As some of you may know, my wife lost her job about 3 years ago and couldn't find any work where we lived in Montgomery so she started looking up here in birmingham where she's from and her family lives and she found a good job with a small start up company.
The deal was that if she either started making more money than me or her career path showed more promise and potential than mine then we would move up here. Govt spending cuts not only has my salary frozen indefinitely but always the chance that the cuts may eliminate positions on our contract so I'm taking that into consideration.
On top of that, the wife's job has blown up in a good way. TONS of work, they made her director of technology and she's essentially defined how part of their business model works now and she's been interviewing people for the last 6 months to get more employees to help with tasks so things are looking great for her.
The choice to put the house on the market was easy and we're going to make a few bucks on the sale so our goal of at least breaking even on the sale was met. I think the moving company and contractor work to fix random odds and ends on the house that turned up on the home inspection may leave us at breaking even
But anyways, for the last 2 and a half years, my wife has been living up here with her grandmother rent-free working, driving back down to montgomery on friday afternoon and driving back up for work on monday mornings. needless to say, that lifestyle has run it's course and we're ready to be under the same roof again.
the buyers unfortunately only gave us like 3 weeks to get out
So we were going CRAZY trying to get all of our stuff packed and moved. We've spent the last few days driving back and fourth from down where our house was in Montgomery up here to where we're trying to find a house in birmingham. We've been moving boxes, furniture, you name it on top of paying 2 men and a truck nearly 2 grand to move everything we couldn't carry 
So at this point, we've been searching for houses up here. We aren't in a hurry since we are staying with the wife's grandmother but living out of a box is going to get old FAST.
the best news in all of this is that in our search, one of my main requirements is a nice man cave that I can setup from the get go as a studio. Basements or split level homes are pretty common up here in birmingham so the choices are nice and we've seen some MASSIVE basements (entire band practice big) and some others that have really nice offices with big closets that look like they could easily hold a 4x12 and mics and if all else fails, my other requirement is a big 2 car garage and building an isolation box that I can park one of my cabs in and have that in the garage is yet another option.
I'm excited as hell. I'm going to make sure this is all done right from the beginning and will have a little cash to get something like this
http://www.readyacoustics.com/products/ ... l?cPath=25
and a better desk that has some rack mount spaces.
So yeah! Busy time for us right now. Fingers crossed that things go smoothly with the house hunt. I'll keep you guys updated.
