Chaos city

No new pics this time around, just crazy stories. :-) So, when we had our framing inspection done, the inspector wouldn't sign off on it because we didn't have homeowner plumbing and electrical permits. John and I didn't have a clue that we were supposed to have these permits (we thought our contractor had pulled everything we needed). When we went down to LEIP on Fri 5/11, we were told that we weren't homesteaded, and therefore we couldn't pull the permits. On Mon 5/15, John went down and confirmed that we were homesteaded (although not technically until 2007 because I did it after Dec 1, 2005), and then tried to pull permits. Again, he couldn't because his liscence didn't have his current address on it. After going to work, he went back down to LEIP again and talked to a different person who let him pull the permits.

Meanwhile, on Sat 5/13, I went to Saturn to get our car's oil changed. And they found $400 of necessary (the car will end up in a ditch if you drive to Madison) kind of repairs, and they couldn't be done until Monday. I had been looking forward to getting out of town and seeing my brother graduate, and so I was quite upset. We went on the mad hunt to borrow a car from our parents, but both of his were up in Little Falls, and I didn't have a key to the car that my parents left behind. Frustration levels elevated, and we were lucky enough to have John's parents agree to rent a car for us (thank you, thank you, thank you again!!). So, we headed out to Madison, found a hotel about 20 mins out, crashed, woke up, bought cheese, went to breakfast with my family, watched Jeff graduate, met his girlfriend's (Emily) family, and then headed out of town again. I am very lucky to have people that are so good to me. It was the stress relief that I needed.

On Tuesday we found out that we had corrections to make on both the plumbing and electrical, and so that is going to get done today. Hopefully. Maybe we'll get sheetrocked walls by Memorial Day!!