Movin’ on Up

The newspapers say the economy is in a freefall, shedding jobs like so much jetsam. Well, here at SDWHQ, you’d never know it. If you look at our annual report, employment here has spiked in the last fiscal year. Salaries and benefits have kept up with inflation, and readership has seen a dramatic increase. Yes, the Strealey Dealie is riding high, zigging while the market zags.

Well, as a result, SDWHQ is moving! This all started innocently enough. We weren’t on the market for a new place, but had been thinking that maybe in another year or so we’d start looking around. Yet, there I was out for a run in the dreamy Laurelhurst neighborhood, and noticed a sign in the yard of a handsome house. Intrigued, I looked it up online and found that, jeez, it looked pretty nice, and was fairly reasonably priced. So I gathered up SD staff and suggested we go have a look. This was met with a shrug. Once we took a look around, however, well, we kinda had to have it. I think Kirsten cried. Oh, we did our due diligence and went and saw the handful of comparable houses on the market, but in our minds they didn’t really compare. A week and a half later we had an offer accepted. Easily the most expensive run I’ve ever taken.

Here are the pics from the MLS listing. It’ll undoubtedly be uglier when you see it, since the sellers (a couple of artsy types in town working on Coraline) had nicer stuff than we do. But no matter what ratty crap we put in there, it’ll still have tons of natural light. Hooray!

I’d be remiss if I didn’t share our little maestro, helping himself to the sellers’ piano during the inspection. I don’t know how to tell him it’s not staying.