This is Brighton, East Sussex, UK, where I’ll be living for a month.  Maybe when I get back all the damn snow will have melted.  Our front walk still looks like this:

So I’m thinking about renting this house, which has lots of things our current residence does not – for example:

Trees!  Concrete instead of dirt!  Sunlight!

Grass!  Fences!  Heat that (probably) works!  A backyard instead of a wall o’ dirt!

A dishwasher!  Cabinets!  A countertop!  Some realtor’s purse!  Windows in the kitchen!

A basement!  Fireplace! (or a.k.a.) Alternate heat source if (when) the heat stops working!

And get this, internet … it’s got windows in it!

All this plus lots! of other stuff! that our current house doesn’t!

!!!!

Here’s what my commute looked like circa last week:

That’s my “safe in snow” route.  You should see the non-snow one.  Please excuse the shitty quality of photos from my cellophone.

ANYWAY

Here is what my commute is expected to look like, circa in a couple months:

AWESOME.

I can now “officially” state that I am moving to Fairfax, Virginia.  Enter an excess of blog posts wherein I bitch about what a pain it is to find a rental.