A new place to talk about my new place...

This is a weird new experience for me--thinking online. It feels very exposed. The biggest thing I've done in the last year, which has shaped everything else, has been my family's move from Austin Texas, where we lived for 8 (!!!) years, to Silver Spring, MD, a lovely little sprawl just outside of Washington DC. This means that we got a new job, sold a house, sold a car, rented a house that we found on Craigslist, packed our stuff, moved our stuff, moved our cat, made new friends, got another new job, found old friends, bought a house, packed again, moved again, figured out our commute again...all in the pursuit of happiness.

I find that I am homesick and miss Austin more than Kumar or Vijay, which sometimes makes me feel isolated. Vijay was only 15 months old when we left, so that means he won't really remember Texas, which is hard to get my head around since it defines so much about our family when we decided to be a Family and not just a Couple. What's more strange for me is that Kumar doesn't seem to miss it very much--he's shed Austin like a skin, which leaves me no easy way to express all the strangeness of the transition.

I'm really enjoying life in the DC area--it's a big busy place full of fun activities and smart people. The bizarre part is how big it feels to me when I think back to when we moved to Austin from Boston: Austin seemed impossibly slow, sleepy, provincial and limited, although the university was great and the people were terrifically friendly. We thought we'd be outta there as soon as the ink on my degree was dry. But instead we sank in, bought a house, had a kiddo, and viola--yet another place we've left roots sticking out of the ground.

So here we are...