Now that we've pretty much settled on the place, I figure I should go ahead and post that we are moving. How do we feel about that? Well, it's half "this sucks" and half "well, I guess we can save money, so that's good."
Estimating our Gainesville residency expectancy at about one year, we have chosen a lower priced home for our next place. The bonus is that though it is smaller and certainly less awesome than our current place, we aren't going to have to miss out on everything we gained. We will still have a yard, a laundry room, a paved driveway, central heat & air, and will have a good location (only a mile or so from this place). We will miss our garage, dishwasher, extra bedroom, extra living room, grassy yard, screened back porch, fun paint colors, and really nice neighbors.
We'll be moving at the end of the month. In the meantime, David is ordering a new engine for the pink car and Stink is coming up for a couple weekends to help put it in. Our goal is to have it up and running before we move so that no towing is involved.
My job is going to be trying to figure out what stuff we should ditch and what stuff we should keep. It's hard to say what you really neeeeed... we have gathered so much stuff and it isn't stuff you don't really need, but it might be stuff we don't really need right now. I'm so not looking forward to that!
Meanwhile, we are both still working full time, we have a few people thinking about hiring us for weddings, and we're trying to ride our bikes to work a fair amount of the time. Also, David's sister just got engaged and is expecting to get married May 2010. This is great motivation for me to ride my bike more to try to get in shape! I am trying to be helpful without being annoying to Kasey, though it is hard to tell from so far away and email communication. Oh well, sisters are meant to annoy each other, right?
;-)
Oh yeah, GO GATORS!!!
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28 October 2008
What's new?
I feel the need to blog, but I haven't got much exciting news to blog about. We're in the process of figuring out the holiday plans. One thing we know for sure is that we're going to our roomie Jessica's wedding in Deerfield Beach on the 27th of December, which means we're headed to the good ole' fort for Christmas.
I just finished up editing a massive quantity of photos including some for Dan & Sereen, whose wedding was in August. I always tend to beat myself up about not having finished things soon enough, and then when I'm done I realize, hey, it's only been two months, which is faster than I expected, so not bad...
David and I are still plugging away at our jobs, nothing too exciting there save some office drama for me and David doing way more work than one person should as usual. I guess something of interest is that David recently crashed his bike, his wonderful beautiful, long-awaited bike. So he's riding along, crossing three lanes of highway and going as fast as possible while shifting his bad mamma jamma shifters that are meant for racing and just such a purpose and whoopsie, his chain fell off. So David ended up head over bike over head over ... slam and sliiiide on the asphalt and ouch!
So I took off work that morning and we went to the ER, where the nurse did an excellent job cleaning David up. Unfortunately her bedside approach was to describe every thing she was doing, "Ok, so now I'm going scrub your deep abrasion with burning liquid on a spongey..." I did my best wife move, and told David to tell me about our prospects against LSU (it was THAT weekend! we missed out on the game - too many elbows close by to bonk David's) and that got him to a better place... ahhh football land. ;-)
He's healing up just fine, after a few weeks of soreness and changing dressings then graduating to band-aids and now just scabs! Since David was smart enough to insure his bicycle, we filed a claim and he's going to be able to get a new bike - so that's a bonus! Speaking of new bikes, I just got one myself and will be selling my old one. The new one works so much nicer and fits me! When we got it last weekend, I put it together myself, with a little help from David & Gary at Spin Cycle. I have ridden it a few times so far. I rode it home from work today in the freezing 50-something degree weather (and I want to move to Colorado?)and Northern winds and it didn't even bother me much because the gearing is so much mo' bettah!
David and I were very ambitious about doing weekly self-portraits a month or two ago, and so far we have done it three times. Oh well, at least we're still trying :-) It's been fun. Something we can do together that gets us to be silly, fun, and creative. Just what the Jemma ordered! ;-) Here are some from our latest "shoot".
Until the next urge hits me, adios amigos!
I just finished up editing a massive quantity of photos including some for Dan & Sereen, whose wedding was in August. I always tend to beat myself up about not having finished things soon enough, and then when I'm done I realize, hey, it's only been two months, which is faster than I expected, so not bad...
David and I are still plugging away at our jobs, nothing too exciting there save some office drama for me and David doing way more work than one person should as usual. I guess something of interest is that David recently crashed his bike, his wonderful beautiful, long-awaited bike. So he's riding along, crossing three lanes of highway and going as fast as possible while shifting his bad mamma jamma shifters that are meant for racing and just such a purpose and whoopsie, his chain fell off. So David ended up head over bike over head over ... slam and sliiiide on the asphalt and ouch!
