Well, today was our closing. Sort of. We signed Monday and the sellers signed yesterday, but it was recorded today. As of today they are paying us rent to be in the house. We get the keys Monday. Wow, this is wonderful and scary and crazy and exciting all at the same time.
Tonight we went up to the house - our house! - and walked through with Nicole and Drew, the people we bought the house from. There were a few things they wanted to show us and teach us, namely how to care for the electronic air cleaner on the furnace and some info about the neighbors and neighborhood. It was nice to get all the little hints and tricks about the house, neighbors, and neighborhood, such as the fact that the fence slats in the chain link fence are treated in such a way that graffit comes off with a presser washer, and the garbage men and mailmen are feuding so the garbage man leaves the garbage cans in the way of the mailman and then the mailman gets mad so he moves it to the middle of the driveway. Fun stuff like that!
They are moving out Sunday, so Monday Nicole is going to call me when she's done cleaning and I'll go get the keys from her - and at the same time move some of our boxes up there to get them out of the way of the continued packing going on at our place. We've identified more things to be packed up that we won't need between now and the 21st, the first night we plan to spend at the new place, when we will officially be moved. Of course, after we chose the 21st as our moving date both sets of parents informed us that they'll be out of town, so it looks like it may be just Ricky and me that day, which means we really need to move as much as possible between now and then when his parents and mine are around to help out some. Hopefully we can move the furniture with just the two of us and manage not to kill each other in the process. If I post that night it means we were successful :-P
Add to that the fact that we have 4 days of school left and life is all kinds of wonderful and scary. I'm signed up for 13 credits this summer, 3 of which are a paper making class that takes 1 week and includes no homework, woohoo! I'm looking forward to the chance to be crafty for a while, and be paid to do it. Mostly, though, I'm looking forward to moving...I really can't wait. It's been a long time comin' and I'm so happy we're going to have more room and finally get real living room furniture!! The furniture people and interior decorator are coming out on the 14th to measure and then they make their pitch to us about what we should buy on the 15th.
I realize this got long and rambly. Oh well, that's what happens at nearly midnight in June.
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