Some Sunrise Fun With My Big Guy Marty.

Watching your world slowly collapse around you is painful. Having no one to be there with you is unbearable.

Warrior dash 2013, our second year in a row and it sure wont be our last.

Their sound will always mean summer is here.

Into the Fall

Last weekend Allison and I took a trip with friends up to Wisconsin for our last fall adventure before it got too damn cold. As usual it was so magically perfect that I had trouble coming back to the city.

Down the road

Allison and I have been living in tiny one bedroom apartment for almost the last two years. When we first moved in we knew it was small but it felt huge. Allison was coming from a studio apartment and I fresh from my parents house, we had our own space and some room to breathe.

Now after the last 20 months we're ready to get out. Every little thing has become a thorn in our side making it more of a temporary place to sleep than a home. To be honest the reason we moved in was because it was cheap (less than $100 more than Allison's studio), I could ride my bike to work and it was our first place together, a starter home.

The focus now is getting out. Good news is Allison has a far better job than she did when we moved into this place, the bad news is that even though I've been searching for almost the past four months I am still jobless. It's one of the most depressing things for me to think that we could be stuck in this apartment another year because no other place will take us due to my situation.

kiwi

New Zealand is one of those places that has mystified me for almost a decade now. It's entire population is just a little bigger than that of Chicago, yet it's almost the entire length of the east coast. I can only dream of the endless amounts of fun that could be had in that much raw country. 

-J

The right path

It's hard to know the right thing to do these days. Allison grew up on a farm several miles from town and even farther from the nearest city, I grew up in the suburbs with the skyline of Chicago visible out my bedroom window.

Now with us both grown up and contemplating the future, it's hard to know what to do. I'm fascinated with the idea of adventure in the country, making my own way and discovering new things all around the world. Allison on the other hand has always been happy to have escaped her boring life in the country by moving to Chicago. How with the prospect of becoming adults and starting a family do we fulfill the desires that we each have in where we want to be?

Everyone talks about how Millennials already have picked up grandparent hobbies. We knit, garden, whittle, and bake bread. I think this is because we’ve already been through so much in such a short time. We’re exhausted. All we want to do is wrap ourselves in a sweater, sit in the garden, and watch our plants grow.