My Life.

   Well, it has been fun yet stressful. Rob and I have been in the process of finding a home for the past three months or so. I have been on it like white on rice! I check the MLS daily and spring into action like one of those super heroes you adored when you were a kid. BUT… most of the time my “springing” was a little too slow and the house would be sold or have accepted offers but not this time! Last week on wednesday we met with our agent to send in an offer on a house in Selah (quant little town outside of Yakima) and prior to our meeting I was stalking houses on the MLS. Yes, it feels like stalking sometimes. And vuuuaaalllaaa, there is this small little house for sale at about $89,000. Most of the time these houses priced so low are hideous inside. Holes in walls, on main arterials, have meth houses as neighbors, or were meth houses themselves. This one though is none of these. It isn’t on a main road and is actually surrounded by equally cute homes. The inside has hardwood floors throughout, which need to be refinished but still, and the walls a hole-less and only have a few cracks in the plaster which is easy enough to repair.

    Needless to say we made an offer that night.. after the house was on the market for a whole eight hours! The next night, they accepted our offer and I was suprised because we even asked for closing costs. Yesterday we did an inspection and signed all of the loan papers to get the ball rolling. The bank appraisal , the loan going through, and closing ( giving up my down payment) is all that is left to do. Needless to say I can’t sleep. I am convinced something is going to go wrong.

    I have always been the type to think of every bad thing that could happen in ANY situation. I stress to the max on most important things in life…. and I think this one is something pretty big and important. If I make it through these next three weeks without an ulcer or canker sore (which is due to stress not herpes) I will be doing pretty well. I just never realized how stressful buying your first home is. Plus the FHA with us “first time homebuyers” are pretty strict. That doesn’t help my stress level FHA!

   If this all goes well and as planned we will soon have our first abode. A place for our cat child Johnny to grow up lol. It also helps when the payments would be a little lower than actually renting the same house in Yakima. I would live in town for the first time.. ever! That I have figured would most likely make me fat because there is a Safeway down the street. I just never have to cave in and get cable because the Food Network plus the access to food would be deadly! In the mean-time I will just stress and vent on here. I still haven’t told many people/relatives about the process we are going through because I want those keys in my hand before people start rejoicing. So I will just vent to a few friends that have access to this and random people of the word.

   OH.. wedding plans have pretty much halted due to home searching too. Next will be ordering invites and save-the-dates. That should happen after the first of the year. Now I am off to go drink coffee and lots of it so I can make it through today with my new fashionable dark circles around my eyes. Cross your fingers… and toes!