We're moving.

Nope, not leaving El Paso, but we're moving. The landlord just stopped by with notice that the rent is going up by $120 a month. With the way this place eats utilities, it's not worth that. If it were energy-efficient, the new price would be fine, but with the $300 water bills in the summer, and the $200 gas bills in the winter, we can't afford to pitch another $120 the landlord's way.

We don't know where we're moving yet. I'm honestly just glad they did this now while Thak is still in the Army, because our current income is enough to get pretty much any place in the city. When he's first out, we'll have this massive pay cut for a couple months, and would be hard pressed to get anyone to even lease us an apartment in the ghetto with those pay stubs, so the timing, while it's never going to be awesome, could definitely have been a lot worse. We also have a lot of people ready to help us move. I'm going to be getting rid of a lot of stuff in the next couple weeks because the Army's not moving our stuff this time, so excess is just more to lug across town, or wherever we end up.

Our options are either give our 30 day notice that we're moving, and that will have to be in by March 1, or renew our lease on April 1 when the rent increases. We can't stay here at that price for a full year that renewing our lease would lock us into, so we have to move. We will submit our notice on March 1, and be out by April 1. We don't know where we're going, but we're going somewhere.... hopefully somewhere with at least 3 bedrooms, and a garage for Thak to work on other people's cars in (because really, he makes quite a bit of money that way), and not ridiculously far from Erin's school, and comfortable enough to have a baby in. We'll see what we can find. We will find something.

The one thing I know about us is that we always find a way. It's what me and Thak do best. This will be no exception. We will find a way because that is how we roll.