Nowhere Girl

Yeah, it’s been a long time and I got out of the habit of writing here and it’s been busy and blah blah blah.  Excuses excuses.  But really, it’s my diary, I decided to take an unannounced break from writing and the only thing to really do, instead of making excuses or explaining or rehashing everything that has happened since I last wrote, is just to write something about now, like there never was a break or anything.

So, great summer was had.  Been busy since work started up again.  Lots of things changing.  I should elaborate on that I guess.  We had been planning for the last year to move to the States.  Over the last six months or so, I had gradually, through a lot of thinking and researching and reading, come to the conclusion that we were much better off here.  I was mostly thinking of the kids and school, university (which is free here), health care (which is free here), the amount of free time and vacation we have here, the extreme uncertainty and unemployment in the States right now and retirement.  It wasn’t easy to come to that conclusion because there was a lot of more personal things that were drawing me back to the States.  And then I stupidly just basically decided on my own that a move was a bad idea, and was so convinced of the rightness of my argument that I just told my Wife’s parents that I had changed my mind and mentioned it to my father before even speaking to my Wife.  Stupid, stupid move.  Something I regret and something that I am deeply sorry for.  

So there is no move.  And with that I am trying to embrace living here.  Working on getting a full time position at work (I have a 70% permanent position, which is like having tenure.  I just need 30% more).  Considering taking an evening education in what is called child and youth worker, which would give me what I need to be a full time teaching assistant.   And my in-laws had been saving for potential trips to the States so they gave us a bunch of that saved money to give us a shopping spree at Ikea to fix up the apartment, where we need to stay for the time being as we pay a ridiculously low amount in a rent controlled building.  

So that’s what’s up over here.  How are you guys?

Over the summer we were eating some chicken wings, which Sara really likes.  It was mentioned that we were eating dead chickens and she decided that we only ate the dead ones.  Like, the farmers have a bunch of chickens and when they see that one has died they take that one and make chicken wings out of it.  We just nodded along of course, because that is just too cute and she doesn’t really need to know the horrors of chicken production at six.

I’ll post some pictures of the summer soon. 

At one time in the 80’s this was my favorite song in the whole wide world.  Heard it today on random.  B-Movie with Nowhere Girl.

 Of course I hope there will be more entries soon.  No guarantees, but I think I would like to get back into writing more here.  So we’ll see how it goes.

Zaphod