Hah. I guess he’s right! ;)

Kelly and I are playing Settlers of Catan for the first time. Well, maybe not the very first time. I think we both played once or twice at BYU when everyone else loved the game, and I think we both were thoroughly confused because everyone else already knew how to play to trounce the newbies without remorse.

So now we’re actually trying to learn. We’re using the Starting Set-up for Beginners, and we were really careful to match the example map exactly. We didn’t even let two mountains be in opposite places from each other. We even made them face the same way as in the picture.

We’re gonna be so good at this.

B: It’s kind of disturbing how often we do that.
K: What? Finish each other’s sentences?
B: Yeah. Or just say the same thing as each other. We didn’t used to do that.
K: We didn’t?
B: No. We didn’t. {his eyes widened and his face became very severe} It’s something that happened to us since we got married.

B: Which one is your favorite?
K: Huh?
B: Which one is your favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle?
K: Um. {pause} I… I don’t know that I have a favorite.
B: My favorite used to be Michelangelo, but it’s definitely Rafael now that I’ve grown up.

And there you go.

And it wasn’t a joke. They continued to talk about how there hadn’t been much snow and how we weren’t getting much participation.

Are they living in the same place as us? The place where you can’t even walk across the parking lot to take the garbage out without getting your pant legs soaked? Where it’s so wet that moss grows on the highway and street signs?

If this is a dry winter for Washington then it’s a good thing we moved here this year. The Utah-Washington transition might have been too much to handle if it weren’t so dang dry here this year.

Kelly’s planning on going into UW’s Physician’s Assistant program. That’s a big change from her Economics undergrad, so she’s got a lot of prereqs to take care of first, but she’s really excited about it. I’m excited that she’s found something she’s excited about. When I told my work that Kelly was going back to school they asked me to stay on with them and to telecommute to work. That’s pretty exciting and flattering, and very stress-relieving that I won’t have to worry about finding a new job when we get up there.

It’s all been happening really fast, and now it’s just over two weeks until we move. In fact, it’s happening so fast that we don’t even know where we’re going to live. We’re basically just packing up all of our stuff and taking off, and we won’t know where we’re going to land until we get there. We don’t even know anything about the area at all to guide us. Kelly’s never been to Seattle and the only time I’ve been there I was 7 years old and too busy finding quartz crystals in my great-grandpa’s yard to notice anything about where we were.