Blog Number 345

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Merry Christmas!  We have been keeping a secret from our mother's for about 3 weeks now but today is the day the secret is out.  We are moving back to Indiana!  We called both grandmas this morning to tell them.  The wife's mother (and sister) were quite excited and there were tears.  We let the daughter to the telling and (after a slight malfunction with their phone battery) they reacted with excitement.  We then had the son call my mother to tell her.  She thought he was pulling a prank on her.  After a minute or two he handed the phone to me and told me that she didn't believe him.  Even after a few minutes talking to me, she was not convinced this was not some sort of cruel hoax.  She was dumbstruck and in the end had to promise to call us back later when she had time to soak the news into her system.  Due to some internal issues at work I had to wait until this month to find out who my new manager would be in order to know who I had to ask in order to get permission to move back to Kokomo.  After a call to my new manager's manager (and a call from my manager's manager to his manager [a.k.a. my manager's manager's manager]) it was all approved (albeit with the slight warning that it might hurt any immediate chances of being promoted to management).

So the last 3 weeks has been rough on the wife as she really wanted to tell her mother.  We had to keep the secret from our daughter since she does not possess the same restraint as we do.  We told her last night really close to bedtime so as to minimize the chance of her telling anyone.  My mother was already planning a visit for the first full week of February (even has the round trip airfare purchased) so we are going to use her being down here as our time frame as we will need an extra driver since I will be driving the U-Haul once again.  We have approximately 43 days until the move so January should be busy.  We are going to give away the couch that we bought after we moved and probably the new TV we bought down here as well.  That will basically have us moving with the exact same level of stuff as when we first moved down here.  Gas prices are down and the U-Haul rental looks to be about $100 less than last time so the moving budget is looking good so far.

Well, I am going to get off of the computer and enjoy the day (and the 60° weather).

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon