Reshuffling Priorities
So remember when I was househunting? Update–we did not find the perfect house. However, we did find one we really love. The house isn’t what I envisioned when we were looking, at all. It’s a condo, for one, so we share a wall with the neighbors. There’s no dishwasher. The back yard is mostly concrete. It’s on the other side of town from where I’ve lived for the past twenty-some years. (Twenty? Holy smokes!) But it works. We haven’t heard a thing through the shared wall, and no one has complained to us. The kitchen has enough room for a portable dishwasher, and we found a good used one for $125. The back yard has an orange tree, and enough dirt we can plant things. It also has a brick fireplace-type-thing built in. The drive to work is about fifteen minutes unless traffic is bad–that’s enough time to make it worth finding some books on CD.