We visited Jen’s aunt and grandparents’ graves this weekend. We were asking for some help from above in our attempt to buy a house.

See that little dark dot in the sky above the trees? It’s a hawk. I take that as a really good sign.

The free market has spoken and the result?

Robbie gets a free iPhone bumper.

Now if only I could get the package open………

Yeah, I’m nerd enough to post this…

This is a deleted scene from Return of the Jedi. All six movies are slated for Blu-ray release in the fall of 2011. Let the hype build up begin!

We applied for a mortgage last night.

Oh.
My.
God.

That’s a lot of money.

Now we have to focus on the Purchase and Sales agreement. We have the document that the sellers made up, but we have to run it through a lawyer and make sure all is well. We also want to tweak a couple of things on our end. We should have all of that taken care of by the end of the week.

Progress is being made each day. There will come a time when the progress happens outside of our view, and that is going to be stressful. Even more so than the already insane level of stress.

It’s all worth it though. Totally.

Nothing new to report on anything. We had a very quiet Sunday yesterday. We thought we were waiting on one document from the home inspection but it turned out we already had it. Blame that one on me.

Jen woke up with a very stiff/sore neck yesterday so we basically sat in the living room watching movies, watching television, surfing the web for home decorating ideas, and just being quiet and hanging out. It was nice, but some how we were both more tired at the end of the day than usual. We took a nap in the afternoon and Jen was still ready to go to bed at 8:00. This morning her neck was much better, so maybe going to bed early was the proper medical treatment for whatever was wrong. I won’t argue.

Tonight starts another nerve wracking week of home shopping (not the network) stuff so sleep will probably be hard to come by. It’ll all be worth it though. I am trying not to get overly confident. I am trying to stay at a safe level of cautious optimism. So far so good.

Having said that though… I WANNA MOVE NOW!!!!

Another hurdle jumped, but a new one has popped up.

We had the home inspection yesterday. It went surprisingly well. I expected to have bombs dropping on us left and right, but there was only one thing worthy of adding to the negotiations. That little addition to the negotiations counts as an additional hurdle to cross, but it’s not a big one and we think it’s reasonable enough that it won’t cause too many waves. If it does we’ll deal with it and find a way to smooth it out.

We are both very, excited…

and my step son offered to start packing his toys now.

So we have agreed to spend an obscene amount of money on a house. The sellers have agreed that this specific obscene amount of money is acceptable to them. Both sides have signed the document that legalizes this agreement.

Hurdle number one has been jumped.

Hurdle number two gets under way this afternoon. The home inspection. That’s where we pay some one a fair chunk of money to tell us everything that is wrong with the house we agreed to pay the obscene amount of money to buy.

This Is further into the process than we’ve gotten in the past and the stress level continues to rise.

I can’t wait!

So there are things going on in Robbie’s world. We’ve been trying to keep things quiet, but totally let the cat out of the bag today.

We are trying to buy a house.

We put in an offer, haggled a bit, and eventually came to an agreement. On Wednesday we signed the offer and sent it to the sellers who appeared to sit on it for a couple of days.

We are starting to think we are in for another screwing of the real estate variety.

But alas, they came through. We have a copy of the signed agreement.

When the agreement came to us I was listening to the Red Sox. The team responded to our happy news by hitting three home runs in a row.

The Red Sox are pleased with our real estate venture.

We don’t have another group trying to dick with us, do we?

WTF?

I was on Glezen Lane in Wayland this morning. I had just taken a right off of Moore street and came around a bend in the road.

Standing still in the middle of my lane, perpendicular to the traffic, was a deer. A big one. It was a doe, but she looked pretty big to me. She turned her head and looked at me as I rolled nearly to a stop. My hand was reaching for my phone on the passenger seat but Mrs Bambi didn’t wait around to pose for me. She dashed out of the road, into some trees on the opposite side. I lost sight of her instantly. I did see that the bushes were moving a little on my side of the road and I was thinking that there might be another critter in their waiting to run across the street, but alas there was none.

So… one has a camera in one’s phone so that a camera will be available to catch those surprising, out of the ordinary moments that one may come across during the course of one’s day.

…and in this instance I blew it.

Sorry.