Breakin' my heart.

Nate is obsessed with the crashing housing market right now. It truly is a buyer's market, and he keeps looking at houses that are going for *CHEAP*.

Usually, they're OK houses in OK neighborhoods, so it's just like "eh, whatever" for me. Today, he found one. The one. In Gahanna instead of Pickerington, but still, the house. Perfect sized lot, the big house we'd love to have. For cheap. Insanely cheap. Like, if he had a job so we could qualify for the loan we'd buy it today cheap.

But alas, my income alone isn't enough to qualify us for *any* loan. He has to have a job as well, even for such a small loan as we would need for that house.

It broke my heart just a little bit. I know it's silly and that we should really sit tight where we are so I can finish paying off the student loans (hey, I have them under five grand from the over 15K I started with!) and so I can finish paying off the credit card...but still, my heart broke a little bit seeing that gorgeous house within our budget and knowing we couldn't get the loan yet. If he had a job, yes, we could get the loan rightnow.

It's a blessing in disguise. That's what I'm telling myself, anyway. It's an opportunity for me to finish paying off my debts to get my credit from being "meh, okay." to being at a point where we can get the very nice interest rates on a mortgage.

It's ridiculous that I'm writing about this, but it's what is on my mind. I have no real complaints in my life at the moment (for which I am very grateful!) so you get to read about my sadness that we can't buy a house right now.

So. Other than that, my life is pretty much at the same place it has been. I'm in school, I'm married to my best friend, and...my dog and cat are constant little bundles of cuteness.

Nothing more to say...wait. Yes.


If I manage to figure out how to mobile blog from my phone, I'll be posting pictures and random bits from my road trip to Atlanta coming up the first weekend of November. Consider yourselves warned.