Erieversible

Hands up anyone who had a really great year in 2008?  Thought so.  I’m sure everyone had at least one great time during 2008 but in general, especially with the economic chaos, I don’t think 2008 will go down as a great year.

So, what does 2009 bring?  In general, I don’t know.  (And if anyone claims to know, run away very fast.)  Personally it will bring a new home, a new family life, a whole new future.  I am looking forward to 2009.  I am sure there’s more economic chaos to come, but by now we have all learned a few basic truths and should be more prepared for the challenges ahead.  I suspect 2009 won’t eventually go down as a great year, but with a bit of effort from us all it can be the year things turned around.

Happy New Year to everyone.  As we start 2009 by approaching the end of a transatlantic migration let us hope some of the good luck we have had in 2008 can now wander off and help someone else.  Maybe it will be you.

As at 1pm today we own a family home again.  While we will be a week or so moving into it, we will start the New Year at least owning our home.  2009 is already looking pretty good!

Okay, not exactly.  We close on the house on Wednesday at 10:00.  Assuming everything goes according to plan.  That’s the dawn of our new life, I suppose?  Though the subject has echoes of the 1943 film ‘We Dive at Dawn’.  Life’s like that.

There’s a lot to do between now and then, including the pre-closing walk-through.  Plus all the utilities and essentials such as cable TV.  I spent 42 minutes on the phone this evening setting up cable - I hope that I don’t need 42 minutes for each of the utilities otherwise I’ll be having trouble keeping up the ’smiling voice’ by the end of it all.

With 75mph winds in the last 24 hours, and more flooding than this area has seen for a while, if the house is still unscathed when I look round it tomorrow then, touch wood, it should be a fairly sound house for a few years yet.

Fingers crossed…it is all beginning to end.