Inspector Gadget!

Go, go Gadget House!

We had our inspection today, and we passed with flying colors! The house has no major problems, other than that it needs to be tented for termites, but the sellers were aware of that issue and in the counter offer, agreed to pay for the tenting, so that's already out of the way. All of the rest of the fixes are things that we can do over time. It's nice because it leaves us money for the cosmetic stuff - we will get the interior painted and recarpet before we move in.

Tim and Rita were there to supervise, as was the seller's agent. Dad and Don also stopped by to dispense their fatherly wisdom. I missed out!

Tim took a lot of pictures today, but since we are not living together at the present, I won't be able to upload them until this weekend (sob!) But here are the photos from the listing site.

Excellent curb appeal! The house is on a corner lot, and the street curves off to the right.

Front yard. The windows are for the two front bedrooms. For the present time, we will set one up as an office, with our breakfast nook as the computer table, and the other room will be for the future Wolfie Von Focker. In the meanwhile, once we get a king sized bed, we'll move our queen into the room as a guest room.

When you walk into the house, the family room is to your left. It has paquet floors and that cute little picture window. There are little folding doors with frosted glass that you can close to shut it off from the hallway.

This is the family room, which you walk straight into from the front door. The slider leads to the backdoor, and that window treatment has already been removed. To the right is the hallway to the bedrooms and bathrooms.

This is the kitchen. The cabinets are new and very nice (though not oak or anything fancy) and the floor is white tile.

Dining area! Finally, we'll be able to move the table out of mom and dad's garage and take all of the chairs out of my bedroom!

The backyard is great, except for all of the ivy (which as mom is quick to remind me, is probably harboring a rat colony. Ripping it out and replanting will be her fun project!) The master bedroom also has a sliding glass door out to the yard.

So, we're continuing to move forward! The sellers are going to submit their disclosures, which we will sign, and then they'll have the termite guy tent the place. Tim and I are off to Ireland next Saturday, and we can just sit back and relax while the paper pushers push paper. When we get back, we have about two weeks until we close (October 20th), and then we'll probably move our stuff in the weekend after. Depending on the painting/recarpeting schedule, we may just move everything into the garage and camp out at our parents, but we hope to be in and settled and living together by November 1 (suck it, renting!)

I cannot tell you how much lighter I feel today, knowing that this could *really* be our house. My biggest fear in undertaking this new adventure in life (other than having to live behind the Orange Curtain) was that it would take Tim and I six months to find a home, and in the meanwhile, we'd be living apart, and spending every weekend house hunting. Considering I don't enjoy househunting, I hate driving back and forth to the OC, and I really hate living apart from my boyfiend, it was sort of a nightmare proposition. But there seems to be an end in sight, and the end is a beautiful first home for the two of us, and our cat children. And that is truly a blessing.

In the meanwhile, Tim is loving his new job, and I am very excited about the idea that they have a frogurt dispenser in the cafeteria! We got a chance to have a date last night and did super exciting things like watch Top Chef and go to the drugstore! It's hard to plan a date that starts at 8pm. But the kitties were certainly happy to see their daddy - Thor was so thrilled that he threw up a hairball (which I think made Tim clean up, because I don't want him to forget how awesome our cats are.) More pictures as we get them! (of the house, not of cat vom.)