and today's good news is:

we move into our new home after 1 december. oh yeah. i am seriously jazzed. it's still a little difficult to wrap my feeble brain around the amount of money we're talking here, but that will pass with time... hope hope hope.
now all i need to do is finish up with the sale of my rental, which should close by october 13. hopefully we can bump that up a little. this is so cool.