Exhausted

I am absolutely exhausted. I have had such a long week at work and it has just worn be down. It started with the boating I guess. We were out most of Saturday and I was just worn slap out. After we got home from boating we went to eat dinner at Osaka, our favorite hibachi place. It's sad, they know us well, since we got about once a week. We were seated next to an older couple and a couple in their late 30's. The younger lady looked so familiar. I just knew that she had to of been on TV. I couldn't put my finger on which reality show she was on but I knew she had to be on something. So finally I asked her. I said that she probably thinks I'm crazy but it was driving me nuts why I recognized her. She was on the 2nd season of Big Brother. It was the only season I watched and she came in 2nd. It all came back to me. We spoke to the couples there and Lee invited the older gentleman and his group of 4 to come eat at his restaurant.

So we're sitting there finishing up our meal and the older guy asks Mackenzie how she liked her food. She was so exhausted from boating and you could see it in her eyes but she answered it was good. He asked me if Jackson always stood up when he eats and I embarrassingly told him yes. So we chit chat for a bit and find out they own a condo at Silver Shells and he is from Alpharetta, GA. So we are finished eating and I'm waiting for our check so we can leave. I finally notice he has his bill but we didn't get ours? Ummm... I'm tired and ready to go. So I ask him if that was his bill, duh, it had to be, because we didn't get ours yet. He said that he had taken care of our meal. Easily $150 with the tip. I'm flabbergasted and start kicking Lee to tell him. I thank the gentleman. I don't know if my shocked expression really conveyed how sweet and thankful I was.

They walked out of the restaurant and I started having tears run down my face. I was so thankful. It seemed that they would go to his restaurant the next night and Lee said he was going to take care of them so he didn't understand why I was so moved. For one because he can comp the food and for this guy it comes out of his own pocket. It was just very touching. No one has ever done anything like that for us before. It wasn't a McDonald's meal but a really expensive meal.

So Sunday night the kids and I left the house in the afternoon to pick up my prescription. Yes, this is after waking up at 9:30 and feeling like I'd been hit by a truck from a day of boating. I was very out of it feeling and my body could barely move. It was very sore from the day before. It took me a few hours to get with the program. So we get my prescriptions and then I stop by an open house that the realtor I'm working with was having. Gorgeous house across the street from the beach. We chatted for a bit and then the kids and I headed to Lee's restaurant for dinner. It was around 5. You see my reason for going there was to see the man who paid for our meal and thank him again. He had mentioned coming at 6pm. So the kids and I were there until almost 7. No guy. Of course 15 mins after we left he comes in. Blah. Lee took care of their tab and bought them $400 worth of food and drinks. Well done. Lee also reiterated to him how much his generousity meant to me.

This week was crazyyyyyy with work. I'm not really doing title work anymore but working with an agent on his listings, buyers, and short sale packages. This really neat guy Chris is coming on board April 14th and will be the buyers agent. He's also bringing with him his lawn care and handyman company. It will really help bring together our full package approach for our clients. We've had several lunches together throwing ideas around and it seems as if Chris and I will be the more slow thinkers. Well, that statement probably doesn't make sense. Andy, like me, gets really excited about ideas and is eager to implement them immediately or try to gear them up. The problem is we're not necessarily ready for the big expansion and we need to get our team going and flowing smoothly first. If we try and do too much and new too soon it will crash and burn. Chris is a good voice of reason. I am glad that he is like that too because it helps me to tell Andy when to slow down.

Now don't get me wrong, I love Andy and his ideas are amazing. Just some of the things that we could do is just too soon. He knows that but it's hard to slow down when you get so excited about a great idea and you want to go ahead and plow ahead with it. I too many times get that way and need someone to rope me back in. That being said I am so excited with what we have acheived so far. This week we got an offer for the open house property and one other property in Destin. We now have a fully excuted contract for the open house property and working on the other one. It also looks like we might get an offer on the Shalimar house. And I'm keeping my fingers crossed on the Niceville one. Now we just need more listings. Ahhhh! We did get a buyer from the open house. They are working on their pre-approval. Buying a house in the 700k range. Not too shabby!

