A Summary

Good morning. Non-eventful morning. Laura is in the shower, you see she works weekends so she can take days off during the week. We find going out in public midweek quite enjoyable while driving downtown for a sandwich or a shop on a weekend guarantees massive southern crowds, pointlessly long lines & five hours in reckless traffic. Abhorrent. So we stay in weekends as much as we can. I guess you call Tuesday & Wednesday our "weekend". We like it. Oh shhh she just came in.

So, let's see, this morning I can give some further detail into our goings on as of late. I told you we got married, and pretty much since then our cozy little world has been turned on its head. We moved out of our lovenest in Canton. Packed the place up, which was a chore, and squeezed it all, or most of it, into a pod.
Love those pods. We drove some leftovers, including our three cats, up to my parents house in NJ. Fifteen hours with very unhappy cats and about 40 boxes of CDs & records, all in the Krupp's (her parents) big blue van. Brilliant. It actually turned out to be a great trip. My birthday, a day in Lancaster's Green Dragon market & surrounded countryside, my Dad's birthday. I had to teach one day but that wasn't so bad. I had Fran* with me.

My job takes me out of town for days at a time which as a single guy was amazing, but as a married man, it's awful. I do leave next Wednesday for my first little stint in West Virginia (woohoo!) for about nine days. Then June brings me to Buffalo for a couple days and then on the road the last week into the 4th of July. But she's supposed to come meet me somewhere in New England for the holiday so that'll make it a great time. July is a little up the air still right now but I'm pretty sure I'll be going back to Buffalo, on the road for about a week through the southwest, home & then back to Houston for a week there. Yes!

But for now! We are back in Georgia, for the summer anyhow, staying with the Krupps. Her parents just recently bought a house in a new development over in Acworth, and quickly finished off a little corner of the basement for us to live in. Leaving the loft was pretty hard but in the interest of saving for a house, not paying rent or bills is gonna be extremely helpful at this point. Our motto this summer: Scrimp & Save. Not a bad one, but one neither of us has ever had. Not that we're big spenders, but we are spenders nonetheless. We dine. We shop. We don't scrimp. We splurge in fact. And we've got a pod full of junk to show for it.

So here we are, newlyweds, our belongings, our near and dear scattered across the eastern seaboard, a summer of coming and going, work and sacrifice (maybe a little rest and relaxation here and there). All so we can have a little (dream) home for ourselves. That is the goal.

* on certain occasions I will refer to my wife Laura as "Fran", as that was what everyone called her when we met. I actually believed it to be her real name for a quite a while.