Life continues...

Nathan and I have been continuing to enjoy our lazy evenings together. It has been 6 months now since we’ve worked in the church, and, therefore, 6 months since we’ve had weekly evening events. We have developed quite the routine. I am usually home from work before Nathan, so I get supper started and then go and pick Nathan up. If Lennox hasn’t been walked, Nathan (or I) will take him for his ½ hour walk, while supper is cooking. Then shower, eat, and dishes come next (in that order). Once dishes are done, I get relaxed for the evening and join Nathan in the living room for either some tv or video games (Rock Band these days) or some reading of whatever book we each happen to be interested in at the time. These are our three usual evening activities, but sometimes we trade in the “usual” for an evening out with friends or for me to work on a craft-type project that I have on the go. Oh, and every week or so, our favorite tv shows (Chuck, Private Practice, CSI) are joined by some serious Canasta games. We have had a running score since Jan 22, 2005…that's four months before our wedding. Currently, Nathan is trying desperately to catch up from being behind me by 30,000 points. He’s done well with catching up, and I think he’s only behind by about 15,000 points now. Good times. Especially good times if Nathan is winning though…

(this is our score sheet - the back of an old Bethany memo)

Hmm…what else do we do? Oh! On Saturday, we were sitting around doing our usual Saturday things (watching Uber-guide and Driving Television – can you tell we have peasant-vision?) and I was just antsy to DO something. (sidenote: I’ve been getting that way a lot lately – antsy - so much talk and thought of excitement in California soon and not much excitement in the everyday these days.) So, upon Nathan’s suggestion, we scouted out the nearest travel agency downtown and picked up a bunch of travel brochures highlighting tours of Europe. I managed to sneak a few South American brochures into the pile too, but we put them away pretty quickly when we saw that they were more than twice as expensive as Europe…who knew? Anyway, so we planned our 30 day European tour and then decided at the end of a couple hours that we should probably spend our money on school and not on traveling…we wouldn’t take out a loan to travel, so why would we spend the money we have now and find, in a year, that we have to take out a student loan because of the traveling that we did? Hopefully we’ll be able to travel with some extra money (???) to celebrate Nate’s MA in two years…

The house has been on the market for…6 days now, I think. Well, today is the 6^th day. We’ve shown the house once and had two phone calls. We will possibly show it two more times this week. That’s pretty encouraging. Let’s hope people don’t get used to seeing the “For Sale” sign and forget to think about buying it! We’re not too worried. The market is pretty good in town these days (so we hear) so there shouldn’t be an issue with selling it.

(Don’t worry, this is not where we have the “For Sale” sign currently…I just had to get a picture of the whole deal before the sign went out to the curb…)

Any takers?