It seems as though when I was working my butt off doing the school thing, I was on my computer quite a lot. Most of my free time was spent up to my eyeballs in multiple papers and looking for distraction, which, as it turns out, often led me here to this blog.
Now that school is over, my free time has been filled with non-computer activities and I occasionally think to myself that I need to really get over here and update. So much has happened in just the few months I've been away that I want to make sure I document it all. But then life happens and typing about it doesn't.
My many months of telling myself that I'd have SO much more time once school was done was apparently a very inaccurate assumption. I've not read nearly as many books in my kindle as I expected I would by now (it's almost October!), and I've not picked up any of my long abandoned hobbies, either.
What has happened with those many evenings that were once devoted to classes, studying, and paper writing?
I have no clue.
J is working up in Boston again. He has a very sweet job, that seems to fit him quite well, at a great company that he believes in. This is wonderful for many reasons from "we are no longer wondering how many months we have left on the east coast" to "consulting turned out to be more frustrating than rewarding" to "it's really nice to see the person you love the most feeling happy and confident in their professional life and direction again." There's so many more positives to it, really the only negative is the commute. The drive is terrible. It's hours of traffic each way, depending on what is going on it can be a sweet 50 minutes (that happened once, on a holiday), but it's much more likely to take 1 1/2 to 3 hours. This means leaving super early and getting home tired, road-weary, and pretty late considering how early he has to get up. He's been taking the train in which makes things much easier and predictable as far as commute time, but it's still rough, so we've decided to move a little closer to Boston. J got a relocation package as part of his offer and we have until next summer to use it, so we plan to.
We're looking at some great, quiet towns south of Boston and though we'll miss having friends nearby and amazing restaurants just minutes away, a big yard on a peaceful street sounds too good to ignore. We're growing our family now and the idea of being farther from the city and closer to the quiet is more appealing by the day.
We have a lot on our plate right now. We each own a house here, I have a tenant in mine now who is also a close friend, and his (where we live) is spacious, beautiful and cozy. Both homes have incredibly low mortgages, too. With a little one on the way next spring we're looking at daycare near my office, which is in the total opposite direction of where we're looking to eventually move. It's a bit to work out. Everything considered, we're thinking it will likely be summer before we're seriously house hunting.
Life is happening. Hopefully the blog can keep up with it all.
