Before the storm hit, my husband and I were having another one of those life-direction conversations where he basically explained to me that if I want to stay at home then he will probably either have to go back to school and change careers or at least move to a larger city to find work if he stays in his current career. None of this information was really new to me, but it's still hard to imagine what our lives will be like a year from now, regardless.

I told him that he should just start following HIS dream of investing in real estate and not worry about having a conventional job, but we both know that it's kind of a risky venture because he's not really a self-starter and I'd hate for us to get saddled with multiple mortgages that we can't pay. Maybe a better solution would be for him to get some real estate agent training and that way he'd have a paycheck and hours and an office, but can still work with real estate, which I know will make him happy.

This Web site allows you to get the training you need online from your own home. So perhaps we'd be able to pull the whole thing off without having to move. Which is fine with me, because I'm quite tired of moving. I also said that it seemed unlikely anyone would want to buy our home in disaster land, but he pointed out that all those people who lost their homes will be needing new ones. So the local real estate market may even get a boost from all this. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.