I've had a lot of homework lately and I just really haven't been on the computer much. There isn't a lot going on right now, we're just waiting to move and looking at furniture. We've bought a bed and I've located some free furniture that we need to go and look at, but that's basically all. I have a test in Biology on Thursday and even though I've been studying around 4 to 10 hours a night I still don't feel prepared for it. I'll let ya'll know how it goes. I really think I'm just over thinking things lately, but I can't be too careful when it comes to school. I need to start getting my gpa back up now so I can get into grad school in a couple of years.
When something exciting happens I'll let ya'll know and when I have time to sit down and recall some more Airstream moments I'll get that done too.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Monday, August 23, 2010
Vintage Airstream For Sale
So here it is, I still can't believe I'm typing this. Our Airstream that has been our Tulsa home for two years is For Sale.
Price: $4000
Specs:
1972 Airstream Sovereign Land Yacht International dual axle travel trailer, 7500lbs dry weight, 9000lbs loaded. Trailer comes with hitch and original EZ stabilizer bar kit.
32ft Rear bath mid-ship bunk with large closets and credenza.
Vista View windows.
Skin is in excellent condition one minor ding that is barely noticeable. She has ghost numbers and a ghost of a Wally Byam Travel Club sticker just above them.
Under skin is also fully intact and stiff walled newer trailer tires with plenty of tread.
All four jacks are in perfect working condition.
All four original hubcaps
Brand new Carrier AC/ Heat unit installed Spring of 2010
Original Dometic propane refrigerator
Original Dometic propane cook top
Original Magic Chef oven
Original double basin stainless steel sink.
Original lounge gaucho sofa bed
Original radio and control panel
All curtains and blinds intact
Original rock guard
Original aluminum propane takes and regulator. Propane takes have been converted to match OPD specifications.
Original bathroom fixtures, tub and hand flush Thetford toilet.
All closet doors are intact.
Tambor doors are a bit rough but most of them are intact and working.
New RV plug installed last month July of 2010.
New rugs in December of 2009.
Linoleum floors throughout.
Non working hot water heater, may just need a part but we were unable to tow it to an RV shop due to the fact that we lived in it. The door is still intact and may be fabricated to fit a new hot water heater if one is needed.
Forced air furnace with ducting throughout the inside and the under skin of the trailer.
The electronics of the furnace were replaced in October of 2008 and she blows hot.
This model has four closets, two bureaus under the credenza and two huge pantries in the kitchen.
It also has plenty of overhead storage in the bunk and in the kitchen and bathroom and under bed storage under the gaucho and the bunk.
She is definitely tow-able and livable. As a reminder I am sitting in the bunk looking into the kitchen as I type this up and she has been our Tulsa home for the last two years as stated above.
She will also be listed on Craig's List, RV Trader and the Airforums. Leave a comment with contact information and I will get back to you as soon as I can. She will not be available before September13th and she will be moved to a storage facility as of the 16th. We will show her at both locations once we have moved our things into our new home.
Photos to come soon.
Price: $4000
Specs:
1972 Airstream Sovereign Land Yacht International dual axle travel trailer, 7500lbs dry weight, 9000lbs loaded. Trailer comes with hitch and original EZ stabilizer bar kit.
32ft Rear bath mid-ship bunk with large closets and credenza.
Vista View windows.
Skin is in excellent condition one minor ding that is barely noticeable. She has ghost numbers and a ghost of a Wally Byam Travel Club sticker just above them.
Under skin is also fully intact and stiff walled newer trailer tires with plenty of tread.
All four jacks are in perfect working condition.
All four original hubcaps
Brand new Carrier AC/ Heat unit installed Spring of 2010
Original Dometic propane refrigerator
Original Dometic propane cook top
Original Magic Chef oven
Original double basin stainless steel sink.
Original lounge gaucho sofa bed
Original radio and control panel
All curtains and blinds intact
Original rock guard
Original aluminum propane takes and regulator. Propane takes have been converted to match OPD specifications.
Original bathroom fixtures, tub and hand flush Thetford toilet.
All closet doors are intact.
Tambor doors are a bit rough but most of them are intact and working.
New RV plug installed last month July of 2010.
New rugs in December of 2009.
Linoleum floors throughout.
Non working hot water heater, may just need a part but we were unable to tow it to an RV shop due to the fact that we lived in it. The door is still intact and may be fabricated to fit a new hot water heater if one is needed.
Forced air furnace with ducting throughout the inside and the under skin of the trailer.
The electronics of the furnace were replaced in October of 2008 and she blows hot.
This model has four closets, two bureaus under the credenza and two huge pantries in the kitchen.
It also has plenty of overhead storage in the bunk and in the kitchen and bathroom and under bed storage under the gaucho and the bunk.
