complain, complain
It's 5am and I'd like to go back to bed and snuggle with my urchins, but I've already baked bread and fried two eggs for the husband, who went into day labor this morning, and I feel like I should stay up at this point and try to get back into the habit of writing in the mornings while the kids sleep. Whew - long sentence!
We haven't really had autumn here and I keep expecting it to warm back up. The leaves haven't even all changed and it's winter cold out already. We're broke as usual. It's always so hard to find work in Olympia that doesn't pay shit and we've been through it before - it's been no easier this time. It seems like the most expensive thing about having three kids is paying for the space imposed on us by others. We looked for a rental forever before we found the overpriced 3BR on acreage that we're in now. The space is great, but we really can't afford it, and we only regularly use about half of it. But try renting a little 1BD house with three kids - no way would anyone rent that to us! Even though four of us are in one bed anyway! It's frustrating to pay twice what we can afford for two bedrooms and an extra bath that we don't even use.
So I'm always working on house plans for this teeny little house that we're going to build one of these days. We plan to do it every summer and haven't had the money yet to make it happen. It makes me want to move somewhere dirt cheap and just live off odd jobs and freelancing - which was sort of the idea in leaving Pittsburgh and traveling across country for three months - but we didn't find that place. Is there anywhere dirt cheap that's also cool? Where everyone wouldn't be either conservative, redneck or inbred? Why is life so expensive?
It's dawn now and I'm going to get something to eat and finish reading my trash.
We haven't really had autumn here and I keep expecting it to warm back up. The leaves haven't even all changed and it's winter cold out already. We're broke as usual. It's always so hard to find work in Olympia that doesn't pay shit and we've been through it before - it's been no easier this time. It seems like the most expensive thing about having three kids is paying for the space imposed on us by others. We looked for a rental forever before we found the overpriced 3BR on acreage that we're in now. The space is great, but we really can't afford it, and we only regularly use about half of it. But try renting a little 1BD house with three kids - no way would anyone rent that to us! Even though four of us are in one bed anyway! It's frustrating to pay twice what we can afford for two bedrooms and an extra bath that we don't even use.
So I'm always working on house plans for this teeny little house that we're going to build one of these days. We plan to do it every summer and haven't had the money yet to make it happen. It makes me want to move somewhere dirt cheap and just live off odd jobs and freelancing - which was sort of the idea in leaving Pittsburgh and traveling across country for three months - but we didn't find that place. Is there anywhere dirt cheap that's also cool? Where everyone wouldn't be either conservative, redneck or inbred? Why is life so expensive?
It's dawn now and I'm going to get something to eat and finish reading my trash.