24 Days and counting

The hurdles have been high and frequent but were almost there. We have one huge one ahead of us, negotiating with WaMu about the sale of our Condo, but we don't know exactly when we'll face that so in the mean time we are just waiting and enjoying the temporary relief from some stress. Megan and I are 100% over the food poisoning, and just about over a cold that we both got immediately after the food poisoning issue. So on to happier things, the condo appraiser came by, the home inspector came by, the buyers came by and so far everyone seems to be happy. We are now just playing the waiting game with WaMu.

Other good news, my boss has given me the go-ahead to pursue working contract for Zebra via the Internet! Income will be VERY helpful. I am currently working out the paperwork details but other then that it appears to be a done deal. With two three day work weeks ahead of me I am heading to an easy end at Zebra (as a full time employee anyways). Sitting in Grenada on my computer making good $ sounds like a great deal to me.

Also another major highlight, I got accepted to Texas A & M - Commerce Professional MBA program. I am extremely happy about that. I have yet to hear from Univ. of Mass. but that should be coming by the middle of next week.

It's kind of interesting decorating (lightly) for xmas while also pulling out all the empty boxes to start packing. As the date gets closer and closer I am getting more and more excited.

Oh yeah, to anyone actually reading this, we have a two bedroom Apartment with an empty (twin) bed. Anyone is welcome to come down and visit anytime and stay for free.

One more thought, for those curious I plan to have lots of photos posted of Grenada soon as we arrive.

slowly but surely...

As the clock continues to tick closer and closer to our January 12th departure date some things are finally starting to fall into place, but not without throwing other wrenches into the works. We got an offer on our condo, Whoo Hoo! We are in negotiations about the price and contract but are very close to signing. Megan also got approved on her student loans by aid of my co-signature, another major hurdle down. On the down side of things the two of us have a VERY nasty bug, we're not sure if it's food poisoning or viral but either way its awful. Neither one of us can ever remember feeling this miserable. Currently we are on day two and starting to feel slightly better but still a very long ways from us feeling "normal". Either way we wouldn't wish this bug on anyone, essentially it purges your entire body, while also getting sever stomach cramps, lots of lower back pain, and a general sense of throbbing throughout our entire bodies constantly. It sucks.

It's been a mixed bag, but over all the good news out weighs the bad.

Regardless on we go!

Getting there may be the toughest part

Nowadays we hear "fraud this" and "protection that" without thinking much of it until of course you find out your denied student loans because of a delinquent account, which of course your completely unaware of. Now that we are in the middle of this situation we are scrambling trying to figure out how to get the fraud off Megan's account while also quickly realizing no one in our family can manage the co-signature we now need to establish a loan for the first year while the credit card company takes there time to clear the fraud from her credit report. As the date of our departing flight approaches closer and closer the stress level rises and rises.

As we make call after call to the various agencies I start to wonder if the stress of Vet school will really be all that bad after the stress of just getting there...

Getting Started

This is the first official Glaser blog. I plan to update this as often as possible, keeping all you state side up-to-date with our fun and games in Grenada. As Megan and I are still in Santa Barbara our adventure starts with just getting us off the mainland and on our way to Grenada. We have a couple major hurtles left to get over...
1. get student loans... finding out you have fraud on my credit report by being denied student loans is a tough lesson. We are still working with the loan company and the credit card company to get this settled ASAP.
2. sell the condo - We love our condo but we don't love it's costs. We've met with multiple CPAs and they all say "get out from underneath it". As much as we'd love to keep it there just isn't any way. We plan to drop the price once again to try to get this to move ASAP.
3. Pack our stuff up and either sell or store everything big... It's a tough decision, at what point do you sell everything and start over vs paying to store it for four years? Based on the fact that we have pretty nice stuff in general it's probably worth storing it seeing as selling it will only get us pennies on the dollar.

Beyond those it's just packing our bags, mildly drugging our two adorable fuzzballs, and jumping on a plane for a grueling 16 hours total travel time. It's a long trip for two humans, and a very scary one for two miniature Schnauzers.