House Comparison

So I meant to put this little post up a long time ago, but I never had all my pictures on a computer where I could conveniently do it....but now with our new computer, I can!

This is just an interesting little exercise in seeing how early your likes and dislikes are shaped. Or maybe it's destiny. I got the last boxes of my stuff out of my parents' basement after we moved into our new house, and, among the odds and ends, found this picture I painted in 8th grade:


This house bears no resemblance to any house I had lived in at the time, or any house I knew particularly well. I just invented it as a "nice house". Now, you'll have to ignore the problems of perspective (I never was a great artist!) and take a look at the house we just bought:















I think it's kinda creepy!

Yay!!!!!!

We found out yesterday that all our paperwork has gone through for the house. Closing is Friday! Moving is Saturday!

Will now go home and frantically clean the apartment.

Life Goes On

Well, life still stinks, but I'll try not to dwell on it too much. In an attempt last night to pray beyond, "dear God please give me a pony," or more acurately, "dear God please don't give me the chicken pox," I realized that even in the very worst case scenario I can think of, while I wouldn't like it, all that we'd have would really be inconveniences. So, while this whole house thing is stressful, I'm trying to keep it in perspective. (Operative word: trying)

Current distractions lately have been going to the sibs' performances. Last night I went to Leanne's band concert. Adam remarked at how listening to middle school band must be painful, but I replied that he was thinking of middle school orchestra. (I fully support kids learning strings - it's good! But it's also painful for a while! I know; I didn't get past the painful part in my violin lessons...) They were pretty good to listen to, though a bit loud in Sauder - someone should have closed all the curtains (they absorb sound).

Today I went to Robert's piano recital. The Community School of the Arts now does their recitals, at least some of them, with multiple instruments. It was quite interesting to hear the mix of piano (mostly), violin, guitar, and cello. I kind of wish that we'd had that kind of variety when I played in recitals.

That's all for now. Ta ta!

Still House-ifying

Well, as to my last very short, and totally unexplained, entry, I wrote it just after finding out that we couldn't close on our mortgage on schedule. In fact, at that time, three days before our scheduled closing date, I wasn't sure if we'd even be able to close at all. See, the mortgage people wanted a copy of Jeff's resident alien card, which, surprise! is late. He should have gotten it months ago....

Anyway, things have smoothed out a bit now. Jeff went down to Indy yesterday and straightened things out there. We should have an extension on our contract, so our closing will be one week later than anticipated. Life is stressful.

But...we did buy a new (pink!) car. (See it on Jeff's blog...my computer doesn't seem to like loading images now...) It's quite fascinating...

Life sucks, sometimes

...but I don't really feel like dying either. No options! Argh!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay!

We have an approved offer on the house! (531 S. 3rd St. in Goshen). The house inspections will likely be done this week or early next week, so we will have a good idea on whether the deal will go through or not.....

House!

Whee!

We made an offer on this house:


We should know by tomorrow whether it is accepted. It's quite exciting!

That's all for now. Tally ho!

House Hunting

We've been getting more intentional about looking for a house. We've looked at a lot more recently, found a lender that we think we'll use, and even perhaps found "the one". (Will update if it comes true....) It's kind of an exciting process, to think of really being able to own our own home, to be able to do whatever we want inside, to repaint or rewallpaper if we want, to put as many holes as we want in the walls, without having to spackle (or use toothpaste, a la college), to be able to make a garden in our yard (heck, after our current apartment, to even have a yard)....

I can't seem to decide if it's more overwhelming than I thought or less. I expected it to be a big deal and a lot of work to go through the home buying process, and it is, sometimes to a point that exhausts me. At other times, the adventure is interesting enough to not make it feel like so much work.

Well, onward ho! I'll keep this updated (hopefully), if anything comes up. For now, I'm going home and am looking forward to watching Two Towers tonight with Angi and Micah!