While this could have been about the Semi­sonic song of the same name (a well-written tune if there ever was one), I’m instead refer­ring to a mon­u­men­tal, life-changing, exhil­i­rat­ing event that occured a mere 11 hours ago.

As of today, May 5th (Cinco de Mayo), my wife and I are now proud home owners.

After years of liv­ing with the ‘rents (par­ents), which really was a won­der­ful expe­ri­ence with con­flict few and far between and being renters of an acco­mo­dat­ing town­house, we decided the time was right.

To think, this home buy­ing process began back in Jan­u­ary and took a gru­el­ing 5 months to work through the muck that the pre­vi­ous owner got her­self in — namely a loom­ing fore­clo­sure and back­ruptcy — and our lay­wer inform­ing us that he thought we were crazy, some­how it all worked out in the long, long, long run.

Now all we need to do is make sev­eral trips to Home Depot and touch up var­i­ous areas, oh, and fur­nish the place and then we’ll truly feel at home.