WE GET OUR HOUSE TODAY!

So the countdown is over ... we get our house TODAY.

Jeff and I met with our lawyer yesterday afternoon to sign the final papers. I asked him when the house would be legally ours, exactly. Midnight last night? Tonight? He told me it would depend when the seller's lawyer received and processed our payment, which would be couriered this morning. He said he would to call our cell phones when it was official.

And he promised to call my cell phone first. :-)

But even if he doesn't call yet, Jeff and I are meeting the current owner at noon today to get the key and say good-bye. Seemed too impersonal to do the final exchange through our lawyers, especially after we've gotten to know (and quite like) the owner over the past months; we plan to keep in touch.

Jeff and I have decided to sleep over tonight in the empty house, just because we have to. We've borrowed an air mattress and will also bring some bedding and other essentials. Like toilet paper! Champagne! Chocolate! No DSL or phone lines yet, so I will likely not be posting again until Sunday or early next week.

Renovations start on Monday morning and are expected to last about six weeks; Jeff and I will probably end up moving in somewhere around the middle of July. We'll be visiting the house pretty regularly before then, of course, to check on renovations, mail, the garden, etc.

Speaking of mail, I've opened up a P.O. Box. for several reasons, not the least of which is security (e.g. public domain WHOIS info, etc.). Anyway, I'm also going to start a Flickr postcard set as well as putting some postcards up in my New Office...so if you find yourself near a postcard rack sometime in the future, I'd greatly appreciate it if you'd consider sending one my way:

Debbie Ridpath Ohi
34 Eglinton Ave. West
PO Box 189
Toronto, ON M4R 2H6
Canada

Only four and a half hours until we get the key to our new house! I had trouble sleeping last night; I was too hyped.

We get our house TODAY, woohoo!

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