The excitement is mounting, as are the lists of things that need to happen before Friday. Including:

– Get a meter reading so NiMo can start service
– Find out how we sign up for city water
– Call Time Warner to set up cable and road runner
– Rent a moving truck
– Bring change of address forms to the post office
– Call all of my credit card companies etc. to change my address (I hate doing this!)
– Finish packing and cleaning (the bottom of the fridge is covered in some type of sticky juice substance…)
– Eat as much leftover food as possible to reduce the amount of crap being moved
– Fax the home insurance binder agreement to our lawyer. Figure out whether we have to pay the home insurance up-front.
– Move money over from savings and get a cashiers check for the closing costs

We can’t figure out how we want to organize. Right now, I think we’ve settled on getting a truck Friday afternoon and keeping it till Saturday. We’ll pack it all up Friday night and do the big move Saturday morning. That’ll give us some time to clean out the house before we overload it with boxes and furniture.

The good news is that we’ve got lots of help – our families are awesome and they’re all pitching in. They haven’t seen the place yet – hopefully they will see the potential it has and overlook the, errrm, holes in the wall.

I really like warm colors like this – and it looks great with those wood floors, which are about the same color as ours will be (after removing the dirt, grit and paint stains).

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you’ve all been waiting for….we have a closing date!

November 5th, 3pm at the lawyer’s office (commit it to memory)

This is day that I hand over piles of hard-earned money to pay the lawyers and agents who have so graciously ignored me, passed me off to someone else, and/or led me astray. But, also the day that Teague and I get to hold in our sweaty palms the key to our very first house.

Should be a glorious day, followed by a weekend of furious moving and unpacking. Hoorah!

How cool are these? This place is in Canada, and they make reproduction stoves in both gas and electric.

Here’s the company’s site: http://www.elmirastoveworks.com/