A house!

Okay... so Sunday night, some super sketchy people were walking in front of our house when Joe and I got back from Dairy Queen with the boys. It was Jippy's birthday and they always get Dairy Queen for their birthdays (The birthday dog gets a cherry dipped cone and the others just get plain vanilla cones -- small of course!). Well, we were letting the dogs do their business in the front yard before we went into the house. Then this guy came around the corner holding a shovel over his head. Jippy went nuts and I thought he was going to attack the guy. Then Cody started after the guy. The guy just kept walking like nothing was wrong, still holding the shovel over his head. I called the dogs into the house and then another guy came walking around the corner. He was fat and shirtless and carrying a box. He asked Joe if he did any construction and Joe said no. Then he cussed Joe out. We got into the house and Joe said that we were officially going to move. :) FINALLY. I'm so tired of crackton.

Anyway, I started looking for houses and I found one that I like that is reasonably priced. We're going to look at it tonight. It's in Shelby. It's about half an hour away from work instead of 15-20 minutes, but it's in a nicer town in a much better neighborhood. And it's got a fenced in back yard and lots of room inside. I'm really excited to see it.

Even if it's not what we end up with, I'm really happy that we're moving in the right direction to get moved out of South Gastonia. If I didn't have those 4 dogs there, I would be afraid for my safety. And all of those out of town trips that Joe makes: they wouldn't be happening. There's no way I'd stay there by myself.

Woot for making progress towards moving out of CRACKTON! :) I'm off to look at a house now.