A short post. Closing. Bank failure. Bank success. A new house!

 I'm two weeks behind and I have ten minutes to write both posts, so expect something short.

The reason I'm one week behind is, two weeks ago was moving and "closing" week. Closing is real estate slang for "signing the fifty sheets of paper that mean you now own the house and accept the responsibilities and the mortgage."

That week was strangely full of obstacles towards that end (and other house related stuff.) My bank wouldn't let me send a wire transfer without coming in, which was a headache. People weren't getting back to us in a reasonable time with the documents we needed to give them, so we were scrambling (mostly Suzannah, since I was working all day) to get all the documents needed. This was made more difficult for Suzannah since she was having to get documents of mine.

In any case, the problems got solved and we sent a mind boggling (to me) amount of money over to someone, and now I own my very first house. It's very nice. I've never spent close to this amount of money on anything. My cars have been hand-me-downs, so the most I've spent is on schooling, which somehow didn't seem like as much, perhaps because it was split up year by year and semester by semester. I suppose it's not so much considering the house is re-sellable. It's more like setting aside a chunk of money that I can later get back, like investing in stocks. Though in the same way, how much I get back is not certain (and it's likely to grow, in the long run).

I'm leaving my Connecticut bank, they were monumentally unhelpful, like, they literally failed me on every front. Their customer support, while friendly and trying to be helpful, gave incorrect information that caused a bunch of fruitless work on our part, they didn't help me in any way, so I am leaving them as soon as I get time. Which may be a while. But Suzannah's bank, from Iowa, was much more helpful, and they got things done. Perhaps because she knew her bankers by name. 

In any case, we've got the house now and I'm very excited to get to work using the space to figure out what I really want in an office and shrine room. (and to some extent in a house, in general)

OK, that's already over my allotted time, you'll have to find out about why this week's post is also delayed, later.

Take care ^_^

-Isaac