buying a home

Some of you know I'm buying a home in Haines, AK, a small town about 50 miles north of my old home town. I'm all excited and nervous at the same time. I had a house in Washington about a year and a half ago that I hated. The house wasn't bad, it was the place, the attitude, the location, the utter flatness of the landscape nearby and the ravaged logged hills further away. That purchase turned out to be a big mistake that's haunting me... I was miserable there. I thought I wanted to live 'down south' in a small coastal town because I'm from a small coastal city in Alaska. I was wrong.

Now I'm afraid I'll be wrong again. AGH. I know I want to live in Haines, I know I can't live in the big fat part of Alaska. I just don't want to be wrong again, I can't afford it in terms of money or sanity.

So, anyway, I'm packing boxes and juggling logistics and it's going to work out...one step at a time. Dog drugs came in the mail today, tomorrow I have an eye doctor appointment, the dog has to get shots on Saturday. I need to buy an axe (I have a woodstove!) and a weed eater (I have a yard) and probably a new pair of X-tra tuffs (it rains there). Most of the time I love my totally solo life, but it would be easier if someone were here to help with all this stuff!