i know this is post #2 today, but i had to share this!
i kind of had to chuckle at myself today when i came across this blog posting i put up about 2.5 years ago. i was bound and determined to get back to the states. who know it would actually happen right about the time i said it would? just one month off!
Monday, July 9, 2007
2009.....countdown to America!!!
chad and i had a nice long chat yesterday and laid it all out on the table. we are going to go ahead with this house - only because we got an appraisal on it and we can make $120,000 profit off of it. we'd be stupid not to do it. so, we're going to say here for two more years - enough time to build the house and then hock it off to some unsuspecting soul. ;-) chad also started his new job when we got back from the u.s. and told his boss he'd give him at least two years, so it would be rude to leave earlier.
but the plan is to do a vintage in oregon in 2009 and take it from there. that would mean august 2009, but then chad said why stay in central otago for the winter (good point!), so potentially we could be back by may 2009. that will work itself out later, but the important thing is that we have an "end date" and we'll have enough money behind us to establish ourselves with a house and, potentially, a small business. (yeah!)
i think this post is fitting since chad and fife will literally be on a plane in one week to come to oregon to live and work!! unfortunately, we didn't manage to "hock our house off to some unsuspecting soul," but it will happen. we'll just rent it out in the meantime and be poor - but poor and in love! :-)
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