perfidy

I would apologize abjectly for my dearth of posting, except for the fact that I don't think it has had an adverse impact on, well, anyone. So there.

But, for those who do care, here's what I've been up to. Most of my free time over the last month has been occupied with purging, Soviet-style, my belongings. Eight entire Nissan X-Terra loads of my possessions have been lined up against the wall, shot, and taken to the dump. Their families were billed for the cost of the bullets. An additional five loads have been taken to the Militant wing of the Salvation Army, and one full load of books - 26 liquor boxes worth - were sold or donated as well. There is another two loads of detritus staged next to the garage waiting for their dirt-nap, and I'm going to have to borrow my neighbor's trailer to take a load of busted or worthless furniture and appliances to the landfill.

By comparison, only four loads have been taken to the storage facility. The house is now down to currently-being-used clothes, kitchen stuff, furniture and only ten books. I've also ripped nearly every DVD I own, I've thrown out the cases and someone is going to get an unexpected gift of nearly 400 movies.

It is liberating, nay, exhilarating to get rid of so much crap. My soul feels lighter and cleaner.

So that's to the good.

As far as the reason for all this - it doesn't look like we'll even be making the attempt to purchase another home. From what I've been reading, the housing market collapse is far from over. Even though we could by the same house for half what we paid four years ago, it looks like if we did, we could find ourselves underwater again within a year. Which would suck. Note to self: buy low, sell high.

So I think we'll be renting. I'll lose some tax write-offs, but paying between a third and a half of what I've been paying will more than even that up. Much more, really. And besides, I'll have another child deduction next year.

So I'll be moving within the month, which will continue to cut into blogging time.  But less so, since I've already gotten through the obsessive difficult part.