No, I wasn't abducted by aliens!

Sometimes I kinda wish I was abducted by aliens, but no that's not why I haven't updated this blog in quite some time.  Life has gotten quite busy, not that it isn't usually busy, but lately it's been quite busy.  I wonder if, when aliens abduct you, after all that probing and stuff, they let you just float in a spaceship room with nothing to do but, well, just float.  No sports practices to be running frantically to after working 8 hours with angry disgruntled people (patients and coworkers included.), no "WHAT'S FOR SUPPER WE'RE HUNGRY NOW", no piles of laundry that seem to have evolved to the point they're able to procreate just sitting there in the hamper, no taxes to be done, well you get the point.  Would TOTALLY be worth the probing. 

I'm always seeing people posting on facebook about how bored they are, nothing to do, etc.  I wish I had me a little bit of that.  Guess it's one of those "grass is always greener" types of things.  But I doubt I'll be complaining of boredom for a long time.  Right now, we're at the end of gymnastics competition season--the girl child is competing in the State championships 2 weekends from now.  I do have to say I love seeing her compete, but I will be glad when the season is over.  She will still have to be taxied to practice 4 nights/week, but at least she won't be having meets on weekends.  But don't for a minute think our weekends will be ours again...noooooo, because the boy child's baseball season is just beginning.  Games twice/week, practices once/week, and weekend tournaments sprinkled into the pot several times/month.  No, weekends free are things of the past. 

And because I'm not busy enough already and want the added stress of having complete strangers scrutinize my past umpteen years of financial records (which I had to dig up out of my files aka boxes in my cellar), we're refinancing our home.  You can only go on seeing 3 point something percent interest rates for so long before you bite the bullet and trade that 7 point something one in.  Only it was more difficult than it was years ago when we did it.  Seems banks don't want to finance custom non-cookie cutter log homes and appraisers can't find anything even remotely comparable to our home sweet home in order to tell the bank how much to loan us.  Never mind that we both have mid to high 700's credit scores, pay our mortgage on time and always have done so, and have been in our current jobs for close to 10 years and have very stable work histories.  Also never mind that the refi will lower our years (changing from 30 to 15) AND will even lower our monthly payment in the process.  The way I see it is that should be LESS risk to the bank.  But I know I'm just being logical and logic is sometimes (usually?) NOT how the rest of the world works.  Especially the financial world (won't even get into talking about taxes!)

Maybe if I sign over my 2 kids to them?  Let the banks cart them around to practices.  Aliens, where are you????