GAK - what a lovely sound

Trying to do this by the email post – we’ll see what happens:

 

Our expert engineer/draftsman/designer guy comes on Saturday afternoon and just this morning, my wife and I discovered that we have two very different views on how we want the finished house to look.

 

The basic shape of the add-on and where what rooms go are pretty well decided (I think), but how much of what wall is going to be left and where which door is or isn’t going to go and are we arching or door-ing and what about windows and……

 

As I said before: GAK.

 

Here’s a bit of irony: last night a salesman called our house.  He was calling from our bank asking if we’d be interested in a home equity loan or line of credit.  Sometimes I suppose these “cold calls” pay off, and though I apologize to the entire civilized world for encouraging this behavior, I told him to try calling back on Monday.  At least this way, I don’t have to try and figure out what number to dial or what store front to visit for information.

 

I need to check on the feasibility of the design, what our expert thinks the cost of our desires (should we eventually agree on them) will be, and shop around different financial institutions. Saturday we get the expert’s general opinion, Monday I get my first offer on loans and I spend the rest of next week fielding different rates and terms and other financial quandaries that are going to leave my head spinning.

 

I should be able to work myself into a tizzy (yes, I used the word “tizzy”!) by the beginning of May.

 

I am trying to concentrate on work, to put this behind me, but as I am writing this at work*, I don’t think I have succeeded.

 

GAK.  It’s become my slogan.

 

 

*NOTE: If you work where I do; I wrote this on my LUNCH time!