finance and stuff...

Uh... in case you haven't heard, interest rates are historically low, this means that you can buy more house for your buck, or have such a low payment on your new home that you'll be saving over $300 each month on what you were spending on rent (yeah, you heard me right!) Or so they make it sound... what they don't tell you is that getting a loan nowadays is a PAIN... so while the saving money aspect is totally legit, they don't tell you that you will have to document every single penny that ends up in your account, including but not limited to, the $20 your mother in law gave your six year old for his Birthday, anything you've sold online recently and just so happened to deposit to your account, do you have documentation from the person who bought your used girl's clothes? NO, because in the real world I don't list something in the free classifieds and then badger the people who buy it into filling out a form saying that they paid cash for a bag of clothes from a stranger... HOLY MOLY!!! So aside from sacrificing a virgin on the next full moon, and giving them the rights to choose the future spouse of my first born... things are moving along, slowly, but surely! The part that makes it all worth it? Today I drove by my home to be and saw that they have installed my new wonderful AC unit, which came with a beautifully wonderful powerful furnace (technically they are four years old, and believe me that was a fun day in the ups and downs of real estate... but they are way better than what I would have gotten if I had insisted on new, because with new AC I still would have had the nasty OLD dirty mouse ridden furnace that was in the place to start with... sometimes you gotta give a little!) I got to go to the warehouse and pick out my two slabs of granite that in one week will be my gorgeous new counter tops. I got to go to pick out my appliance package, yes, I'm the luckiest girl alive for getting all new appliances! And tomorrow I get to go deep clean the place and disinfect all the nasty light switches that are grimy and gross me out so I won't have to worry about it when I move. AHHHHH... this is what makes it ALL worth it, I will happily jump through any hoop you want me to now because I realize that in the end, I'm getting a great house and a practically brand new kitchen :) Two more weeks... two more weeks... I can make it, right? It will all be worth it!!!