New Kids On The Block had a bunch of hits, Chinese food makes me sick.

The title is obviously from a song - and it's serving as a trivia question for tonight's event.  Extra points if you can tell me the name of the song, artist's name AND the year it was released.  Hah.

 

It's another Wednesday and as I prepare for tonight's trivia event I figure it's a good time to get in touch with my blog.

 

Things are going pretty well - financially I'm surviving.  I'm having the wood floors I bought four months ago installed in a week and I'm pruning the rather overgrown redtips in my front yard.  I had a termite inspection yesterday - going to have a foundation inspection in a couple weeks...  it's time to sell this house.  Gotta get rid of the anchor.

 

Now, the housing market here is moving as slowly as it is anywhere else - BUT - and note that everything hereafter is speculation, nay, HOPE - we're having a massive troop movement in March/April/May.  The Army is literally moving 10,000 soldiers from HERE to ANOTHER base - and 10,000 soldiers from THAT base are moving HERE.  This means families packing up and moving.  This means people wanting to buy property.  And I suspect that when they see how much lower the pricetags here are than they are where they're coming from, the housing market here is going to turn in to as CLOSE to a seller's market as it has been in the last decade.  I think this is my best chance to get this house off my hands, and I'm afraid if I miss this chance I'm going to be stuck with it for another few years.

 

And I'm 22 - 23 next week!!!  And I'm nearing the end of college.  And I want to live life again.  I miss home immensely - I haven't been back to Germany for a decade as of this year - and it's time for me to revisit my youth.  And time for me to see the country and MORE of the world.  Plus, selling the house will alleviate ALL of my debt.  If things go well, I'll essentially be starting with a clean slate.

 

The girlfriend and I are doing quite well.  She cut her long, long hair to shoulder-length...  and it's gorgeous.  I prefered it long, but I definitely can't complain about her new hairstyle.  What a beautiful girl she is!  Ah, love.

 

Back to preparing for tonight.  Remember kids - eat your veggies.