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Of Houses and Fathers
I spent most of the day with my Dad looking at houses. I do this to humor him because he still regards my life as broken and so he wants to fix it. I don't regard my life as broken in the same way he does. He thinks that I ought to work more so that I can get a big house and have financial security. The idea of working more, say working as hard as if I had a second job fixing up a house, just to move out into another one is rather off putting. I'd rather keep living in an apartment and wait for a house I'd want to move into and keep.
Does that make sense? I'm seeing it as undesirable to work harder for just more money, but desirable to get a house I intend to keep fixed up the way I want. I'm unhappy with my life, but I am not unhappy enough to do radical amounts of work to change it.
A Bit of Clarification
What my Dad was suggesting was that we buy this house in south Aurora and fix it up and sell it in two or three years. Make $50,000 profit on it and move on to another house and possibly doing the same thing until I could afford my dream house. I really don't want to be doing that. If I were to be involved in a massive fix up project for years I'd want it to be my own home and I would not care if the house was small or something. I'm not looking for the same thing my dad does, which is some sort of huge monster house.
Does that make sense? I'm seeing it as undesirable to work harder for just more money, but desirable to get a house I intend to keep fixed up the way I want. I'm unhappy with my life, but I am not unhappy enough to do radical amounts of work to change it.
A Bit of Clarification
What my Dad was suggesting was that we buy this house in south Aurora and fix it up and sell it in two or three years. Make $50,000 profit on it and move on to another house and possibly doing the same thing until I could afford my dream house. I really don't want to be doing that. If I were to be involved in a massive fix up project for years I'd want it to be my own home and I would not care if the house was small or something. I'm not looking for the same thing my dad does, which is some sort of huge monster house.
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That's a great summing-up of parent-child relationships.
Yeah, I'd wait to buy the house until you've won TAFF, run a couple of conventions, etc, etc. You're not going to have time to spend in a house for the next few years.
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