On The Bandwagon!

[wrenb]

For years and years I've resisted the lure of LJ. I'm not a public journaller, I'm terrible about keeping up, I have enough in my life... the excuses rolled on and on. But I've finally decided to drink the koolaid so I can leave comments on my friends' pages and keep up with both a.n.ers and college friends.

Brief life update:
So Drew and I finally bought a house this summer. It's a two-flat with friends/tenants upstairs. I'm still managing apartments, he's still working on his PhD. We've decided that we'd like to settle down in Madison, hence the house. We're pretty busy with our synagogue and our D&D group, so much so that I've given up on joining a knitting group, and we're dropping IFGS.

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[jentifred.livejournal.com]

Welcome!

[llyfr.livejournal.com]

Hello and welcome to the madness! :-)

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Yo! Those icons certainly make it easy to identify who wrenb is and why she might have friended me :).

Dunno how up-to-date you are on my life so here's the summary...nonnihil and I bought a two-family house with our friend zmook in September, so we each have our units of that...lots of unpacking and painting and so forth. Bought the house in order to accomodate the baby, who is due in early January :). The cat also likes the house. I'm in my fourth year teaching Latin to middle school boys at an awfully posh, New Englandy school near Boston which I like a lot. I have pregnancy and teaching friends filters, if you're interested in either. Hobbies...I sing when I get a good opportunity, and I've gotten really into biking (both commuting and long-distance rides in the summer), though I've not been doing that lately for an obvious reason.

[wrenb.livejournal.com]

I used those icons for a reason. :)
Congrats on the baby and the house! Good grief, when did my friends all become responsible adults? I'd love in on the pregnancy filter.
Funny, it sounds like your living situation's a lot like ours. We have a 2-flat with friends upstairs. Only my friends are tenants, so we hope to one day have the whole thing to ourselves. Which is good 'cause we have a 1-bedroom apartment, fine with a baby but not for the long haul.

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

*g* Yeah, funny thing about being close to thirty -- one's friends do things like that ;).

Around here *all* the two-families have a first-floor 2ish bedroom apartment and a second & third floor 3-5 BR, so we're in the 3BR upstairs...it should hold us for the foreseeable future :).

Sticking you on the filter...most of the posts have a "legume" tag if you want to read archives easily.

[sabowin.livejournal.com]

Hi!

[pigglet27.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hi!

[springbok1.livejournal.com]

Tasty kool aid, eh? I'm glad to hear that you and D are doing well.

In the area of life update, I also bought a house in Minneapolis last summer. Mine is a single family, two bedroom, which is about the right amount of space for me and my three birds. Pictures of the house can be seen here and pictures of the birds can be seen here. My parents will be leaving Madison at the end of this academic year - my mom has been working in St. Paul for years now and my dad is taking retirement at the UW and will be starting a new position at William Mitchell College of Law, also in Saint Paul. Hopefully I'll make it out to Madison a few more times before they sell my childhood home!