What can have me so damn excited?  

We bought a house.  

We.
Bought.
A.
House.

Good lord, I never thought I'd say those words.  I had visions of living my life forever in my two-bedroom not-even-550 sf. apartment.  I'd joke that we'd have 4 more kids and they'd take over the bedrooms while we'll be relegated to sleeping on the sofa.

And now... We bought a house.  It's a HUGE (to us) house.  It's still only 2 bedrooms and 1 stinking bathroom, but it's 1347sf of ours.  All ours!  Excuse me, while I do another jig...okay, that was Lord of the Dance-worthy if you ask me.  

The funny thing is that this house is like our apartment on steroids.  

Mr. Fab in front of his new house.

Spanish Colonial Revival, thank you very much.  Batchelder tiles on the hearth (thank you, again!), and the World's Ugliest Bathroom:

Yes, I know it looks pink, but it's lavender, like MotherTalkers lavender (see sidebar).  Cute on the computer, not so cute when it's your tub, sink and friggin' toilet.  Mr. Fab is in love with the bathroom.  Damn fool, won't even let me gut it and make it attractive like blue or green.  Needless to say, the little girl is just dying to see the bathroom.  She wants to do ballet in there.  

Oh, did I mention that it has a basement?  I didn't?  Well, it has a basement:

Big enough for an office, way too small for a mother-in-law (yay!).  Just need to make sure it's earthquake proofed, so I don't have a a house falling on my pretty little head.

But most of all, while I'm thrilled to get away from the hipsters, my landlord and most of my annoying-assed neighbors, I'm most thrilled to be able to do laundry any damn time I want, without scrounging for quarters.  Yay me!  

Today, we bought a stove, microwave, washer, dryer and a refrigerator the little mister won't stop talking about.  Tomorrow, we're getting tile and some furniture.  Saturday, our stuff gets delivered and we're getting some plants!  I can finally plant stuff in the ground.  And the ground gets sun!  

Oh happy days are here again!