really? was it that easy? sunday, monday, tuesday and now wednesday? inspection thursday, another check, and a month later we get keys? really? i kept waiting for someone else to swoop in and take it, but for all intents and purposes, we're home owners. the rest is just details. but maybe it's hitting me, gradually, slowly, over the head like a sledgehammer. a huge debt. a place of our own. a home. all that space, all the new things, the different things. a new bathroom to get used to, closet, bikes, storage, oh, actually moving, actually a chance to slough off everything that's accumulated, the barnacles of history, the moss and lichen that litter my stuff, the stuff I want, the stuff I need. a clean slate, a fresh start, new routines, new habits, new ways and means, and clean fresh air. above all clean fresh air.