How do I feel about selling the house in Chapel Hill

Dear LORD:

Thank you for selling the house in Chapel Hill. Be with us through the process of the closing. Help us to realize as much in revenues as possible from the sale. Let each detail be divinely appointed, like my getting a blower from the repair dudes today. That was great!

Dearest Ruth:

Your MEQ today was being a good handyman. You are great at fixing stuff. I loved working with you.

The way I feel about selling the Chapel Hill is a little sad, but most relieved. I want to get the CA tax burden off of our shoulders. I want to be free of the big financial burden of that mortgage. That was always a weight on my shoulders. I want to get our lives simplified, and the financial obligations reduced. I like the fact that we have cut our housing expense. We will still have plenty of deductions for 2007. We can worry about 2008 when it happens.

So all in all I feel pretty good about selling the house in Chapel Hill. It was a nice house in many ways, but as I pointed out today, it had many negatives as well. It was noisy. The master bedroom was too small. We had contention at many points in our lives because of the way that house was laid out. The yard was a huge money pit. Wow! The money that we spent on that yard! And it never lived up to the potential that we imagined.

Yes, it was in a beautiful place. But our neighbors, with a few exceptions, were eccentric snobs. No one with the exception of Ken and Annie and the Barados ever gave us the time of day there. We will be happier here I suspect. This is a much less upscale, snobbish neighborhood. Yes, we have a doctor living next door. Fine. But she is not a doctor who has pretensions of artistic grandeur and likes to make American Indian war robes out of fast food containers. weird!

That's my best single word for how I feel about Chapel Hill. The place is simply weird. And it makes me feel weirded out. The huge pagan love feast going on in downtown Chapel Hill tonight is a good example. Some weird, non-friendly snobbish people sitting around smoking dope and talking about weird stuff. I am through with that!

I just want to be a regular guy. No pretensions. No weirdness. For a change.

So, I feel pretty good about selling that beast of a house. A little sad. Maybe a little nostalgic at times. But overall, relieved and happy to be free of the burden. It is kind of like the feeling you have when you have graduated from a school that you kind of liked, but which also cost you alot in terms of work and stress, and now you are through. Another chapter in your life in other words. An opportunity to take the next step.

The other thing, like I said tonight, owning a home ties you to the land. It creates a connection to a particular geographic area. When Jeanae graduates from high school, I want to be through with that. I want us to be mobile. We need to be able to make whatever decision we want with respect to where we live, including an country other than the US. And certainly other than the State of North Carolina.

So, overall, I feel relieved. That is my strongest feeling today, especially with respect to the sale of the Chapel Hill house.

Love,
Me