welcome to my blog!

as many of you know, i'm moving away to eugene in a matter of weeks, and i want a good way to keep in touch with everyone. this blog thing seems to have worked well for my friends who have moved away (like j and b), so i'm being a total copycat and starting one myself. please post comments, i'll probably check them pretty regularly. or email or call!

matt and i drove down to eugene yesterday while puppy otis played with his best friend winston at m&s's house all day. we said we wouldn't come back until we found a rental house. i expected having to look all day long and then settle on something i really didn't like but would at least be a place to live. the first crappy place we looked at was near the u of o campus. the key was left under the doormat and the landlord--who was out of town--told us so over the phone. people are very trusting in eugene, it seems...how did he know we weren't there to steal the appliances or set up a quickie meth lab in the shed? the place smelled like cigarette smoke and body odor, and vaguely like the last people who used the key actually had set up a quickie meth lab. but the next place we found was gorgeous! it is up on the hill in south eugene (at 43rd and pearl for those of you, like a, who know eugene). we are going to be sharing the place with another couple--some friends of matt's and mine who are also moving to eugene--and the house is perfect for that. it is a split-level: you walk in and there is a staircase which you can either go up to the top floor (which will be their floor--it has a living room, kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom, and a deck),or you can go down to the bottom floor (which is slightly bigger and cooler and will be ours since we found the house), which has a giant living room, two bedrooms, a bathroom, a laundry room, and access to the garage where otis will live when no one's home until we get the yard fenced in.

matt, along with most of our house, is moving down next weekend in time for his first day at ninkasi on the 7th. i'll stay at the house with the futon mattress, the little tv, and my "bodyguard" otis. i'm moving down there on the 19th when i get back from r's wedding in las vegas just in time for my first day at my "new" job (same thing, different branch) on the 21st.