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Friday, January 29, 2010

I Blame Facebook

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CC is listening to: Everybody Needs Love (Stephen Bishop)--On and On

I just read Steve's latest entry, and had to laugh: not only did we decide to blog at the same time, but we both wanted to blame the same thing for not having blogged in so long: Facebook. He and I are on Facebook regularly and it always seems easier to update one's status that way instead of blogging, which actually requires some forethought and more discipline :-).

Biggest news, which most of you already know about, is that we recently moved from Memphis to Nashville. It was a job relocation: my boss has been living in Nashville since August of 09 and she asked me to move up there. So the company paid for my move, which is awesome :-). The only thing we needed to do was pack and believe me, that was enough of a hassle :-).

We moved from a 1-bed, 1-bath apartment to a 2-bed, 2-bath one. The second bedroom we're using as a library/ mini office. It's actually supposed to be an office for BOTH me and Steve, but there was one thing we didn't realize until we actually got here: no phone jack in the second bedroom. That means while *I* could work in there because my laptop is wireless, Steve will have to set up his workstation in the bedroom (which has a phone jack), because he's the source of the wireless feed.

Nashville is awesome :-). We don't live *in* Nashville, we actually live in one of its surrounding suburbs, but we've gone downtown a couple of times and each time we've gone we've been very happy with the experience.

One of the biggest things I noticed as we were driving around downtown was how much *brighter* everything is. And I mean that in both the literal and figurative senses. The main roads are wider, which allow for more sunlight. The overall theme is country, not blues. I've always been more of a country music girl anyway, and that was verified by how happy I was to see people walking around downtown wearing cowboy hats, and it was treated as normally as if that person was wearing a baseball cap :-).

And it's amazing how hills can make such a difference to your psyche when you're driving. It makes winter look less... I dunno, less bleak, I guess. This city is going to look SO pretty in the spring, I can tell already.

They've got theaters that show movies in captions, and that's a HUGE plus for Steve.

Any bad points, you ask? Well so far there's a couple: for one, the nearest Philippine/Asian store is a half hour drive away. Another bad point is that the Nashville zoo is nowhere near as nice as the Memphis Zoo (then again, I doubt *any* zoo would be, the Memphis Zoo was ranked the best zoo in the US by TripAdvisor). But that's all I've got :-).

In Steve's blog, he mentioned that Nashville is less stressful. I'm not quite sure I would agree with that, because in effect what he's saying is that he found Memphis stressful. It's not that Memphis was stressful, it's just that Nashville is more relaxing, if that makes any sense at all :-).

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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Am attempting to use ping.fm to update my twitter, facebook, blogger, friendster, multiply and yahoo status all at the same time. Hope it works :-).

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