Mood: Pretty much flailing around the room running into walls

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself.)

But we did! Mason and I bought a house last night! *OMGSQUEEE* We went out yesterday evening for our second night of house shopping, and during the whole afternoon beforehand I was so sad and depressed because I was told that out of the eighteen prospective properties that we originally had on our list, only six were actually available to see anymore. And yet as it turned out I had nothing to fear because the second last house of the night was just The One. I was told by a friend at work that when we found the right house, we would just know, there would be no thinking about it -- and it was. We walked out and were just like "JOYGASM".

We had the offer called in at 9:20; spent the next anxiety-ridden hour and a half phoning back and forth and signing papers at the nearest Timmies and fretting that any moment someone was going to steal our house away from us *angst*; drove back home at 11:00 stressing that we were going to have to wait until the next day to have anything happen, were getting out of the car, and then the other Realtor finally phoned and asked us to come sign the papers at the house, so we drove all the way back. By the time we got home again it was midnight, but I promptly phoned my parents anyway and woke them up to squee about the news and then proceeded to not be able to sleep at all. I've spent the last twenty-four hours or so just sort of buzzing around like a restless humming bird.

For each of the places we viewed during our two days out looking, we've nicknamed each house we've seen. I affectionately named this house simply, The Tingly House, because it made a little happy tingly sensation with each new room I walked through~ X3 It's funny because I glanced at this listing online over and over again and it didn't really excite me at all. The pictures really do not do it justice.

A few pictures I took here:

• Front of the house
• Living room when you first walk in
• Kitchen
• Coming down into the basement
• Main basement area
• Downstairs room we'll use as an office
• Downstairs bathroom
• Double garage
• Backyard
• Back deck

It's everything we were looking for. Double oversized garage, giant beautiful backyard, big finished basement with tons of storage space, all appliances are included, newer HWT and furnace, nice shingles, awesome neighborhood and location (it feels like we're still in the suburbs! And we're still close to St. Albert! YAY!), great interior layout, and we didn't even need to go outside our budget. It's just... wow. The only thing we want to really change in it at this point is eventually put some new paint and hardware on the kitchen cabinets, some new carpet in the downstairs bedroom which we'll use as our computer room, and a bit of fresh molding here and there.

(BTW, this is not the "crush" house I slathered over in my last post. Turns out that house was actually one of the worst ones we saw, hahaha. Just goes to show you can't tell bugger all from the online listings.)

We don't get possession July 30th! Oh god I think I may go crazy waiting. (In the mean time I'm sure I will be distracted when the realization of how much money we just spent and the accompanying hyperventilating begins.) Everyone keep the end of July free because you're all helping us move! *Evil laughter* We're cashing in on all of our IOU's from helping everyone else move in the past.

I am so excited!!!