We sold the house!

Yes, yes, I know I promised some sort of meaningful or interesting post every day for December, but my gentle readers will have to be satisfied with the more mundane today because

We sold the house! In this horrendously crappy housing market! We have a signed contract, earnest money, and a closing date!

Of course now the angst begins, since there are just a few teensy eensy matters that could complicate the whole thing. You know, something like the tiny detail concerning the fact that we don’t know where we will live after selling our house. Six long months ago we put our house on the market because we’d found a house that we wanted, or so we thought at the time. But we’ve changed our minds since then about where we want to live, and are now in the process of looking for a place that fits all our wants and needs.

On the upside, it won’t be the complete end of the world if we don’t find our Perfect House in the next couple of weeks. It will merely be the end of a convenient world for a few weeks… perhaps months. The tentative plan would be to pack all of our non-essentials into a POD, and then move into my other…tiny…house until we find the house we want. It won’t be fun or pleasant, but we figure it would be better than buying the wrong house. Besides, lousy seller’s market=great buyer’s market, so hopefully we’ll get a good price on whatever we do find!