Moving

The truth is I am really feeling like crap. My head is killing me, and I am just blah. But I can't sleep even though I should. We found out yesterday that we have to move and it really bums me out. Okay, so we are paying a lot for our apartment (760 for 1000 sq ft), and it isn't the greatest of apartments. I feel a little like a whine baby, but...

Fall 2003 moved out of mom's and into dorms
Spring 2004 moved into my first apartment
Spring 2005 moved back in with mom when I could no longer afford to live on own
Fall 2005 married and moved into new apartment
Fall 2006 moved in with husbands cousins briefly (from Michigan to Wisconsin)
Fall 2006 moved into apartment
June 2007 moved (from Wisconsin to Texas)
now we will be moving May 2008

I know it is five months away, but now I don't want to buy anything more we will have to move and I don't want to settle in here any more then we have already done. I hate moving and feel like that is all I have been doing lately. Packing, unpacking, just to pack up again. However, this is how it all began. I had no idea how our apartment complex determined new rent rates, so yesterday while paying rent I asked. Well, it is a complicated process as to how they decide what the new rate will be, but the manager said it will be $80 to $120 more, at least. Um...that would mean $840 or more to live here. We just don't have that kind of money. Our windows here stink and it has been costing us about $200 a month to heat and cool the place...we just can't add that kind of expense to our budget. So, we have to find a cheaper place to live. Which we can do. We can find a cheaper, better, bigger place to live. I am just tired of moving. Suck it up I suppose...

We chose this apartment because we were in Wisconsin looking for an apartment over the phone and the internet. Additionally it was a time crunch and an apartment crunch. There just weren't many apartments open at the time. So, in desperation we grabbed the first apartment that was available. I just want to stay somewhere three or four years! We can't buy yet. We have no down payment, the housing market here is such that we are afraid if we buy now we might end up with a house not worth as much when we are done (it is booming big), and we haven't paid our bills on time this entire past year. There were times when things were crazy and bills had to be shifted around.

Wow, that was a lot of complaining. I really do know I am whining and I have to get over it and do what I need to do. Thanks for listening though!