pressing on

Oh man, do I hate packing. I suppose it would be easier if everything was going to the same place, but the whole packing for two different places is really annoying. Because you have to both pack, AND organize. Two words which should never go together.

Its 8:30 am and I'm awake AND showered I might add. I have to run a few errands before putting on the finished touches hopefully for our storage packing. This weekend our we attended a Gala in our honor at the Solomon residence and had a blast, however in the process of having that blast I at some point dropped my camera flat on the floor with the lens out so it's all jacked up now and I have to go see if it is fixable. sigh. Then I have to go check in with the upack people and get our relocube assigned or fill out some paperwork or something. Because evidential the relocube needs to get a background check on me before we hang out.

All in all packing is going well. I don't know why anyone let me accumulate this much stuff though. Especially YOU! We tried using some vacuum packing bags. They kind of worked, however the keep slowly letting our air. so it goes.

The fam and friends are coming tonight to help us load the cube so hopefully we'll be ready and can get it done quick. Anyways, I have to run to the photo shop. cheerio.

its starting

we just opened shop on our final garage sale. listed on craigslist here, and as i start typing this it begins raining. which is ok because we planned for it. front porch moving sale!

things are moving along smoothly. lisa and i are officially unemployed now. hurray! my last day of work was the 23rd, last thursday. it was nice, i got a nice reccomendation from my boss and some people signed a goodbye card for me and my producer brought be cookies and jolly ranchers. other than that it was pretty normal.

lisa and i are working hardcore now on packing and moving everything. lisa has worked her tail off to make sure our place is clean. our landlord bruce is coming by this morning at 10:30 to check out the place and hopefully he will have our deposit check. hopefully he also doesn't notice the giant wax stain i made on the front porch.

a couple of our friends are also having a going away party for us tonight so we're super excited about that. heres the invite they sent out.

our place is looking really really empty. i took a couple video's of our living room and "messy" room.



anyways, we're really really excited about everything and ask that you'll all keep thinking and praying for us as we take our leap in this adventure. also i had a phone interview recently with a place in San Diego, i'm not sure if i'm allowed to say with who so publicly so i won't but here's to hoping!

the way things go

We've been working real hard lately to get things together to move. Lisa has been working especially hard. The art room is almost completely empty and we have someone coming to buy our bookshelves from us on Friday. We also posted our couch and giant chair today and within hours had 5 different responses for them. Its kind of nice to see that as our garage sale last Friday was such a bust it was kind of depressing. While we really don't need the money selling everything it is still pretty nice to make a little something off of stuff.

My parents moved into their new place in Lincoln, NE today so I'm happy for them that they get to live together now. I couldn't imagine living in two separate places. We also had some awesome visitors for lunch today. My Grandpa and Grandma Duffy's visited us and we went out to our favorite breakfast place The Waveland Cafe.

I think Grandpa is afraid of the internet.

Basically its getting close to go time T-Minus two weeks to being packed up and things are going well. They'd be going even better if one of us got a job but que sera.

its an odd thing

It is an odd thing, moving. People try to avoid unexpected change. Sometimes people jump right into it.

I find myself being comfortable far to much. I've found that the most enjoyable things in life were normally the most challenging. For the past few years I've enjoyed a very uneventful life in Iowa. Lisa and I got married, lived a couple places, worked a few times, and enjoyed family and friends. However I find myself wondering what my future holds for me. I've worked at WHO-TV for over two and a half years now, the longest place I've ever been a full-time employee. While I value my work and feel good about what I do every day, it still feels lacking.

I guess all I can really say is that it feels like its time for a change. Lisa and I decided to start a blog about our trip to help keep people in the loop and up to date. I have also started a twitter page that you can follow us on. Either bookmark it or add it to your reader or whatever you do.

Thanks for reading.