in the middle of our street

We Have A House! with a yard that has lilac bushes and flowering trees and a big lovely cactus and grass to lie on during picnics and space enough for an herb garden, and a garage in which to play musical instruments, and a kitchen with enough room and enough light to cook. it doesn't have a phone that functions, which might make internets tricky, but that can be fixed. it doesn't have bookshelves, but that can be fixed too, and because it is bigger than the house we have now, we will have room for bookshelves sufficient to actually house all of the books. it doesn't have a washer or a dryer right now, but soon it will, and we won't have to drive to campus any more and illicitly use the laundry room and risk losing socks and running out of quarters. there is a shed in the back, even, where the bikes can live, so they won't be in the middle of everything all the damn time. the cat will have the frolicking-space she craves so desperately, and so will we.

we move on the 20th. we have a house!