What People Say About Austin

When we tell people where we are moving they say...

"Whoa Austin is coooool!"
"Austin is like the best place ever!"
"You'll like it because there is a lot of music!"
"Oh it is so warm in Austin! I'm jealous!"
"Yuck it is so hot there, you're going to miss the snow!"
"I want to move there! Lucky!"
"I'll trade you places and I will move there!"
"Houses are so cheap there"

But after awhile it starts to sound like
"Austin is amazing! Geckos dance around little bonfires making s'mores and there is magical music dust flying through the air and artist is the highest paying profession there and you are going to melt into a puddle of goo in July!" :)

Don't get us wrong we are excited about moving to Austin but we had some really great times in Iowa and we'll miss our family and friend. Everywhere is what you make of it :)

And for the most part people are being nice about where we'll be going but some people act like we're moving to sparkle awesome town extreme!!! And others insult it to make us feel bad about leaving maybe? All in all we are excited and I look forward to geckos dancing around.

The house looks so odd

I found a home for us in Texas a few weeks ago and we found a subletor for our home in Iowa so everything is a go for the move! We'll be Longhorns soon enough (but I think Josh will insist he is forever a Hawkeye).

The moving company hired for Josh's relocation package was here yesterday packing up our house. It was kind of hard to just sit and let them do things after years of moving everything ourselves. I do really appreciate that they are packing things for the long drive down and we don't have to pilot a gigantic U-Haul across country!

Everything looks so strange with boxes stacked three or four high in groupings all around rooms. Like cardboard totem poles. The cats were sequestered away in a room yesterday and when we let them out after the movers left they were completely confused. We let them sleep with us in the bedroom as a treat and Neo was cuddly and purring. Tater Tot managed to find multiple crinkly things to bring in the room and loudly chew on them with extreme crunchy annoying loudness. Little boogerhead!

Now the movers are back today to load the truck :)