Bought and sold

Settlement is completed. The house is ours. Yesterday I walked out of my rental unit and returned to my home. Math Man seemed to take it in stride. I found it all a tad surreal.

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Math Man's aunt and uncle are in the area on business this weekend. We had dinner with them last night, and then the uncle visited us this afternoon while the aunt tended their table at the big crafters' wholesale show. The Warrior Princess had a vet appointment early afternoon, so all three of us trundled her to the vet's for a check-up and pre-teeth-cleaning bloodwork. A good time was had by all, except for the vet, whom the Warrior Princess attempted to take her ounce of flesh from. Fortunately the vet's thumb escaped unscathed. The Warrior Princess did not, and while no ounce of flesh was taken, about an ounce of blood was. Believe me when I say that it's unusual for the Warrior Princes to have blood taken from her without her extacting some in return.

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This morning I flushed the toilet in the downstairs bathroom and the cheap plastic lever in the tank snapped in twain. Had this happened yesterday, it would have been the last item I could have called my landlord over to fix. Since it happened this morning, it was my first home repair project. And so begins the joy of not renting.