Okay, okay,
I know. I dropped off the face of the earth. But…I have been busy with some big
news. Ready to hear it? Okay, about a year ago, I found a note clipped next to
my apartment door. I wasn’t surprised to see this note. In fact, I was
expecting it. My lease was about to expire, and I knew it had to be my yearly
reminder to sign a new lease. (I was just hoping they weren’t going to raise
the rent by too much.) The last time I renewed they raised it by about thirty
dollars.
Anyway, I
open the note…and I almost fainted. I found out that my rent was going up
one-hundred dollars per month. And, to add insult to injury, there was a
handwritten note that explained that the rate on the paper did not include a
pet rent. That’s right, they were also going to charge my cat rent.
So, after
having an official panic attack, I came to one conclusion. Since apartments
have become so popular in my area, I felt that the only thing I could do was…buy
a house. OMG! So, I went through the process of getting a loan, finding a
house, packing up all my stuff, getting it to the new house, trying to figure
out how to grow a damn lawn!, trying to get the HOA off my back that the lawn
looks like crap, paying homeowner’s insurance, mowing the damn lawn again!, and
trying to figure out how to shut the water off when there’s a leak under the
sink, oh, and mowing the damn lawn! (Can you tell I love mowing the lawn?)
In short, I’ve
been busy…mostly mowing the lawn. But, I think things are starting to calm
down. And, I do really love my new house. It’s just been an adjustment for me.
So, I’m gonna try really hard to produce some new books now. Peace and love.
Gail
Starbright
