It's official

The Street family are homeowners!!! Well ... I guess with the 30 year mortgage the wordage should be: The Street family is owned by the bank.

We drove up from Charleston to Newport Friday morning. We loaded up Buttercup and took her with us. She is going into training with a reputable trainer in the area. We left Charleston at 7:30 and arrived in Newport at 2 p.m. One hour past when we were supposed to do the house closing! It was also an hour and a half past when I was looking to meeting with a prospective employer and only a half hour until I was supposed to meet with another one. Long story short, I did not meet with any of them.

However, while driving to our closing I got a call from Walter, the editor of the Carteret County News-Times in Morehead City (nearby Newport). He wants me to become the editor of a weekly supplement to his paper. Barely able to speak due to joy, I told him I'd meet him at 4:30 to discuss the details.

The paperwork for the closing wasn't nearly the nightmare we expected. And we pretty much breezed through it -- trusting that everyone wasn't working for us to sign our first born child away.

Afterward, I met with Walter. We determined a 12% pay increase from my current salary. Of course this is after the 8% increase that I received in February from switching jobs. So, within the last 6 months, I have increased my pay by nearly 22%. Holy smokes ... we are almost millionaires!

Once I had met with everyone I needed to meet with, my coworker Kim dropped me off at a chain restaurant to meet with One Way. He and I had the best dinner at the place -- completely high after such an elating day!

We decided to spend the night in our new house -- but the electricity could not be turned on until Monday. So, we purchased some candles and made sure the water was turned on. We took the coldest showers ever! We also slept on the floor of our furniture-less house. It was wonderful.