We bought our third home about 8 months ago and it is slightly more work than I signed up for. Now I know it sounds all glamorous that we "bought our third home" but let me tell you this, it's not. The house we just bought is stuck in the 70's. Our new favorite colors are gold and split pea soup green. If we wait long enough it will be back in style in no time flat.
Our second home is a rental in the Seattle area and we, literally, have the renters from hell...from HELL. This family of renters is slightly better than the last gal but only by a hair. Apparently, they get confused when reading the calendar. Rent is penciled in on their calendar to be paid the last day of the month rather than the first. And responding to emails and phone calls doesn't register with them unless they need something from me and then boy oh boy I better hop to. Oh yea people, come up with a better excuse other than, I told my daughter to mail it, but I guess she didn't or it was returned by the postman, what's your address again?.
Did I mention my husband is a full time student and has a demanding full time computer geek (socialized geek) job for the worlds largest creative software company? Yup, can you say no free time. My "real" job is out-of-state that requires me to travel, stay in a hotel and be lonely every other week. Back in the day, like when I was young lass, I always said I was going to have a job that included lots of traveling and fancy business clothes. That 'be careful what you wish for' saying is precisely true. Jeans and ballet flats are awfully heavenly as is sleeping in your own bed every night.
Anyway, moral is: we are continually out of sorts for being two young, aspiring people. And that is just the half of it.
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