Dreaming

Welp, our credit cards are completely paid off. Now, all I have left are... $24,000 in student loans.

It's time to seriously start thinking about our next homeplace. We have to give our notice at the end of this month, and I'd like to have something in the works when we do. I'm dragging my feet, since we are looking for a place with rent that is ::gulp:: $400 - $500 less than what we're paying now. Which means that we can expect a pretty significant drop in quality. Also, it's likely that we will live there for several years, which means that I need to like it. A lot. The intersection of cheap and likeable is such a fine one.

If we end up living in our new home for awhile, I would definitely consider painting interior walls in colors that I fancy, which I've never done before. I also prefer hardwood floors... Why do I have to be so high-maintenance?

Someday... I would just love to have a small contemporary home, in a nice piece of forest. Orb-spinners will weave their webs in the eaves. The walls will be creamy and the floors will be glossy. Lines will be simple; jewel colors in bright splashes, sapphire and crimson and kelly and turquoise. I will look through the window and gaze at the deep green twilight of thick summer woods. When I walk outside, my skin will be shade-dappled and my ears charmed by thrush songs. Someday.