Yay Debt!

Well over this long weekend, Aaron and I decided to take advantage of the Black Friday sale on appliances at Sears (20% off plus 12 months interest free financing) and ordered a new dishwasher, smoothtop range, microhood and refrigerator. They aren't schedule for delivery until early February in case the closing gets bumped back a bit, but we secured the cheaper price - if you can call nearly $2,500 cheap!

We opted for all black Kenmore appliances in the mid-to-high grade range. Not the most expensive stuff out there, but models with nice additional features. Aaron kept repeating "$2,500" in shock, but he was also the one who thought we should go for the extra features. Everything was rated high on Consumer Reports in their 2007 Buyer's Guide, if not one of their "CR Best Buys" - plus the fridge and dishwasher were Energy Star rated. While I'm totally confident with our choices, it's a little scary having all that debt for appliances when you don't have a house to put them in quite yet. But as Aaron says, we do have a house, we just don't have the keys yet!

Aaron's handy buddy Matt also came up and got his first look at the house. He wants to tear down the drywall in the main living area because he can see a little more water damage than we caught. Thankfully he's got a hook up for getting drywall very cheaply, plus he's such a fabulous friend he said he'd take off a week from work to come up and do the work. If he does a whole week's worth of work on our place, I certainly want to pay him some way, but he says he's set as long as he has food and tunes. He definitely gets a free room to stay in when he visits, that's for sure! He and Aaron also have ideas for how to fix the wood floor, what flooring to put down to replace the lino (probably not doing this right away), among other things. Also, since the drywall in the livingroom is coming down anyways, Aaron would like to install in-wall surround sound. Sounds like quite an undertaking, but I would hope it'd be a cool selling point down the road, not to mention better than having speaker wire running around on the floor and awkward looking speaker stands to bump into.

We are totally on task for closing as far as the lender is concerned, and I'm awaiting a call back from our attorney's office tomorrow to see how the abstract and title search are coming along.