We're dual-household owners once again! Ya-hoo!
Yes, it's true; as the rumbling machinery of relocation grinds ever forward, we took a huge lurch forward yesterday by closing on our new house in Bloomington, IL. The gorgeous missus and I traversed our way over to B-town in the early hours of the morn to give the new Casa de Memmer a final once-over with our realtor before heading over to the title company to sign our lives away. Again.
The process appeared to have gone horribly awry somewhere near the 80% completion mark yesterday. There were fears that our lender had messed up something fierce and that we'd have to have them fax over a whole new packet of documents, essentially starting from the beginning. However, to make a long story short, it turned out to be a whole lotta nuthin', as we only had to go back after our Delicious Lunch (TM) to sign one form - in quadruplicate, of course, but only one.
After that, we had a new house. And by and large, it's a pretty nice house. It's quite a bit smaller - around 25% smaller, in fact. It'll take a little getting-used-to, the cramped quarters. I'm still struggling over how I'm gonna fit all the stuff we have into the new space, especially in the family room and the master bedroom (aka. "where the magic happens"). It's a cute enough house, though, and it's got a nice backyard, along with the fact that we're at the top tip of a cul-de-sac with only one neighbor on each side... which makes it ideal for punkins to pony up on their bikes.
We actually met the former owner at the closing, and for all the rumours we heard about him from the real estates agents involved, he turned out to be a helluva nice guy. We had a good time chatting it up with him before he had to drive back to his new home in Ohio.
Once that was all wrapped up, we zoomed back to the house and unloaded our first vanload of crap: the bed that Laura's going to use until the rest of our stuff gets moved in June (aka. "the place where the kids were made"). So, in proper fashion, we christened the new house by shaggin each other nasty right there in the middle of the daylight!!
*sigh* Just kidding, folks. :) In actuality, the first official task after setting up the bed was to de-spider-fy the main staircase. I'll have to regale you with the legendary arachnophobia that inhabits Mrs. Repressed another time, but let's just say that it had to be done before we left, otherwise she would never have come back.
And, since it's time to boogie on to soccer practice, I'll just wrap this up right now!
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