Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Our Spanish Pipedream



If you're familiar at all with John Prine, then you'd know about a little song called "Spanish Pipedream" and have a certain idea about what this blog is about.

If you've never heard the song, you can familiarize yourself with it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RBgfUvymM (sorry I can't get this link thing working)

So to open my new running commentary, I'll start by saying that with my fiancee of 4 months, and life partner of 2.5 yrs (Mr. J) and with my son (Boy S) of 6 years, we're embarking on what may be the greatest most life changing and impacting adventure of our lives. In fact, I think we're embarking on our lives in general...and making a go of living our dream.

1. Blow up your T.V.
Check. In a certain sense, this is something that we have already accomplished. In just a few weeks time, it will be a year from when we lost the remote control to the T.V. and haven't watched it since. We adjusted seamlessly into watching movies on the laptop monitor-and while I do miss the size from time to time, we haven't done anything about it yet, and I can't really say that anyone has complained that they miss it to any great extent.



2. Throw away your paper
Check. Its also been nearly a year since I posted a sign on the mailbox that we no longer cared to receive the 'free' paper. The amount of generated waste was just too much to handle. It more than amply filled our newspaper recycling bin each week and made me sicker each time I carried the (for the most part) unread news to the curb. We can still read the news online, and listen to the radio, but the waste factor is gone. Some time after the paper girl ceased to deliver the paper, she also ceased to come knocking on our door (which was usually inevitably at dinner time) for the suggested fee asscociated with this paper. Some time later, I took down the sign to paint the mailbox, never replaced it, and the paper still doesn't come.

3. Move to the country

Wait a minute. That's what we're trying to do here. No problem...just let me do a full kitchen reno, build a new fence, paint the house, move a chicken coop, remove some vegetable gardens, plant a lawn, lay some carpet, trim some doorways, replace some baseboards, do a little drywall patching, re-paint half the house, change all the light fixtures and doorknobs, and switchplates...and organize and pack a house that is chock full of items which have not been sorted, or organized in over 6 years...so that the house can be sold, and THEN find a new home to move to, oh and did I mention get Mr. J approved for a job transfer and also, that somewhere along the way we're engaged to be wed as well. No worries!!!

The long and short of it is that Mr.J, bought himself a fixer upper, and now its time to fix it so that we can get on with our lives....and this is the story of making that happen, one way or another.

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