Ready to have the keys in my hand. Ready to be done with it and move in already. I don’t understand how people can spend months and months searching for and buying a house. It’s been about a month since I decided to buy instead of rent, and I’m *more* than ready to move in and make it my own. It’s not been a long road, but it has been a crazy one. It’s all gone so fast, to say I’m in something of a state of shock would be… well, it’d be damned accurate, actually.

I figure I’ll be moved in by the 19th of June, with everything I own in place, or at least within dragging distance of in place. Maybe a month or so after that, when I’ve had time to make the house a home, I’ll have a blistering house warming party.

Let’s see how this goes… I’m going to set down a few goals, things I want to have accomplished in the first year of first home ownership:

* Remove the swing set. I can see injury in the future there.
* Build a nice wood deck to replace the decaying brick patio with the help of a friend in the business of building such things.
* Repaint the pale pastel yellow exterior to something more palatable.
* Repaint the white interior to give it more color.
* Install built in book cases in key places.
* Install a bar in the basement along one of the short walls near the bathroom.

That might be too much. We’ll just have to wait and see. I’m excited about the prospect of making this my own home, as well as increasing it’s base value.