July 2, 2003

• Well, househunting has ended...for a while....

  
  

  We looked at the two I mentioned earlier and neither of them were what we're looking for.  The one on 32 acres was great, but there isn't any garage or even an interior room to go to in case of a tornado (yes, in GA we have tornados, ALL the time, it seems).I thought to myself; 'Ya know that's like building a house on the FLorida coast and not considering hurricanes, and they don't even get hurricanes once a year...we get tornaodes 2-3 times a year!..The train tracks were far off from the back of the house, past a large creek, so those weren't an issue.  But with no out buildings it just made the price tag a little more than I want to spend.

  
  

  The other house, with a basement that I thought had potential..does have potential, and a LOT of neighbors, so..that's a no go. 

  
  

  I have one more house that I'm semi-interested in..but the acreage is a lot less than what we've been looking at (it's on 5 acres as opposed to the 10+ we're looking for) but, it has a pool and it's a foreclosure so it's DIRT CHEAP!  We might look at that one and our agent is about to list one that she says will probably interest us...so maybe we'll find something.  Who knows....

  
  

   

  
  

  FIL is not well, we're waiting for the 'final' phone call.  DH is going down there Friday one way or the other.  This is hard for him and it makes me realize that no matter how terrible our kids act towards us, or hate us...I will never just 'leave them alone'...DH lost precious years he could have had with his father, all over stupid teenage contempt and I think he finally realizes that no one is perfect and you have to understand everyone's fault(s) and then deal with them accordingly.  His father was never malicious but his mother led him to belive that his father was a sorry SOB..now he'll never be close to his father.  Never believe what anyone tells you about another human being...investigate it for yourself..make your own conclusions.....but don't EVER sell someone short over another person's opinion.

  
  

  If anyone out there has a rocky relationship with a parent or other loved one, just remember that one day they won't be here anymore (physically anyway)...make every day count...Apologize for being stupid and rotten, if they apologize, great...if not, then don't worry about it.  But at least try.  Life is so short and I hope to make mine worth every minute of it.  The best things in life are; family, friends, and laughter...we could all use a little more of each.

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