Renewal

We've signed our lease for another year and so the countdown begins. The nerves are already starting to set in for me. I'm getting anxious just thinking we'll be making major changes in a year so I can't imagine how I'll feel once we're actually making those changes.

The renewal has also prompted me to do a spring cleaning of sorts. I want to start parting with things now before I'm too emotional with the move to make sound decisions on what to toss and what to pack. I've offered the idea of tossing it all and starting anew where ever we end up but Keck wasn't too keen on that, so we'll have to just sort through it all.

Of course we've got the long vacation coming up next month so this will all have to wait until we get back. Boy won't that just be a lovely task to come home to?

On a more personally fulfilling note, I recently got a gorillapod that I can't wait to break in. So, although I have yet to get a real tripod because I can't decide which one to get, I now have the ability to shoot long exposures and self portraits with my funky gorillapod that is oh-so-easy to transport. Now I'll be able to do this more often:

The Master Plan

The question about my post-graduation plans has been coming up a lot recently. Now that I'm done with school everyone is curious as to what's next. Originally we were set to move back to Austin at the end of our lease in September. Then there was a change of plans on account of several different things. So, instead we will stick around for one more year to save up for our big move. Also, we're now looking to Charlotte rather than Austin. With the uncertainty of the airline industry we've decided that moving to a hub rather than a small field station would be a smarter move. Of course neither of us has ever been outside the airport in Charlotte, so this is all pending actual visitation. Although I admit it would be cool to move to a city based on the lovely landscape you experience on the final decent or on the fact that the airport has the nicest rocking chairs in the central food court area, it wouldn't be prudent.

I think it's a bittersweet decision for us. On the one hand, we've been looking forward to going back to Austin for the last year and postponing the move seems like a setback. On the other hand, we're excited to go somewhere that's new to both of us, a place we can get on with our lives and start a family together, making our own memories. So the next year will find us working lots of hours and researching our move. We'll also continue to enjoy some more desert sunsets on our balcony, which is quite possibly one of the only things we like about living out here.

Hey, I bet you were expecting me to talk about what I planned to do with that crazy BFA of mine (still pending the results of this summer school math class, of course). Well, that's a post for another time as I still don't have a definitive plan for that yet and when in doubt procrastinate, right?