Hello, Again.

Two years.

Well, 22 months to be exact. It's funny how life gets in the way sometimes. You get caught up in this, busy with that. Sometimes you just forget. We're on facebook, or twitter, or pinterest. Anywhere but here, really.

But I miss this place. I miss the actual writing. I miss not being confined to 140 characters, or being able to expand not just on how I'm feeling or what I'm doing, but why I am feeling and doing those things.

So I'll make an effort.

We got a new computer, one that actually works. A mac, actually. That should help. We've settled into a marriage routine, where I can carve out some time to update. That should help. We have a good base of friends and what seems like things going on all the time, giving me something to write about. That should help.

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So what have we been up to the last two years? There's so much I don't even know where to start. But I'll give a quick rundown.

Places we've been:
Italy (Rome, Florence/Tuscany, and Venice)
Portland (twice)
San Diego (a few times)
San Francisco
Philadelphia and New York City
Iowa City (of course)
Kansas City
Spain (Barcelona and Madrid)

Things we've been doing:
Renovated the kitchen, changing our island and adding granite.
Renovated the backyard almost completely.
Todd got a promotion.
Vicki's job is in the process of a merger, and who knows what will happen with it.
Had three cars totaled due to moron drivers.

What we haven't done:
Gotten pregnant. Ha! Just in case anyone was wondering.

I'm sure I'm missing things, but two years is a long time. It won't be that long until I write in here again.

T-Minus Three Days and Counting

So, it's been awhile since I've posted in here; Vicki has done much of the updating lately. But, as we're getting pretty close to moving into our new house, I thought I'd put an update up and let everyone know how things are going.

We've had an interesting time trying to buy a short sale house. it hasn't always gone according to plan, but for the most part has gone fairly quickly. Apparently the people who were selling the house had moved to Boston, and their brother rented the house out to some random tenants. The renters have been less than cooperative with us throughout the entire process, and as a result has created a lot of headaches for us (and the sellers).

To make a long story short, the renters basically refused to leave the house, even after the seller served an eviction notice on them. They went to court last week, and the judge took one look at the papers and told the renters to get out of the house. They have until midnight tomorrow (Wednesday the 9th) to vacate the house. We are scheduled to have a final walk-through on the house on Thursday morning, and get the keys to the house Friday. We plan on moving Friday night after work, and being in our new house starting then!

Attached are a couple of pictures of what we are moving. For the most part, a lot of Vicki's things remained in boxes from when she moved here, so that has helped streamline the moving process. After the weekend I'll put up some new pictures from the new house.

It's a mess, but soon it will all have a home in the new house...