So Mackenzie's spring break started on Thursday. Thursday morning I left to meet my mom halfway in Greenville. Mackenzie was so excited to go spend the time with my parents. She just loves them so much and of course they love her to death. Her friend Kendall has a grandmother who lives in Alabama too. I asked Courtney,her mom, what she was doing for spring break and she was going to go to the Spice (afterschool/holiday program) at school. I told her if Kendall wanted to visit her grandmother's that I was meeting my mom halfway in Greenville and would take Kendall there too if her mom wanted to meet us. It ended up working out that way and Kendall rode with us. It is her first time being away from her parents for more than one night. She cried before we picked her up. She was upset in the car in the beginning and then she got better. It was rough though having two 7 year olds in the car. Wow! Acting all crazy and this and that. But they were excited. Thank goodness for my XM radio on FoxNews. It saved me.

I got back to town at 2:30 and immediately went in to the office because of issues we've been having with the short sale closings getting approval and an excecuted contract for another property. By 5pm I was pooped. Worn slap out. Want to go to bed and crash type feeling. Lee had opened so we all ate at hibachi around 6. No one to pay for us this time. I asked Roxanne the lady who is always there who the guy was who bought our meal. She was the one he told to buy it. She said that she thought his name was Depot (it's not, I checked) and he's from Atlanta area and his private jet flies him down here. Somehow that doesn't surprise me. She said he's super nice and tips very well. We had a great time at hibachi and the food was as good as ever. However, this time we had to pay our own bill. But that's okay, it was worth it!

So yesterday I went to work. I was very tired from the day before but somehow made it through. Lee is off Friday and Saturday (today) and was at home sleeping. We're working on our short sale negotiations, talking to attorneys due to problems with the chain of title, etc. Very long day just because we had so many different issues going on. It's also frustrating for me because I'm at a standstill with a problem and I feel like I need to do more to get it done but I can't do anything else. It's frustrating too because the mortgage companies suck. They have the loans, don't record the assignments of mortgage, file foreclosure proceedings in the name of a lender who doesn't have any record of owning it, try to find out the right investor so we can get the right assignment of mortgage and the one who filed the foreclosure isn't the one that the original lender sold the loan to. Yeah, if you could follow that then I'm proud of you. My title agent side of me wants to figure it all out and cure the title. That's not my job now and even if it was I still couldn't do anything else to fix. It's a waiting game.

So last night we ate dinner at Louisiana Lagniappe, the first place Lee worked when we moved down here. The restaurant was closed down all winter for a huge remodel. It just opened a week ago. The food is the best in town. We go there and Lee's very good friend Alvin was working. We sat in his section and I got to see Chris again, another friend of his who briefly bartended at his place while the restaurant was doing the remodel. Lee saw many others he knew from before. The place was beautiful with the remodel. Alvin was funny as ever. He's this older black guy (okay, older as in his early 40's maybe) and is hysterical. They trade racial jokes/picking on each other. I asked Alvin if he gets tired of it and I can't remember what he said but it was hysterical.

The food was phenomenal and the sunset gorgeous. The server was just amazing and we had a great time. It was good for me to see some of the people and Lee enjoyed it very much. We were stuff though. I ate way too much! Lee ate way more than me and I don't know how he could breathe. When we got our bill Becky, the manager, had comped it. I didn't think she would, especially after Lee told me that when her son wanted a job he didn't hire him. But Alvin went to her and asked if she was going comp it and "hook a n... up". lol This is coming from a black man too, and he's originally from New Orleans. So Lee left a $50 tip. Yeah, about 50% tip. Not bad for our friend Alvin. Alvin is the guy who has done our taxes for the past 5 years. He's coming over tonight to work on them. He use to work as an accountant for the IRS many moons ago. He does a lot of servers taxes too.

So we came home worn out, stuffed and tired. I seriously ate to much. We got home around 8:30. We laid in bed and watched tv for a while. Jackson finally fell asleep and then I did too around 11. Now I'm up and will be going on the boat soon. I can't wait. We're going to have a great day. And I miss Mackenzie too!