it sucks that we couldn't lock in a mortgage rate 3-4 months ago b/c rates were awesome back then. ours isn't terrible but we needed a non-warrantable loan and according to gopooh (who did everything but sign my name on the dotted lines) we were screwed b/c that limited the companies we could use.
on the plus side, our credit scores came back and we were both >800. they jumped almost 100 points in the last 2 years? um, ok, whatever works i s'pose. actually, gopooh's credit report is a little weird b/c one of the companies gave him a score 100 below the other two. not that i know anything about how those companies operate, but that makes me go, wtf is going on over there?!
all this mortgage stuff is kinda scary. i mean, i've never had to make mortgage payments. i'm trying to tell myself that it'll be the same as rent, only more expensive. that doesn't help (much) though, b/c i think my issue w/ this mortgage is not the loss of some spending money for the rest of residency, but rather the whole difference in mentality and meaning that comes w/ having any mortgage at all, big or small.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
i've been infected by annalise. although i'm not going to list 5 ppl to infect, here are my 5 random facts:
1. i watch tv religiously. not all tv, but my tv, which means general hospital, desperate housewives, grey's anatomy, nip/tuck, and alias. sex and the city used to be on that list before the series ended.
2. i got snow tires for the first time ever this past weekend. they were cheaper than i expected, but what's money for driving stability?
3. i'm a food purist. don't give me any of that fusion crap.
4. now that i've been to paris, i don't really have that one city that i absolutely must visit. i no longer have an answer to the question, "if you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?"
5. i actually like my job. knowing what i know now, if i had to go back and choose a career/program over again, there's nowhere else i'd rather be. a big part of it is the number of friends i've made over the last 6 months. they make my job feel UN-like a job.
and w/ that, i'm done. that didn't take very long at all!