Tuesday, November 02, 2010

tuesday

I voted today.
I kind of didn't want to because it all feels so hopeless.
But then I thought about the members of the board
of education for daughters school................and how badly I want them out of office.
So that was my motivation for voting.

After we voted, boyfriend and I went to the local hole in the wall, breakfast diner for breakfast. It was packed with voters. I had fun listening to the talk/buzz about the election.

After breakfast we did a little more Christmas shopping, grocery shopping, and I bought our Thanksgiving turkey. I also got 2 cute Christmas aprons for daughter and I to wear when we bake Christmas cookies. I know that when I showed them to her she was thinking "OMG".........but when I'm dead and gone she'll remember us wearing those silly things & hopefully having fun as we make cookies. And maybe she'll be greatful for the memory. I got her a Santa hat that has a built in crown. I thought it was fitting for a Homecoming queen. :O)

We drove past our condo today.
I just wanted to see it again.
It's still there, hasn't changed.
I love it but I'm having second thoughts about it. I'm back and forth in my head
about selling my house. I'll figure it out.

7 comments:

BBC said...

There is no way in hell I would sell my place to upgrade at this time, but that's just me. Of course my place is free and clear and I have no desire to own a bigger place and have more to have to take care of, this dump is more than I want to take care of.

Unless of course I can come up with the money for a free and clear place in the country, then I would put a little home and a big shop on it.

More payments? Fuck that, I'm not going to be a slave to all that again.

BBC said...

You can’t be a free spirit if you owe others, but carry on.

BBC said...

Hey, in the cobwebs of my mind it seems to me, as I recall it, that you are looking for another place cuz of boyfriend. Correct me if I'm wrong of course.

Well I suggest that you ask boyfriend how much he is going to put toward the payments, and to put it in writing of course.

Unknown said...

I am afraid I have to agree with BBC in that Linda and I will never purchase real estate again. If we sell where we are we will only rent from then on and let someone else deal with the taxes and upkeep. There is definately something lacking in the American Dream for me at least.
Odie

Jane said...

Hi Billy.
I'm not buying the new condo because of boyfriend.
I bought this house with husband early in our marriage. It was well below what we could have afforded. I did it that way in case exhusband ever died, or in case our marriage ever ended. I wanted to be able to afford it on my own so that I could continue to raise our children here. Our marriage did end.....and I WAS able to buy exhusband out & afford the place on my own. I continued to raise my children here so as not to further disrupt their lives........but now they are grown, and I thought a new place, a new start would be good for me......the whole idea of the condo was to give me freedom from yardwork, and the up keep to the outside of my house.
Whichever property I end up living in will be paid off in 2 years or less by me....... Though it will cost me more to pay off the condo. The condo fees cover my water and sanitation.....it equals out to what I pay hhere for water and sanitation. My gas and electric bills will drop by 50%. SO the two years prior to paying off the mortgage on either place will cost me less if I'm in the condo......and to boot, it's brand new. No major repairs for awhile.
Boyfriend understands it's my investment..........and accepts that in the end, it's my decision........

Odie, Boyfriend thinks like you. He says lets get an apartment and call it a day. That too has it's advantages. It's just not for me. It always felt so temporary for me when I lived in an apartment.

BBC said...

Apartments suck, for me, even rental homes, I don't want to live in anything I don't have a title to.

Yard work? Damn, I never did get around to cutting my grass this year, oh well.

Jane said...

Billy, I'd be fined by the city if I didn't cut my grass. I tried it and it cost me 35 bucks.
You're lucky to get away with it.

I agree with you about renting.
I want it to be my own..