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Now that I am graduated I have decided that it is time to start acting like a responsible adult. One of the first adult-type-things I am doing is to buy a house. The Wife and I have been waiting a long time for this event to occur. Actually, we would have done it a long time ago, but we had different plans for our post-graduate life up until last October or so.

You see we had always planned to graduate and then move back to Washington (or there abouts) to be closer to my family. So we decided to postpone buying a house until then since we didn’t want to deal with buying a home and then selling a few years later. Well, if we had known that it would have taken so long to graduate?

Anyway, up until last October that was still the plan, but around that time things started going well for me here at my current employer and after a lot of soul-searching we decided to stay in Utah. So we decided that after I finished my last semester we would buy a house and settle down for a bit. That blessed time is now upon us.

We began searching a few months ago and and after a few false positives, we found a house we liked and it checked off enough items on our respective criteria check-lists so we made an offer. It seems that it will be perfect for us. It cuts my commute time from around 30 minutes to around 10 (Yay!). It’s not too big, but it has some room for us to grow into (just in time for the arrival of Thing 3 in a couple months). And it is in good condition. It needs a few things done, but nothing major. The best part is that, other than a few bumps with the loan (a terrible and hateful process that I hope to never repeat), the whole process has gone pretty smoothly.

We move in tomorrow. I hope that I don’t get too sore from schlepping boxes and furniture around all day.