So I took off work that morning and we went to the ER, where the nurse did an excellent job cleaning David up. Unfortunately her bedside approach was to describe every thing she was doing, "Ok, so now I'm going scrub your deep abrasion with burning liquid on a spongey..." I did my best wife move, and told David to tell me about our prospects against LSU (it was THAT weekend! we missed out on the game - too many elbows close by to bonk David's) and that got him to a better place... ahhh football land. ;-)
He's healing up just fine, after a few weeks of soreness and changing dressings then graduating to band-aids and now just scabs! Since David was smart enough to insure his bicycle, we filed a claim and he's going to be able to get a new bike - so that's a bonus! Speaking of new bikes, I just got one myself and will be selling my old one. The new one works so much nicer and fits me! When we got it last weekend, I put it together myself, with a little help from David & Gary at Spin Cycle. I have ridden it a few times so far. I rode it home from work today in the freezing 50-something degree weather (and I want to move to Colorado?)and Northern winds and it didn't even bother me much because the gearing is so much mo' bettah!
David and I were very ambitious about doing weekly self-portraits a month or two ago, and so far we have done it three times. Oh well, at least we're still trying :-) It's been fun. Something we can do together that gets us to be silly, fun, and creative. Just what the Jemma ordered! ;-) Here are some from our latest "shoot".
Until the next urge hits me, adios amigos!
06 November 2007
Health Prayers & Florida Basketball
So, Mark said we need to update.... ok ok ok.
Well in the prayer request department we've got some family health issues. I just found out today that our cousin Tara on David's mom's side is suffering from a pretty tough disease that has reached her bone marrow. It's very difficult to live with and is hard on the family. She is single & has a daughter, Paige who is 9 or 10 (I think). Please pray for both of them, that the family would know how to talk to Paige about this situation and that Tara would be kept well-taken care of. The next step is to look for a match to the bone marrow for a transplant.
My Dad, Gerry, is also facing some grave health issues right now. He's recently had some internal bleeding which miraculously stopped, but now is dealing with liver and gall bladder problems on top of managing Crohn's disease, which as of late has been pretty calm. Please pray that the tests turn out well and that his liver will stop jaundicing and be normal again. If not possible, please pray for a donor liver should he need it replaced.
If you're even in the mood for other news, David & I just went to an exhibition game for UF vs. Lynn University basketball last night. I got a few photos that are pretty fun, check them out.
UF 101 : Lynn 65
We had fun sitting with a couple of David's work pals, Patience & Amy and enjoyed being ridiculous with streamers once someone offered us some. If we can get spouse tickets, I'm sure we'll plan to go to a few more games in the coming season.
Well in the prayer request department we've got some family health issues. I just found out today that our cousin Tara on David's mom's side is suffering from a pretty tough disease that has reached her bone marrow. It's very difficult to live with and is hard on the family. She is single & has a daughter, Paige who is 9 or 10 (I think). Please pray for both of them, that the family would know how to talk to Paige about this situation and that Tara would be kept well-taken care of. The next step is to look for a match to the bone marrow for a transplant.
My Dad, Gerry, is also facing some grave health issues right now. He's recently had some internal bleeding which miraculously stopped, but now is dealing with liver and gall bladder problems on top of managing Crohn's disease, which as of late has been pretty calm. Please pray that the tests turn out well and that his liver will stop jaundicing and be normal again. If not possible, please pray for a donor liver should he need it replaced.
If you're even in the mood for other news, David & I just went to an exhibition game for UF vs. Lynn University basketball last night. I got a few photos that are pretty fun, check them out.
UF 101 : Lynn 65
We had fun sitting with a couple of David's work pals, Patience & Amy and enjoyed being ridiculous with streamers once someone offered us some. If we can get spouse tickets, I'm sure we'll plan to go to a few more games in the coming season.
15 September 2007
UF vs UT
Well, it's Tennessee Gameday. So, in honor of this great day, we had to get our "head in the game" so to speak. And what better way to do it than go through the same gameday morning ritual as UT's Great Pumpkin of a Head Coach, Phil Fulmer:
Krispy Kreme
Of course, it's 8 hours before game time, and the Vol fans are already getting ready for the day.
Go Gators!
-David
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