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Somehow, September has arrived. Hello, Autumn. Two weeks from right now, I will be on a flight to Japan, for our next collaboration meeting. Four weeks from tomorrow, I will be on a flight to the States, getting ready to attend my sixteenth consecutive Sooper Sekrit Pagan Festival![*]
The start of September also means that our lease on Chiron Beta Prima just renewed for another year. I've always found it odd to own two houses in the States... but rent an flat for our primary residence.
Since we will be staying in CBP for another year, it is on track to be our longest occupied home since moving to Merry Olde England. We were in Skullcrusher Mountain for twenty-eight months, and we were in the Flat With No Name for twenty-four months. We have been in Chiron Beta Prime since the start of November 2010, which makes for twenty-two months thus far. Not yet the record -- indeed, still third out of three -- but by the end of our new one year lease, it will have risen to the top.
Indeed, the new lease also means that 2012 looks to be a very stable year for my beloved![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cheshcat and myself. Looking back over the six and a half years that we have lived in Oxford, it seems like every year brings either a new flat or a new car:
As you can see, gentle readers, on average we replace either our car or our flat each year. We are currently on Car #3 and Flat #3. This is not quite as unstable as our friends D&J, who moved to London three months before we moved to Oxford; they get a new flat every March[**] and have their annual housewarming party every September.
Even so, a bit more stability would be welcome. It looks like we will not be moving in 2012; hopefully, the car that we bought last year will last out the year as well. Given that it is far more reliable than its predecessor, things on that front are looking good!
[*] Hooray!
[**] Except for 2011, which was anomalous.
The start of September also means that our lease on Chiron Beta Prima just renewed for another year. I've always found it odd to own two houses in the States... but rent an flat for our primary residence.
Since we will be staying in CBP for another year, it is on track to be our longest occupied home since moving to Merry Olde England. We were in Skullcrusher Mountain for twenty-eight months, and we were in the Flat With No Name for twenty-four months. We have been in Chiron Beta Prime since the start of November 2010, which makes for twenty-two months thus far. Not yet the record -- indeed, still third out of three -- but by the end of our new one year lease, it will have risen to the top.
Indeed, the new lease also means that 2012 looks to be a very stable year for my beloved
cheshcat and myself. Looking back over the six and a half years that we have lived in Oxford, it seems like every year brings either a new flat or a new car:- 2006: New flat! (also, first flat, as we had just arrived!)
- 2007: New car! (also, first car in the UK)
- 2008: New car and new flat! (plus new cat, but that's another story)
- 2009: Neither new car nor new flat -- needed a rest after replacing both in 2008!
- 2010: New flat!
- 2011: New car!
As you can see, gentle readers, on average we replace either our car or our flat each year. We are currently on Car #3 and Flat #3. This is not quite as unstable as our friends D&J, who moved to London three months before we moved to Oxford; they get a new flat every March[**] and have their annual housewarming party every September.
Even so, a bit more stability would be welcome. It looks like we will not be moving in 2012; hopefully, the car that we bought last year will last out the year as well. Given that it is far more reliable than its predecessor, things on that front are looking good!
[*] Hooray!
[**] Except for 2011, which was anomalous.
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Very glad that we aren't moving this year, actually. Too much else going on, between running P**T*** and moving out of the Event Horizon and your change of job and applying for citizenship and everything else. I wouldn't relish all the packing and cleaning that goes with yet another relocation.
Love you BEEP-WAH!
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;-)