We bought a house!
Dec. 21st, 2020 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12I'm absolutely shattered with exhaustion and stress (for various reasons, this has not been an easy process), but I wanted to say that as of today, Matthias and I own our own home.
This was something of an unwritten plan for us this year, but I refrained from saying anything about it online because the whole experience has been so fraught and anxious that I was afraid of jinxing things until the contract was signed and the keys were in our hands. That happened today (just sneaking in under the wire before everything shuts for Christmas), and, one frantic dash through the rain later, we have keys, we've been around the new place with a measuring tape to start figuring out where stuff will go, and then we returned home to collapse with exhaustion, and celebrate with homemade mulled wine, and (not homemade) panettone.
There are a million other things to sort out (apart from anything else, we haven't even begun to move house, because I didn't want to give notice to our letting agency until things were absolutely certain not to fall through), but we've done it. We bought a house, and I could cry with relief and delight.
This was something of an unwritten plan for us this year, but I refrained from saying anything about it online because the whole experience has been so fraught and anxious that I was afraid of jinxing things until the contract was signed and the keys were in our hands. That happened today (just sneaking in under the wire before everything shuts for Christmas), and, one frantic dash through the rain later, we have keys, we've been around the new place with a measuring tape to start figuring out where stuff will go, and then we returned home to collapse with exhaustion, and celebrate with homemade mulled wine, and (not homemade) panettone.
There are a million other things to sort out (apart from anything else, we haven't even begun to move house, because I didn't want to give notice to our letting agency until things were absolutely certain not to fall through), but we've done it. We bought a house, and I could cry with relief and delight.
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