In the summer of 2002 we packed up our stuffs in Bloomington and moved into an apartment together in Blue Ash, a Cincinnati suburb. We had the usual stress of living with your significant other for the first time. We had to start from scratch in Cincinnati since we didn't know the city or many people there.
Right after Christmas 2002 we got our first cat, Roger.
Around the start of 2003 I got a promotion at work. I was no longer a glorified customer service rep for the city and was doing honest-to-goodness IT work.
I changed jobs completely in May, 2003, accepting a job with Miami University. I had interviewed with them a year previous before we moved to Cincinnati and didn't get a job at that point. But the position re-opened a year later and they called me up to see if I was interested. My experience of working at IU was so positive that I really wanted to get back to a university setting again. So even though my work situation had improved with the GCCVB, I jumped at the Miami job.
We renewed our apartment lease in the summer of 2003. A few months later we started kinda-sorta looking at houses because we're silly like that. We came across a lovely two story, three bedroom house in Liberty Township which is an even further-away suburb of cincinnati but was closer to to my work, at least. We threw caution to the wind and bought that house.
After closing but before moving into the house we took in a stray cat that a family friend had saved in fort wayne. That was Banky. We moved into our new house in late September.
On November 1st, 2003, Abby and I were married. We had a big, expensive party with lots of guests. I think if we had it to do over again, both of us would skip the big party. It was nice though. After the big, expensive party, we went on a big, expensive honeymoon to Hawaii. It was nice and we're both glad we took the opportunity to go to hawaii when we did. However I'm not sure we'll be going back soon. There are many other great places to visit that are not as far or as expensive.
Later in November Abby's car lease expired so we traded it in for a new Chevy S10 pickup. The idea was that OMG WE HAVE A HOUSE NOW WE NEED TO HAUL. in retrospect, getting the truck was entirely unnecessary. I guess we did use it to get rid of the sandbox that one time.
Wow. Looking back, 2003 was a pretty busy year.
2004, on the other hand, was much less so. We settled into our house and married life. But I don't think we did anything interesting but take a couple vacations. Earlier in the year we visited my extended family in Florida and later we spent a long weekend in Arizona. Which was awesome. Abby and I still consider that one of our most successful vacations.
It was on that vacation that Abby and I saw the movie Garden State which was the first step for me getting into indie-ish music which continues to be a big factor in my life currently.
Abby started her masters program in the fall of 2004 at University of Cincinnati. Fifth Third payed a substantial portion of it which was nice of them.
November 1st was Abby and my first ammiversary. um. that was pretty cool i guess. And later in November we purchased our first Mac, a 12" powerbook. We've been on macs ever since.
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