bye-bye tucson

Sunday, January 07, 2007

We're going to move this summer. After 3 flights to Seattle over the past 4 months, we decided that living closer to family is a Good Thing and something we're really wanting to do. Both my family and J's family live in the area so it'll be nice to drive over for a visit rather than battling the airport crowds and security and then hassling with a rental car upon landing. Plus, airfare adds up after a bit.

And I'm really excited because in WA state, one can make food products for sale in their home so long as it's in a separate kitchen. Glory be. No more shlupping everything back and forth between our home and the commercial kitchen we rent. That's such a monstrous pain. We're looking at getting a home with a MIL suite and will use that for the food businesses, Spoon Fudge and Glutenada. This will make our lives so much easier and will allow us to ramp up production.

We put our house on the market in April and we hope to have it sold and be out by the beginning/middle of July when we take our summer vacation up to WA. No sense going up there twice - we want to move up in time for vacation and just stay there. How glorious that will be. Last year J and I drove up in 3 days (stopping in Vegas to catch Celine Dion - that was awesome. The concert, not Vegas. We were so NOT impressed with that town. Dirty and rundown. We won't be returning.) and then came back 4 weeks later with our son (he'd flown up ahead of us on the way there) and made that trip back, all 1850 miles, in 2.5 days. We were supposed to do it in 2 days but after our son left his DS game at a local Walmart (don't ask) and we had to go back to find it and we got lost and ended up stuck on a freeway from which there was NO way off - 6 hours had been blown.

What a nightmare that whole trip home was. From not leaving Seattle until 7pm, to getting pulled over at 3am by a tropper in southern OR, to stopping for dinner in the middle of CA at a nasty NASTY Denny's (where the rather unkempt looking teenage male cashier was accepting a proposition from an older truck driver - yes, we *ran* from that joint), to the whole Nintendo/WM fiasco... and then trying to find a hotel in Palm Springs at 3am. We were glad to be home and were not looking forward to our next trip. But now that we've decided on the big move, a sigh of relief has gone through the house.

This year promises to be big. The move, launching Glutenada, and our first full year with Spoon Fudge. And of course, our annual Disneyland trip in 2 weeks. Woo! 2007 is shaping up to be excellent!