Closing

Well we did it. We closed on the house. 

I woke up very early, made coffee, played my games. We knew we needed to be in the car by 10:45 to get to the walk through. We took a car load of plant,s and some plastic totes of doohickeys up with us. 

(We left the plants in the carport and now I regret that. I hope it doesn't get cold tonight and the poor things suffer. My houseplant babies have never spent the night outside).

The walk through went well. The rooms all need a good painting, that'll happen. We told our buyers broker about the future upstairs bathroom and she said hell yeah. 

The sellers left the party lights in the basement office area and on the back porch. Excellent. They took the built-in shelves in the basement living area - I thought for sure those would stay. But unless you ask, you don't know what is going to stay and covey, or go. I should have asked. 

We'll put bookshelves against the wall. Geoff will appreciate that. 

After the closing, we went to the electric department to switch the account over into our name. It went smoothly. 

Our buyer's broker gave us a gift card to a local restaurant so we went straight there. We were super hungry. 

Celebration beers... Delirium Tremens isn't often on draft so this was a treat. 

Our waitress was adorable. Very funny. We put in our first order for beers and our dinners/lunch/whatever. We placed our second round and it seemed to take a long time to get to us. When she brought it over, she said, "I delayed delivery on this on purpose to get you in on the happy hour deal at 3pm." She mentioned for dessert there was carrot cake, so we decided we'd have that. 

Doug told her "it's someone's very favorite thing," and I smiled. I told her it was our wedding cake and she thought that was sweet. "But this isn't our anniversary or anything, but it is a special day." 

She came over to tell us there was a problem. "There is only one piece of carrot cake, and it is hers," she gestures to me while looking at Doug. He thought about something else and I offered to share with him and asked for two spoons. "Are you sure you wanna do that?" she asked, "It's your favorite." 

Yes. because it is good to share. And we did. I gave her a very huge cash tip, she came over while Doug was in the bathroom, and thanked me profusely, and gave me a cute little drawing. 

We got home, and our neighbor J and the dog were standing at our gate. Meg was looking for Toffee, she wasn't outside but Meg was still looking. We asked if she wanted us to get Toffee for a quick romp and she said yes. 

The dogs went bananas together and J and I talked about how this was going to be so missed by both beasties. And I'm going to miss time with J. 

She had to go, they were having company and she wanted to clean up. I went inside and there was a giant box waiting. C had shipped cheesesteaks from Goldbelly. Doug napped, I made them. And they were the perfect thing to have, since we didn't have much else. 

Tomorrow, more work. Taking Geoff up to see the house for the first time. And Toffee so she can see her new yard. 

Here's the cute drawing from the waitress. It was. It was a great day.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours.  No exercise, 7k steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

8am: 136
6pm: 105
10pm: 108

food & meds:
8am: jardiance+phentermine
10:30am: protein bar
3pm: spinach & strawberry salad w/ grilled chicken. 2 beers. Met+glip; carrot cake
7pm: a philly cheesesteak from Joe's via Goldbelly (thank you C) 
8:30pm: met+glip
2 more beers