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All I Got Was A Pen

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Yesterday Aj and I took a big step in our lives. We signed closing papers on our house! The title company gave us copies of all the documents we were to sign a day ahead of time so we could look over them, and come prepared with questions — if we had any. We didn’t so the signing began.

The escrow officer we worked with was great. After signing the first document she chastized me because I didn’t sign with my middle initial. She made the whole experience very relaxing and pain free. I looked at my watch for the date a couple of times, and she said that she’d take my watch away from me if I did that too much Apparently she’s done that before.

When we were done, she told us to keep the pens as a “parting gift”. Woohoo, I just signed a mortgage and you are giving me a congratulatory cheap-o pen. Don’t I feel special. And that was it. No keys, no big explosions of fireworks and loud music and people dancing in the streets. Just us walking back to the car, each with a pen in our hands. How anti-climactic is that. No keys or nothing. When you buy a car you get to drive off with it, and I was looking forward to taking my new house out for a spin around the neighborhood, squeeling the tires some just for good measure.

Well, everything went through fine and Aj picked up the keys a little while ago. Yes folks, we are now homeowners. Man…I gotta buy a lawnmower.