fingers crossed, for 23 + reasons

So, STG are in the process of creating our first home together, and here in stream-of-consciousness order are 23 things I'm excited about - and although it's not official official yet, some of this is very much based on the house we're crossing our fingers & toes to lease:

1. No more creeper landlord and his girlfriend hanging out on their balcony watching everyone who comes in and out of the building
2. No more $8/load laundry and/or hauling laundry to SC2 or STG as needed
3. No more coming home to a hallway that reeks of bad weed and worse incense
4. No more hearing the drunks waiting for the elevator outside my door every weekend night
5. No more stepping over cigarette butts and gobs of spit in the entry way 
6. No more living in a fish bowl that looks straight out onto a main arterial *actually, the house we're most interested in is on a main arterial, but set back from the road by a lovely treed yard, and above street level
7. No more compromising on whose house to stay at - the one with no roommate, or the one with the better bed
8. ALWAYS getting to sleep in the better bed
9. Having a yard
10. Having a vegetable garden
11. Having flower beds
12. Having a front stoop to sit on in the summer
13. Having a back patio for BBQs and reading in the sun
14. Having a dish washer for the first time since 1998
15. Saving a couple hundred dollars a month on housing costs 
16. Putting those saving into a travel fund
17. Roasting marshmallows in our wood-burning fireplace
18. Sitting in the living room writing while listening to STG play with the bikes downstairs
19. Being across the road from a regional bike trail
20. Having a spacious, bright, sunny kitchen
21. Having room for friends - dirty bikers and otherwise - to drop by, BBQ, and tell stories
22. Having the life I pictured when I moved to Victoria 
23. And most of all, even if the fireplace and the sunny kitchen don't happen, getting to share it all with STG

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Scintilla Prompt (I have some Scintilla catching up to do)

• Write a list of 23