Closers

Yep. That's right, I'm a homeowner as of today!

I have chosen to celebrate by drinking Red Stripe, eating Red Baron pizza, and watching the SportsCenter World Series Championship edition for the Chicago White Sox. A twenty four year old kid who was playing AA baseball in July came in the game in the bottom of the ninth inning with a one run lead. His name was Jenks. He Jenks-ed the Astros and won the game. What a dream come true. Now that is a closer!

While checking the MLB Web sites this evening I saw that Andruw Jones was awarded the NL Hank Aaron award. This award is given to the single player in each of the two leagues who was voted as the league's best offensive player. Congrats to Bravo #25. I also saw that I could pre-order Jimmy Buffett's Live At Fenway Park. You know that's going to be on my pre-order list. It also comes with a fifty-five minute DVD of footage of the two concerts. Sweet!

And speaking of closing....

I arrived at the house for the final walk-through at around 10:30 in the morning. We walked through, checked random stuff and made sure everything was basically still in tact, and of course it was. After the walk we headed over to the attorney's office for the closing. Since the seller couldn't close on the house he is buying until tomorrow we were the only people there. It was me, my real-estate agent, and my mortgage lady from the bank, along with the lawyer.

About sixty signatures and 30 minutes later I'm in more debt than I've ever dreamed of and couldn't have been happier for it. "It's not debt, it's an investment," I keep telling myself.

Now it's to the rest of the week. I have attempted using a Web site that is supposed to take your information and get you a lot of mover quotes but they completely sucked and didn't send me any. Tomorrow I plan on calling several and getting the quotes in person. I live on the third floor, my back is still tight, and I don't house the idea that it would be fun to attempt to move a washer and dryer down all those steps. However, before we can get to that point A and I will be up to our chins in packing boxes.

I'll keep you posted.

Congrats to Me!