now i'm getting excited!

we had our inspection on monday, which went REALLY well. i basically spent two hours walking through the house taking pictures in between arguing with the hippie about what color everything should be, where the furniture all needed to go, who gets the bookshelves in HER room, and what all we need to buy. a fun couple of hours, and definitely a pleasant way to spend a monday morning. now that the inspection is done, and we have nothing major in need to repair, we have both given in and gotten excited! we're set to close on february 23rd, and then we're hoping to spend the next motnh painting and slowing moving all our massive piles of books over there. then at the end of march, we will, in true first-house-together fashion, elicit all the help of all the men and boys we know to carry in the heavy things. whew! i am a little overwhelmed just thinking about all we have to do. the one thing we MUST buy is a refridgerator, but there are so many other things we WANT--that's overwhelming, too. we are following the advice of many friends and just moving in with what we've got before we go nuts and start ordering 47-inch LCD televisions thousands of dollars worth of furniture. anyway, thanks to y'all for all the well-wishes so far, and PLEASE keep thinking the good thoughts our way--a million things could still go wrong. fingers crossed, people!

if you are interested, i have added a few (read: 97) pictures to the flickr set of house pictures--it's the whole walking tour of the house! please don't feel obligated to look at all these pictures, but also know that we're happy to share and have you peruse. if you DO go a-lookin', i recommend NOT using the slide show option and scrolling through instead, as the titles will help you know what the hell you're seeing.

YAY for the new house!