"...pregnant again!"

Overall the inspection went well.

The inspector said that if it were his daughter buying the house he would have no problem with her moving right in as long as a couple of the things on his report were fixed in the near future.

The things that stood out were:

There are no GFCI outlets in the house. The house was built before it was necessary to have them for a home to be up to code and have not been updated.

Additional caulking needs to be applied around the chimney. The roof is only about a year old and we're assuming that the current homeowner has a warranty on the roof work.

There is a wood support beam in the crawlspace that has direct contact with the ground so it's currently a potential way in for termites. The inspector said that he doesn't even know why the beam is there as it doesn't appear necessary, but because it is there there should be at least four inches of concrete between the ground and the beam.

The inspector also suggested having something such as concrete or roofing paper put down in the crawlspace so it's not just a dirt floor.

The wooden steps leading from the deck to the backyard are visibly loose and warped.

We've decided to ask for everything to be repaired and go from there.

In other news, I've been lazy around the house for the last few days. The weather has been dreary and gray and my mood has been just as cloudy.

I even got sick out of the blue on Wednesday night after dinner. P.B. was all "Oh My God, you're pregnant again! It figures this would happen right before we buy a house. Wahhh."

Okay, maybe I exaggerated a little about his reaction to my sudden illness. But not by much.

Anyway, I peed on a stick the next morning and got a big fat negative. The strangest thing about it was that I actually felt the tiniest tinge of sadness about it (but that quickly changed when Branflake woke up screaming his dear little head off).

I really hope this weather changes for the better tomorrow. I am really looking forward to checking out the festival in the town we're moving to and don't want to be rained out. Plus this dreariness is really wearing me down. I've never been so depressed over the weather before.