We’ve decided that this year we’re celebrating Housemas! Our holiday has revolved around the house to the exclusion of everything else, so it may as well have a name: Housemas!

We’ve not heard from anyone at all, so we assume that everyone’s having a great holiday. We hope to see some of you on Saturday!

Oh, and speaking of the move, my computer will be the last thing to be packed, which means tomorrow evening sometime, so I’ll be offline until we get the iBook up and running. I’d say I will not have computer access until sometime next week if I’m lucky. We’re waiting on iBook parts now, and then the thing will have to be reassembled, so if you need to get ahold of us, the cell phone is the best way right now.

We are in the throes of painting our house this holiday, so I apologize to everyone that we’ve not spoken to in the last few weeks.

We hope everyone has a fabulous holiday filled with happiness and shared with family and friends.

We are painting again today (we’re half done already) and having a nice festive meal tonite at our apartment. We’ll try to call around and say hi tonite, but please feel free to call us on the cell or drop by if you’re in the neighborhood.

The house closing was very anticlimactic. I bet I didn’t sign my name a dozen times! It was very laid back and cool. I’m still peeved about the $131/mo PMI, but, hey, we can suck it up for a year.

I just sent out an email to everyone in my address book with our new address and all that. If you need our new info, please email me and I’ll get it right to you. I’ve put the new phone number on the answering machine so you can get that just by calling my current number.

Well, we’re off to get started on painting! Painting OUR OWN HOME! Wheeee!!

Finally, the closing is today and time is just crawling!

We’re supposed to be up there (Perimeter Mall area) at 2:30pm to do the deed. Nick and I both have a case of nerves.

And to that end, I can’t sit here any longer. I have to go up to Nick’s office. GAH!!

I’ll try to post later… or maybe tomorrow.

Wish us luck!

Give or take a few hours. I think we’ll be allowed to buy our house on Friday at 2:30pm. Our payment for a piddly $100,000 loan will be $915 until we file for the Homestead Exemption to bring down the property taxes – at which point will bring the payment to a still high $840 or so. Waaaaay too high of a payment for that size loan. But we have no choice in the matter (as they know) so we soldier on.

I got the perfect parttime job today. I’m now working the desk at Mimosa Spa down the street on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and every other Saturday. Except for Monday, the weekday hours are late in the day, so it leaves me plenty of time to pursue the other p/t job I got last week: selling coffee for Michael’s Coffees. I don’t know what will come of the coffee job, it’s gonna be commission and I’m not sure of the market, but I’ll give it a shot. With the steady income from the Spa, I’ll have the extra mortgage expense covered no matter what. Yes, I’m still a consultant, but even consultants need a steady stream, ya know?

And all this means that I’m going to cut loose Crescent Moon. ::sigh:: I really love the people there, but I can’t get any hours and it hogs up each and every weekend. I’ll still be the webmistress and all that and there may be some admin work in it for me at a later date, but for now that job’s got to go. I’ll miss it in an odd way.