14 Months

The combination of recovering from the flu and signing a new lease has definitely reawakened the wanderlust. It would be so easy to settle down here, some would say we certainly have already, but I'd hate it and I doubt being this close to sea level helps Husby's head either. I've never been a fan of Florida, and Jacksonville is definitely not a city I want to raise kids in. So it's time to get thinking about the move again. The new lease runs until 5/31/09. 14 months to go...

I gave thought to other towns, like Anderson and Spartanburg, but realistically Columbia is our best choice for a first move out of state. Moving somewhere smaller would just be too limiting, and moving somewhere larger, like Charlotte, would just be trading one heinous mess for another. It's fine to look at other towns as possibilities for after Columbia, but starting out fresh, it's a really nice city with quite a bit of opportunity.

Naturally the only possible way to pull off said move is to carve into our debt a bit. So my initial work toward this will involve budgeting and motivating Les to look for part-time work. While we're doing this, we're also going to be trying for our first child, so it's going to require significant effort to pull off. I have all the confidence in the world that we can, but without planning, we'll be stuck in Jacksonville, and that's just not acceptable. 14 months is a perfectly realistic span of time in which to pull off this goal. Time to get started...