MY PARENTS:
This will be a chapter about your parents. Resist the urge to make this chapter overly long.
Remember, this is YOUR life story, not the life story of your parents. A page or two will suffice. Some things that might be included:
Where were they from?
What were their occupations, education, training?
Were they members of a church?
How did they meet and fall in love?
You might divide this into three areas: 1. Your Father 2. Your Mother 3. How they got together
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Thursday, May 05, 2005
We're Evicted
Well, our housing search just got a little more pressing. To paraphrase Jon Stewart: Eviction. Me no likey.
Our landlady told us that she needs to sell this house to pay for the house that she just bought in Seattle. I don't begrudge her. She is nice and has been quite accomodating to us. We haven't had a lease since November, with the mutual knowledge that we might move, if we had found a place, any time.
We learned a lot from this place. We learned that 2,000 square feet is just a little too little for us. We need the fourth bedroom/office to be comfortable. Much of this is encapsulated in the post A house is. That's good to know.
This comes at a bad time. Work is "big deadline" time for me. I have had to cut short a vacation with the McMurtry's due to this deadline. (It is essentially the final weeks that proceed from a 4 year development cycle. It sucks but I accept that it's the business I'm in.) We haven't had a lot of luck with this whole house thing. I can't see things getting worse, only better.
We plan to move into an apartment for a period and put some of our stuff into storage. The housing market here is a "sellers market." There is little inventory, as they say, in the mid and low price ranges. There is inventory in the 'starting at $600,000' market. More than one person has pointed out that the end of the world is coming when that is the starting price of a house. I don't know about that. We'll see how things go. Our search area is expanding everyday. We'll find something eventually.
Our landlady told us that she needs to sell this house to pay for the house that she just bought in Seattle. I don't begrudge her. She is nice and has been quite accomodating to us. We haven't had a lease since November, with the mutual knowledge that we might move, if we had found a place, any time.
We learned a lot from this place. We learned that 2,000 square feet is just a little too little for us. We need the fourth bedroom/office to be comfortable. Much of this is encapsulated in the post A house is. That's good to know.
This comes at a bad time. Work is "big deadline" time for me. I have had to cut short a vacation with the McMurtry's due to this deadline. (It is essentially the final weeks that proceed from a 4 year development cycle. It sucks but I accept that it's the business I'm in.) We haven't had a lot of luck with this whole house thing. I can't see things getting worse, only better.
We plan to move into an apartment for a period and put some of our stuff into storage. The housing market here is a "sellers market." There is little inventory, as they say, in the mid and low price ranges. There is inventory in the 'starting at $600,000' market. More than one person has pointed out that the end of the world is coming when that is the starting price of a house. I don't know about that. We'll see how things go. Our search area is expanding everyday. We'll find something eventually.
Monday, May 02, 2005
The Advantage
Nathalie has discovered that I was in a band. She has been listening to the CD I sent you all. It is funny to hear her singing those songs.
I'm impressed with her other music choices. She just 'ripped' Queen's Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2 on her computer. On the other hand, she is not crazy about our recent purchase of Beatles CDs. Also, she like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Cool!
FXL
I'm impressed with her other music choices. She just 'ripped' Queen's Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2 on her computer. On the other hand, she is not crazy about our recent purchase of Beatles CDs. Also, she like the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Cool!
FXL
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