I bought a house today.

Today I closed on my house. I was really pretty happy with how things turned out. I signed my name a hundred million times, and feel confident that I understood everything that I signed. I was worried that I would be losing sleep over a lot of legalese, but really the land contract is pretty straightforward. The realtor lady turned out to be really good, and had carefully taken care of all the taxes and utilities, and had reviewed a lot of the forms with me in advance.

I don't know how I'm ever going to get enough time to move in my house, though, which is pretty frustrating. I spent all that money, and all I have is a key in my hand. I have rehearsal 6 nights a week from now until the end of August. That leaves me Saturdays to move, and that's it. It also means that I have to do all the purcahsing of stuff on my lunch hours or on Saturdays as well.

So today on my lunch hour I went out and bought a refrigerator. Did you know how expensive they are? Holy cow. I got one of the cheaper ones, and was stunned at how expensive *that* was. My philosophy on appliances is to buy a lower-priced name brand with a manufacturer warranty. I don't go cheaper than that. Or at least I don't think I do. What do I know about owning appliances?

I'm really itching to get out there and take some measurements, count how many light fixtures I need to buy, and make sure the furnace is valved off until I get it replaced. But I also want to spend time with roomie. He is not such a happy camper, and I have missed him.

Of course this is all a moot point, because I have rehearsal from 7 until 10 tonight, and if last night's pattern holds true, I'll get home a little after 10 and he will go immediately to bed. BAH. This already sucks and I haven't even moved out yet.

What I really need is for him to quit being so damned sensitive about the whole thing, and just accept that I decided to move and that he decided not to join me, and for him to be SUPPORTIVE about this for a change. I want to celebrate this with someone! I bought a HOUSE! That's an achievement, damn it! I should be able to talk about it in his presence without being guilt-tripped or taking a lot of crap.

Maybe I'll talk to him about it tonight before he really pisses me off.