I can't wait to get on the road...

To quote Willy Nelson: "The life I love is making music with my friends/ and I can't wait to get on the road again."

Plans are starting to materialize, and just as it seems that those around me are settling into their summers I feel like I'm about to shift into high gear. For months we've been plotting and trying to nail down details and it seems that they're all falling into place. I was lucky to find this little weekend haven of not traveling (the first "free" weekend since graduation!) to collect my thoughts.

Next weekend we'll in in NYC looking at apartments. We have the weekend of the 1st as a fail-safe; but I'm hopeful we wont need it. Then just 2 short weeks till we move. The beach house has been good to me; but I can't wait to unpack all our things and build a home with John that we know we'll be in for longer than a 1-year lease. Our plan is to find somewhere we can plan on staying at for 4 to 5 years. Then we'll be ready for that big, scary next step that we don't talk about (shh... yes, I'm making a b-a-b-y reference. Don't tell our moms... they get a little excited).

John will start teaching at City Tech around Labor Day, and though it wasn't originally the plan I'll actually be leaving my job (GASP! I know!). I'm not sure yet what my plan will be. It'll be nice to have some time to focus on my more creative endeavors, yet at the same time I've spent the last 3 years running the show. Managing our lives to allow John to focus on school. It'll be weird going back to being the flaky one who doesn't think about that stuff as much and having a more shared control. We'll adjust. We always do.

So with all the changes I keep reminding myself of a conversation I had with John's mom not long ago when I told her I was losing my job and there was some uncertainty on the horizon. She said something about being flexible and going with it and I replied "Ya. We're good at changing the plan. We have a good perspective that we're married to each other, not the plan."