She is definitely tow-able and livable. As a reminder I am sitting in the bunk looking into the kitchen as I type this up and she has been our Tulsa home for the last two years as stated above.
She will also be listed on Craig's List, RV Trader and the Airforums. Leave a comment with contact information and I will get back to you as soon as I can. She will not be available before September13th and she will be moved to a storage facility as of the 16th. We will show her at both locations once we have moved our things into our new home.
Photos to come soon.
Who Wants to Buy the Tin Can?
We found a house last week and fell in love with it. It's just the right size in just the right area. It's in our age range and price range and it's just what we've been looking for. We were the first people to look at it as it had just been put back on the renter market. Interestingly enough we didn't even know it existed when we were driving around trying to get to a different neighborhood. I took a random residential street to try and cut across Route 66, and there it was the first house in from the corner of a wide, well kept, quiet street.
This is the house we went to look at after we found the Saab and we filled out the paperwork right away. Wynn was hopeful but I have a hard time getting my hopes up, I've always felt that if I do I am setting myself up to fail. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than devastatingly disappointed.
At any rate I tried not to think about it all weekend and at the same time promising my friends that I would tell them as soon as I knew anything. So I worked my last 12hr shift of the week and came home this morning to sleep for a few hours before class. At 9am Wynn called and woke me up. I was so dead asleep that what she was saying didn't even register at first. "We got the house." "What? What are you talking about?" "We got the house." and then I dissolved into non-words as my mouth tried to catch up with my brain.
We are moving in on the 13th of September, 12 days after my 29th birthday and my father will be pulling the Airstream out of our rental slot to a nearby storage facility on the 16th the day rent is due here. The Airstream is officially for sale. I know I will miss Airstreaming full time but I'm not sure when exactly I will start missing it, probably when we park her at the storage facility down the road.
The house is red brick with white trim and a working fireplace. It has wood floors throughout and tile in the bathroom and kitchen. It was probably built in the late 1920s and still has all of the original details. Someone built a garage on probably in the 1940s and also added on a sun room. It has two bedrooms a formal dining room and a large living room. There are 1920s era French doors into the sun room where our office and my study area will be. All of the plumbing fixtures as far as I can tell especially in the bathroom are original.
It has brand new appliances in the kitchen; gas stove, dishwasher, refrigerator, garbage disposal and even a washer and dryer. The garage is big enough for all of the tools that I drive around with in our 4Runner and even our motorcycles will fit.
I am so excited that I have been up since Wynn called at 9am, I think I shall crash after class and sleep until my class in the morning.
The next post will have the specifics on the Airstream and the price.
This is the house we went to look at after we found the Saab and we filled out the paperwork right away. Wynn was hopeful but I have a hard time getting my hopes up, I've always felt that if I do I am setting myself up to fail. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than devastatingly disappointed.
At any rate I tried not to think about it all weekend and at the same time promising my friends that I would tell them as soon as I knew anything. So I worked my last 12hr shift of the week and came home this morning to sleep for a few hours before class. At 9am Wynn called and woke me up. I was so dead asleep that what she was saying didn't even register at first. "We got the house." "What? What are you talking about?" "We got the house." and then I dissolved into non-words as my mouth tried to catch up with my brain.
We are moving in on the 13th of September, 12 days after my 29th birthday and my father will be pulling the Airstream out of our rental slot to a nearby storage facility on the 16th the day rent is due here. The Airstream is officially for sale. I know I will miss Airstreaming full time but I'm not sure when exactly I will start missing it, probably when we park her at the storage facility down the road.
The house is red brick with white trim and a working fireplace. It has wood floors throughout and tile in the bathroom and kitchen. It was probably built in the late 1920s and still has all of the original details. Someone built a garage on probably in the 1940s and also added on a sun room. It has two bedrooms a formal dining room and a large living room. There are 1920s era French doors into the sun room where our office and my study area will be. All of the plumbing fixtures as far as I can tell especially in the bathroom are original.
It has brand new appliances in the kitchen; gas stove, dishwasher, refrigerator, garbage disposal and even a washer and dryer. The garage is big enough for all of the tools that I drive around with in our 4Runner and even our motorcycles will fit.
I am so excited that I have been up since Wynn called at 9am, I think I shall crash after class and sleep until my class in the morning.
The next post will have the specifics on the Airstream and the price.
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Yes I Know
Yes I know that this is still an Airstream Blog and yes I have plenty of stories to tell, it's just that we've been so busy lately and things are moving so fast in the here and now. Honestly I'm afraid that if I don't post about the present right now I'll forget.
So I will be posting more Airstream stories soon and photos, but I have to wait for things to settle around here a bit. Once we find out if we get to move into the rent house we want and once we start preparations to move into said rent house I will catch back up with where I left off on the perils of living in an Airstream.
