3.16.2005
- You may delay, but time will not --Benjamin Franklin-
time marches on, so it happens to be that time of year again... end of the lease. every single time that i move i swear up and down that i will never move again. that it is my least favorite activity in the world. that i would rather be force fed mashed meat and veggie baby food for a week (blech) than have to pack up, clean, and then leave the place i'd gotten so comfortable in.
i guess a part of all that is true. but, at the same time, i get this itch. to be somewhere else. in a different house. no, i'm not that big on change. but a little bit is good. i was the kid who used to rearrange my entire room--bed, dresser and all-- when i was little. and all by myself. i'd spend an entire day pushing and tugging crap around my room. i guess this is just a more mature, grown up way of doing it... except now i have a whole house full of stuff and am pushing and tugging around a city.
one of these years the next obvious step will be to expand this whole little board game i have to a national scale. eventually, i will move out of state and away from atlanta. when? and where? who knows... who cares. right now, i'm stressed enough about where to go in two months. and the more i think about it, two months just doesn't seem like enough time to pack everything, get it all settled, save up the money for a move. but at the same time... what's the point in putting it off? every time i move it becomes a heavier hit to my pocketbook. but i am, at least, moving up. besides, putting it off and pretending it isn't going to happen doesn't change the fact that our lease will end.. and we'll have to make some kind of decision.
now that huey and i've enjoyed the pleasures of a townhouse with garage for a year with five of us, we figured we'd give a real house a try. but with a two car garage. and we're only bringing one roommate with us to play "house" as our kid. okay, i take that back. if he read that he'd freak out. but really, it's almost what we are doing. we're just that much closer to being ready to get a house. but where to get it? and what size? and what can we afford? there is to much up in the air, and until at least one of us finish school we're just keeping it on hold.
geez, i really do feel like i'm in a board game. in fact, the game of Life used to be one of our favorites. that's me... except i hit that bad space at the beginning that makes you a $20k a year janitor instead of the $400k a year doctor, and am spinning the wheel like crazy hoping to get lucky before the end. one thing i never liked about that game is that it encouraged having kids so strongly.... you got more money at the end for however many kids you had in the car. stupid game.... brainwashing is all it was.
anyway, when we decide on a house and get approved, i'll put up a link to a picture. in the mean time, wish me happy hunting!
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posted by megs at 02:03
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