I can't believe it, but in my extreme sleepiness last night I completely forgot to sing the praises of all our wonderful friends who helped us move stuff (including our crazy heavy couch and television) yesterday: Anne-Margaret's husband Derrick, Laura & Jomar, sassymngal & heliodromos, and Allen's friend Eric. (Some of you may know Eric as Bucky in We Gotta Bingo, the ( Read more... )

Whew...

Well, after a very overwhelming day (an overwhelming week, really) we have 90% of our stuff into the new house and are actually sleeping here tonight. It's going to be wonderful living here, I think--I love this house already. And I have to say our bedroom looks lovely, even though it isn't fully set up yet; one would think we had chosen our ( Read more... )

Or more importantly, how long does it take those perfectionists to do so?

As most of you know already, I think, the closing went absolutely swimmingly, no glitches at all. In and out in an hour, and off to the new place (via Target, Sherwin Williams, & Papa Murphy's). I don't think it's really sunk in yet that we're home owners, even still--it ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon I zipped over to the new house immediately after work to meet Allen for our final walkthrough with our realtor. The house was completely empty, which was wonderful; I've had this niggling worry that maybe what I really liked about the house was how the current owners' furniture looked in it. But no, I love it empty, too. There ( Read more... )

Okay, the owners aren't budging an inch. And yes, Allen and I had decided the other night that if they really wouldn't meet us halfway on this, we were going to walk away and not buy the house. But then we started looking online at houses again and the past six months of frustratingly unfruitful house hunting slowly began to seep their way back ( Read more... )

Arrrrghhh.

So I learn something new about this whole home-buying process every day, it seems, and some of what I learn I'd just as soon not.

Our finance guy called Allen yesterday to say that the underwriter has everything he needs and we're all approved and ready to go. Great! Right? Sure, but then comes the big HOWEVER...

Apparently when you take ( Read more... )

Our home inspection was this morning at 10am, and thanks to some very kindhearted and creative shuffling on the part of some coworkers of mine, I was able to have my room covered so I could be there for most of the inspection. I'm glad I was, though really, it was more important that Allen was there, since he's the one who's been reading up on all ( Read more... )

I haven't wanted to post much about this until things were a little more official, but WE GOT A HOUSE ( Read more... )

From J.K. Rowling's website:

"Charles Dickens put it better than I ever could:

‘It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years’ imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of creatures of his brain ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who sent me thoughts and energy and prayers today--they were much appreciated! Sadly, I'm not 100% sure if they worked or not, but they certainly couldn't have done any harm. And it's nice to feel loved.

The deal is: I've been having a weird pressure/pain/general-uncomfortableness in my "lower right quadrant" so my doctor, ( Read more... )