Tonight is the first night since my family arrived in Orlando that I've been able to just sit and do nothing after Simon was in bed. It feels nice. Granted, some of the time has been occupied by choice, doing stuff, but this is good.
All things considered, this move has been ridiculously smooth so far. The house sale closes in three weeks unless some catastrophic thing happens, and I need to close out utilities and such, but otherwise, we're almost done with Cleveland. At this end, I still have to switch the auto and health insurance, and we need to get drivers licenses. I also need to secure a mortgage for the new house, and that's in the works (obviously I was preapproved or they wouldn't initiate the process). That's weird to do, because it won't close until the house is done, February at the earliest.
I've been somewhat disconnected. I haven't kept up on RSS feeds or Facebook, and that's actually OK. It means I'm actually engaged in work. Today I did catch up a bit on developer news, and I need to do that in my line of work. Otherwise, I've actually found the disconnection to be freeing.
So far so good. I'm amazed at how natural this all feels at this point. Another few weeks, and I think we'll be very much into a routine, while still having so many new adventures.
I hope you can lock in your mortgage rate before February. Once the Fed stops buying up the mortgages (which is likely to occur before year end) the rates will spike higher. Back in May, Bernake just hinted they may slow down their purchases and rates went up almost 50%, granted they are still near record lows. But going from 3.5 to 4.5% is pretty huge.
Regardless, congrats on the new house. You guys will love Florida.