What??? A Blog???

So I haven't blogged since like March...not because I haven't had much to blog about - trust me, I have...I just sometimes go through times where I don't want to rehash anything - it's bad enough to have to verbalize it to people who ask questions but to actually type out in words how I'm feeling or what I'm going through...well, let's just say I'd rather suck shit through a straw then do that...I know I could blog about the weather or the little old lady who cut me off on the highway, but sometimes that stuff is just too trivial to type when the real stuff gets too heavy to carry. Anyway, I'm here, I'm blogging, get use to it :)

The most exciting thing going on in my life is the move to our new house. My wife's sister is married to a man who has a ton of land. Some of that land he is making into Mobile Home lots about an acre and a half big - actually VERY large as mobile home lots go. Anyway, we heard that he was going to be renting the mobile, maybe selling it and just renting the lot and we jumped on it. Our goal has always been for us to move to Hartford - back to Hartford for my wife since she was living there when I met her. It's peaceful, quiet, serene, and in the country...she could hunt from our back porch kind of country. Perfect. So this opportunity came up and we grabbed it. We're buying the mobile ( I call it a trailer since it had wheels but that annoys my wife...ok I still call it a trailer from time to time just to irritate...who could resist???) over the next 6 years and at the end of all that we'll own it.

Very exciting! Included in the "mortgage" is the lot rent - I say "mortgage" because we are buying it from Bo's sis and brother in law - not through a bank but owner financed...since we have shitty credit this is also perfect...all in all the whole situation is absolutely grand and couldn't have worked out better had we planned it. We figure in the winter we'll be saving about $700.00 a month in regular utilities and heat (our current house that we are renting is a bitch to heat, it's old and drafty as hell and no wood stove to help with the cost of fuel oil to heat it) - and with the mobile being smaller (we rent a 4 bedroom house that has two floors, a basement and an attic...the thing is huge for the two of us) it will be more economical and yet comfortable for us to live in. It's a 3 bedroom, 2 full bath mobile so it's actually quite large...the rooms are fairly small but with it being just Bo and I and four cats it's big enough. Anyway - so we've been hoping to move in for about three months now, waiting and waiting for Bo's brother in law to finish the lot and move the mobile onto it and yesterday we saw it - it was on the slab, all level and looking absolutely gorgeous. We can start moving our stuff in now - he's even said there are stairs!! No more ladders which I do not do since I'm petrified of heights...can't even stand on a chair kids!! So at some point today we're loading up the Jimmy and taking as many boxes as we can over to start cleaning and unpacking. I can't wait!!! There is no water or electricity yet so our cleaning ability will be hindered a bit - but we can start and that is what matters. I need to feel like we're making progress and right now I feel like I'll be living out of boxes for the rest of my life so I'll take what I can get and I'll be thrilled!