Okay, so, house news and more.

It has been a very exhausting, stressful week.  First, before I go any further, I will say that the seller accepted the offer I proposed of 125k for the house that I wanted.  So, that's out of the way.  The contracts are signed - it's not "mine" just yet, as now I have to go through a bunch of financial bullshit that entails a lot of people getting paid to do what more or less amounts to fuck-all in my view, but anyhow...

 

The only additional fee that I feel is worth it is a home inspector.  I would never, ever, ever, EVER buy a house or anything major without an inspection.  So, I managed to get a really good one - he's on the radio here, blah blah - and they're coming to look at it on April 3.  The RE agent is estimating the closing date as April 30th, if all goes well - which he says it is, but who knows?  They've got me over a barrel because in truth I don't know anything about how the RE game works.  I guess they count on that, I don't know. 

 

There is so much that I've had to think about in the last two weeks - what I'm going to do, how I'm going to afford this, what improvements I might want to make eventually, how to even decorate the son-of-a-bitch, which is truthfully the last thing on my mind.  My head is absolutely spinning.  And for the first time, I actually missed turning in assignments in two of my classes.  I'm getting scared that this shit is taking over in my brain - I have GOT to keep focused on this degree, I'm in hock to the government for school loans. 

 

Sigh.  Seems that being in debt is the only way I'm going to get anywhere in this life.  How fucked is that?  I keep a hold of my money, I'll be in an apartment and moving over and over and not have anything to draw upon later.  I spend it like this, at the levels that I have been, and it's supposed to be "good for me".  What the hell?

 

Homework.  This weekend.  No exceptions.

 

Anyway, that's the news, what little there is.  There'll be more, no doubt, later.