Yesterday I moved to Ottawa ( Read more... )

I have accepted an offer on the house ( Read more... )

It's been a year to the day since I moved into my house!

I celebrated by cleaning in the morning, running errands during the day, and showing pdaughter and Bean the house.

Bean and the dog had a grand old time chasing each other around the dining room table.


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All that's left now is the unpacking, and working out all the details I probably missed, because there are always details ( Read more... )

So I now officially own a house. I am going to be in debt for the next twenty-five years. I'm excited. \o/

Housewarming is tentatively scheduled to coincide with my yearly Hallowe'en party on the 31st, and will start in the afternoon and go into the evening so that people can come as early or late as they wish. :)

I haven't even signed the papers for the house yet and I'm already sort of starting to have conniptions. Mostly it's because I feel kind of poor in the face of the vast sums of money I am being expected to disburse for this transaction ( Read more... )

So it's looking good for a house. Going to see my agent tomorrow morning, and we will be accepting the counter-offer to the offer I made today on a nice little place in Île Perrot ( Read more... )

Moving is strangely motivating for cleaning. I still have a ton of stuff to do, but at least I got the fridge cleaned out of a bunch of science experiments gone horribly awry. (No new life forms, alas, but a few nasty aborted attempts, I must say ( Read more... )

Three days in a row, holy cow ( Read more... )

So the gorgeous house with acreage is, in fact, really close to what turned out to be a really active train yard. Not just the tracks, but the actual loading yard and what have you, and the amount of noise on a weekday was quite simply appalling. The roof is also due to be replaced sooner rather than later, and all in all, in spite of being ( Read more... )