I just bought a house. It's been a process. A very short, yet seemingly exceedingly loooooong process. J and I started out looking for rentals since he will be starting a new program in the fall (yay for no more long distance!), and somehow I ended up a homeowner a mere 5 weeks later.
J wrote up a nice summary of our first few days of this process - so I'm going to put that below. You'll note his dry sense of humor is why I fell in love with his goofy face in the first place.