Like I said back here, The Ex finally got off the stick and got my Money Sewer, or the house we built, refinanced back in late April. Well, there were a lot of headaches from all corners of my life about this damn thing and I was happy to get rid of it. I got a pretty sizable payout from the refi, but not nearly as much as half the equity. Since it doesn’t fall under capital gains for either of us, I’ll tell you it was more than $19,999. I was good with that.
Still, I heard from every direction that they couldn’t believe I’d let the old home site go (we got 10 acres from my folks, right behind them, for a whopping 10 cents per), or that I was letting her off too cheap, or that I should make her move out, or whatever. Matter of fact, the only person who was really happy about this (aside from me, of course) was my Mom. She was glad to know that the whole thing wouldn’t be going to a stranger.
The house was on the market for a couple of months – my aunt is a realtor – and got a few serious nibbles. I’m pretty sure that this was what got The Ex off the stick. That, and she got engaged so she could afford it without my paying half the mortgage. Oh, did I forget to mention that? Yeah, I was still paying half the mortgage in addition to all my other bills. I was happy to – I didn’t think it would do the Goon any good to have to deal with BOTH parents uprooting and getting adjusted to new living quarters in the wake of the divorce. Unfortunately, I was essentially paying the whole mortgage (counting my new place) and trying to deal with all the other living expenses that were no longer shared. It put me deep over my ass in debt in a big damn hurry. read this entry »
Looky here, it’s only been about 8 months since my last post. I have reasons, most of which aren’t good, but I’ll blame work and moving and all sorts of other stuff you’d all rather not hear. Mainly, I don’t know if I was in a six month long existential funk and finally came out of it, or I just finally have all of my passions converging at once and feel like writing (venting) again. So, lots of posts to come in the near future but I’ll give a brief synopsis of what’s happened since the last post:
January
– Yes, I still owe all of you the conclusion to the Sugar Bowl story. I don’t really recall all of the cool stuff I was going to include, but I’ll hit the high points and embellish what I don’t remember.
April/May
– Got to go to a pretty sweet conference for us lowly government IT-types and have some cool stuff to say about that. Also, on the way back I got word that the EX finally decided to close on her refinancing of the house, so I got me some money. That didn’t last long. Paid off my debts, which was actually a detriment to my credit (oh, there is SUCH a rant coming about that) and then I moved. In with Whit and her heathen, and mine every other week. And we’ve managed not to kill each other. Yet. read this entry »
Like me, for example. I haven’t been split from The Ex (formerly Household 6) for 6 months yet. I’m just starting to get my game back for Christ’s sake. And somewhere in there I realized that I will not, despite my VERY best efforts, be able to drink all the vodka in this sleepy little town. But you know, I was just starting to get the world by the balls. And could I stand the prospects of bedding pretty much any woman I set my mind to? Of enjoying nights of drunken debauchery with impunity (more or less)? Of starting a new life, living the way I wanted to, and not settling for ANYTHING I didn’t find suitable? Fuck no, I couldn’t. I can’t stand prosperity; I never could. read this entry »