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It's official: we're poor again.

We started this process six years ago, when Q was an infant and Morgan was not yet in school. Many of our friends have been at it longer. None of us really thought it would take this long.

We have been tumbling through this long dark tunnel for so long, bouncing against the walls and trying desperately to keep our bearings, I got used to the idea that this wasn't actually going to happen. It became normal to think of cohousing as this lovely, distant fantasy -- something that might happen, someday, in the remote future, but certainly not any time soon.

That became so deeply rooted in my thinking that I didn't quite notice when, suddenly, everything was actually happening. All of a sudden, houses were being completed, we were applying for mortgages, and people were moving in.

It's been a rollercoaster of a transition. You mean that after all this planning and anticipation, we're not just going to be talking about it any more? We're actually going to be living side by side with these nutcases? What the hell am I doing? Have I lost my senses? Can we actually do this?

We will. I have. And we can. We're poor again, but in the most important sense, we are very, very wealthy. Happy tax day, everyone.

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Date: 2009-04-16 12:19 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wotw
Congratulations.

Date: 2009-04-16 12:26 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] blk
Very congrats.

Date: 2009-04-16 12:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enf.livejournal.com
Congratulations! May the reality live up to all your fantasies.

Date: 2009-04-16 12:35 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-16 12:40 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-16 12:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-mishegas.livejournal.com
Congratulations! I can't wait to hear reports from hippie commune land. :P

Date: 2009-04-16 01:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com
Congratulations. :)

Date: 2009-04-16 01:50 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-16 01:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrf-arch.livejournal.com
Congratulations!

Date: 2009-04-16 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] harimad.livejournal.com
Don't be surprised if there's a sense of letdown and "what's next?" later. This is common when a long aspired-to dream is fulfilled.

Date: 2009-04-16 02:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dbang.livejournal.com
Funny, this has not been my experience...

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Date: 2009-04-16 02:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com
Congratulation! I've probably said before, some of my children's friends live in a cohousing community/complex locally, and it definitely seems like an amazing place.

Date: 2009-04-16 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimberlogic.livejournal.com
congratulations!

Date: 2009-04-16 02:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] randysmith
*nod* Congratulations, and good luck, both.

Date: 2009-04-16 02:27 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] beowabbit
Congratulations!

Date: 2009-04-16 02:30 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] alanj
Congatulations. Sounds awesome.

Date: 2009-04-16 02:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] n2mlq.livejournal.com
Coolness. Will deliver bread and salt at the proper time

Date: 2009-04-16 02:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com
Congratulations! I hope your new home and community bring you every possible happiness, attended by the fewest annoyances allowable by cosmic law :)

Date: 2009-04-16 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khedron.livejournal.com
Woo-hoo! Congrats to you all!

Date: 2009-04-16 03:00 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ceo
I recognize that form. :-) Congratulations to all of you.

Date: 2009-04-16 03:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] missionista.livejournal.com
Exciting news, congratulations!

Date: 2009-04-16 04:02 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ckd
Woo-hoo!

Date: 2009-04-16 04:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malefica-v.livejournal.com
Hurrah! The stories will be splendid.

Date: 2009-04-16 06:14 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-04-16 06:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] prilicla.livejournal.com
Congratulations!

Date: 2009-04-16 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weegoddess.livejournal.com
Mazel Tov! (it's appropriate to say that, right? It's kind of the beginning of a new marriage)
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