On again...Off again

What's the natural next step for a couple with two Ivy League graduate degrees and power-house resumes? Well...apparently it's moving back in with your parents.

The first phase of our move is complete. Mother Nature was not on our side despite my honest efforts to donate and recycle all that I could. But we carried on like postal employees loading, driving, and unloading through rain, sleet, and snow. We were very lucky to have good friends and obligated (they want a grandkid) family to help us through. I think at one point I promised someone a kidney to help us move. I'm sure if they need it later on they'll remind me.

Barrett and I have discovered several interesting facts during our move and short stay thus far in Oklahoma.

Fact: A person should cultivate a certain type of friend base in case of future furniture moves.

The optimal friend in a move is one who can bench press at least 150 lbs and is trained in a scientific field that requires them to understand complex systems.
For example: My dear friend Phech. He can bench press over 200lbs and is earning a PhD from MIT. This is the type of man you need as a friend when you have a large couch and tiny winding stair cases.

Fact: Even if you have cultivated the appropriate friend base, the best strategy for moving difficult furniture can still be "push it as hard as you can and see what happens."

Fact: Thanks for the sentiment Mr. Crosby, but we are not dreaming of a white Christmas.

As Chicago began to be covered in gorgeous white Christmas flakes on the 22nd, I marveled at the beauty of the pristine little snowflakes gathering on my windshield. You could see the facets of the ice in each tiny snowflake. I was almost inspired to write an email to a researcher friend of mine and discuss how beatiful they were before deconstructive metamorphism set in. Dramatic pause to push up my glasses and check my pocket protector. But after half a day of loading furniture in the snow and another day and a half driving in the rain, I was ready for some of that balmy 50 degree weather I'd heard about in Oklahoma. We unloaded all our furniture into storage at my grandmother's on the 23rd as a cold front was moving in. By the middle of the day on the 24th, the news informed us that we were in the Oklahoma Blizzard of '09 (it already has its own facebook group). By evening, every major interstate and turnpike in Oklahoma had been shut down. People abandoned their cars on the interstates and off ramps. We've been snowed in for two days.

Fact: Anyone in Oklahoma who is caught singing "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" will be immediately punched in the nose.

Anticipated high for our first day in Mexico, sunny and 78!

Till then dear friends...
Megan

This could be the moment we've been waiting for...

Have you ever thought to yourself..."man, I just don't get enough Megan in my life."

Well put on your hallelujah skirt because your prayers have just been answered.

In an effort to stay in touch with friends in various and sundry places, I'm starting this blog to chronicle my adventures in moving to Oklahoma and the settling therein. I will also post stories and pics from our travel destinations along the way. I hope that this site can be a little more personal than facebook and a little less work than trying to email everyone I want to stay in touch with (because trust me dear friends, I'm fortunate enough that there are a lot of you).

So...if you'd like to stay in touch during my many adventures the next few months, subscribe to the blog, and it will let you know when I post something new. I wish it could warn you if the post is interesting or not, but, as modern technology hasn't developed anything that can do that yet, you'll just have to take your chances and have a little faith (you did put your hallelujah skirt on, right?).

Here and There,
ME