Hi, all! Home from work again today, which is a good thing because I slept 13 hours last night. 13. Dear me.
we'll never be able to afford a house out here
I keep going back and forth as to whether or not I'll be able to. I strongly suspect no, but I'm going to look into it in a couple of years.
we'll never be able to afford a house out here, and we'll never be able to afford the private schools.
I startled myself by realising I'd made peace with the former, and startled myself even more by realising I didn't want to need the latter, that I had no intention of being a mother.
I'm not sure I really care about owning anymore.
Of course, with an HOA it doesn't exactly feel like "The freedom of home ownership"
If Joe and I had choosen to remain childless, I could totally see us remaining out here and not caring about owning something. We probably would have moved to SF at some point.
Are you in Manhattan or an outer borough, Gris?
I'm in Manhattan. 87th and Amsterdam. It's a STEAL for the neighborhood.
(Psst, Jessica, I remember that you didn't like Sweeney Todd very much, but you really should see Company before it goes away. The instrument schtick works 800,000 times better with this show, and it's so nicely character-driven. It was one of the best things I've seen in years, a definite theatrical highlight of my life.)
Oh wow! I completely forgot you were living in Pasadena now, Kristin. I'm actually coming out for a visit from tomorrow until Thursday. Tomorrow and Sunday I'm pretty booked, but if you guys want to get dinner or something, I'm free as a bird from Mon-Wed. Heh. Now I'm having memories of Roscoe's with ND and Debet. Mmm. Roscoe's.
Hate to interrupt the LA talk (I really hope to see it someday). My sister, who's been slogging it out at Kohl's for the past 3 months or so in Las Vegas while applying for her dream jobs, finally got one.
She'll be working for Cirque de Soliel- Ka.
(This is the youngest one. The other one is the actress in Austin).
That's awesome! Yay for Daisy-Sis!
I'm really really proud of her and very happy for her. She was working retail during the holidays, and while that's bad for anyone, it's a particularly bad deal for R.
Also, I brag about L and her stuff a lot. R deserves her shiny time!
Yay for Daisy's sis! What a cool job.
For that matter, I found myself here in a way that I never would have been able to in Michigan.
I felt that way in NYC. As ita said, I also felt unnotable there -- I mean, it's NYC, there's no way *I'm* going to stand out. But raising three kids there takes a kind of money we're not likely to see in this lifetime. My dream is that when they're all out of the house, Stephen and I can move back there.
Wait, who am I kidding? My dream is that if we win the lottery we can get a little studio there now, and I could escape from time to time.
I am now alone in my office.
All by myself.
t turns music waaaaaaaay up
t starts dancing