exciting times

My apartment looks like a stuff bomb went off - sure, one may say, that's what happens when you move into a new house. Heh, well, about that... let's just say that the "new house" part is on hold, while the "moving" part is definitely ongoing.

Sooo, on Thursday afternoon, when I called the real estate lawyer to make sure we were all set for closing at 10AM the next day, he informed me that the other side messed up and couldn't provide the documents that they needed to prove that an old mortgage was paid off. How about that. I, in turn, informed him that we had four days to get out of our apartment, and that the delay was highly inconvenient at best. But, nothing we can do about that.

Of course, the stuff in our apartment and the next guy moving in don't care much for the lack of responsibility exhibited by the seller. Henceforth, we spent the better half of the last 48 hours evenly distributing our things between Susan's parents' house and my parents'. Which makes it into a fun guessing game: "Where in the world are Stan's sneakers?"

To make things even more interesting, Jonas is coming down for a visit. In fact, he is sitting on the Chinatown bus right now, fully expecting to be taken to the new villa once he gets to Boston. Boy, do I have a surprise for him ;)