Small anxieties and perfection.

I guess we counted on things being done a little faster than we should have, so when I announced that the eight days, for neighbours to respond, was up the letter had only just been sent. The eight days is now well and truly up, just a week and a bit until we exchange. We've just watched an episode of Grand Designs and a woman said something along the lines of 'It's better to have a small piece of preciousness than a large piece of mediocrity", out house is that small piece of preciousness, it is so special to us, and it will be ours. As we do not have Portuguese bank account yet I am transferring the money to our Real Estate agents tomorrow, I want to give it 12 days for the money to clear and the cheque to be drawn, I have small anxieties over little things that could go wrong. I want this so much, we've waited for so long (or so it feels), that I can't risk anything that might lose us this dream.