Today Was

[Robyn]

And it was a pretty day in Paradise, aka Maui.  On the other hand, it was a bit of a downer.

We had convinced ourselves that, if we really scrimped and reduced our savings to zilch, we could just afford to buy a very small, very old condo here.  A realtor blew us out of the water when he said that the price and the mortgage calculations we made didn't include about $10K per year in extra costs like land rent and condo fees. 

Buh bye, old fixer-upper.  Someone who needed a tax deduction bought the place, anyway. 

Oh, well.  Don't plan on moving to Hawaii, folks, unless you are earning at least $200K per year.  Real people don't live here anymore unless they live with their parents rent free and work 3 jobs.

Tomorrow, it's supposed to rain.  I think we should go out and have some fun, anyway.

Robyn
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.  Now we can afford to go to Starbucks.