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It's another year, another birthday. I'm still waiting on my gifts, as Fred leaves for work at the dawn of ridiculous and neither the kids nor I wanted to get up at that hour so we could do the family thing. So tonight then. And afterward the plan is to go to Taboises for Mexican food and margaritas, which always makes me a happy girl. :c)

I did cheat a little and bought a book for myself (just what I need, ANOTHER damned book!) and a couple of magazines. I was also going to buy myself this amazing perfume I tested called Euphoria, but that'll have to wait until I transfer some funds into the account. Forgot to do that last night. Oops!

We've done some preliminary research into housing, and since we're looking to buy outright instead of financing, we're probably going to focus more on Raleigh than Durham. I found a freaking FARM there, 1.1 acres of land, barn, garage, separate in-law quarters and did I mention 1.1 ACRES OF LAND for $175,000! For those of you who didn't grow up in Southern California or the Netherlands, you probably have no idea why I'm so damned impressed with that, but from my perspective that's an enormous amount of your own space for almost no money at all. Yeah, okay, $175k isn't chicken feed, but try looking at Los Angeles property and see what $175k will buy you!

The plan is to move in a couple of years. We want to do our research first, and see what the hell this crazy economy is going to do before we haul our cookies across the ocean again. But yeah. It's sounding better all the time.