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November 15, 2005
Maybe my visit with my family next week will fill some of my need...
I'm nesting again. I mean, it's not like I ever STOP nesting, but I'm back to constantly thinking about nothing but babies, home ownership, babies, dogs, and babiesbabiesbabies.
I think I've spent the majority of my sickbed time at Edina Realty looking at houses in Minnesota. Houses that we could afford tomorrow. Houses I think we could afford if I get a job. Houses I hope we can afford 10 years from now. Houses we would never, ever be able to afford. Houses for my parents. Houses in neighborhoods I love. Houses in neighborhoods I could deal with. I also look at Craigslist every day to see what there is to rent and what there is to buy.
I even spent several hours redecorating my grandparents' house in my head when I couldn't sleep the other night.
My mom is on board, too. She finds houses and sends them to me. She sent me this gorgeous thing that's way outside of a price we can afford even if I work. And she sent me this one that's way above our price range but beautiful.
I've also had the TV on a lot while I've been sick, but I haven't been watching. However, whenever a baby pops up, my head automatically turns toward the TV so fast that I get whiplash. And I've taken a billion of those indicators that tell you what breed of dog to get. I was already in love with tiny black cockapoos, but I'm now in love with the Yorkipoo as well. I'm naming them in my head.
At this point, I've lost track of where I'm going with this. Just... Please give me a house, a puppy, and a baby?
Posted to Minnesota & Nesting at November 15, 2005 12:08 PM
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Okay ... I think you are me.
I have been obsessing over this adorable fixer-upper house (the mortgage payment for which would be about one hundred dollars less than we currently pay in rent) in a small town forty-five minutes from our current resident ... and an hour and a half from Cullen's and my workplaces. Boo!
I'm still holding out hope that it will be available next fall, the earliest we'd realistically be able to move. And? I've mentally plotted the layout of "the baby's room." "What baby?" you may ask. To which I shamefully reply:,"Exactly."
Posted by: Amanda Schumacher at November 15, 2005 01:26 PM
It's so frustrating, isn't it? And I don't know about you, but for me it's all the more frustrating because what's holding us back is finances, and my core group of friends back in MN are in a better financial position than we'd be in even if we were both working full time... Which we probably won't ever be, because of my disability. They all own townhomes or rent gorgeous places and have brand new matching furniture sets. We have a coffee table, a kitchen cart, a bed, a dresser, and a bookcase. And too many books. They all go on multiple vacations a year, and we're trying to figure out if we can afford to come home for winter break because we have to go to San Diego later this year for my cousins' B'nai Mitzvah... Augh.
Posted by: Rebecca at November 15, 2005 10:18 PM
I'm nesting too. I think we should live next to you girls and have babies at the same time. And we could start our own little Jewish Community.
Posted by: Mir at November 16, 2005 09:41 AM
It keeps putting your name in my name space on your journal =(
Posted by: Mir at November 16, 2005 09:42 AM