So...yeah. It's been a while.
Sorry 'bout that, but you know, life happens. And in the life around our household, that has meant some serious soul-searching and decision making.
If you look closely, you'll see that the last blog post here was just before Christmas. It was around the holidays, as we were hanging out with family, that Patti and I began discussing "the future".
Relax. Loving Wife and I are as much in love now as we were sixteen plus years ago. No, the future was more along the lines of "what next". You see, last summer, we paid off our school loans, we had eliminated our credit card debt and we were saving our pennies. We started to talk about buying a house.
The looks that came out of that conversation could have been used to make all the negative emotion flash cards for pre-schoolers: shock, horror, dismay, fear. It seemed that despite very little in the way of debt and some good management of our finances, we anticipated it would take more than four years to save the cash we would need to put 20% down on a house here in the OC. And because of the short sale on the house in Vegas, there was no other way to qualify for a loan. We had to have 20%.
Oof. (more)
