i've been shorn. it was my decision though. i was sick of it for many reasons...the same ones that make me do it every time. oh well. spring is here, which feels like summer in any other part of the country, and of course our summers are miserable. it was definitely something i had to do, and it was something that emily hated doing. it is good to have a stylist for a wife though! also, it will only take fifteen months to get it back. :)

going to look at a house for rent in less than an hour. i really hope that we get this one. you'd think that it would be a renter's market, but here in marion that isn't the case. every property seems to be managed by a realtor and they all do credit checks. emily has great credit, but mine sucks. i had an exorbitant amount of credit card debt from my previous marriage, and several years ago i put it on a debt negotiation program. although the program saved me a lot of money, i got bad credit from the whole deal ---something that i was aware would happen beforehand, so it didn't come as a surprise. anyway, we keep losing out on houses that we want to rent, because of this. i just think that's nuts! i mean, i'm coming to the table saying that we own our own business, we live in the apartment above, but we've outgrown it. i tell them that i previously had lived in my father's apartments which i managed. we're also currently landlords ourselves, with a basement apartment in our building that we lease. you would think that they would take all of this into consideration! we sound like great prospective renters! it's just driving me crazy. i'm at my absolute wit's end over this. i realize from a property owner's point of view you have to be wary of the riff-raff out there, but we meet every standard of responsible tenants...

other than my blasted credit.

well, i'm going to go get the car washed and head over there.