Do you really think I threaten the sanctity of marriage?

(I'm not actually taking comments)

I'm tired right now.  But a layer of stress has been removed from my life.  The big conference that was to be at church next week, has been canceled, so now I don't have to do anything for it!!!

Yesterday was a funky day, I was just all out of sorts, and felt just like something was wrong.

Kinda like being on a plane when you might remember you left the stove on at home?  (Oh it sounds horrible just saying that, but when I say that, I feel what I'm explaining)

I couldn't say whats wrong, I just felt it.  And though I can find things to fixate on I cannot quite get to the bottom of whats not right?  Just funky emotions and thoughts, maybe the gloomy weather, post holiday malaise? Whatever, today was a little better, but its like a weight is on me, or I have a final exam in the worst class.  Trouble is, what am I possibly stressed over, nothing.  Maybe it is the nothing?

I am crazy some days.  And not on some others.

 I was watching Sleepless in Seattle the other night, and what really struck me more than anything was how old that movie is getting.  I realized it was the early 90's then, gosh back when no xanga, myspace, I had no internet.  No cell phone, no DVD player.  Gosh the car didn't even have an airbag, and kids could sit in the front seat.

Hmm, for all that traveling to 2008 has brought, that flying car still ain't here?

Its the new year, I wonder if in any way, the world will seem better this year?

HAPPY 2008!!!!  (I hope!)

Last post of 2007

Hmm, another year done, put into the memory, and labeled history.

It was the year I turned 30 and the year I bought my first home. I had a good vacation to Hawaii.

I've made this a year with enough footnotes, that I'll remember it in 2017, in 2027, and so on.

Well, I shall see what 2008 brings, and what I bring to 2008.

Happy Boxing Day!?

I don't know what you do on Boxing Day, but the calendar seems to mention its a holiday in all the other English countries, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and then the UK.  Guess we dropped that one in the USA? 

Merry Christmas! 

Work sucks right now.  There is too much of it, and everyone here is overwhelmed. Hateful place.

That is my feat of strength and airing of grievances. Happy Festivus.

Is your housing affordable?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_housing

Mine, by pure definition, is probably not, but what to do in one of the most expensive places to live.  Silicon Valley, and for that matter the larger SF Bay Area, and California in general.

What can I pay, what will I pay? 

Lots of levels to this issue, I guess I could live in place that is far cheaper, and more on par with what I should be paying for housing.  So why dont I? Because I'm still willing to pay so much to live where I do, and so I do. Then there are those who, just cannot hold onto the bottom rung of the ladder, where do they live, and how?  Hmm, well I can only know my place on the ladder, which, is having finally bought, what for me is an expensive, one bedroom condo in Campbell, CA.  Though in this town I bought one of the lowest priced pieces of real estate.

I wish the housing market was more affordable, but so does everyone else here, cause as soon as it got cheap, we'd all collectively move up to the next bigger house, and more people would move here.  This place just has never ending demand, and that, for now, does not seem to be changing. 

But should I be payed more?  Sure why not, and then I could afford more.

Most of us seem locked in to finding our own version of the American Dream of success, and even through we all have different visions and dreams, often that will be tied into our home, our castle, where we can be king, or queen.

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