CasaChristy Goes West
(But not West of Skinker)
We've moved up the closing date to May 12th, which is exactly 1 month (or 4 weeks and a day) after I peered into the first house. The Toms (realtor and husband) are amazed that it happened this fast. Tom the husband said that when he talked to his (another) cousin last week, she mentioned that it took them 6 months to find a place. But we (I) knew what we (I) wanted and we (I) got lucky and found it early.
Let the packing (re) commence!
I think I'm going to donate my books and take the tax deduction. The plan was for Little N to take all of the discarded books and keep them in her basement so that she could go through them and take what she wants, but I don't think she really understands how many books this is. For instance, I have packed up around 25 boxes of books, and I still have most of two 6-foot bookcases and all of three bookcases to pack up, in addition to the ones NOT on bookcases. The number of bookcases completely cleared? One of six. The ratio of boxes to keep vs. boxes to get rid of is running about 1:1 right now. I expect that is representative of the entire project. That's not as good as the 1:2 ratio I'd hoped for, but that goal was created when I thought we'd be moving into another apartment. Now, we will have plenty of basement storage space. The question is: to whom should I donate these books????
I came thiiisssss close to hitting the purchase button for an Amazon Kindle this morning and then I chickened out. But, I really, really, really want one (and I don't want to wait until Christmas). I want one of these so badly that when the mortgage company inquired today about something on my credit report, I kept myself from freaking out by telling myself that if this house thing falls through, at least I can buy a Kindle. Maybe I'll feel better about it after I hemorrhage all the money at closing. I can wait that long at least. I've tried to rationalize this by saying (to myself) that I need one of these at least as much as we need a washer and dryer, because it would be pointless to buy this house, purge all of my books, only to re-amass them. The Kindle holds like 200 of them (which is more than I buy in a year) and has expandable storage. See Tom? No more books!
Or, perhaps I should wait for v.2.
