flwyd | Weeks of Adulting Responsibly (Reply)

I started a more narrative version of this post, but got pulled into adulting matters instead, so here's the bullet points of what I've been up to for the last month and a half.

Writing a document with what we requirements, preferences, and perks we'd want in a house
Reading about the process of buying a house
Looking at houses on real estate websites
Pre-applying for a loan up to a million dollars
Going to open houses
Remembering that my passport was about to expire; renewing it
Not buying literally the first house we looked at, even though it was really fun and in a great spot
Getting a code volunteer oriented to the Ranger software system
Celebrating holidays with family and friends
Sorting out a new PHP framework because the original new fancy framework we were going to use for the Ranger system is deprecated
Moving back to my old office building, unsubscribing from old team mailing lists, stumbling my way through Android codelabs
Meeting with potential buyers' realtors
Meeting with an elder law attorney to help my parents develop an estate plan
Receiving my passport in just two weeks, before the government could shut down
Looking at houses with realtors
Looking at more houses on the internet; not being able to sleep due to imagining living in a particular interesting house
Making spreadsheets of house price, down payment, and monthly cost scenarios
Looking at more houses with realtors
Studying the Boulder County floodplain maps
Reading a real estate contract
Making an offer on a house that meets almost all of our desires except "not in a floodplain"
Buying a pie to celebrate offer acceptance
Writing a $20,000 check for escrow
Awkwardly knocking on future neighbors' doors and saying hello
Reading legal documents
Reading loan documents
Signing loan documents
Getting quotes for hazard and flood insurance
Having a kickoff meeting for further adventures in climate outreach
Observing a home inspector poke and prod at a house, crawling around in two fairly comfortable crawl spaces
Reading inspection findings
Leafing through a homeowner's well-organized invoices
Reminding my mom to send life insurance details to the attorney

The next two months look pretty adulty, too.