5/25/2004 10:44:17 PM|||Britt|||We attended a first-time home buyers’ seminar at our credit union this evening. The market is hot in Portland right now, for sellers. It never seems like the right time to buy a house, but I am forty years old now and these things can’t be put off much longer.

While it’s nice to have a place to call your own and make whatever modifications you would like, it is also a major commitment when you feel as if you’re not entirely sure that you want to be tied to a place. I must have some nomadic blood in me from somewhere because it is the most difficult thing for me to accept.

Or maybe it’s because a house is just another thing, another possession. I have never been tied to many things in my life, save this Titanium Powerbook. A house is the biggest possession one can have. Maybe I was too influenced by that movie The Money Pit. I loved the part where Tom Hanks (and I’m not a big Tom Hanks fan) laughs hysterically. I had that on my answering machine back in the day. Back in the good old days of renting and moving.|||108555103795819128|||Speaking of settling down...