am now bejobbed! (I likes making up words.)

You got it? YAY!

I did! And when they said "Of course, all the major holidays off, including the day after Thanksgiving," I almost cried.

The other cool thing is that they originally set out to make the job temp to hire, but decided on direct hire for me.

It's nothing special- I told my friend Abby it was like George's job on Dead Like Me. Not the cool reaping, the OTHER one. I shall dub my workplace Happy Time.

Oh, that's wonderful, Lilty! I'm so happy for you.

Even if house prices are a real roller-coaster over the next few years, none of that affects you in the slightest, because your house won't be on the market. It'll be providing you and Tom with a place to keep all your hopes and dreams.

Aww, that's a nice image. Thanks y'all. I have been saying a lot of this stuff to Tom, because he also is concerned, so being able to freak out about it a bit here helps, so I can put my logical face on. And now I feel a little better, like maybe I'm not lying to him when I say stuff like you guys said above.

If you're planning on living in it for a few years, and you never were pinning all your hopes on turning around and selling it for a big profit, you're fine.

Nora, repeat this over and over, because it's the point. If you're planning on living there a while and can afford the mortgage, it doesn't really matter what housing prices are doing today.

I may well print it out and tape it above my desk.

Thanks for listening to my freakout. Some of it is based in total Nora illogic... like, for the first time in my life, I'm financially OK... and being responsible and seeing the benefits of that... so obvously, something must go terribly terribly wrong or I fucked SOMETHING up without even knowing it.

Thanks, vw!! I'm now officially passing all that fast acting job~ma on to you.

YAY, Lilty!

Re: pay cut, well, at least you're in a situation where the day to day bills aren't too stressful, so this is a good time to transition from retail into Other Stuff. The job and the pay will change soon enough, you'll see. Get some non-retail experience and contacts, and things will get better and better.

Also, yes, getting out of soul-suckage, if you can, is really for the best for the short and long term. YAY!

I'm now officially passing all that fast acting job~ma on to you.

Thank you!

I'm not too worried. I'm focusing on getting something at school. There will be lots of jobs opening up for Fall semester. So, I may be without a job for a few weeks, but I doubt it will be more than that.

Inteview~ma for Lilty I see that's not needed - congratulations!

Nora, enjoy your home for being your home and don't worry about it's performance as an investment. You plan on being tehre a while, correct? So, no telling what the market will do in the meantime.

If you had bouight a bunch of stock I would be telling you the same thing - don't think about it for a while.

I had stuff from yesterday I was going to respond to, but it's fallen out of my brain.

Nora, everyone else has done a better job of saying what I would have said, but really, don't let this housing bubble talk worry you. I suspect the housing bubble is going to burst sometime in the near future, but the experts' worry is really about investors and people who have financed their lifestyles with home equity loans based on the run-up in their homes' values.

Yay, Lilty! She's escaped retail.

Last year I gave him a big bag of zombies

"None of my friends has a bag of zombies that big."

And it looks like you've been outbid, billy, by someone who really wants it. More power to them.