Its been a busy time with little extra to sit down and post. So, a quick and dirty update (plus my right thumb is bandaged because of my stupidity, so the typing is a bit slower and less accurate than I prefer).
+ House updates - Inspection is done. Nothing they are asking to fix. We didn't expect there to be, but you never know. Now we just need nothing to go awry in the coming month. Appraisal was just completed as well. Looking good to appraise out for the value of the offer. Feeling really hopeful at this point. It is such a hard thing because it was a long drawn out process to even come to the decision to buy, but at the same time, we can't help but look around and think that it is the right move at this time. I think the price was a fair one and that the new owners should be able to get it back. But, looking around at others trying to sell (for $50K more than we listed at and for less house and older to boot), you have to feel sorry for them. You certainly don't expect that your house will be your retirement fund (or at least you shouldn't), but you also don't buy expecting it to be the rock you break yourself upon. Sad.
+ Job update - Week 1 is in the books. It is a bit hard to rate it really since I am obviously doing mostly observation, but I can say it is a HUGE adjustment. My last job had me running around like a chicken with my head cut off most of the days (with the exception being the weekends) and this job has a very specific cadence to it. There is plenty to do, but time to go to the bathroom and have lunch at a normal hour. It is very, well, regular. Plus, it is a LOT of sitting and staring at an LCD. Not sure if I will love the job, but there is plenty to like about hour long lunches, knowing you are done at a specific time, not flexing, and being able to drink a cup of coffee like a normal human being. Looking so forward to not commuting anymore either.
+ Apt update - moving to the Pearl. Going from way suburban to very Portland urban (not at all like NYC or anything, but more urban than I have ever lived). Will be about 9 blocks from work. Directly across the street from the new apt is a brewery/pub, a coffee shop and we will be a block off from the nearest grocery. It will be weird not to load up the car to do everything. Very excited about that! - The downside is that we will be chopping away about 50% (actually slightly more than) our living space. The selling of our worldly possessions has already begun. Every cabinet yields more stuff we didn't realize we had.
Went to Maryhill Winery for a concert last night. Absolutely beautiful location. Ridiculously windy though. concert was alright (very short set by the headliner) but the place appears to have no organization whatsoever and the process of ingress and egress was awful. It took better than an hour to get from the amphitheater to the parking lot two miles away because they had FAR too few buses for transport and there was nowhere you could walk. So, instead they corralled us all in the midst of a dust storm in a gravel parking lot (because you could NOT stay in the amphitheater under any circumstances evidently) which led to a crazy array of confrontations between the overwhelmed and understaffed parking crew and drunken patrons. Truly awful.
Off to relax. Packing just sucks it right out of you.
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