Japan

I'm missing it lately. The food, the humidity, the giant beers. Thanks to Duffy for reminding me of the good stuff.

We have the home field advantage in South Africa!

Breaking news from the Corvallis G-T! Willamette Valley grass is what they've planted for the big games. It'll be like playing soccer in Benton County! With an OSU alum on the US team, there's no way we can lose.

Major Catch-Up Blog Post ALERT!

I thought I'd give all you followers a quick rundown of everything that's been happening in our lives since the last post, which, I believe, was some months ago. Here we go:

1) After nearly 11 years of courtship, we finally got married! Married life has been good, though, I must say, not so different from the decade preceding it. We remain in Corvallis.

2) Ben continues to work at a local bookstore, while I continue to look for full-time teaching jobs while juggling various money-makers such as substitute teaching and working for the US Census. Both of these jobs have been quite fun and I get to bring home some pretty interesting stories about where they take me. In subbing, I've taught everything from kindergarten to 12th grade, in subjects as varied as Special Ed to Middle School PE to High School Math (and most things in between). I really like it. The census work is confidential so you'll just have to imagine it.

3) We went to Kaua'i for our honeymoon and hung out with Ryan and Jen. It was fantastic and we recommend it to everyone. I've attached a video Ryan shot while we were there if you want to know what we looked like in Hawaii.

4) We're planning our next move. Current possibilities: Portland, Seattle, Chicago, the Southwest (New Mexico? Texas?), and the Bay Area. If you currently live in one of these locations and have jobs for us, we'll probably be seeing you real soon.

5) Our cats are awesome and recently caught two mice. They enjoy eating grass, sleeping, and meowing to wake us up in the morning so they get fed early.