So, the Gilgours have a slight dilemma.
When we started talking about where to live, we originally wanted to live in the Heights (north of downtown). We LOVE the Heights, and still would love to eventually live there. The houses are old and beautiful and the area has a lot more character than the suburbs. However... the prices reflect all that. And at that time, none of I10 was open, so it would have taken me a good hour and a half to get home from work, and probably a ridiculous amount of time to get there. (Even though I would be going AGAINST traffic. Houston is ridiculous.) Anyway, so we passed over the Heights and moved to Memorial. Which has its perks. We moved there because it is close to work for me and not quite as far from church and our families as being closer in would be. Our reasoning was that we drive to work every day and to church once a week, so living further out, which is where church is and where most of our small group lives, would also not make sense. But things changed, and we have committed to being at church 3 times a week at a minimum. (By a minimum, I mean we are out there twice on Sundays and twice during the week. But sometimes we only make the drive once on Sundays because we just stay out there from 9:30 am to 7:30 pm instead of going home in the middle.) Which means we make the Memorial to Copperfield drive, and back, at least 3 times a week, and at least two of those are in rush hour. Everything we are doing we enjoy, but we are not 'show up and go home' people. So we wind up staying and visiting pretty late each time, and then the next morning getting up for work is pretty rough. And it leaves us with little 'just the two of us' time. And with even less time to spend with friends outside of church. Thus our dilemma. We ended the summer deciding it was time to be more involved, and here we are. Over-involved. Maybe. We will give it some time still and see if we need to just get into a routine and get used to it. But so far... I spend a lot of time around teenagers feeling very old and tired. :-) That's just what they are looking for, right?
On another note, I am desperate for a hair cut. The guy who normally does it is booked (I really should think of these things a little further in advance) so now I'm really really needing a hair cut and have no one to do it! I have one more person to check on, so hopefully it comes through.
Can you believe it's October?! The mornings and evenings are very cool these days, although of course it's still in the 80s in the afternoon. And currently, it's forecasted to stay in the 80s for the next couple of weeks at least. But the nights and mornings are in the 50s and that's fun. And the onset of fall brought about my fall decorations! YAY! We now have pumpkin decorations out. In a couple of weeks, I will bust out the Halloween decorations and I have way more of those for whatever reason, so we we will be fully decked out in holiday mode. Then when the Halloween ones come down, the Thanksgiving ones go up (which I severely lack) and then when they come down... CHRISTMAS ones go up!!!!!! Patrick and I decided last night that we will get up Thanksgiving morning and put up our Christmas tree. :-) And we plan to leave it up for quite some time after Christmas becuase January is just so depressing sometimes. You take down the decorations, Christmas is over, and it's just winter. So the Christmas deocorations will have to stretch out until it's acceptable to put up Valentines ones.
Has anyone else noticed everyone seems to be putting out their Christmas merchandise pretty early this year? (And Wal-Mart is calling it Christmas. Not a family holiday or whatever.) I thought that was crazy when we were at Target last week, and then this morning on the news they were saying it was because people are having a difficult time financially and so they are trying to spread out their spending and threfore the stores hope that if they put things out early, people will buy early. Apparently this Christmas should see the lowest spending since 2002. I don't know what was so special about 2002 but apparently Christmas sales were down.
Ok, enough for now. You can see I'm somewhat bored at work this morning.
51 days until Thanksgiving
84 days to Christmas
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Yay Christmas!
In social we were discussing the recession, etc, and apparently there was quite the dip after 9/11. I don't really remember that, being in 5th grade and all, but that could have some impact on Christmas 2002.
And you're not old. Just mature. :)
hey becky, its courtney from phi lamb, i found your blog thru claire. :-) josh & i had an "almost-one-year" evaluation of our marriage back in march & we realized we had overcommitted ourselves & had not spent much time focusing on each other & bettering our marriage. we had been too distracted by our busyness. we backed out of a few things & are still in a place where we feel like we need to be focusing on each other, but it has been so good to actually say NO to people!! haha. its hard to balance serving & being involved in the church, hanging out with friends, & just being with each other. but you'll figure out the balance!
oh & i love that yall wrote a huge post on pie. :-)
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