my home

i have a house...it's my own house...i own it!  i always thought that i would buy my first house after i got married.  every since i moved to baton rouge, i have had my eye out for the perfect house.  a couple years ago i was hours too late to put an offer on what was a really cute house.  but it was all in God's timing.  last fall i became fed up with sending someone else a check every month for my rent...money that would never come back to me...and decided that buying a house would be a good next step.  so after looking for a few months, i found my house!  i have to admit that upon first glance, it didn't blow me out of the water.  the front shrubs were overgrown, it was cold inside, and one of the rooms had some really weird paint on the walls...plus the bathroom was so small and claustrophobic!!  but my heart changed and it became my house on an early morning in late January.  remember, i said the bathroom was small...so shortly after the house became mine came a search for the all important contractor.  well, let's just say that i may have chosen the wrong one.  things look fine (not great) but they took a lot (by months) longer than i had hoped...but mission accomplished, I now have a bigger bathroom!  i can't imagine how unhappy i would be by now if i had stayed in my apartment.  it was small and not in the greatest neighborhood and far away from my friends...okay, not that far but definitely not within walking distance.  all this to say, i have a house!  pretty awesome in my opinion and not something that i ever expected to do as a single person...gotta love that!