Gretchen and I are putting an offer on a home today. After 10 years of renting, we’re ready to jump into being real live grownups, with a mortgage and everything.
Please pray for us. There are multiple offers on the property, and we’re trying hard not to get our hopes up, but it really feels like home to us.
michael lee 5:38 pm on 15 January 2009 Permalink
I’d like to thank Chad for single-handedly booking enough Dailies Gigs in January and February to pay our closing costs. Seriously, he’s been a maddog, and I love it!
Gretchen 6:57 pm on 15 January 2009 Permalink
Yeah! I’m excited in a scared sort of way! The house inspection is going to be a doosy me thinks. We will accept any and all offers of help to move, paint, do electrical work, drywall, install ovens (hi Bryan!) pull out hugely large palms, etc. etc. etc.
Thank you for your excitement and prayer friends. This has been all the more special with you all going through it with us. Continued prayer and support are appreciated :)
aly hawkins 8:47 pm on 15 January 2009 Permalink
How long is your escrow?
Julie Beveridge 9:20 pm on 15 January 2009 Permalink
Congrats guys!! IT is an awesome feeling in all kinds of ways. Awesomely scary, awesomely fun, awesomely real, and most of all awesome that you made the American dream come true!! Glad it went well. God is good all the time!
michael lee 8:19 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
30 day escrow. It officially closes on Valentines day, but we’ll probably bump that up to the Friday before.
Chad 8:31 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
Is it too late to stop it? I don’t know if you’ve really thought this through. It totally adds like 12 miles to my drive for poker night.
Have you considered Reseda?
(asshat)
michael lee 8:56 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
We considered Reseda, but neither one of us smokes crystal meth.
Chad 10:21 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
There’s a house in our neighborhood that I’m totally convinced is a grow house or a meth lab or something. It is meticulously maintained, clean as a whistle, and yet there is not one piece of furniture or decor in the front or back yard. I’ve never seen a human being enter or leave it, and the shades are perennially drawn.
I feel like Jimmy Stewart in Rear Window. I’m thinking seriously about hiring some Jehovah’s Witnesses to go knock on the door and report on what they see.
Chad 10:22 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
All that to say…
Drugs are for the suburbs. Porn is for the Valley. Get it straight.
michael lee 10:23 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
Do people working at grow houses generally invite door-to-door religious nuts to come in and look around?
Chad 10:30 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
Only if they’re pre-destined to do so.
Zack 10:42 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
Oh snap. Dude hasn’t even closed Escrow, and he’s already slammin’ Valley-Dwellers. Reseda is dangerously close to Lake Balboa, my friend.
Chad’s right, we’re all about Porn here in the valley. “Meth-fueled, hard-core erotica” was actually one of the conditions on our home.
Once again, I wonder what AdSense is gonna do with this comment.
michael lee 10:44 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
Adsense is out. We sell all of our ad space by request now. Which is why Addison Road serves up spicy links to modern furniture in NYC, online lottery sweepstakes, and wholesale coffins.
Sharolyn 10:59 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
Thank you guys for the laughter.
Zack 11:01 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
I’ve always said, “If there’s one thing to buy wholesale, it’s coffins”.
michael lee 11:03 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
I’ve heard you say that. I know you always try to work it into the conversation in a way that seems natural, but it never does, Zack. Never.
Gretchen: This is really good wine!
Sara: Thanks, we bought a whole case of it at Costco.
Zack: At Costco Wholesale Warehouse? You know what you should always buy wholesale …
Bobby 11:05 am on 16 January 2009 Permalink
Can’t have too many.
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