Over the weekend (Saturday in fact!) yours truly completed his twenty-sixth lap around the sun. The only thing I know of that changes on your twenty-sixth birthday is that you can no longer be drafted. Of course, they aren’t drafting anyone nowadays, but if they started doing it again I’d be safe. Unless of course Congress changed the rules, which I believe they are perfectly capable of doing. In any case, I’m continuing to get older. Somehow on this year’s birthday I actually felt more than a day older. It seems absolutely impossible that a full year has passed since I passed the quarter-century mark. And it’s not that I haven’t done anything all year. I guess it’s that I have done a lot of “grown-up” stuff in the last year. I bought a house, for example. I went on a business trip. I started making mortgage payments. I filed my own taxes. And the big one, of course, is that I’m going to be a father in four months. A dad. This guy is going to be responsible for the life of another human being. I mean, we are talking about a person who not only created a drawing of a guy in a giant toilet riding a turd, but he posted said turd cowboy onto the various internets. That’s just craziness.
Maybe, just maybe—with the help of her seemingly sane mother—my daughter will turn out to be more than a demented sociopath.
Yee-Ha!
November 20, 6:37 pm
“SEEMINGLY SANE MOTHER”?!?!?!?!?
I would like to think that I am a reasonably sane mommy-to-be!
So there!
November 21, 9:51 am
As for buying a house, what kind of tips do you have from your experience? I’m going to be looking for a place after the new year, and I’m wondering what all is involved in the process. Any helpful hints?
And the big one, of course, is that I’m going to be a father in four months.
To quote Dr. Foster from Hurricane Neddy: “May God have mercy on us all.”
November 24, 11:23 pm
Even though I just bought a house, I’m still not sure I know enough about the process to give advice. I do know that adjustable rate mortgages are something to try to stay away from, unless you really know what you’re doing. Other than that, I guess it depends a lot on what you are looking for. A good realtor helps, but I don’t know how to tell you to find a good realtor other than to ask people from the same area (our realtor was someone who knew someone Stephanie worked with). Or you could try looking without a realtor—I think buyers’ agents are a fairly recent thing (last 10 years or so), and so they aren’t strictly necessary. Like I said, I don’t really feel qualified to give advice on this subject...