Bon Jovi 2013 Tour

 

I know everyone wants to know how the Bon Jovi concert went. 

Well Let me just say it was AWESOME but not Super AWESOME!

WHAT!?!?   Let me explain......

This is the way the line up SHOULD be....David, Jon, Richie and Tico

I LOVE these guys!!!

This is me and Shae after we got our "flash seat" tickets

(just inside the door)

The Bon Jovi Die Hard Girls!!!

Jennifer, Shae, Tara ,Sherry and Denise

(Don't tell Sherry I posted this picture, She will kill me!!!)

A view from our seats

Mr. Richie Sambora................. Oh how I Love you!  And oh how I missed seeing you play with the band.
Just weeks before the Salt Lake concert, it was reported that Richie would not be touring with the band for the rest of the North American tour due to "Personal Issues."    I understand that life gets crazy and things happen. So hopefully Richie will get whatever he needs taken care of and get back on stage where he needs to be. 
Or if the other rumors are true and Jon and Richie are fighting.  They better pull their crap together and work things out.   Bon Jovi isn't Bon Jovi without Richie!!!

This is Phil X.....Fill in guitarist for Richie.
Although Phil is an amazing guitarist. It just didn't sound the same.
Richie has a certain "soul" and charisma that can't be duplicated.  So, Nice of you to "fill in" but we want our man back!!

The Show was Amazing!  Jon has never sounded better!

He spent more time talking to the crowd and interacting with them than I have ever seen.

We had a blast singing, dancing and watching the weirdo's in the crowd.

The only thing that could have made it better (other than having Richie there)

 would be to have seats in the "Pit!"

Cloudy? Only for a little while

Today I can say Every Cloud has a silver lining.

The past few days I would have said "Every Silver Lining has a big huge black cloud!"

 The reason being.....My silver lining (finally moving into our house)  

seemed to be followed by a big huge black cloud.  

Black Cloud.....My washing machine went out.  

It was an easy part to fix but there were other parts on the verge of breaking down. 

 Rather than dump a bunch of money into something that could break tomorrow,

 we headed down and bought a new machine.

The silver lining....  getting a new machine (bought the cheapest one I could find)

Black cloud....having to pay for it when it wasn't in the plans.

Black Cloud......We had some water in the basement and 

couldn't find where it came from.

Well, we soon found out that it was coming up from the drain in the 

mechanical room AND it wasn't just water. EWW!

Silver lining.....We were able to rent an auger and snake the drain. 

 Not sure what caused the problem but it seems to be fixed.

BIG HUGE BLACK CLOUD......Our renters are dead beat, story telling moochers

 who don't pay what they are supposed to and expect others to take care of them.

Silver Lining........Eviction....Gonna be a process but I will get them out.

Other Silver Lining.......I think we have found a family who wants to rent the house AND 

they can pay their bills!!!

Gary keeps reminding me just to take each day one at a time 

and everything will work out eventually.

I'm sure glad I have someone that is level headed when I feel like my head 

is going to pop off my shoulders and bounce down the street!!

Tomorrow is a NEW day!

House HELL!

I have heard over and over that building a house is stressful.

I myself can say that having our house built was a "piece of cake"

It was the remodeling and selling of our old house that has been a nightmare.....Here is a glimpse of how our last 10 months have been.

Back in March, Gary and I decided it was probably time to start looking 

to buy a different house.

After watching the market and seeing the homes for sale, we decided that it would cost us about the same to build a new house as it would to buy a house and have to fix it up.

So, our journey began to find property.

While looking for the builders "Bishop Homes," We ran across Justin Angus Construction.  (Thanks to Pat Harrell) He had a floor plan similar to the one I liked with Bishop Homes AND it cost less.  We were also able to find a piece of property in a good neighborhood at a good price.  Everything seemed to be falling into place.

We put our earnest money down, started making plans to remodel and started the craziness that has been our lives ever since.

In May while going through the house seeing what needed to be done. We found some MOLD in the downstairs bathroom.  We called our insurance company, who sent out an engineer, who sent out the mold guy, who tore apart our house and found mold in 2 other rooms. (upstairs and downstairs bathroom and Laundry room)  We spent some time with one toilet downstairs, shower and sink upstairs.  We also had to stay in a hotel while both bathrooms were torn apart. (NOT FUN)

July- All permits had been approved and they broke ground on our New house.

August we started tearing our house apart.  We needed to replace the kitchen floor, finish the bathrooms paint and get new carpet.  (All this while the two of us are working full time jobs)  In the mean time, I started getting sick and didn't know what the cause was(pretty sure stress had a lot to do with it).....We kept plugging along!

My time line gets a little distorted about now,  All I know is I was living in a house with NO carpet (cause we had pulled it all up) I had a huge dumpster in my driveway,  I didn't feel well.  Gary was working AND doing Cross Country. I was working lots of hours. The projects seemed to never end!

Gary and my Dad finally got the kitchen floor in.  I painted the entire inside of the house and we finally got our new carpet in so we could get the house on the market. (It wasn't fun dealing with the crazy carpet lady at Lowes)
Shae told me she didn't think she had ever seen me cry so much.  I was a wreck and always on the verge of a meltdown!

We had a few people here and there look at the house but no offers and the market started to slow down. 
The new house was getting closer to being finished and we started to worry more!
Then we found out that our finance company would let us get a second home loan ONLY if we had 6 months reserve on BOTH houses plus our down payment. (HELLO, My husband is a school teacher and I am a CNA) We don't have that kind of money.
We started looking for another lender.  Same story, over and over  UNTIL....Pat Harrell gave us the name of a lender that could possibly help .....and GUESS WHAT!?!  He can!!!
We are just waiting on the appraisal to come in and then the final approval.

YES! If all goes well, We could be in our beautiful new house in a few short weeks.

AND to make the whole horrible story better.......We were given a "verbal" offer on our house tonight, with a written offer being signed tomorrow.

I hope someday we can look back on this horrid experience and say "It wasn't that bad!" but it will have to be WAY down the road