Downsizing

Well, the way-to-expensive house is ours now. Its a real pain in the ass going from 1600 sq ft, to 1200 sq ft, to 950 sq ft. Over the course of the last 5 years, the SO(significant other) and I have accumulated alot of crap. We are right back to the size of the living area that we started in. Our first apt was 1000 sq feet and we paid $580 a month in Olympia. Then it was off to a 750sq ft apt in LA, then the house and now to the current house. Don't get me wrong this house is beautiful, with gardens in both the front and backyards, and its closer to the beach than any house I'd ever thought that we'd be able to afford. So, overall, I am happy.

We visited our old town in the High Desert's outside of LA this week. I went by the old house just to see what the new owners had done to it. When I saw it, my heart was broken. It sits vacant, and my beautiful front yard, especially my rosebushes are all dead. I understand that its not mine anymore, but just the shock of seeing something that was once mine, languishing like that, is infuriating. I felt like breaking in and firebombing the thing.

I must extend a heartfelt thanks to my brother and sister-in-law, and my very good friend KB, for helping us move this last weekend. Without them, it would have been impossible to do it in one day. I have to go get my truck this weekend, and say thanks to my adopted California family the Hill's. They have stored my truck for the last 5 months while we sat in Downtown. They live in an area on the way to Vegas, and its my best friends parents, they adopted me while my friend was still on active duty, and became my de facto parents (thanks Jim and Cherie, I love you both). He and I met while I was on active duty, and I settled in the same region that he grew up in. Funny how life does that to you eh? Well the rest of the month is going to spent getting ready for another 2 week excursion to the Central Coast, and then getting the house squared away before the Big Show later on in the year.