We took the girls to the gallery hop last night. I had my protective feathers up. There are a lot of hustlers on the street between the various galleries. While not wanting to be overly protective, I still made them walk in front of us so that I could watch. Then somebody with something sparkly tried to give them something... they were both standing too next to him for my tastes. So, I swooped up between and grabbed both girls gently by the elbows and started walking forward.
It appears that there was no reason for me to be concerned. Someone was just passing out for free little sparkly lights. Oh well. Michael went back and got the girls a sparkly.
They enjoyed gallery hop. They took pictures, they received political buttons from both Hillary and Obama.
(Consequently so tired of politics. I am so cynical right now as far as politics go. I know it's probably very unamerican, but I can not wait to bail on this country for somewhere else. Michael and I both feel the same. Perhaps... New Zealand, India, Japan, Ireland or Scotland. Or, if we feel so inclined we may settle for some super small town in America where we can live completely off the grid. Yeah, the hippie in me is taking over.)
We are also in the process of going though everything we own and completely refining it. I am so sick of being sick of moving all the time, with moving in the near future yet again.... we are embracing it.
So, we are in a consistent process of giving what we don't want to goodwill, and then sorting things and putting them into boxes in our small storage room in the basement. When the weather breaks this spring we will have a yard sale. Whatever doesn't sell will go to goodwill. We will be paring down our three bedroom, attic, basement, etc to only enough to minimally furnish and decorate a meager apartment. Michael's course of study for his MFA may require us to spend six months abroad at internships.
Not to mention that the cost of utilities and gas are going up so sharply year after year without any sort of raise in wages to compensate for it makes us less likely to want to put our extra money into the oil industry and utilities. We are also going to go down to one vehicle when the girls are gone and we have moved to the town that Michael is going to school. Not because we have to. We just have no faith in our economy and would rather invest than spend big. Spending big includes this house.
Really, no matter what is going on in the world, it really boils down to "What are you using." We aren't really using all of this. It feels like clutter. I have found clutter to be spiritually annoying as of late.
Yoga and gym tonight. Woo!
Posted by hawkie at March 2, 2008 10:53 AM