Movin on up...

Not to the east side ;) that's where the Jefferson's went, not us. We are moving to a house that we are renting starting next month! We were tired of being in the little cramped apartment and paying too much for not enough space. We got a great deal on a place and we're excited to move. We have already started packing and we have done a lot so far. I know she is excited, as I am too. But, she is going to be happy to have a "place of her own" sorta. This is the next step into buying a house, is renting one. It will be good to have an idea of what goes into owning a house, by renting one for a year. That will ease the transition from a 1050 sq ft apt to a 2500 sq ft house much easier. This place has all that we need, good location and cheap county, good size, enough space in the back yard, a two car garage, and a HUGE kitchen for her. I know she will also be so much happier with a bigger refrigerator/freezer. Everything involved is much improved. We will have to option to buy at the end of a year with some things being worked out by then with our jobs and what we can afford. It didn't make sense now to buy something cheap and small and not be happy with it a couple years down the road.
When it comes to everything else, work is showing some signs of improving after a pretty crappy December and January. December should have been good, but this damn "economy" has everyone scared that they may not be in business in a couple years. What would make sense, you operate more efficiently now, and also for the next few years; or you don't operate more efficiently now and for the next two years as you force your economic situation to get worse on your own? Stupid people are just irritating. That is sales 101 - you can't sell ignorant and poor. Sometimes those two come in the same person and you just have to walk away not feeling bad or upset because you could not have done anything more to have made it work out. That was what happened then, and as for what the future holds, nobody knows. All I know is that I am going to make it work somehow. I feel like I've been chasing a carrot for a while and it keeps getting farther away. That's the problem, I just want that carrot! I have some good things on the horizon and the next month and a half will determine what happens. In mid-May it will be one year at Oce. That is what everyone said to do, give it some time and it will work out, the first year is the toughest. I just have to stay focused on the long haul and what can happen if I work hard and get through this BS "economy".