No more classifieds!

I finally found a place to live. I'm so so so happy! I can throw away all the papers, NOT have to look at anymore gloomy basements and try to somehow mentally cram all of our stuff, Sam, kilns and kaboodle into them. I can get up and like, eat breakfast to start my day instead of pouring over the online ads on craigslist till my brain begins to drool.

Yay! It's a nice place, thanks to all of y'all who prayed for us. I'll be living with a fellow Brenneke graduate who is just launching her massage business(when she gets back from China, that is), there's a lovely big yard that I'm already daydreaming about creating a fantastic garden in, a basement for my ceramic sculpturing needs, the neighbors are super-musicians and artists and a yoga instructor with prayer flags along her grape arbor.

Well, all the neighbors except for the prerequisite crazy lady across the street, the one with the chainlink riot fences surrounding her house, the surveillance cameras, the one who apparently calls the cops if anyone parks in front of her house. Yikes! Oh well, I guess every neighborhood has to have something like that.

I think Green Tara must've heard Sams prayer-there's a nice big basement room where pretty much ALL his stuff can go. I think he's gonna like it there.

It's a really sweet 'hood too, just a few blocks from the new library, all kinds of shops within walking distance.

Holy shit, I'm so relieved. It was damn scarey hanging on by my teeth here, being the sole rent payer in a $1250 home!

Now I just need to pack.... and offload a buncha stuff, downsize my life a bit, so to speak. Maybe I'll have me a yardsale.