I really haven’t had time to sit down and write much here since we’ve done some pretty extreme re-arranging of our lives in the last month. Lets hit the hilights…

1) After 20 years I cut my hair off. No I don’t have any decent pictures yet.
2) Daph started her long march towards having her jaw problems corrected.
3) We bought a new house which means
4) We have to sell our current house

The order of importance in those items probably depends on your perspective. The hair thing is pretty shocking to a lot of people. I’ve had long hair since early highschool mostly out of frustration with it being thin and extremely hard to manage. Throwing it back into a pony tail was just easier, except more and more it wasn’t even that and I was just fed up with it. I actually went into the hairdresser asking for a buzz cut thinking that was the only alternative but thankfully she talked me into something more reasonable. I had terrible visions of being utterly fed up with it again in any sort of short/medium length because of remembering how much I hated it the last time I had it this short. The big difference now is that ‘bed head’ is fashionable. A spot of gel and a quick muss and you’ve got a socially acceptable hair style. I still have to swallow my perfectionist ‘its so messy!’ reaction some mornings but mostly its pretty easy and I’m a lot happier. I should have done this years ago.

I know, I know, this post is useless without pics. I’ll find something.

Daph has been long afflicted with temporomandibular joint problems (TMJ in the common parlance) and her change is that she’s started the corrective process. Its unfortunately long, painful and expensive, but the risks of leaving it unattended plus the general discomfort were just becoming too much. It’ll be a long haul of braces, oral surgery and general misery, but it’ll be worth it in the end… Of course thats easy for me to say.

So that leaves… the house. In typical Daph and Gord fashion we went from casually pondering looking for something that had a bit more space and was a bit more ‘us’ than our current starter home, to signing papers in about a week. We did the same thing when we bought our current place, it was one of the houses we looked at on our very first night out with the Real Estate agent and the whole process just tumbled into place. I don’t think its that we’re that easy to please, we just know what we want when we find it. Unfortunately the timing was pretty bad, as the day after we signed the letter of offer I had to go on a business trip to Indianapolis, leaving Daph to handle all the back and forth. She was still here when I got home, though. She couldn’t have been TOO upset.

The house is a bit further out of town on the Bedford side of Middle Sackville but thats really not a big deal. Currently it will add about 10 minutes to our commute time and probably a fair bit less than that once a new highway ramp opens in the fall. The payoff, however, is worth it. The property is off of Springfield lake, although its on the land side, not waterfrontage unfortunately. Its a heavily wooded property with just over an acre of space and the nearest neighbors couldn’t even be shouted to if you tried. Exactly what we wanted. Other things we were looking for were a garage (2 car attached), a good deck (8′ wraparound deck on two sides, lots of room/possibility to expand), an open concept kitchen (excellent layout for entertaining with a great dining room), and not much lawn (lawn in the back, a bit in the front other than that its trees!). This house has it all and then some, and boy do I mean then some. At 2600 square feet its quite a bit more house than we were looking for, and definitely more than we need, but the property was too perfect to pass up and we love the house, even if its too big. I just feel a little guilty that its just the two of us (and our gigantic cats) in such a big place.

Picture gallery of the house here. Stay tuned for the housewarming(s)!

As I write this we’re in the midst of packing, packing, packing and purging, purging, purging. We’ve been in our current house for 8 years now and that leads to a lot of… stuff. So far I’ve done a purge of old computer equipment on Freecycle (Wow, I did NOT expect the response I got!) and today we get rid of a lot of the used car fluids and scrap metal that have been collecting over the years. Its still overwhelming, though. Lots of work yet to be done.

Also our RallyCross season has now ended, congrats to our partner Ian for taking the overall championship as well as tops in Prepared class. Now time to start getting ready for Rallysprint!