So, the fun thing on the house is that my mortgage payment—slight pause while I realize that I am using the words “my mortgage payment”—plus the homeowners’ association fees will be all of $20/mo. more than my present rent payment is. Almost all the paper is in, and the rest will be in on Thursday.

In other news, I’m actually taking a couple days off of work … Thursday and Friday, I’ll be off; Thursday, I’ll go visit my grandmother and take her to lunch before accepting her gracious monetary gift towards my down payment, and on Friday, I’m strongly considering heading up to the Knoxville area to go see my boy Derek play a show.

I could use a few days away from the office. I told my boss that I would be out those two days earlier, and he looked at me mournfully and said, “We’re going to need to swap off sometime when I know you’ll be here so that I can take off.” I think I need to call his wife and figure out when is best for her, and then just kick his butt out the door or something. Most everyone else around us with half a brain has been trying to take a little time off while things are a little slower, but unfortunately, the boss and I are still acting like the place can’t survive us being gone for five minutes. :sigh: