Monday = Good Day

So, today is Monday and I had four school visits, insurance phone calls to make and landlord phone calls to make. With the combination of all of that I felt as though it might not be a good day, but alas, it was a GREAT day! An absolutely wonderful day actually.
As I woke up in a bad mood the other day I woke up in a good mood today, ready to go and excited to see what the day holds. Also, as a very random side note, I love the 7-up commercial with Brad someone from Everybody Loves Raymond- the one when he takes a sip and then sings and dances down the street.....gets me everytime! Anyway..... got my usual coffee this morning (the place across from my hotel remembers my drink already, sad right, no, so great!), and then hit four back to back high schools. Each one held an unexpected amount of students, two of the schools I hadn't been to before too. It was great though, road trips being planned by eager students, information being passed back and forth, really great conversations and students who seem like they would be such a great fit for Corban. Things that make me happy. The counselors today that I dealt with were all equally nice to top it off, I love when I enjoy talking with them versus groucher-mcgees who are not as lovely to chat with.
Ate some lunch at the Cheesecake factory, mm... I've discovered that I can go in at lunch and get a lunch sized pizza and salad and diet coke for 15 dollars, after tax is added- I hate tax! But the free bread they send to each table and the salad are enough to fill me up completely, add in a pizza to take home and I've got dinner or a snack for later. Perfect and delicious.
I tried calling the car insurance for the car in livingroom incident and our landlords. Not wanting to sit around on my bum waiting for returned calls I went and worked out, it felt so great! Working out increases ones endorphins, and I can attest that I feel great. Hence the incomparably large amount of times I've used the term "great" in this blog post, an embarrassing amount it is.
A think on my lap top just popped up called "sticky keys" asking if I wanted to turn this feature on because I hit the shift button 5 times....I've never heard of this feature- Decline.
Back to my great endorphins, so I got a call back from the insurance people and talked with them about loss of personal property through the incident, as well as how to go about claiming the loss of use of the home for three days and the loss of the square footage of the home in turn reducing our overall rent for the month, or the hope of getting a reduced rate. Figured out everything on our end, as well as our landlords end, so that I could come to them fully informed, able to present concise details and able to come to an appropriate conclusions that will equally please renters, owners and insurance. After this great phone call I called our landlords and chatted with them for awhile. We've come to a reasonable agreement and I feel good about where things are now headed. The insurance was also really nice, and I hope that this is a continued feature, as I know when money actually comes around it can turn peoples emotion into a very different kind.
So with all that said, we are making a subrogation loss for our personal property loss (my nice BBQ, an espresso colored bookcase that was newer, etc), and the landlords can make the subrogation for loss of rent. So we are determining the square footage of the home not in use, figuring out how much we pay per square foot (with a basement that stinks but is fair enough), and then multiplying this by the days not used. Also deducting the full days rent for the days the home was not usable at all. So there we have it, its on its way, which is all I can ask for right now.
So there is my update for the day! I'm going to go eat some of that mini pizza I brought home from lunch. Have a great day!