Settling Down...
Nov. 19th, 2008 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xakaraEvening Lovelies,
I'm in good, but shifting spirits this night. My mom is doing very well in her first week back home and could likely have her full mobility back in as little as six months of physical therapy. I'll leave off there and hope for the best least I feel I jinx something in spending too much time outside the now.
She's on my mind tonight because of the last conversation about next year. We, of course, offered to move back home when our year here in New Mexico is up, or sooner if necessary. It was received with a flat out NO! They miss us terribly, and hope to live near us when finances advance and all becomes possible, but they by no means what us to return to my home town. My family feels that there's nothing for us there and that My Sweetie and I should keep going forward with our lives, not backwards. I knew she wouldn't like the idea of us moving back for any reason other than severe homesickness or loathing of New Mexico, I just didn't quite realize how adamant she'd be about it.
With that off the table for the moment it puts Colorado back in play. I have the chance to keep advancing at work and eventually move into human resources if I work it right. From there I can transfer to a store in Denver if I want to stay with the company (or stay with them long enough to move and get settled, then use the HR experience to get an entirely different job). The move to New Mexico has prepared me for the type of things to expect when going out of state, and I'm fortunate enough this time around to be able to visit the city in question and get a feel for it before setting out. I also know someone who moved from there and can get more first-hand impressions about it. Overall, a grand setting for a new adventure indeed. It's just all about the money.
By current budget, if we want to move with as much as we had the last move and make sure we leave absolutely no debt behind here, we can head out next June, the one year mark. I'd prefer a little extra cushion this time around which would mean not until October of '09. Personally, as I have conventions I'd like to go to in '09, I think our best bet would be waiting until 2010 to move again. But to wait that long will mean saving even more money so we can take all of our stuff with us as we can't go another 18 months without investing in some additonal furniture. We're moving close enough that it wouldn't be cost effective to re-buy it all rather than ship it all like it was coming here.
I've cranked out a few budget options I think will work with whatever time-table triumphs. If I can find folks to share hotel space with for the conventions and keep to the cheapest travel options despite the current economic environment, I can do it all without straining our day to day living. Horray for blessings. Now, just to get through all the parts I can't control, like the collapsing economy....And the ticking of biological clocks.
Where'd that come from you ask? Well, I'm in my contemplating the future mode partly due to monthly hormones. And as a monthly cycle tends to do, I've been thinking about children these last two days. Okay, not entirely true, I've been thinking of them the entire last month because for a moment there I thought I might be pregnant. Still, it's a hormonal thing and so the future is very much on my mind. A second move in a year's time is stressful alone, but would I want to do it pregnant or with a baby? And if I don't, do I want to raise a child where I am? There's just so much more weighing on this coming year than our last move and it leaves a lot to consider as I grow another year older.
For your sakes I'll go consider it in private and let you get on with your LJ cruising.
"Life Questions Ramble" Done
~X
I'm in good, but shifting spirits this night. My mom is doing very well in her first week back home and could likely have her full mobility back in as little as six months of physical therapy. I'll leave off there and hope for the best least I feel I jinx something in spending too much time outside the now.
She's on my mind tonight because of the last conversation about next year. We, of course, offered to move back home when our year here in New Mexico is up, or sooner if necessary. It was received with a flat out NO! They miss us terribly, and hope to live near us when finances advance and all becomes possible, but they by no means what us to return to my home town. My family feels that there's nothing for us there and that My Sweetie and I should keep going forward with our lives, not backwards. I knew she wouldn't like the idea of us moving back for any reason other than severe homesickness or loathing of New Mexico, I just didn't quite realize how adamant she'd be about it.
With that off the table for the moment it puts Colorado back in play. I have the chance to keep advancing at work and eventually move into human resources if I work it right. From there I can transfer to a store in Denver if I want to stay with the company (or stay with them long enough to move and get settled, then use the HR experience to get an entirely different job). The move to New Mexico has prepared me for the type of things to expect when going out of state, and I'm fortunate enough this time around to be able to visit the city in question and get a feel for it before setting out. I also know someone who moved from there and can get more first-hand impressions about it. Overall, a grand setting for a new adventure indeed. It's just all about the money.
By current budget, if we want to move with as much as we had the last move and make sure we leave absolutely no debt behind here, we can head out next June, the one year mark. I'd prefer a little extra cushion this time around which would mean not until October of '09. Personally, as I have conventions I'd like to go to in '09, I think our best bet would be waiting until 2010 to move again. But to wait that long will mean saving even more money so we can take all of our stuff with us as we can't go another 18 months without investing in some additonal furniture. We're moving close enough that it wouldn't be cost effective to re-buy it all rather than ship it all like it was coming here.
I've cranked out a few budget options I think will work with whatever time-table triumphs. If I can find folks to share hotel space with for the conventions and keep to the cheapest travel options despite the current economic environment, I can do it all without straining our day to day living. Horray for blessings. Now, just to get through all the parts I can't control, like the collapsing economy....And the ticking of biological clocks.
Where'd that come from you ask? Well, I'm in my contemplating the future mode partly due to monthly hormones. And as a monthly cycle tends to do, I've been thinking about children these last two days. Okay, not entirely true, I've been thinking of them the entire last month because for a moment there I thought I might be pregnant. Still, it's a hormonal thing and so the future is very much on my mind. A second move in a year's time is stressful alone, but would I want to do it pregnant or with a baby? And if I don't, do I want to raise a child where I am? There's just so much more weighing on this coming year than our last move and it leaves a lot to consider as I grow another year older.
For your sakes I'll go consider it in private and let you get on with your LJ cruising.
"Life Questions Ramble" Done
~X
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Date: 2008-11-26 01:13 am (UTC)Here's hoping.
Hugs,
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