I have mentioned before that I’m slowly furnishing my house.  Moving from an apartment to a three bedroom house means that I have a lot more space.  (I have to admit, since I’m not using the attic due to lack of safe access, I could really use more storage space in the house, but that’s [...]

This weekend, my parents came to see my house for the first time. This was a big deal to me. I did the home purchasing process by myself (with tons of Realtor help, of course).  Thankfully, they liked what they saw.  I was really worried because their opinion matters.  But they agreed that [...]

Inspired by Young House Love, I’m creating a to-do list for my house. Both the short term things and the long term things. Maybe it will help me feel like I’m making progress. I tried to make the larger projects the ones that will be more than a one-day thing.

To Dos – [...]

Not surprisingly, I just got notified that my mortgage company sold my loan – when they told me they wouldn’t be selling it for quite some time, if at all.  I was expecting that it would be sold within the first few years, though given what I was told, I didn’t expect it would happen [...]