-text Alex James- Hey, sorry I haven't been around. This is the most boring conference ever. Are you free for dinner tomorrow night?

I still can't get the mental image out of my previously tween mind. youtu.be/F3bBipaH_iw x.com/Hank50WR/statu…

*sitting on Ry & Mia's back patio drinking coffee as I search thru the real estate listings Kimmie Edwards sent me within my budget, realizing>

.Kimmie Edwards my six hundred thousand dollar budget gets me one of three things - a five hundred square foot closet... er condo in Seattle with my >>

.Kimmie Edwards budget at the max before the ridiculous HOA fees; or, a small house in a crappy neighborhood with a long commute; or, a ridiculously long>>

.Kimmie Edwards commute for a shitty little house on a decent piece of land. Doing the math again - new salary, minus taxes & retirement fund, leaves me >>

.Kimmie Edwards about twelve thousand a month and a mortgage shouldn't be more than twenty-five percent of that so three thousandish. I should walk away>>

.Kimmie Edwards from the Nebraska house with two hundred thousand or so, given the ridiculous property taxes here which sit at least $900 per month, >>

.Kimmie Edwards generally more, a four hundred thousand dollar mortgage with taxes and insurance leaves me around three thousand dollars per month. Looking>

.Kimmie Edwards at my 401K & my other investment portfolio, I could come up with a bigger down payment but breaking into that just kills me. So frustrating*

.Kimmie Edwards *running a few more numbers, increasing the non-condo home price to $950K and starting to look outside Seattle in Bellevue. I can't budge>>

.Kimmie Edwards on the half acre of land that I want, which is still way smaller than the acreage I have now in Nebraska but possibly workable. Bellevue is>

.Kimmie Edwards the land of small lots unless you're willing to break seven figures. Finally I see this listing: realtor.com/realestateandh… >>

.Kimmie Edwards and start to go through it - outdoor space is good, including a garden space that needs work, looks like it might need some roof work, but >

.Kimmie Edwards I like the inside space - decent square footage that I can put some work into both inside and out. Larger than I expected to find here but>>

.Kimmie Edwards it could work, and it's equidistant between Ry's and Mark's place. This could work.*

*waking up in my own bed surrounded by packed boxes everywhere. Nothing was funnier than arriving home last night and finding a note from>>

Dad after I'd explained over the weekend that I was most likely taking the job in Seattle. I arrived home to find a note and all but my >>

Bedroom and home office packed. The note reading: "Glad to see you're not a dumbass who didn't pass up the career move of a lifetime." >>>

Now I need to get ready for work, call the realtor, chase my appraisal, but first, text Alex James* -text- I can't wait until Friday