another day at the coffee shop
Goodness this is quickly becoming my routine. You know, i have to say it's becoming a routine that i quite enjoy. More so than anything else as of late. I love the peaceful solitude that comes from here, even though i am surrounded by many people. It feels good to just blend into the background for the moment, i can kick back and people watch all i like. So far today has been a very good day for people watching. I'm sitting at a small table closest to the expresso machines and because of this i am getting to hear all the chatter of the workers to one another. It's fun to to be a part of their lives while having nothing to do with them at all. I think that if one remains quiet enough the people around them tend to forget anyone else is around and talk about really private topics. Some of their conversations are dirty enough to make the most dirty minded person blush.
I love my little spot in the cafe, i think i'll make this an every time spot if i can. It's not really a table most people would go for because it's not one of the squishy chairs and it's really rather out of the way. For me though it's utopia. I come in here and speculate about my life and how it is going at the moment. My husband and I still haven't heard anything from the detailer about him getting his assignment. It's rather off putting because we need the insurance really badly, but alas it is just another star that's right out of reach. Soon enough though we will reach that star and be on our way to starting our life in the way it needs to be.
Keith is wanting to move into a house instead of an apartment once we get stationed somewhere. Really i haven't put much clout into it before because it seems like something out of reach for the moment. But you never know, this might be the fates way of explaining why we've been kept waiting for so long. I know there is an answer to everything if you wait long enough, now if only i could explain my reasoning to my mom. That poor woman is stressing out about our situation more so than i am, and for anyone who knows me they know this is a feat indeed. She wants to be kept in the loop but she doesn't want us to be around, at least not with our cats. She has this idea that my cats will shred her furniture...you know she might be right.
Anyway, since Keith has mentioned getting a house i have been looking on Realtor.com at all the houses in Virginia. That's probably where we will be going because it's the biggest Navy base in America. I gotta say, because of the job and housing market there are a lot of houses out there that are selling for WAY less than they are worth...if you know where to look and what you are looking for. I've been watching a lot of HGTV and absorbing all their tips and information they give. It's actually been really helpful, i now know what i would need to do if we bought a house and wanted to sell it. A lot of houses in Virginia are really...down and out so to speak, they are real fixer uppers but they are cheap. I wonder if it's better to get a cheaper house and put a lot of work into it to make it amazing or to pay a little more money and buy a better house with less maintenance.
Keith wants to get a nicer house with less work because he says he won't have the time to make all the necessary fix-ups, but i think he is forgetting that i'm going to be out of work for at least a few years while Brayden is growing up. I will have ample time to make the home look amazing, and i think that with an idea and a style i could really make a place look great. Now i must admit that i don't know very much about appliances and what makes one brand better than others, but that's the beauty of the internet. Oh well, maybe Keith is right. It will all depend on how much money we would get approved with a loan. That will ultimately be the starting block for us, i'm just glad that the Navy will be giving us a pretty hefty amount of money to pay the mortgage. That will go MILES in helping us out, I'm so stoked about Keith going back into the Navy. A steady paycheck, you can't get fired, you get to move all over the world, all the new and interesting people you get to meet. I swear the military life is the life for me, there are some people who thrive in that kind of environment and then there are some people who just don't want to live like that. They are the ones who likes establishing roots and living in the same house for 30 years...i am not one of these people.
I hope to pass my love of traveling and seeing the world onto Brayden. There is nothing greater then the sense that you are in a strange land with no one to lean on but yourself. It makes you very independent and strong, exactly what the world needs more of.
Well my time here is done for the day. I'm off to go back to my people watching and sipping on my iced tea. Oh what a good day it is
I love my little spot in the cafe, i think i'll make this an every time spot if i can. It's not really a table most people would go for because it's not one of the squishy chairs and it's really rather out of the way. For me though it's utopia. I come in here and speculate about my life and how it is going at the moment. My husband and I still haven't heard anything from the detailer about him getting his assignment. It's rather off putting because we need the insurance really badly, but alas it is just another star that's right out of reach. Soon enough though we will reach that star and be on our way to starting our life in the way it needs to be.
Keith is wanting to move into a house instead of an apartment once we get stationed somewhere. Really i haven't put much clout into it before because it seems like something out of reach for the moment. But you never know, this might be the fates way of explaining why we've been kept waiting for so long. I know there is an answer to everything if you wait long enough, now if only i could explain my reasoning to my mom. That poor woman is stressing out about our situation more so than i am, and for anyone who knows me they know this is a feat indeed. She wants to be kept in the loop but she doesn't want us to be around, at least not with our cats. She has this idea that my cats will shred her furniture...you know she might be right.
Anyway, since Keith has mentioned getting a house i have been looking on Realtor.com at all the houses in Virginia. That's probably where we will be going because it's the biggest Navy base in America. I gotta say, because of the job and housing market there are a lot of houses out there that are selling for WAY less than they are worth...if you know where to look and what you are looking for. I've been watching a lot of HGTV and absorbing all their tips and information they give. It's actually been really helpful, i now know what i would need to do if we bought a house and wanted to sell it. A lot of houses in Virginia are really...down and out so to speak, they are real fixer uppers but they are cheap. I wonder if it's better to get a cheaper house and put a lot of work into it to make it amazing or to pay a little more money and buy a better house with less maintenance.
Keith wants to get a nicer house with less work because he says he won't have the time to make all the necessary fix-ups, but i think he is forgetting that i'm going to be out of work for at least a few years while Brayden is growing up. I will have ample time to make the home look amazing, and i think that with an idea and a style i could really make a place look great. Now i must admit that i don't know very much about appliances and what makes one brand better than others, but that's the beauty of the internet. Oh well, maybe Keith is right. It will all depend on how much money we would get approved with a loan. That will ultimately be the starting block for us, i'm just glad that the Navy will be giving us a pretty hefty amount of money to pay the mortgage. That will go MILES in helping us out, I'm so stoked about Keith going back into the Navy. A steady paycheck, you can't get fired, you get to move all over the world, all the new and interesting people you get to meet. I swear the military life is the life for me, there are some people who thrive in that kind of environment and then there are some people who just don't want to live like that. They are the ones who likes establishing roots and living in the same house for 30 years...i am not one of these people.
I hope to pass my love of traveling and seeing the world onto Brayden. There is nothing greater then the sense that you are in a strange land with no one to lean on but yourself. It makes you very independent and strong, exactly what the world needs more of.
Well my time here is done for the day. I'm off to go back to my people watching and sipping on my iced tea. Oh what a good day it is