No Change

Hello lovelies, sorry for the boringness around here, nothing much to say today or yesterday. I've been feeling a bit down. I think it's all those missing calories (did I mention I'm cutting calories to lose a few pounds?). Those extra calories must be the happy ones. Pah!
Actually, I think I just need a change. This is the longest I've lived anywhere since college--and even then I left for the summers--and I don't even love it. Before we bought our condo, we were living in a small town in the San Jose area called Campbell. I loved it so much more, but we couldn't have a dog at our apartment, and we couldn't find a condo in our price range that allowed dogs. We used to be 10 minutes walking distance from downtown Campbell, which is really cute, and literally across the street from a cute shopping area that has my favorite coffeeshop, Indian and Thai restaurants, a movie theater, and a bookstore. We're only a few miles away now, but driving there isn't the same, and none of the walks here are as pleasant. Technically we can walk to Santana Row, which is about a mile away, but the walk isn't as nice (really gross freeway underpass littered with dead birds and poo), and I don't like Santana as much, even though it's more exclusive. To be honest, I don't like it as much because it's more exclusive - everything costs more for less. And the people are snobs.
I need something different, but I know nothing can change for at least another year. Our contract stipulates that we can't sell until the one year mark (Nov), but if you sell before two years, you get charged a capital gains tax and then we won't make enough money on our place to make it worth it. All of this makes me feel more boxed in. If I know I have other options, it makes me more comfortable, even if I don't act on those options. And I like change, I need change in my life.

I'll leave you with Augustana, who express my feelings better than I can:

Innocent? Well fabulous anyway.

Will update on the writing later as promised yesterday....

Finished The Innocent and it was fabulous, although I was irritated with myself for not getting to sleep at a good time (I pulled the old "Just one more chapter, I promise," until 1am and paid for it in the morning.). Cemented my opinion of McEwan as, arguably, my favorite contemporary author. (I found out he has a book publishing in June in the US! Yea!) I have another book of his, The Child in Time, waiting on my shelf to be read, but must continue on with my German post-war theme and read The Good German instead. After that perhaps I'll give in and read another McEwan on our flight. Or perhaps continue my education in Jewish-American literature with that Nicole Krauss book (Man Walks Into a Room) calling my name. *sigh* So many good books to read and so little time. And no, I do not read during the day because that is work time, aka writing time, so I don't have more time than the average person. (However, the occasional read in the loo doesn't count, Adam tells me everyone does it. ;))

On a completely random note, this weekend we found out that the condos in our complex are now selling for about $20k more than what we purchased ours for, which is pretty great news. Not quite a real estate slump then. We also fared the tax season well with a nice refund winging our way soon (with lots of thanks to Kris's dad for helping us figure out all the confusing mortgage stuff). All in all a good week with fine weather and a trip to Vegas to look forward to in a week and a half.