A Little Game of Catch-Up

So, my apologizes for getting lazy on you. So much has been going on with work and the house and school and life that I've been just a bit lacking in my writing.

Enough excuses. Let me do a "here's what you missed on Glee" version of the past few weeks. The inspections went well, the house appraised for what we needed on one condition of some minor scraping and painting which has since been completed, I had to switch my student loans from forbearance to deferment (thankfully it worked), and I had to submit a couple other paperwork items for the loan. Now, [hopefully] my loan package has gone from the bank to OHFA for approval of my 'second mortgage' which pays 3% of the down payment (the seller pays another 3% and I pay 1/2%).

Considering the original contract listed a close-date of May 28th, we've filed an extension to read "on or before June 9th" which is also fast approaching.

There's a downside to the extension [other than the obvious anxiousness to get into the house and Anthonize it]: there is some mysterious part of closing costs that I have to pay that is prorated to the amount of days left in the closing month. With the former close date, that only left 2 days of whatever this is to pay. Now, I'll have about 20 days worth to pay. I'm not sure what this thing is that I'm paying. It's either taxes or insurance or interest or some such fiddle-faddle. I have no idea how much this will cost, but someone who may or may not know what they're talking about mentioned off-the-cuff that it could be almost a month's mortgage payment. Greeeeaaatttt. Regardless - I shall persevere.

Above, I mentioned being anxious to Anthonize the house. I have SOOOO many ideas of what I want to do to the house [inside and out] that my head is figuratively swirling and bursting at the seams and spilling out, and [insert other overwhelmed cliche here]. I have begun favoriting things in my browser, emailing myself, saving pictures, and telling other people in the hopes they'll remember and remind me. ["Didn't you want to get that one couch?"]

On top of all of this, I've decided to undergo a transformation into a Hipster. Google image it.