Andreas and I have decided that when we move back to Seattle, we will buy a house.
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, was published last year.
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the mighty jimbo
April 13th, 2003 at 9:59 pm
sick of socal already?
i’ve been gone a lot lately. have i missed something? when are you going back?
*b.
April 13th, 2003 at 10:05 pm
back to seattle, ehh? timeline?
buy a house, ehh? scary! i just like to live with people who own houses.
Ariel
April 13th, 2003 at 11:06 pm
Jimbo, you missed nothing: there are no plans to move back to Seattle. We know that when we leave LA, we’ll be heading back up there, and we’ve now decided that when we head back up there, we’ll buy a house. That said, I currently have a job I’m genuinely excited about (how often does THAT happen?), good friends here, and sunny skies. Despite my love of Seattle, I have good reasons to be here in Southern California. I’m not one to ignore good reasons. I’m here now.
And yeah, bess, my talking to Twozdai about her housebuying process was a final factor in our decision to think about buying. Several other factors had already been making themselves known, and then there was her!
I need to thank her. (Hint.)
Ananda
April 14th, 2003 at 12:19 am
I think that is a fantastic idea. You two have the ability to make any house a special home. Love, A
PS waste no time moving back because I already have a house warming gift picked out.
Jake of 8bitjoystick.com
April 14th, 2003 at 8:47 am
Well you will be one californian who is welcome to move to Seattle
amy
April 14th, 2003 at 8:51 am
What happened to Germany? Is that still in the plan?
Ariel
April 14th, 2003 at 9:14 am
Yup, Amy. That’s still in the plan, although we learned that Dre can’t get citizenship as easily as we’d thought. Regardless, that was always five years out.
kim
April 14th, 2003 at 11:11 am
you guys should go to germany in the summer with me & dave. *grin*
leblanc
April 14th, 2003 at 11:28 am
babies, houses …. suddenly i’m imagining you gardening and wearing a flowered apron.
Ariel
April 14th, 2003 at 11:32 am
I could maybe see that too, Amy…but only if the flowered apron was ALL I was wearing.
db
April 14th, 2003 at 11:55 pm
Well, hey- a good hippie skirt is nothing more than a low-cut flowered apron when it comes down to it, and I know that *I* certainly wouldn’t wear anything else with mine..
Anita Rowland
April 15th, 2003 at 8:46 am
Jake, Ariel is from Seattle in the first place (or at least lived here a long time and went to Evergreen and stuff).
tony.dowler.com
April 17th, 2003 at 2:15 pm
Woo Hoo! Having a house in Seattle is the best. I highly recommend it. They’ll tell you that you can’t find anything you can afford without moving to Renton or Northgate, but you shouldn’t beleive them.
timothy
April 17th, 2003 at 4:29 pm
your folks will buy you a house
Ariel
April 17th, 2003 at 4:33 pm
Funny joke, “Timothy.” My dad works for the city, and my mother subsists off of a donation-only ministry in the woods. I will definitely not be getting any help from them.
If anyone has any rich parents to spare, however, you just let me know.