"I forget why I'm breathing out"

My grandmother in-law died a couple of hours ago. While we weren't close to her, it is still sad to think of her life ending at a relatively young age and unexpectedly -- no health conditions that we knew of.

Imagine being 25 and having all of your grandparents alive... and for a short time this summer all will live within five minutes of me.

"Turn my head out"

May 24 and you've just found out you're moving to Indianapolis.

June 24 you're in Chicago having worked in Indianapolis for one week. Someone asks you how "Naptown" is. I'd never heard that before. I like it though.

The best and shortest description to the current state of our lives -- at least from my perspective -- is that "It's strange." The next word is "Stressful."

Strange:
It's strange hanging out with friends on a weeknight.
Strange sleeping in my childhood home.
Strange to be sleeping on an old smokey matress purchased by a fellow found on Craigslist.
Not having Grace run around the house (she's at her Grandma's house).
Not having anyplace to put clothes.

Stressful:
Being gone 12 hours a day (rather than about 9 like I was in Detroit).
Having a house sitting empty 250 miles away.
Not knowing where we'll be living 3 months from now (hopefully not at my childhood home).
Being in flux.
Transition.
Change.

One day (June 14) we were there and had our little space and lives. We run into a Detroit friend at the movie theatre in Birmingham. The next (June 15) our lives as we knew it ended. We finish packing our house. We drive to Indiana. We hang out with our Indiana friends that night and go to another movie in Castleton.

For the first two years, we've had one married experience and that was in Detroit. Here's to the next chapter in Indianapolis. I've got to believe that despite new challenges, like a good book it's only going to get better as we go.

Happy Anniversary to the one whose hand I hold every night.

"One minute I held the key"

Man, I'm exhausted. Time to go to sleep. To take a page out of Wilbe's book:

Things I know:

• Moving to a new place three summers in a row is a little nuts.
• House hunting will be fun.
• Our house will sell, even though it's a bad market.
• Playing Super Mario Galaxy until 1:30 or so last night was a horrible idea.
• I'm totally stoked to be moving to Anderson in two days.
• I cannot imagine our house being ready to leave in two days, but I think it will happen.
• Speaking of happen, we're taking a break from packing come Friday night to go see The Happening on opening night.
• I enjoy working with the people I've worked with and for for the last couple of years.
• I can't wait to see and hang out at Wilbe's new house.
• I'm looking forward to reconnecting with some friends I haven't seen much in the last couple of years.
• Lisa is a master when it comes to packing stuff up. I look at a mess and move it around. She looks at a mess, packs it up and it's done.
• We have 1 out of 10 rooms 95% show-ready. By Saturday all 10 rooms must be show-ready.
• I am a bit stressed about this whole thing...this would have been a good use of vacation days!
• I am buying the new Coldplay album at midnight next Monday night so I can listen to it on the way to work on Tuesday.
• As of June 24, Lisa and I will have been married for two years.

"Be my mirror my sword and shield"

Now 25. 25 more and perhaps I'll have a child whose 20. Strange.

Things that were great today:

• French Toast for breakfast
• Leaving work at 4:45 with nothing to do at home
• Playing Guitar Hero for 75 minutes straight
• Hungry Howie's for dinner
• Phone calls, text messages and facebook notes of birthday wellwishes
• Viva La Vida -- Downloaded last night, played 37 times...but at least 20 of those were Rogers' while she was painting.
• The cake Rogers made for me (we already finished the ice cream cake...we got it a bit early)
• Wearing my new shoes to work
• Talking to Breneman about checking out his house neighborhood in a few weeks when we start house-hunting

I wanted to say the Wings winning the Stanley Cup finals, but they just lost in Triple Overtime...booo

Song of the Day: Viva La Vida -- Coldplay