thanks again Sinsull...we shall see.

I am visiting my parents this weekend. They want to sell their house and get a one-floor, smaller thing...it will be a TON of work to clean up this place and get it ready to sell and my folks are not able to do it (my mom's MS is so bad she can barely walk, and my dad looks awful; he sees his doctor tomorrow and I fear the news will be bad...cirrhosis perhaps).

Anyway, if I do not get a place for June 1, I might do this:

see if the new owner will let me stay thru the end of June to finish teaching my class until June 26; put my stuff in storage in Boston; place my kitties with a friend or two; move back to Elmira for July and August (would probably spend part of July at Brushwood for a pagan gathering I attend each year); work for my friend's landscaping firm; help my parents haul out junk, fix up the garden and clean the place (a monumental task), generally spend time with my parents and help them as much as I can, and then get a place in Boston for September (a very difficult time to look but I would have a big head start). I could save money this way, too.

It does look like my trip to England at the end of June is right out...barring miracles or winning the lottery...

anyway kat informs me this week seems like a bad one for making decisions...so the weighing and balancing and considering continues...

oh, and I look at a place near Harvard Square on Wednesday night.

thanks, all, for your good wishes; you have given me much hope and many ideas and I know I shall look more closely at putting some of these "dreams" into action in the coming year...

love to all,

Peg