rustypants speaks

if you’re a regular reader of this blog you know we’ve been working on moving to pensacola, florida for the past 6 months or so and things are getting down to the wire!

things that are going on. in no particular order:

• the house is still on the market and we’ve dropped the price a second time. this is distressing only in that we’re almost down to what we paid for it 4 years ago. our rationale, however, is that we’re either going to lose money by holding out for a higher price and continuing to pay the mortgage, or we’re going to lose money by dropping the price another $5000. not happy about it, but the move is here and it’s more important than making a mint on this place.
• we leave for a 1500 miles in 36 hours trip to pensacola friday july 20th for lise to take a 45 minute $25 subject area (art) content test. it’s quite possibly the most asinine thing we’ve had to do in regards to this move. if not most asinine, then certainly the most expensive and time consuming thing.
• i’m very excited about teaching 5th grade language arts and social studies. when we went down 2 weeks ago and met with the principal, toured the school, met a few other teachers – this was VERY cool. i’m looking forward to getting started and being a part of the team at semmes elementary!
• things have gotten more exciting and more stressful as we move towards the moving date. lise’s not been hired by the school district in part because of this test she has to take. the house not selling yet and the dropped price ads to our financial concerns. getting the house ready for us to move out – holy cow, so much to do!
• the excitement, though, is overpowering. this is the biggest move we’ve ever made and the anticipation of the things we’ll get to do (like, TEACH 5th GRADE! among other things) is bubbling just below the surface.
• sadness, too – moving away from my mom and dad, moving further away from lise’s mom and family, moving away from friends – this has started to become a daily realization, an almost perverted song and dance of, “zow – we may never see this person again!”

it’s 3:10am and we’re leaving in less than 5 hours. i guess i ought to sleep.

we’re in town for one more week.

Move Date: Monday, July 30.

want to stop over and see us before we roll out? please give us a call!