Great Visit with my Brother

My brother from Colorado Springs was here this past weekend for a quick visit. He arrived Friday night and flew home yesterday. While it was a quick trip, we had a great time catching up with each other, and just overall relaxing and having some fun. It's always good to visit with family, especially when you live quite a distance apart and don't get to see each other very often. Glad to see you brother!

On an unrelated note, we are supposed to close on our mortgage refinance today. Ha, I'm having serious doubts whether that will happen. We were supposed to have been sent the papers on 3 separate days this past week, but nothing showed up, and now, I can't get ahold of our mortgage representative on the phone to find out what's going on. It's making me more than nervous, since the whole deal expires in another 2 days. I'm also beginning to wonder if they aren't stalling on purpose since they ultimately don't have the available cash line to complete the deal right now. Who knows. All I know is that it's giving me an ulcer worrying about it, trying to keep the logistics straight.

One of our credit cards was also compromised over the weekend. Not sure how, but the crooks apparently made a fake card and tried to use it about 800 miles from here at a local Walmart. The activity triggered a fraud alert on our account. I contacted the company and immediately closed down the account. The only problem, all of our automatic payments through various companies are on that card, so it will be a hassle to get all those payments changed to a different card. Since it happened on 2/28, and at least 3 payments come out on 3/1, I've got a bit more to deal with to get the extra charges for a denied transactions and late fees removed as well. This will be the 4th time in our adult lives that we've had something like this happen. I think we've paid our dues, but dumbass crooks will always be on the prowl. It's crazy.

I woke up this morning with a very bad pain in my back too. I apparently slept wrong last night and tweaked my back. That happens if I sleep in the wrong position. I know that, and consciously try to not sleep in that certain position, but I must have been so tired last night I didn't know the difference. Ugh. That will probably take a week to work itself back out. Hope that doesn't affect my running training, but we'll see.