Oh, I will also post when the Airstream is for sale and for how much when the time comes and I think the time will come soon. Sorry about the hiatus, just give me some time to breathe and the stories will flow again.
So I will be posting more Airstream stories soon and photos, but I have to wait for things to settle around here a bit. Once we find out if we get to move into the rent house we want and once we start preparations to move into said rent house I will catch back up with where I left off on the perils of living in an Airstream.
Oh, I will also post when the Airstream is for sale and for how much when the time comes and I think the time will come soon. Sorry about the hiatus, just give me some time to breathe and the stories will flow again.
So It's Not A Jetta After All
My first week of class is officially over. I'm caught up with all of my homework and I have some reading to do for biology but I can do that at work tonight after the kiddos go to bed. Everything seems to be going better than expected, I'm thankful for that. It's been a confidence booster, I think I can do it this time and do it well instead of just half assing it like I've always done before.
Alright so, those of you who follow my private Facebook page already know what happened with the Jetta, but just in case you missed it here is a recap.
So we found the Jetta at Volkswagon of Tulsa over two weeks ago and we were told that all of the work that needed to be done to it would be done, however that turned out to not be the case. After ten days of not hearing from them at all, ten days that they were holding a very large down payment check, they finally called us and told us that it would be $5600 to fix the Jetta and that they were unwilling to do so. So we went and picked up the check and took our business elsewhere. It wasn't so much their refusal to fix the car that made us angry it was the fact that for ten days we knew nothing. Ten days and they couldn't spend two minutes on the phone to let us know what was going on. Then Wynn happened to look at the reviews for Volkswagon of Tulsa online and found that we were not the first customers to be extremely unhappy with their service.
We still needed a car and we weren't going to buy from them. Wynn looked online while I finished up a five hour shift at work and by the time I got home she had found another Jetta at a smaller dealership just down the road. We test drove it and like the Jetta before it just felt like crap. It felt like it had been driven into the ground. She happened to notice two Subaru WRX wagons on the lot and asked the salesman about them. He stated that they were good cars but that they had been street racers. Damn.
He then led us over to a Saab 9-2x. The Saab 9-2x was made by Subaru. It is basically a WRX with Saab badging. I love Saabs and Wynn loves Subarus, perfect. It was more than we could afford but we test drove it anyway. It was amazing, it felt like a car should feel, tight steering, smooth ride, effortless shifting and power. We decide to negotiate once we got back to the dealership.
The owner of the dealer ship met with us and was unwilling to take any less than what he had priced it at and we made it clear how much money we had loaned for the Jetta. He then offered to let us pay out the difference over the course of three months. Sold. Totally Sold.
We picked up the Saab the next day and took it to Oklahoma City to have it insured. No waiting on parts no bullshit. We have a second car and I think we're damned lucky that we didn't end up with that broken down Jetta instead.
Oh yeah and it's also a manual, so I guess I will still have to learn how to drive one, but for now I'm just happy to see the 4Runner parked next to a Saab in the driveway. Photos of our happy little car family will be posted soon, I just really need to wash the 4Runner first.
P.S. After we bought the Saab we went to look at an awesome little rent house. The paperwork is pending so I'll let ya'll know when I know. Hopefully that will be the next post.
Alright so, those of you who follow my private Facebook page already know what happened with the Jetta, but just in case you missed it here is a recap.
So we found the Jetta at Volkswagon of Tulsa over two weeks ago and we were told that all of the work that needed to be done to it would be done, however that turned out to not be the case. After ten days of not hearing from them at all, ten days that they were holding a very large down payment check, they finally called us and told us that it would be $5600 to fix the Jetta and that they were unwilling to do so. So we went and picked up the check and took our business elsewhere. It wasn't so much their refusal to fix the car that made us angry it was the fact that for ten days we knew nothing. Ten days and they couldn't spend two minutes on the phone to let us know what was going on. Then Wynn happened to look at the reviews for Volkswagon of Tulsa online and found that we were not the first customers to be extremely unhappy with their service.
We still needed a car and we weren't going to buy from them. Wynn looked online while I finished up a five hour shift at work and by the time I got home she had found another Jetta at a smaller dealership just down the road. We test drove it and like the Jetta before it just felt like crap. It felt like it had been driven into the ground. She happened to notice two Subaru WRX wagons on the lot and asked the salesman about them. He stated that they were good cars but that they had been street racers. Damn.
He then led us over to a Saab 9-2x. The Saab 9-2x was made by Subaru. It is basically a WRX with Saab badging. I love Saabs and Wynn loves Subarus, perfect. It was more than we could afford but we test drove it anyway. It was amazing, it felt like a car should feel, tight steering, smooth ride, effortless shifting and power. We decide to negotiate once we got back to the dealership.
