It’s my four(!)-year blogiversary! But it’s bittersweet: A week ago Paula and I found out that we will need to move out of the apartment we’ve lived in together for 3 years (and which I’ve lived in for the past 7 years).

Our landlord lives downstairs from us, but her husband recently passed away and she needs someone taking care of her now, so her daughter will be moving into our apartment ASAP.

Within minutes of hearing the news (and while we were still in shock), we began the search for a new apartment online, quickly realizing that our rent is about to (drastically) increase while our living space is about to (drastically) shrink. (None of this should have come as a surprise, after we read this cover story on the local rent crisis in a Santa Barbara newspaper last fall…)

Basically, we’ve been lucky to live where we’ve lived for so long!

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