This was a pretty eventful day and I have composed several blog entries in my head that have not made it to the computer and were probably much better than this one will be, but at least I'm finally adding it. On April 20th, 2009, Andy and I bought our first home. It needs a lot of fixing up and our lease at our apartment doesn't end until July 31 (there is a pretty substantial fee for breaking it) so we are living in our apartment while we fix up the house. Only since we don't have much experience in that sort of thing and I take care of two little kids and Andy gets paid by billable hours, we're hiring most of it out. We actually haven't started any of that. The only thing we have started is the garden and that is taking lots longer than I had originally anticipated. Which is what I should have anticipated, right? :) Since we haven't done any work on the house or made any sort of monetary payments (besides the earnest money) it doesn't quite seem real. But nonetheless, we have keys and Caleb can tell you about our new house.
Also on the 20th Andy rode his bike to work and when he went to ride it home it was gone. Let me explain what happened. Andy had made a quick trip to the recorders office to check something out about our property before we met with the Realtor and the title agent that morning. Because he was in such a hurry and had a lot on his mind when he parked his bike at the very full rack downtown, he attached his very heavy duty lock to the rack but not to the bike. At least that's what we figure happened since the lock was securely attached to the rack and didn't look touched, while the bike was no where to be found. I was so bummed since I knew Andy loved his bike and had basically rebuilt it with all the components he liked. He's spent quite a bit of time and energy into it being basically his only big hobby. However, after searching local bike shops, online, and craigslist, he found one two days later. He is now the very proud owner of a Cannondale. If you scroll down to Caleb's birthday you can see a bit of his yellow framed Cannondale, built in the USA, behind Caleb's birthday cake. Now Andy is telling me details to add about his bike: He got a sceamin' deal on a 1998 Cannondale F300 Volvo/Cannondale team replica--the same model that the great Tinker Juarez rode during the 1998 season.
We were all really happy he could find a substitute.
4 comments:
Congrats on the new place! That is really cool. Also, happy birthday, glad you had a good day. And Holy Cow! The PDF link to the bike is ginormous! Glad Andy found something he likes, having your bike stolen would really be miserable.
That's awesome you bought your own place! It will be nice to be able to get it the way you want before you move in. Good luck with everything!
Yeah, Andy says he's going to find a better link. I just left that one as is and figured I wouldn't look through that whole PDF, and everyone is just like me, right? :)
I'm excited for you to have a house!! Thats sad about Andy getting his bike stollen, but I'm glad he was able to find such a nice replacement. :)
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