appraisal here in NJ you don't get your mortgage commitment until your appraisal is done.

Wow! It is gorgeous Judy! I think you'll really like it there. Congrats! (By the way, I love your attitude. I wish I could be more laid back like that!)

It took me years to get to be this way Angie! I love your hair in the picture.

I think that's a perfect match! The Italian boys were so gorgeous to us Brooklyn girls! We were always lusting after them. He "got off the block" by marrying a Jersey girl. It was very important which block(s) you were from, and often you were expected to marry and stay at least close to "the block," if you were Italian. Jewish girls, like I was, were expected to marry only Jewish boys and move to Long Island, have nose jobs and be really snotty b******.

These were some of the many Brooklyn rules during the baby boomer days. Don't blame me - I didn't make them up!

Gee, I love reading about these Jersey, Brooklyn, Jewish, Italian rules!!! Sounds like a TV show..so tell more!

It was such a wonderful place to grow up! There were so many kids! We were the baby boomers, and we had so much fun!!!

I will tell you more Brooklyn stories. Gina - you have to help me out here.

One thing I will tell you - we had the absolute best egg creams in the entire universe! Our pizza was also amazing. Brooklyn food was so good. We would cut out of school early when it got warm, and take the train to Coney Island.
We would go to Nathan's and have hot dogs and their fries, which have never been duplicated! They also had chow mein sandwiches, which consisted of chow mein and noodles on a hamburger bun. Disgusting isn't it? But - so good.

Maybe there's still hope for me. I don't know if I could ever give up my excel documents and color coded calendars though. In some ways, I am overly organized, but it helps me feel more relaxed about the future that way. Maybe with time I'll become more laid back. I worry WAY too much about the details...

Thanks for the compliment! I dressed up and took pics for Brendon as part of his anniversary gift. He really enjoyed it.

Like Janet, I love hearing about you growing up in Brooklyn. Big difference between your childhood and ours on a So Tx farm.

I just had one scarey visit to Brooklyn, but one thing I remember about my visit to Coney Island was the soft serve ice cream. They had pistachio. I couldn't believe it. Around here the only soft serve we get is vanilla or chocolate. We have lots of other flavors of ice cream, of course, but that's all that we have in soft serve. I got a big pistachio waffle cone. Sooooo good!!

And therein lies my laid back attitude. I'm also extremely organized. I've been packed for a good 2 weeks now, I'm ordering cable/phone/internet today, etc., etc. I really think being organized leads to so much less stress. At some point in my life, I realized that I can be organized without thinking about it and never worrying about it and I went right into laid back.

By the way, my friend told me that I've gone beyond organized straight to OCD
when I told her I was packing up 2 weeks ago. I laughed, but I still have no stress!!!

Keep your color coding and spreadsheets....