Mon. March 10th/2008. 6:15 am
Turns out I'm a morning person. I guess...
Gemma and I had a discussion/argument/fight/resolution last night while watching a movie. It got to the point where I had to pause the movie because our disagreement was far more important than any visual audio sensory theater in the immediate vicinity. We finished our evening around 1am. 3 hours later I can't fall back asleep. I'm tossing and turning, kicking the sheets off, wrapping them around me, craning my neck, scratching myself all over uncontrollably. Eventually around 4:30 -5 am, I decide to toss in my chips and get an early start on the day.
I can't believe what I've gotten done within the first 45 minutes. I jumped on board and got a huge chunk of penciling done on the first draft of the playmakers poster. Made some toast and drank some coffee. Finally burned a copy of Samurai Champloo for a coworker that I've been unintentionally procrastinating for about a month now. And I figured, what the fuck, may as well make a new post whilst I am at "it".
6:20am. Gemma's alarm's gone off 3 times now. She is Not a morning person. I guess...
Our discussion last night was about our current and future living conditions. Gemma's sister just finished buying a house in the GTA for around $300,000. The place is massive and was quite a deal. A similar house in Guelph would be pushing $450,000-$500,000. Location, location, location man.
This purchase fired up Gemma's "little sister" complex in which she wants everything her older sister has. So that afternoon after hearing the news, Gem spent hours looking at real estate in Guelph. And I was left pulling my collar and going "eeeeeessssshhhhhh".
From where I stand, we can't afford to move anywhere. Period. I like the place we're at. It's serving it's purpose for the time being. However, Gemma wants something new because she's lived her long enough and can currently afford a new place. So we were at loggerheads for a while.
We seem to follow a distinct pattern in arguments. We each come to the table with vastly different opinions on any number of topics. Then we fire them at each other with increasing volume and velocity until we finally tire each other out, stop and find a middle ground. I wonder if that would also be the case were we to get into fisty-cuffs? hm.
Final outcome of said argument: We live here for the remainder of the year. By December
we're moving to a new place. In 5 years we're getting a condo or a loft. Either way, we're owning it. From there we'll see when we want to upgrade to a house or not.
An interesting thing about a college/university town is that there's a near constant supply of student in need of affordable housing. I came up with this idea this morning, actually. Instead of getting a condo in 5 years, we may as well get a 3 or 4 bedroom house and rent out the extra space to students. I did the very same thing in my last 2 years of college. It's basically cheap rent for the students, a nice athmosphere for study, and it's an easy way to make the mortgage payments. And once the house is paid off, the rent income is profits OR stop renting out space and settle in.
My last-year landlords had a pretty sweet setup. If I were to ever own a home. I'd want to have a place like theirs. 2 story, furnished basement, surround sound hookups, hardwood dining area, central air, kick ass wireless internet, huge back and front yard, koy pond and climbing tree, massive granite counter tops and splash guards. It was just a sweet fucking house. Unfortunately there was an abundance of animal dander, but the wicked free internet more than made up for it!
Kee-rist! It's 6:38, I'd better get Gemma up!
Later all, happy consequences!
Ben
Gemma and I had a discussion/argument/fight/resolution last night while watching a movie. It got to the point where I had to pause the movie because our disagreement was far more important than any visual audio sensory theater in the immediate vicinity. We finished our evening around 1am. 3 hours later I can't fall back asleep. I'm tossing and turning, kicking the sheets off, wrapping them around me, craning my neck, scratching myself all over uncontrollably. Eventually around 4:30 -5 am, I decide to toss in my chips and get an early start on the day.
I can't believe what I've gotten done within the first 45 minutes. I jumped on board and got a huge chunk of penciling done on the first draft of the playmakers poster. Made some toast and drank some coffee. Finally burned a copy of Samurai Champloo for a coworker that I've been unintentionally procrastinating for about a month now. And I figured, what the fuck, may as well make a new post whilst I am at "it".
6:20am. Gemma's alarm's gone off 3 times now. She is Not a morning person. I guess...
Our discussion last night was about our current and future living conditions. Gemma's sister just finished buying a house in the GTA for around $300,000. The place is massive and was quite a deal. A similar house in Guelph would be pushing $450,000-$500,000. Location, location, location man.
This purchase fired up Gemma's "little sister" complex in which she wants everything her older sister has. So that afternoon after hearing the news, Gem spent hours looking at real estate in Guelph. And I was left pulling my collar and going "eeeeeessssshhhhhh".
From where I stand, we can't afford to move anywhere. Period. I like the place we're at. It's serving it's purpose for the time being. However, Gemma wants something new because she's lived her long enough and can currently afford a new place. So we were at loggerheads for a while.
We seem to follow a distinct pattern in arguments. We each come to the table with vastly different opinions on any number of topics. Then we fire them at each other with increasing volume and velocity until we finally tire each other out, stop and find a middle ground. I wonder if that would also be the case were we to get into fisty-cuffs? hm.
Final outcome of said argument: We live here for the remainder of the year. By December
we're moving to a new place. In 5 years we're getting a condo or a loft. Either way, we're owning it. From there we'll see when we want to upgrade to a house or not.
An interesting thing about a college/university town is that there's a near constant supply of student in need of affordable housing. I came up with this idea this morning, actually. Instead of getting a condo in 5 years, we may as well get a 3 or 4 bedroom house and rent out the extra space to students. I did the very same thing in my last 2 years of college. It's basically cheap rent for the students, a nice athmosphere for study, and it's an easy way to make the mortgage payments. And once the house is paid off, the rent income is profits OR stop renting out space and settle in.
My last-year landlords had a pretty sweet setup. If I were to ever own a home. I'd want to have a place like theirs. 2 story, furnished basement, surround sound hookups, hardwood dining area, central air, kick ass wireless internet, huge back and front yard, koy pond and climbing tree, massive granite counter tops and splash guards. It was just a sweet fucking house. Unfortunately there was an abundance of animal dander, but the wicked free internet more than made up for it!
Kee-rist! It's 6:38, I'd better get Gemma up!
Later all, happy consequences!
Ben
posted by Ben at 3:14 AM
4 Comments:
Cool. I wish I could plan that far ahead. Also, I saw the draft for the poster and it looks good. I really like all the characters and your style seems to have changed since the last time I saw any of your cartoon work.
Danka, Mack.
I haven't noticed a change. But that's just me being hyper-analytical.
*cough*
Ben
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Well written article.
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