The owner of the dealer ship met with us and was unwilling to take any less than what he had priced it at and we made it clear how much money we had loaned for the Jetta. He then offered to let us pay out the difference over the course of three months. Sold. Totally Sold.
We picked up the Saab the next day and took it to Oklahoma City to have it insured. No waiting on parts no bullshit. We have a second car and I think we're damned lucky that we didn't end up with that broken down Jetta instead.
Oh yeah and it's also a manual, so I guess I will still have to learn how to drive one, but for now I'm just happy to see the 4Runner parked next to a Saab in the driveway. Photos of our happy little car family will be posted soon, I just really need to wash the 4Runner first.
P.S. After we bought the Saab we went to look at an awesome little rent house. The paperwork is pending so I'll let ya'll know when I know. Hopefully that will be the next post.
Monday, August 16, 2010
That Was a Pleasant Surprise
I went to my first class tonight, I was still nervous enough to forget my student ID and my parking permit, but I found a visitor spot and I didn't need my ID for class so that was good.
I was quite surprised to find that this math class starts at a low enough level that I actually understand it. I haven't understood a math class since middle school. I have always been terrified that I would finish everything else and fail college algebra right before graduation. I'm not afraid of that anymore. I found out that I will have to take one more zero credit class before I take college algebra but that it is for the best.
Tomorrow morning I have biology and lab and I must remember my parking permit because the metro campus has very little parking without it.
I feel better, I'm less nervous, somehow things feel right. Tomorrow after class I'll get an iced chai from Shades of Brown and go and get a hair cut from Julianna. Then I'll pick up Wynn from work (no the car still isn't ready) and we'll go look at houses and go by the dealership to see what is up. I'll order my text books and start organizing as best as I can for full on homework assaults Airstreamer style.
I was quite surprised to find that this math class starts at a low enough level that I actually understand it. I haven't understood a math class since middle school. I have always been terrified that I would finish everything else and fail college algebra right before graduation. I'm not afraid of that anymore. I found out that I will have to take one more zero credit class before I take college algebra but that it is for the best.
Tomorrow morning I have biology and lab and I must remember my parking permit because the metro campus has very little parking without it.
I feel better, I'm less nervous, somehow things feel right. Tomorrow after class I'll get an iced chai from Shades of Brown and go and get a hair cut from Julianna. Then I'll pick up Wynn from work (no the car still isn't ready) and we'll go look at houses and go by the dealership to see what is up. I'll order my text books and start organizing as best as I can for full on homework assaults Airstreamer style.
I Feel a Bit More Confident Now
Yes, I'm posting again, and yes I'm still up. Luckily my first class tomorrow is at 5:30pm.
I feel a bit better now, I just spoke with a friend of mine that I haven't had a long conversation with in ages. I found out that she graduated with the same degree that I am shooting for at NSU. We became friends her senior year there when she was interning where I work but I never knew what her degree was in. She went a similar route as I, basics at TCC and degree from NSU and she was able to make me feel much better about going back to school.
She was an adult student like I am and I think that makes a difference. I could talk to college aged students all day and it wouldn't make me feel any better because I am no longer a college aged student and I can't really relate anymore.
I think I can actually do this now. I think once I get through these first nine hours successfully my college phobia will be gone.
She has just finished her masters and you know after talking with her about the difficulty of the classes she's taken I feel so much more confident. Will I get that nervous feeling in my stomach when I'm walking to class tomorrow? Yeah, I will but I think it will be more out of anticipation than nerves.
I can do this.
I will do this.
I will not look back on my failures and I will, for the first time, believe in myself.
Oh and more importantly, I will not skip class and will do my homework.
Thanks L. M. I'll call you and let you know how it goes.
I feel a bit better now, I just spoke with a friend of mine that I haven't had a long conversation with in ages. I found out that she graduated with the same degree that I am shooting for at NSU. We became friends her senior year there when she was interning where I work but I never knew what her degree was in. She went a similar route as I, basics at TCC and degree from NSU and she was able to make me feel much better about going back to school.
She was an adult student like I am and I think that makes a difference. I could talk to college aged students all day and it wouldn't make me feel any better because I am no longer a college aged student and I can't really relate anymore.
I think I can actually do this now. I think once I get through these first nine hours successfully my college phobia will be gone.
She has just finished her masters and you know after talking with her about the difficulty of the classes she's taken I feel so much more confident. Will I get that nervous feeling in my stomach when I'm walking to class tomorrow? Yeah, I will but I think it will be more out of anticipation than nerves.
I can do this.
I will do this.
I will not look back on my failures and I will, for the first time, believe in myself.
Oh and more importantly, I will not skip class and will do my homework.
Thanks L. M. I'll call you and let you know how it goes.
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