"Well that took longer than I thought!" - DYIer
February 11th
2013
The title
man slides the keys across the table. Congratulates, handshaking, and
laughs ensue. Some story about a personal life experience that everyone has
heard a million times is being told by one of the four other people sitting
with me and Katy in very cold title office.
The theme of this office is clearly presidents because there is about nine
framed pictures of various presidents in just the room we are sitting. Perhaps this makes it feel more
official for people signing the deed to their mortgage's. The signing of
documents was not all that everyone made it out to be. Whereas I thought we would be sitting there
for hours on end signing papers, it turned out to only about 30 minutes. My signing speed skills are much faster than
that, it's just the title guy felt it prudent to explain each document that I
putting my name to. Regardless I'm a signing diva and we make it out of there
in a jiffy. Now we finally get to go see our new house without a third party
chaperone following us around.
Katy and I take a quick run to Starbucks to celebrate our
new house purchase. Apparently this is
the new thing us two thousand-teen modern home owners do after sealing the deal. Champagne is so 1990's. Shortly
thereafter we make a stop at our freshly purchased dwelling. Karen, my eldest sister, came to town in order
to spend time with my mom, and help her with recovering from her surgery so the
timing was perfect for this west coast ship jumper to be of the first people to
see the new house. Along with her came my mother and Olly. (Olly kicks ass!)
Jeremy was also able to squeeze out some time from work to get the maiden
tour. After a good chunk of time Katy
and I had laid out our vision of the next five years and every little thing we
wanted to do room by room.
Later that evening as Katy and I were reviewing the
seemingly never ending list of renovations; Katy mentions with humorous
undertones that we should start a blog about all home renovation adventures we
are about to embark on. Inspired by
reading several entries from a DYI'er blog site(younghouselove) which Katy
reads on reg, I'm sold to the idea.
And so it begins!
I'm so glad you guys are doing a blog! I will be your most devoted fan. Oh, and I read Young House Love too. Who knows, maybe you'll hit it big like they did.
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