Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Dead Blog?








 

I've read a few times that if you don't keep up a schedule of posting that you will lose interest in your blog and lose readership.  It makes sense.  The internet is a fickle place, with boundless amounts of information for every possible interest...

Well here it is almost a month since my last post!  In looking back at the blog over the past few months it seems that I was posting pretty regularly just before we listed our house for sale.  In those days I was full of optimism and really felt that we would have moved past this point in our lives by now (July).  Well we haven't, the house is still for sale, we have dropped the asking price by more than 17k and can't go much lower before selling it will eat into a significant chunk of our savings.

Everything else is on track though.  We have been saving money and paring down our possessions. 

We actually should be really content and happy with the life we have.  We have both received promotions at work in the last year, we have a nice house, and lots of other things going for us.  The problem is now that this dream of living simply on a sailboat has gotten into our heads, it just makes so much sense and we can't get it out again.

But I digress. 

The blog isn't dead, it is just that there hasn't been much "Changing Course" to talk about.  In keeping with the sailing analogies:  It seems the wind has been knocked out of my sails.

On the bright side, we are taking a three day live aboard sailing class this coming weekend on Lake Champlain.  I think a re-cap of the class will make for a good blog post.

Till then...


4 comments:

  1. Hi Bill, not to worry, it will happen. At least, you guys are already pairing down... we havent started but need to seriously. The class would be a great post, I look forward to the pictures. I agree with you though, once its in your head, it's very hard to be patient.

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  2. Think of this time as earning money to extend the cruise a little longer. You will be happy to have the money you are earning now once you are out cruising.

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  3. Oh, how we can relate! We got the cruising "in our head" this past November and are also still trying to sell our house. We need to remind ourselves to enjoy the present while dreaming about the future. We can't wait!

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  4. Thanks for the encouragement!

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