Facebook knows!

Yes, Sean decided yesterday that it was time to tell facebook.  He told his work, I told most of mine and well, I guess all that was left to do was tell facebook.  I haven't put it on my page yet, I have a couple people I plan on calling tomorrow to tell and then after that - it will be officially on facebook!  And while we have been keeping this little secret, we have made some great progress.  We have rented our house to a couple that will be married in April - they seem really nice, liked our place a lot, liked the style - see Sean, I have some style!  So, yes, step one - rent the place - done - they signed an 18 month lease, so that will take us to next spring, in case we want to sell and hopefully, maybe this couple will want to buy.  So, check - our place is taken care of.

Then it comes time for us to find a place.  We have looked and looked and it has been fun.  So much more fun that looking for houses around here.  There are places with amazing mountain views, decks around houses, and land - so much land!  So, today, Sean found a place - a nice place, in an area we liked enough to live there for at least 6 months.  And we are moving forward with it - trying to secure it with a deposit.  Yes, we are moving forward and at what seems like lightening speed at this point.  It is all very exciting.

But it still doesn't feel real.  It didn't feel real telling people yesterday, getting hugs of excitement and sadness that I would be leaving my job.  And I told everyone it was a hard decision to leave my job, I loved it, I will also love it, but the mountains are calling and we are going - and I can't wait.  Now it is time to get back on track with simplifying our stuff - getting rid of things and figuring out the best way to move our things out there.  We have a few options in mind, maybe movers, maybe getting a trailer ourselves and going from there, maybe a storage pod.  But as we move forward the biggest thing, the house is taken care of.  We are renting it out on November 15, in a way, I don't mind not selling it.  I know that sounds silly, but this was our first house, so many firsts in here that it would be really hard to sell.  It would be hard to say good bye to our house on top of everything else.  And I know that sounds silly, I really do.  We don't plan on coming back to live here, so it probably won't be ours, but this will at least be a slow process of me letting go...or something like that.

So, all in all, we are just rolling along, things seem to be falling into place, which already makes some things less stressful, which hopefully means less freak outs from Sean - er, I guess maybe I mean from me!