Life updates
May. 8th, 2022 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. I finally, three years after taking an incredibly underpaying job at a Local College (that everyone wrongly assumes is named after a Transcendentalist) with some toxic co-workers (including the first actual workplace anti-Semitism I had to deal with), found a job that both pays well (at least by academic IT standards) and doesn't treat me like shit. My happiness at work went up a lot last August.
2. Our landlords decided to sell our house, and after initially promising us a one-year lease extension, reneged because their realtor said that would make it harder to sell. Thanks to the financial issues caused by three years in the underpaying job above, we're not in a great position to buy a house yet, but also kind of have to, since the rental market here (especially given our needs vis-a-vis medical care, public transit, and our dog) is damned near a worse option. Needless to say, I have a LOT of thoughts on the state of housing. And this is pretty much the thing occupying all my waking non-work hours these days.
3. Oh, we have a new dog (as of over a year ago). We got Starla about a year after losing Nicky, and to say she bonded with us in a heartbeat would be an understatement. She's also a chihuahua, and an utter sweetheart (except when any other dog has the nerve to walk on the same street as her).
2. Our landlords decided to sell our house, and after initially promising us a one-year lease extension, reneged because their realtor said that would make it harder to sell. Thanks to the financial issues caused by three years in the underpaying job above, we're not in a great position to buy a house yet, but also kind of have to, since the rental market here (especially given our needs vis-a-vis medical care, public transit, and our dog) is damned near a worse option. Needless to say, I have a LOT of thoughts on the state of housing. And this is pretty much the thing occupying all my waking non-work hours these days.
3. Oh, we have a new dog (as of over a year ago). We got Starla about a year after losing Nicky, and to say she bonded with us in a heartbeat would be an understatement. She's also a chihuahua, and an utter sweetheart (except when any other dog has the nerve to walk on the same street as her).
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Date: 2022-05-09 10:47 am (UTC)We are in a similar boat wrt housing, but I did an email contract with our landlord that will last at least till the end of February 2023. Not sure what we'll do then.
Yay doggie!