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One of my underlying sources of background stress for the last few months has been our landlords' intention to sell the house this summer. With Michael out of work, we're in no position to think about buying, so it would've meant a move to another rental - which, given the local market, would have meant either a move to another neighborhood or a move to a much smaller place, probably an apartment. (And just after we'd enrolled Alex in a nursery school within walking distance of this house.) Just the idea of packing and moving was enough to give me hives... and that was before adding in the added stress of expecting to move to a less desirable location.

Today one of our landlords called. They would really, really like to put the sale off for a year, but they don't want the hassle of finding new tenants. Would we be willing to stay for another year? Why, YES. Yes, we would.

The catch: one of the reasons they want to put off the sale is that the house needs a new roof. So sometime this spring our lives will be turned upside down for at least a week while the old roof comes off and the new one goes on. We suggested the week we go to SUUSI, and they laughed the hollow laugh of people who don't think there's any way in hell the old roof will make it to July.

So it's not an unmixed blessing. But still, what a relief that we won't be having to pack up and move in a few months, into another set of temporary quarters. If Michael gets a job soon and we make a concentrated effort to save money, we should be able to afford a down payment after another year in this house.

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Speaking of SUUSI, they've got a lovely promotional slide show set to music here. It really does a great job of conveying the good feelings of the week. The short version is probably as much as most non-attendees will be able to stand, but I also feel compelled to rec the second half of the long version, because they've included a nice shot of our family at 1:07.

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I have never in my life seen a weather report change so much so quickly. Before church this morning, we were expecting an inch or so of "wintry mix" followed by freezing rain. By the afternoon, several inches of snow had fallen, and they were predicting a total of 5-10 inches of accumulation. Then the snow tapered off, but they were still predicting another inch or two overnight. Now, just "a few rain showers" overnight.

I can't decide if I should cancel my clinics tomorrow or not. If it doesn't snow any more than this, I would feel awful silly staying home. If there's more snow and ice, patients just aren't going to show up.

Incidentally, my RA Steve just left for a week's vacation, which he had booked and paid for long before the other RA got sick. For this whole upcoming week, it's just going to be me and a very-part-time grad student. And Lydia, who doesn't really help with the day-to-day stuff. Is it any wonder that I'm having snow day fantasies?

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I hate shopping. But for some reason I really love buying big mixed packages of clothes for Alex on eBay. I would hate actually cruising the stores for this stuff, so the opportunity to get a whole season's wardrobe at once is worth having to discard a few ugly things from the mix.

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[tea-dragon.livejournal.com]

This was our experience as well. The house and the garage together only took three days. However, I was finding nails in the yard for a long time afterward- don't trust the roofers to find them all. They don't start until 8 am, so naptime is the biggest problem. Maybe you could take the pack n' play to a friend's house for naptime?

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Several of our condo buildings were reroofed in October and even after the roofers went around with the giant magnet on a handle, in December, I had to get a tire fixed because of a roofing nail.