"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.