So the house thing is temporarily stalled. In a way... but then again, not really. That little jaunt we took out of the country sped some things up at the front end, pushing some paperwork forward. Unfortunately, some other paperwork couldn't keep up. It's still lagging. Hopefully, we'll be making an appointment to go do the last final big ol'signing tonight. That would be cool.

And speaking of cool, guess what is holding up the whole works: our refridgerator. It turns out that the cost of our new house includes a stack of brand new appliances. There was just one catch: some of the upgrades are not neccessarily "upgrades" in the eyes of fickle people like us. The default refridgerator, as much as it sounds like a meandering moot point, was a side-by-side model, the kind where the doors to the freezer and the fridge-proper are side-by-side instead of top bottom. Karin didn't want that: something about too much maintenance, and too narrow of freezer. No big deal: they will do the switch, adjusting the price up or down based on our alternative selection.

But now the blueprints are done and signed. The city has approved our build. The colors are picked. The lot is ready. A big ol'cheque is sitting in my wallet (unsigned of course) and nearly ready to be passed over to the proper authorities. But one thing is missing: the price of our fridge.

So we hang. And wait. And nothing really exciting will happen until GE tells Jayman an exacting value for modern cold storage. Strange as that sounds, our fridge is slowing us down. Sigh.

But maybe -- fingers crossed -- today will be the BIG day. Maybe. And then I'll have something more interesting to take photos of than an empty lot.

November 25, 2004 after 11AM | house , stress | this is more