Author: Benford

Marathon cleaning day

Well, if you look down at my checklist, I’m pretty much done with all the “public” rooms so I’m going to call it done for now. I can work on my room a bit tomorrow morning and even after Thanksgiving Day is done. It’s really for my enjoyment more than anyone else’s. My house feels good. I hate that I haven’t been able to really clean it in a few weeks because I’ve been so busy. Luckily, being busy with work is very satisfying so my house being dirty is not seen in any way as personal failure. 😀

I guess I’m going to relax and watch tv for a bit then meet a friend for dinner. *AH* Hope your weekend is fulfilling!

Thanksgiving Day Prep

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and my family is coming over for some food and festivities. Well, there isn’t really a whole lot of “festivities” with out family Thanksgivings but we do enjoy good stories and drinks and fellowship. Things have been really busy lately and my house is really gross. Not necessarily frat house gross or anything but certainly not ready for anyone to come over! So, today is cleaning day. I’m very glad that although everyone is coming over here, I really don’t have to do any cooking this year. My mom loves to cook and we love her cooking and because she’s so busy, she doesn’t get to cook very often. Don’t want to take that opportunity away from her (or us!)! So, to keep me on track, here’s everything I have to do today:

Kitchen: – DONE!!

  • Clean kitchen counters
  • Clean kitchen floors
  • Clean out fridge (make room for leftovers) – tomorrow
  • Put away clean dishes and clean rest of dirty dishes
  • Take out trash

    • Living Room: – DONE!!

  • Sort through mail
  • Put away excess “stuff”
  • Vaccuum

    • Bedroom:

  • Laundry
  • Put away clean laundry
  • Vaccuum
  • Clean bathroom

    • Other: – DONE!!

  • Clean guest bathroom
  • Clean litter box
  • Go to grocery store – I should do that early and “avoid” the rush – nope, not gonna get done.

    • So, there are LOTS to do around here. I better get to it! Thank goodness I have the whole day off….

    Have a good turkey day!!

    Give the frog a loan! (Not that joke)

    Stuff has been happening…man, have I been busy! Lots of pics to post and have been posted in the Gallery. I’m feeling much better now that I got some rest last week. Can’t wait for this 5 day Thanksgiving holiday!!! Maybe I can post a real update or at least some pictures then. For the mean time, I leave you with this quite funny story that comes thanks to my friend Sarah.

    Loan Application

    “Priceless” is the correct term for this lawyer’s eloquence and logic! In case you missed this, it is priceless!!! In case you don’t understand, I’ll explain it.

    New Orleans residents are challenged often with the task of tracing home titles back potentially hundreds of years. With a community rich with history stretching back over two centuries, houses have been passed along through generations of family, making it quite difficult to establish ownership.

    Here’s a great letter an attorney wrote to the FHA on behalf of a client that I thought was absolutely priceless!!!

    You’ve gotta love this lawyer……. it’s too good not to share!

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    A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral. The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the lawyer three months to track down. After sending the information to the FHA, he received the following reply.

    (Actual letter): “Upon review of your letter adjoining your client’s loan application, we note that the request is supported by an Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in which you have prepared and presented the application, we must point out that you have only cleared title to the proposed collateral property back to 1803. Before final approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear the title back to its origin.”

    Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows: (Actual letter): “Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been received. I note that you wish to have title extended further than the 194 years covered by the present application. I was unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly those working in the property area, would not know that Louisiana was purchased, by the U.S. , from France in 1803, the year of origin identified in our application. For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title to the land prior to U S ownership was obtained from France , which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain . The land came into the possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus, who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to India by the Spanish monarch, Isabella. The good queen, Isabella, being a pious woman and almost as careful about titles as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of the Pope before she sold her jewels to finance Columbus ‘ expedition.

    Now the Pope, as I’m sure you may know, is the emissary of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and God, it is commonly accepted, created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume that God also made that part of the world called Louisiana .

    God, therefore, would be the owner of origin and His origins date back, to before the beginning of time, the world as we know it AND the FHA. I hope you find God’s original claim to be satisfactory.

    Now, may we have our loan?”

    The loan was approved.