homesick

*sigh* It's odd. I haven't wanted to move back to Mississippi for a long time.

This house if dropped down where I live right now would cost somewhere in the range of $275,000. And it's about two miles away from my sister and her family. I don't know what's gotten into me, I don't really want to live near Memphis again. I think it's just that I'd like to actually get to know my nieces and nephews. And to be able to afford a house. $499 a month, with a $5k downpayment. That's less than a third of our current rent for about the same amount of space. Not rent and utilities, just rent. Yeah, yeah, I know. Salaries are correspondingly lower, but still... *sigh*

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I am in a truly foul mood today. No, I don't know why.

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Actually I think I figured out what it was. Had a blood sugar crash not long after the last entry, I think the crankiness was just part of the stuff leading up to that. Sorry for snapping at folks.

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Joann's has the most adorable purple polar fleece with black and purple and gray bats on it. I *heart* polar fleece. I think I need to make myself a blankie. Edge it with satin and it will be just like my blankie when I was a wee tot. Well, except mine wasn't purple bat print polar fleece. HEY! I could disturb my siblings by making baby blankets for the new crop of kidlets. Heh.

Speaking of disturbing, this Orbital track has a sample of "Surfin' Bird". Random shuffle of the CD also presented me with the Doctor Who theme track right before this.

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Hm. I said in an earlier entry something about salaries in Memphis being correspondingly lower along with the cost of living. But check this: this report says the median base salary is a bit under $4000/year less in Horn Lake than it is in DC, as of August 2001. Of course that implies that there actually are any webmaster jobs around there; monster doesn't show any in the last several months.

Median Household Income
Horn Lake	Fairfax
$36,499	$82,051
Cost of Living Index (national average set to 100)
89	173
Single Family Home Sale Price Index(national average set to 100)
64	258
Culture Index (national average = 98.13)
87	147

Yeah, this is all totally theoretical. C. would absolutely never agree to live there, since it is definitely easier for him to find work in this area. And I don't know why I keep thinking about this anyway. I'm sure I'll snap out of it after I go spend a weekend with my family. =)