So it's been a million years since I've posted....

Life has been a whirlwind. I made the choice to leave the company I had been at for almost 7 years ( from what I've been told it's unheard of for someone from my generation to stay over 5). It was hard to leave after growing up there, and after putting in so much time, effort, and emotion. It was a big change. But I was happy to put in my resignation when given a new opportunity. Bittersweet.
I left for a privately owned company with a healthier balance sheet
however, still large and corporate...yes I am a corporate drone. Sometimes happy about it, sometimes not. They own me. The man, that is. I am painfully aware of this. In good company though.
I was in search of challenge, and in something I could believe in again...and I got it. Challenge that is. I believe in the mission I'm on, but boy does it exhaust me. (I still haven't figured out work/life balance yet).
So there is mucho change going on at our house. The career change was a good thing in the name of job joy. Now it's a lets figure out how to have a little bit more life joy.
A piece of that starts with our living situation. Sadly enough we are going to short sell our house. The sad part isn't on the selling it part...but on the necessity to short sell it. This is what we get for living in Southern Nevada. We could hang onto it, and get further under water. Market recovery is nowhere in sight, and by the time it does recover, we are still going to lose money on this damn house. Like LOTS of money. We've already put around 20 grand into it, and the home is old enough that the shit is about ready to hit the fan with something major. The thought of being 100,000 and climbing upside down, and still having to sink major fundage into this thing, on top of the fact that our utility bills are going through the roof due to increases from the lovely electric, gas and water companies here doesn't help. I'm just done. And if my credit has to take a hit for a few years to stop the bleeding....well, I guess that's the price I pay for selling my soul to the devil and buying here in the first place. We thought we bought low enough, we thought we bought at the right time, and the bottom just kept falling out. Now we will be in line with several other families trying to wash our hands of a property that has worse resale value than a new vehicle driving off a car lot. ( You think I'm kidding...seriously, when my vehicle has better resale than my home...there's a problem.)SO rather than being in this horrid situation for years I don't care to think about, it's time to just get out.