I know I haven't posted in almost 2 weeks, but I have a good reason. We bought a house. It's not any of the ones we'd looked at. Our real estate agent called and said "this great house just went on the market, I think it would be perfect for y'all, it's $50,000 under priced, but we've got to offer them the asking price now (which was $8,000 more than the max we'd planned to spend), or someone else will get it." I said no, because it was so much more than we'd planned to spend. By the weekend, the house was still on the market, so we went to see it, and made an offer. It's decorated in "1980's Grandma," but the house is great. It's big, it's on a quiet street, it's very centrally located, the lot is mostly level, it's down the street from several of our favorite restaurants, it has an awesome sun room, and the refrigerator comes with the house, so we don't have to buy one. We're actually spending more than we'd planned to, but it works out to $25 dollars more than what we were separately paying in rent before we moved in together, and we'll be paying 1 set of utilities instead of 2, so I think it will work out. We may have to cut back a little on eating out and buying books and stuff, but I'm ok with that.