There's a song for everything

Well, who knew buying a home is the most boring big event of your adult life. Our attorney is still pushing on the brick sealant and we are just ready to move on. So hopefully next week it will be a done deal and we can move on to finalizing the mortgage.

We spent our father's day away from our fathers (well, RJB went to see his yesterday), but poetically we spent the day doing what my dad does best - cleaning out/throwing out/clearing clutter. Tribute to father's day, perhaps? We are working very hard to not bring a bunch of junk to the new crib. After about 6 full trash bags of garbage and 5 grocery bags of charity donations, we are making good headway. RJB found a place that destroys old computers and reuses or does something with old cell phones (a place = Best Buy). Check out this old fella from circa 1997.   Hard to believe this laptop was small back in the day. It had a super cool CD-ROM drive and an external floppy drive (2 drives were state of the art!).  Compared to my nerdy mac, this guy was a fat daddy!!

 

RJB and I had a happenin' week in the city - saw Adam Carolla on Thursday (I look way crazy in the photo with me...no need to share that with the hoi polloi) and went to the CSO on Friday. Look at us getting out of the house, eh? Of course we will now do nothing until next month but that's okay. Ahh...old married life....

I hope all you fathers and fathers-to-be had a nice and relaxing weekend! 

Happy Father's Day, Dad!

I'm Singing in the Rain

Holy rain! I think it has rained about 3 times a week every week of June (though apparently per weather.com, we've only had 4.48 inches of rain, right about average...really?). I'm getting a little tired of it, plus I can't sport my open toe shoes when it is raining. Woe is me, right?

On Friday, we had quite the storm blow in from Iowa. Apparently Iowa saw hurricane force winds, some tornados spun out, and the storm was due to hit Chicago during rush hour. For the first time since I arrived to the city, the building sent a notice to the tenants warning of impending doom. Well, the storm came and went. It was cool, quick, and didn't seem quite as bad as our Corn Belt friends to the west had it. However, I did see on my Saturday run downed trees near Major Daley's house. Good thing Johnny who sits in his car outside the Mayor's home all day didn't break a sweat moving branches off the sidewalk.

Since I slacked and took Friday off, I was able to take these pictures from our apartment. Pretty dark for 4:30pm.

Bonfire on South Quad

Good news! The inspection went really well. There are some handyman things to take care of - leaky faucet, dimmer switch repair, and general annual maintenance on the HV/AC make up the main "concerns". There is a bigger issue around sealing the the exterior half-block (probably saying this completely wrong).  Half the building has already been sealed, half hasn't. So the attorney is going to work on this.  Interestingly enough, IL requires the buyer or proxy to attend the inspection - the RE agent cannot do so on your behalf. Good ole Illinois.

We did not get any pictures unfortunately, mainly because it would have been a little awkward and we were poking around the house quite a bit. I mean, the home.  But here are a few photos from the listing. Good news is that RJB and I really do like the place quite a bit, especially after spending more time. It is so nice having windows on three sides, though we are very lucky now to have windows on two sides of our current place (yay corner unit!). I think Sylvester will really enjoy having the french door open that looks out on the Juliet balcony.  There is a screen door there so he can lay around there all day.

  

Next steps: get the financing going. We are meeting with the broker again on Monday to move ahead with valuation and all the paper work. The joys of PA require us to put a right of first refusal on the sale of the mortgage. I'm sure this will somehow be a pain to work in. Then we have a big check to write on Wednesday (yes, IL requires a preeeeettty pretty big good- faith deposit right away.) No worries, we get the cash back if the deal falls through and we filled out a W-9 so interest is being earned on the money.

Tomorrow we are taking RJB's car to carmax hopefully to sell it. If we only get a few hundred for it, we may sell it on our own (ugg). Then we just need to pack, figure out what we want to move and what we don't (extra bed, furniture, TVs), and basically get our shit in order. Part of me can't believe I have to pack again. I think we all remember how much I drag my feet with that type of task.  Time to clean out again!

Happy Friday!

Forging Ahead

Well, we have a verbal on our potential new crib. We have scheduled an inspection on Friday and have an attorney all lined up. Money is moving among accounts and packing plans are being discussed. Like I said, a Big Decision that will happen quickly.  Kinda hard to believe and a little unsettling in a way.  I am trying to keep my excitement in check since I know this can still fall through. I'll take pictures at the inspection.