Still Here

Well, it's 2010 and we're stilling living in the old house. When we first embarked on this mission (well before the first blog entry) we thought we might move sometime in the fall of 2009. Ha, ha, the joke's on us. We haven't moved. We haven't bought a house. We haven't bought property. We haven't started building. We've spent the past however many months trying to come up with plans that we like so we can go get bids. I never could have imagined that step taking this long. Are we that picky? Are we poor communicators? Obviously we are. (I always say the burden of communication is generally on the communicator, not the communicatee.)

The floor plan is pretty much finalized. We're still settling on an elevation, which includes deciding on some of the exterior materials, at least in a general sense. How much brick, versus rock, siding, etc., and approximately where. We're very close to getting bids now. In fact, I'm saying that unless there is just something we hate let's pull the trigger and move to the next step. It's stupid to keep burning up hours trying to get it perfect when we don't even know if we can afford it.

Already the process has gone from exciting to a bit of a grind. I'm hoping my enthusiasm will be renewed after the next step.

Soon we will know if this has all been worth it, or if we have to significantly redo things, or even start over.