"Ladies and gentlemen, I am in es-ca-raow!"

So announced the character TJ when he and his wife made steps to purchase a home on the very fictional television show Gilmore Girls.

In reality, the co-op board left a message over Shabbos that the co-op board approved my application for purchase of an apartment in the Kew Gardens area of Queens.

Now all that is left is the closing. IY"H it will be soon and I will be able to move in, and not wake up every morning to the thought of swatting at three dozen bugs before breakfast.