A So Cal Girl in the Desert

Aside from my wonderful family and friends, my health, and all that great stuff, we just received the best holiday present we ever could have hoped for: A CLOSING DATE ON OUR HOUSE!!!!!

We received a call last night saying that our final walk-through will be on February 27th, and we'll get the keys on March 7th. I'm a bit bummed that it's March and not February, but just to have a solid date feels so good that I don't really care. Now we can plan financially, tell the movers when to come, tell our apartment manager to shove it (just kidding), plan new furniture delivery, and, best of all, have something to look forward to!

The texture to the interior walls was applied today, and the stucco pile (I'll get a picture of it...it literally looks like a huge mountain of dust) will be delivered today or tomorrow. The exterior should be stuccoed (is that a word?) and the interior painted with all the baseboards installed by the end of next week. Then they'll hang all the doors and on January 9th (hubby's b-day), they will deliver the cabinets! Yahooooooooooo! Finally, some serious progress. I can't express my excitement in words.

A few days ago I met the father of one of our next door neighbors. I saw an un-construction worker-looking man lingering around the house next door and decided to introduce myself. His daughter, son-in law, 15-year-old-drum-playing son, and FOUR DOGS (one is in a wheelchair), are just as excited to move in as we are, and just as irritated with the process. He seemed really nice, so I'm sure our neighbors will be, too. And they have four dogs! And one is in a wheelchair! Four dogs with one in a wheelchair! All the stars are aligned. We must be soul-mate neighbors.

So all of you planning to visit...mark your calendars and tell me when you're coming! I'm so excited!!!