Monday, July 7, 2008

Been a while

Well a lot has happened since my last post. You see we were living in Lexington KY and things were going pretty good than I found out that the company that owns the restaurant I work for was selling the Brand. Then I found out that they were closing my store. Now there I was with a pregnant wife (baby due in 10 days), daughter and a job that was up in the air. Now before you start feeling sorry for me let me tell you that I am a big fan of personal responsibility. You see when I was younger I made a lot of mistakes with money and it took me a long time to clean up my mess. And then I made the decision to never go into debt again. Then I met my wife and we made the decision to live out lives debt free. It hasn't always been easy but when the world around you starts to put up a fight it's nice to have options. So there we were we had no job in Lexington I had a few options that consisted of transferring as a GM to Atlanta, Florida, or Nashville. Now I had worked in Nashville before and had no desire to move my family back there and Florida or Atlanta did not seem like the best choices for us either. So this is where the whole debt free things comes in I cannot tell you how nice it was not to have to make a snap decision when you have no CC payments, car payments, and 6 months of expenses in the bank. So this is what we did. I took a weeks vacation then my week of maternity leave while we welcomed my son into the world. That puts us in the middle of November and my boss gave me a 6 week time frame to make up my mind if I was going to transfer to another store or leave the company that I had spent over 9 years working for. I worked in Louisville for the next 6 weeks while I waited for something to open up. Then the opportunity opened up for us to transfer up to Ann Arbor. So right in the middle of winter we loaded up the u haul and moved our lives up to Michigan. Things are gong well so far we are getting settled in and making friends. My wife who is a graduate of a little school called "The Ohio State University" was afraid she would be the only one in town who wore crimson and grey but it turns out one of the other managers at my restaurant is a OSU alum also.
Now that spring has past and we are in the middle of summer I have been able to ride my bike a little bit. I have rode to work about 5 times which is between 12 and 16 miles each way depending on my route so its a good little work out. I have also been up to Island Lake and Maybarry state park on my mountain bike and have taken a few rides through he corn and wheat fields around here. Things are going good we are going to be looking into buying a house once our lease runs out in Dec. I tell you more about that later.