Month: July 2007

Finally, it seems likes life is taking on a semblance of normalcy.  This weekend Lorena, Kelly, Christian, and I drove around a little to get our bearings, ate out a lot (too much) and just kind of relaxed.  On Friday night we went to watch Kelly’s new little friend play tennis.  Saturday, we started off the day at Biscuitville.  Can you imagine that.  They have a place here called Biscuitville.  Guess what they serve–biscuits and gravy. And they are very, very good. How am I going to stand any chance at all against Bryan with a place called Biscuitville right around the corner.  The worst part is that Biscuitville is a chain.  We live two blocks from Biscuitville #175.  All is lost.  Bryan.  I am now at -6.  Not bad, really, for having sat in a car for almost ten days with no exercise and only fast food to eat.  I am game to start weighing in again on Fridays if you are. 

Next, we drove down to a little town called Holly Springs to visit their public library because the one in our town of Apex is closed for a couple more weeks for renovation.  Then we drove to a mall in the town of Cary that was not so satisfying, so we drove to another one in Durham that was WAY to satisfying.  It was huge and beautiful with a two story Barnes and Noble.  Lorena shopped while Christian, Kelly, and I read.  On Sunday, we went to dinner after meeting with a new Mexican friend from Guanajuato and our other new friends Tom and Elda.  Tonight, Robert Flippo and Kevin Kellam are coming for dinner after which we will go with them to a Spanish language bible study.

It is Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah’s 54th wedding anniversary today. Congrats!

All the stuff is moved into our new house, we have a potluck tomorrow before the bible study with our new friends from meeting, Kelly has a very cool new friend named Kasey who is 12 and lives next door to us, and my work is going well.  Kasey has told us that there are a ton of boys Christian’s age in the neighborhood.  We are glad to be able to start moving toward a routine again rather than having everything up in the air.  I am still not at the point where I can write anything even remotely interesting, but expect to be under control in a week or so as we get stuff unpacked and have more time.  Thanks for all your posts over the last little while–we love reading them.

After a very nice ride all the way across the country, life is starting to move toward normalcy, kind of.  We are in our new home, but without hot water until Friday.  The truck is supposed to be unloaded today, so the rest of the family should be able to get on line and start reading their email sometime this evening.  We had a great time in our stay at the Gabharts in Indiana–the highlight of our trip out.  We hope they will come and visit us before too long.  I am back at work and enjoying it very much.  It is still going to take us a week or two to get settled in before I can start posting again properly.  One important note, though.  I feel WAY off the wagon on the diet.  Bryan send me your number, but be aware that I am thinking of switching the competition from how much down we are from our starting point to how far above it we have gotten.  Don’t you think that would be fair?