My Calendar is full for the rest of the month. Between closing on a house, moving and work I don’t think I can fit anything else in. Oh and we’re going out of town to my Grandmother’s house on the 27/28th for Memorial Day. I have to get up at the butt crack of dawn on Saturday to take Astro the vet to be boarded and then we must proceed to move stuff. We have to get all of our “big” stuff that needs to be moved with Malinda’s truck out of this house by the end of the day on Saturday. She is going out of town for over a week to her brother’s wedding during the first week of June.

We’ve gone back and forth over this home buying ordeal over the last several weeks and we are finally at our final decision. The home inspection was a bust and we found out that the house needed a new roof before any insurance company would insure it. Other than that, most repairs seem somewhat minor and we plan on fixing all of the things on that list over the next few years before we want to turn around and sell it.  Anyway so our closing date is the 24th, next Thursday at 4:00 PM. I’m taking off work at 2 so I can come home and do some breathing exercises. I’m a little nervous and I want everything to go smoothly. The first part of this week is going to drag by, I can already tell.

We have to get a contract with a roofer signed before closing in order for us to get our insurance policy. Tomorrow I plan on getting the last of the estimates and by the end of the day on Tuesday Gene and I need to have our decision made on who to go with so that I can get the contract signed and faxed over to the insurance company. I really hope everything goes smoothly at closing because most of the roofing contracts I’ve signed have a 10% cancellation fee and when you have an estimate for $4,300, 10% is actually QUITE a lot of money :(

Anyway I could really go on and on but I don’t feel like it. Other things on my checklist are change of address cards at the post office, transfer utilities and gas to new house, transfer cox (cable, phone, internet) to new house and call the Pest guy to come out and spray for pests. Maybe sometime later this month or in June I will go splurge on some paint and paint the house. I want to use mostly neutral colors. One of the bedrooms is already painted a warm orange/red color and it is awesome so I plan on leaving that room the way it is. On the Master Bedroom and the guest bedroom I want to paint neutral colors with some kind of technique. I haven’t decided yet!

I guess I am pretty excited about owning our own home. A home that we can say is OURS. Money is going to be RIDICULOUSLY tight for quite a while after we move. It sucks that it has to be that way but like most situations we are in, there have been some pretty big curveballs thrown our way. We will make it through. We have the basic staples to survive and I plan on doing some garage saling to find some unique/cheap art. Also hit up some flea markets and thrift stores.

Anyway.. I would appreciate it if you guys would keep your fingers crossed for us. And I should be back sometime after Memorial Day weekend. I am not sure when Cox will be able to transfer our services to the new place and when I will have time to actually sit down at the computer again but hopefully sometime after the 28th.

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