The first losers

Cas and I met for a Bastille Day lunch yesterday.  It seemed only appropriate to have French food to commemorate the storming of the Bastille.  We had a plan to make it out of the restaurant in time to meet with our realtor and do a final walk-through of the house before closing.  The original closing date was July 22nd, but they offered us a chance to move it a week earlier, so we took it.

As we arrived for the walk-through, realtor Steve was on the phone.  There was apparently some kind of problem on the seller's end of things.  Their names are Pam and Rashid.  Apparently, Pam and Rashid had a debt through an out-of-state creditor, and the sale needed to wait until the 22nd in order for them to resolve the issue with that creditor without having the debt automatically taken from the proceeds of the home sale.  It was all a mess and a huge pain in the ass.  The punchline is that Pam and Rashid didn't sell us the house early, so we went to the closing and signed all of the papers for no reason.  We got no keys, bought no house and had no place to move into this morning.

Huge pain in the ass.

But, we will buy the house on the 22nd, as we originally planned.  Dangit.  But, onward and upward.  The plan for the evening was to play trivia with Cas, Jeff, Alex, Andrew and Jack- a team of six.  Jack was visiting his friend in McKinney, so it was down to five.  I called my friend Laura.  Back to six.  The twins decided they didn't want to come, so four.  No matter- we would still make a pretty good team.

Laura and Cas beat me and Jeff there, and they managed to scrape out a tiny table for us.  We managed to scoot to a slightly larger table after a few rounds of questions.  It was a fun game, but the place was completely packed with people who clearly hadn't played before.  They were loud, obnoxious and pretty much everywhere.

We had a few rounds that were pretty tough, though, and we managed to come in second place.  I had once heard that second place wasn't a winner, just the first loser.

Here is our team:

It was still a pretty good effort, and second place is respectable.  I guess we couldn't win anything yesterday.  Maybe we'll win everything next week...

I have to go and get my fingernails and toenails done tomorrow.  So girly of me...  It's something all the bridesmaids are doing, so I am down to clown.  

For tonight, Cas and I have tickets for the Barenaked Ladies.  I love that band, and I am pretty excited to go see them.  It's getting to be about time, in fact.  I should go get ready.