Found a Home

 Again, it's been another two-week stint without a post. I'm trying to post now in the wee hours of the morning before I go to work.

The biggest news is more big news: we've found a house. We've been house-hunting for a while, and it's a bit of an exhausting process, when you're on a timeline. We could theoretically have stayed in the airbnb longer, but living in what amounts to a hotel out of a suitcase (if a very large hotel room and suitcase) is draining in it's own right. Our routines are disrupted, and that makes everything else harder as well. Everything is a bit uncomfortable, and it's not worth spending a lot of time to make it comfortable, since we'll be moving again shortly. I have only a makeshift system for organization, what goes where. And, as we're spending so much time viewing houses, as well as getting settled into the new job, with all the additional energy that requires, there's not much time/energy for organizing things and making it super tidy. It's about as good as it's going to get.

But we found a house we genuinely like (for a while we were vacillating between looking for that, or settling for something that was "sufficient.") and they accepted our offer. Actually, it's a bit of a story, where at first they didn't accept our offer (all the nice places we'd looked at were going off the market in a mater of a day or two after coming on, all with multiple offers, and, it seemed, a fair bit above list price) but this last weekend (as we continued to look at a whole bunch more houses) the other people backed out of their offer, and we put in a much better offer, and were accepted. This is exciting for two reasons: one, we got the house we really liked. One that we were unconsciously comparing all the other houses we looked at too. It's not perfect, but I suspect you have to start from the ground up to get something you think is perfect. It felt good to be in, the neighborhood felt good, it had everything we needed and then some.

So now we get to think about how we're going to set it up. I'm already dreaming of finally having an office that's not also my shrine room and and bedroom and storage room. Suzannah is looking at beds for when we move in. And it will still be a while before we move in. We're hoping we'll be able to move in a month from now. That's the timeline. That's about how long we have left in the Airbnb, plus a week for wiggle-room. It's a relief to not be thinking about what house we want anymore. I was spending much of my time visiting houses and there wasn't time for much else. Now I've got a little more time for some of the other things, like the online training courses I need to do for work.

OK, I've got to write two of these, so I'll stop here for this one, and start a second that is technically for this week, while this one is technically for last week (though the house thing just happened this last weekend.)