Eeeeeee, guys I’m so excited! It’s finally time for BroadwayCon! First thing tomorrow, my friend Sarah and I will board the Amtrak Vermonter and take a nice, leisurely, Wi-Fi enabled train ride straight to Penn Station, and thus begin a weekend of ultimate Broadway nerdiness in NYC.
I will likely be doing a recap of our trip, possibly even a day-to-day sort of thing, because I want to remember every single detail, but I don’t plan to actually post while I’m gone. If you want to follow along in our adventures, I’m sure I’ll be posting plenty on Instagram!
In other news, we are scheduled to FINALLY CLOSE ON OUR HOUSE tonight. We had our final walk-through this morning, and barring any last-minute catastrophes, we should be good to go! While we are so, so excited and relieved that the day is finally here, the timing kind of stinks. I’m off to NYC and Ben is off to a cousin’s wedding, so we won’t even be able to start working on/moving into the house until next Tuesday. Obviously, this is small potatoes in comparison with the enormity of actually officially owning a house, but as you can imagine, we’re pretty anxious to get in there and start living on our own again. We’ve been living with my in-laws for 16 months now, which is quite long enough.
Thankfully, there’s not too much to do. Ideally, we’d like to paint (the bedroom is pink, people, PINK!), and there’s some pretty horrific wood paneling with ducks and deer and stuff that needs to either be ripped off or painted over. We’d also very much like to steam clean the carpets, cause god only knows the last time they were thoroughly cleaned. Otherwise, it’s move-in ready, which is such a relief.
I’m hoping we can be fully in by the end of next weekend, but I don’t want to put too hard a timeline on it. Painting and cleaning carpets will be much easier if the house isn’t occupied, and I don’t want to put that stuff off for “later” and then not get around to it for a couple of years.
So, after closing tonight, Ben and I will be going out to dinner to celebrate, and then heading to Lowe’s or Home Depot to scope out paint colors. And then swinging by the house so we can bask in the glory of being home owners 🙂
Darlin' Rae 
Such awesome news! Congratulations on closing on the house! Definitely agree on trying to get stuff done before moving it – for both of our houses we really didn’t have a choice (one was end of lease, other was moving to a new state!), so you deal with it. At least with our current house everything was new so it was easier … just deciding colors to paint.
Have a great time at Broadway-Con – and definitely post lots of pics!
Also – what was the commercial thing you were shooting that you were all made up for? Don’t leave us hanging! 😀
Haha, it was just a commercial for a local business. Very small potatoes stuff. But it’s always fun to get paid to act 🙂 When/if they release it online, I’ll be sure to post it!
Exciting!!!! Congrats on your house closing! Have fun at BroadwayCon!
Thank you, thank you!
Love love Broadway! Enjoy!
Can’t wait to hear what shows you see. I recommend Dear Evan hansen & Come From Away.
We’re seeing Come From Away on Sunday, I can’t wait! Also Hello, Dolly 🙂
Enjoy. You’ll love them.
Yayyyyy congrats!!!!
Thank you! We are so, so excited 😀