Or this week, for that matter.
My house is a mess, the toddler hasn't napped in days, I'm trying to follow through on his speech and GI consults and it's sucking time I don't have from me, I'm chronically a week behind on business stuff and I keep telling myself I just need to sell the business... As soon as we sell the next shipment of diapers sold off.. which is what happened to get us INTO business- we bought diapers and said, ok, we just need to sell them off and re-coup our investment. Repeat. again. several times.. And I'll be working outside the house again.. (details to come later once I get it together long enough to find the number I needed to fax my resume to make it official)
I signed the kids back up at their charter school despite my better judgment on the promise that as soon as I come up with a better plan, Larry would go through the hassle of un-enrolling them, but I *know* how well he's followed through on his plans and I dread having to go there and doing it myself.
And we started looking for a new place to live. Somewhere we can afford. I *wish* I had taken a camera to the forclosure we saw an open house for this weekend. It had 5- count them-5- bedrooms, more than 1000 foot lot and in a nice neighborhood close to base. Unfortunately, it seems that the previous occupants destroyed the house and the agent said 'oh, the bank is spending $17,000 to fix it up' and we laughed out loud- $17,000 wasn't going to fix 1/2 of the problem. It might replace the original 1970's carpet and put a kitchen back in, nevermind the moldy bathroom.. and pool!! (we learned that lesson in the VA house) BUT.. the happy note is housing is suddenly affordable here. Good thing since we'll be here a few more years.
It's actually unbelievable that you can now find a 4 bedroom house for under $300K. And while that amount would have made us choke and sputter in VA, it seems like an unbelievable bargan here. Especially when you consider what rent is around here.. Or what we would have paid for that same house last year when we moved here.
Just another day in paradise~~
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