"Patience is a virtue and a little couldn't hurt you"

And so it goes...we will not hear anything about the loan for another week. The investors only review loans on Wednesdays, and even though our loan application was handed to them prior to two Wednesdays ago, they are backed up enough that we will need to wait at least another week. I have learned to become very patient with things in general, which I attribute to the house (and the loan process itself), but all in all, the lesson here is that applying for a loan SUCKS!