A Trapdoor In The Sun

Good news to report on the home (finding) front. We are officially in-contract on our first house. Our new address as of June 3rd will be on Andrew Ave in Westerville. Last week, we were both quite frustrated and worried about the prospects of finding a house in the small window of time we had before Chris comes out. Thursday morning we went and looked at a house nearby the said house on Andrew with our realtor. The showing was a quite roomy split-level in an older Westerville neighborhood. The house was certainly acceptable, but it didn't quite have the character to make us fall in love with it. We left the showing even more depressed and uncertain. Later that afternoon, Kate was browsing through the MLS listings while on break at work. She forwarded me a few houses to take a look at. One was this lovely Victorian house in Reynoldsburg. It was in really nice condition, but neither of us really were interested in driving 20 minutes to and from work, and to be honest, Reynoldsburg...

So, here we are in the middle of April. Tax time has came and went. It seems like all of our plans for the summer have come together. Chris' airplane tickets are ordered...the beach house is rented, our vacation time approved. Chris is set up to go to a daily camp at the Westerville Recreation Center during our work hours. I'm sure he'll enjoy that! We bought tickets to a Reds/Mariners game in July... right behind home plate. This next weekend we'll hopefully score some tickets to The Phantom of the Opera, which will be touring through Columbus during the beginning of August. I'm excited about that as I've wanted to see it since my teens. The only uncertanty now, and it's a big one,... is the house situation. We still haven't found what we want in a house... and I'm wondering what's going to happen if we don't find what we want. Are we going to have to settle? Are we going to have to get a short term rental on an apartment or something during...

So I started a multi-user blog basically as a hangout for all my old friends I knew from high school and the 90's. Somehow, with the help of a few old contacts I was able to get the word out to just about everyone in our little circle of friends. It's quite amusing to look back and see how darn geeky we were and still probably are. Some friends have changed, some have moved or are moving. Some are doing the same thing they were doing 10 years ago... and that's fine... since you should live your life doing what you want, as long as it makes you happy and fulfilled in the end.

I think that maybe my first two ultra-liberal posts may have offended my dad. I was hoping they wouldn't. I love my parents, though we don't agree on everything, including politics! But that's okay, right? I actually really like and respect my father. I think he raised us in not always the best of economic situations and did a great job of instilling in us love, responsibility (although I didn't really catch on to that until later), and compassion. Recently, it really dawned on me as to how proud I was of my father. You see, my dad has worked at a private aeronautical company for many years now. Although he is extremely smart, he didn't really have the necessary post-graduate education to work in aerospace engineering, but someone who knew someone at my dad's company decided to take a chance on him anyway. My dad also had a mild stroke six or seven years ago which threatened his future, his employment and his life. He worked through therapy and went right back t...