New address coming soon!

No, not web address. After next week, we will be living in a new house--a bought one--and scrambling to pay the piper. Well, hopefully not too scrambling :-) In any case, we will have new contact info coming soon to anyone who cares (as long as we know who you are).

It's very exciting. Now. See, there was about a week there of mortgage anxiety hell. Our timing is, as per usual, slightly off, slightly late, as what would have been an application that sailed through got snagged on a detail and put us on extremely unsteady ground. Things were bad. No, things were sh***y. A sh**tiness heretofore unknown and experienced by a woman who thought she'd been quite exposed to shi**ty. Frankly, for five days we weren't sure if we were going to move into this house, or perhaps the first fleabag cheap apartment complex that would take us. It sucked. I basically lived in the pit of my stomach, barely able to take a full breath.

You know, mortgage and real estate people greet you with a smile and tell you they just want to make you happy. And happiness comes with four walls and a shingle roof, maybe a chimney. but the actual underwriting process is always, always painful, unless your loaded. I had a friend go through this a few months ago and remember meeting her in the park so our kids could play. She was in agony. There's always some scrambling it seems, some tricks you have to show you can do before the dark-suited figures peering down at you from behind their big desks open their checkbook.

Ah, but I guess that's the key. It's their checkbook, not mine, not Trey's. At some point we need to remedy that. You know, just have enough in our account that if we want to buy another house (a bigger, shinier house!) we can just take the money from the bank and bypass these sinister figures. yeah. I know--it's not the American way. Oh well.

I'll post pics of the house soon. I guess it's safe enough at this point.