Moving....again!

I have been blessed...and I truly mean blessed to live with the Waugh's for the past year. I have learned a lot about life, marriage, being a Christian and having a family on the East Coast. I never would have imagined that living in a basement could have been so life-changing. Well...they are selling their house-it went on the market yesterday. (Sidenote---getting a house ready to sell IS NOT as much fun, or as easy as it looks on HGTV with a fabulous gay man rearranging and organizing your stuff, and now I have to make my bed every morning before I leave for work) I have the option to move with them; or make a big move. I love them, and I love my friends (really only Susan and Noel)

I am leaning to the big move to DC at this time---It's sort of scary and could happen pretty quickly. I realized after de-cluttering my stuff, I don't really have a lot of things so I could move pretty quickly. I looked at a great place in Northern VA on Monday and taking a look at a share house in NW DC on Saturday. I am excited about the NW house---I would only have to be on 495 for 3 miles!!! DC is such a cultural melting pot and the girls in NW house sound very diverse, one is a Spanish professor, one is a law student and the other a young-pro...could be pretty cool. I am very worried with my questionable credit history that I won't be able to 'do it'

Work is work, and I still love it. Training is alright---I feel like I am in a lull right now, and I am very, very anxious about getting all my long runs in, a possible move and I have some travel, too...the weekend of my 18-miler I have to go to stinking South Dakota for my cousin's wedding----I guess I can trail behind Cory & Matt...

Be sure to check out Dylan's Nicaragua blog link----he just spent another awesome week in Nicaragua on a missions trip working with orphans and underprivileged children. I have a heart for children, but I truly cannot relate to the depth of the poverty. There are actually cities in a dump.

Also, if you are so inclined check out Cory or Matt's charity runner webpages. They are running the Chicago Marathon for the third time, this will be the second year they are running with the American Cancer Society Charity Runners. This is a nice, tasteful charity organization (read: NO TIT obnoxious 'mentors' and 'coaches' on the race course) and if you make a donation they will wear a ribbon with the name of your loved one that has been affected by cancer and wear it on race day..pretty cool. Our family loves the ACS!

http://register.charityrunner.org/site/TR?px=1074045&pg=personal&fr_id=1050 Cory's site
http://register.charityrunner.org/site/TR?px=1073105&pg=personal&fr_id=1050 Matt's site