Hmm...I could have swore that I've updated since that last post....Perhaps it was only in my mind...
Anyways, I hope you all are doing well. Things have been quite hectic around here as usual. We are currently looking for a new home...either to rent, or hopefully to buy...although prospects for buying are looking pretty grim. The houses that we can afford in this city are smaller than the one that we are currently renting, and that is already too small for us. UK houses are just so damn expensive. £100,000 will buy you a tiny 2 bedroom terraced house with a tiny kitchen and a small living room and a dinky bathroom that doesn't even have a bathtub. and you can forget about closets..they just don't have them here. If I took that same cash and converted it to the $, you'd have nearly $200,000 to spend and for that, you could get a massive 4 bedroom home with a huge kitchen, lounge, dining room, and a couple of bathrooms.....at the least....and probably a garage and a basement. We've been house hunting for about 3 months now and just haven't found anything at all. It doesn't help that we need to stay pretty close to the school district that my daughter is in so that she doesn't have to change schools. So it looks like we might just have to carry on renting, but I'm just rather tired of renting by now....and if we have to move (which since our landlord intends on selling our house, we most likely will have to) then I'd rather just buy and have a place that we can do whatever we want to it...
Other than that, I've been rather busy at work...and busy at home. I've been taking a fair bit of photos lately..many of which you can see at my flickr site. although I've not had a lot of time to do much other artwork. I finished my social science course and now I think i'm going to join the open college of the arts and work towards a photography degree. An art degree will give me a better prospect for getting into a masters program for Art therapy. And as much as I enjoy academia, I really hate writing essays and papers....I'd much rather be doing art.
Anyways, that's it from me for now!
"Learning to dream"
©Tracy Adams 2008
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