When I painted my old apartment, it was not this much work. Having friends willing to slather paint all day for pepsi and pizza is a hugely underrated benefit of living near people you know. *sigh ( Read more... )

Today we spent about $700 on paint, painting supplies, a little giant ladder, and a crappy boombox. Good lord. We're now ready to tackle painting most of the house. There's just 2 rooms we still have to work out - the office and the guest room/hopefully soon-to-be nursery ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been longer than I realized since I last posted. I thought I was keeping up pretty well, but I do sometimes dream about the stuff that I'm supposed to be doing, instead of doing them ( Read more... )

Well, we've had our home inspection. There are a few concerns, but nothing horrible. We're asking for a credit, so hopefully we'll get a little something off the closing. It was interesting to see what happens and what info you get ( Read more... )

We just put an offer on a house. It's a lovely townhouse in a cute little townhouse development. It was the first house we saw, and.. we took the plunge this afternoon. Holy crap ( Read more... )

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This afternoon, Joe & I drove around looking at houses that we found online last night. Yay! I think we found a couple that we're going to go see with a real estate agent and start looking for a house for real. That moves up our schedule by almost a year, but I think we're ready ( Read more... )