New Year

We spent New Year's day - in fact, the last three days, driving around looking for a home.
I've been looking them up on the internet, then drawing up my own maps to find them. (Google maps are not always the best routes.)  So far, that has been working well for us, but yesterday, I was off my game somehow - we drove around and around and didn't find one of them.

After three days of this, the neighborhoods are all beginning to look the same - and the houses all look the same.  How do you tell a good neighborhood from a bad one?  I just feel so lost and clueless down here.  I don't want to get roped into a year lease, then find that I live next door to an axe murderer, but you just can't know those things...

So today, I am exhausted, frustrated and discouraged.

I don't really understand what my role is down here.  I'm a mother - without my children, a worker - with no job.  I don't have a car to get me anyplace (and I really don't feel safe walking.)
...A really strange and foreign existence.

Meanwhile, hubby is doing really well at his job.  This week they will have HEAT in his building (a big relief - he's been letting everyone go at 4:30, because when the sun starts to go down, it gets really cold inside!)

Monday, he came home and told me that the police had his parking lot all blocked off - there had been a shooting on the highway right in front of his store...
Welcome to Las Vegas.

I asked him if that scared him off, he said it didn't.  I asked what it would take to scare him off - he said if the shooting were inside the store.

Oy.  By then, it's too late to change his mind and go home.

They are going to start out with two armed guards in the building, and another one outside.  I hope that is enough.

I often wonder if we have completely lost our marbles coming down here.
The jury is still out on that one...
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