| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- what we'll leave behind I don't know why but I've spent the last few hours re-reading old entries on-and-off. Like, work, work, work--stop and read some entries. Work, work, work--stop and read some entries. Lather, rinse, repeat. I think the rabbit hole opened up because I wanted to reread some entries from the time when we first started looking for our first house 10 years ago. Interesting to see the parallels and differences. I keep thinking this process has been all the more infuriating but as it turns out it was pretty maddeninng the first time around, too, and we even were faced with the threat of having to move because our landlord was selling the place. The best/worst part was the entry in which I tried to explain why getting that 5/1 ARM mortgage was totally going to be OK because the only way it would NOT be OK is if the housing market bottomed out and one of us lost our job. Done, done and DONE (two jobs lost). So, hindsight, you know? Anyway, I am so excited about the new house but also pragmatic. We signed a shit-ton of paperwork today and I wrote a check for the deposit. It's a 30-year loan. The house price and the monthly mortgage payment are both less than the first time around--and the house is so much nicer. In a neighborhood I really wanted to be in, just blocks from LC & MC in one direction, R&C in another direction and G&T in yet another direction. We're within walking distance to restaurants and Midtown. We're close to everything. Actually, it's in the neighborhood we almost bought in the first time around. The area still has some rough parts but it's come up so much in the last decade it's crazy. 27 days till escrow closes (but who's counting). Inspection on Monday, followed by the appraisal sometime the week after. Praying that nothing trips this up. We're already mentally planning where everything will go, what new things we need to get and what we'll leave behind. That's the big thing of course. Everything this house represents in a leaving-behind sort of way. Leaving behind the short sale and the emotional trauma it brought. Leaving behind this rental house--which I've loved, but which has also caused a great strain in my friendship with K. Leaving behind all that uncertainty over whether we'd ever be able to buy again. I can't wait to be in this house--what with its big picture window and 1930s architecture. Its laundry room and cellar. Its tiny office and airy white kitchen--but I know it doesn't change (or solve) life's big problems. I just keep telling myself it's a step on to a path we've been trying to find for a long, long time. 4:00 pm - 19.06.15
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