Friday, April 28, 2006

We have a house!!

Monday, April 24, 2006

The Girl's A Super Freak

If you wake up at 6:41 a.m. Sunday and your immediate reaction is a sense of almost-unbelievable relief at having been able to sleep that late, followed by the thought, "Wow, seven hours of sleep in a row," that is probably a pretty good indication that you have not been sleeping all that well. Friday (and closing) can't come soon enough for either of us. I think we're both still slightly worried that everything will somehow find a way to fall apart before we actually manage to take possession of the house. And I know we're both more than slightly worried that the house itself will somehow find a way to fall apart right after we actually manage to take possession. Right now it feels like the best we can do is cross our fingers and hope desperately that we haven't made some kind of terrible mistake, while still secretly suspecting that we really, really have.

In other, less freaking-out, news, my mom was able to come for a visit this past weekend on her way back from a business trip in Washington, D.C. It was great to see her and it was nice to spend time together, even though we didn't have a whole lot of it, since she arrived Friday evening and had to leave Sunday morning. We were able to show her the house Saturday morning, and she and I spent the afternoon looking around at house-y stuff (fabric and curtains and sheets and rugs and so on), but we didn't actually buy anything because I'm too superstitious to think it's a good idea to buy accessories for something we don't yet own.

I guess the take-away message of this post is that buying a house turns me into a neurotic mess. With luck, we may someday have something actually coherent and non-house related to say again. But definitely not until after Friday. In the meantime, I think I have to go freak out some more.

Friday, April 14, 2006

Dollars and Cents

We walked in to the bank today carrying a 39 pound box, and told the receptionist we had some change to deposit.

A teller across the room exclaimed, "That's full of change?!"

"Yes, it is!" was our response.

And so, over the course of the next twenty minutes, we waited and watched while the coin-counting machine tallied up all of the loose change we'd collected over the years. This box has actually moved with us a couple of times, although we never let the movers handle it since they charge by weight, and I'm not sure if we would have come out ahead in the deal. Since we're facing another move soon, this time across town, it seemed like a good idea to finally turn the change into something more usable.

And is it ever. The grand total came to $176.

(I had a fleeting idea as I was typing this that it might be just enough to purchase a Little Giant, but no, the As Seen On TV model is about twice that amount.)