Rant & Rave

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

General Feelings on the house

I'm feeling down. I have been for a little while. It's probably a lot of things: weight gain, colder weather, inbetween houses, bad memories, the list goes on. I hate being inbetween things, and owning two houses and being in the middle of a lot of boxes is hard. We still have a lot to pack, and not a lot of boxes. So there will be many trips of emptying out at the new house and bringing back to the old to repack. I have until January when winter classes begin to get situated,
and then it will be one box at a time. I worry about my dog, whom we won't be able to let run in the backyard freely. We have the invisible fence, but won't be training her until spring. She loves to run and I worry she won't like being on a tether every time she goes outside. We'll have to make due. I worry we won't be able to afford the house. I want to be a landlord for a while, hopefully to have some extra funds. Our current home doesn't need a lot of big maintenance. Hardly any in fact. So we could have some extra funds and get down to one mortgage instead of three. Then we'd really be ok. I have been trying not to think about all the future things we'll miss out on if we're not careful - parochial school for our future kids, family vacations, etc. But I think I'm thinking too far into the future. We won't have all the extra cash we do now, but we'll be ok.