 Accidentally ordered by Brandy. Oops. [tube]O-2BL-W0St4[/tube] Live, right now, we’re getting married. Watch if you are interested. Alternate link for those who need it: http://www.livestream.com/abulsme/ We are of course running a bit late. We’ll start up the live stream as soon as we are ready… probably in the next 30 minutes or so. I’ll of course post here when the time comes. While we were all driving in the car a few days ago, Amy pointed out just how long we’d been together as a family. Namely a pretty long time. And more specifically, now that I checked it out, at the moment this post goes live, it will have been exactly seven years since I made a post publicly mentioning that Brandy and I were a couple. Now, we’d been “dating” for probably at least a month before that, maybe more, and we’d known each other for well over a year at that point, and it was still a while little longer until Brandy and Amy actually moved in, but it seems like as good a starting marker as any. So, seven years. During that time we’ve lived together at five addresses in three states as I worked for three different companies in a variety of different roles. We lost Brandy’s Dad. We also lost a few good pets that we loved dearly. We adopted Roscoe. Amy has grown from elementary school to high school and from a bubbly little kid to a wonderful almost-adult. Brandy has gone from being a Real Estate Agent to a Stay-at-Home-Mom to a College Student. And of course Alex was born and has grown into a sparkly eyed toddler and is doing exciting new things every day. We bonded into a family almost from the very start. As with any family there have been ups and downs, but overall it has been a very good seven years. Somehow, simultaneously, I can’t believe it has really been that long, and I can’t believe it was ever any other way. Thank you Brandy and Amy and Alex for these seven years. I love you all very much.  We had to take one last drive in the Maxima since to get the trade in it had to drive into the dealer’s lot. This is a picture right as Brandy was handing over the keys. Seconds earlier it had been billowing thick clouds of white smoke. But it made it! 
Done. She will be driving it home momentarily. Looks like Brandy’s 1995 Nissan Maxima with 246k miles on it now needs an expensive repair that may or may not actually completely fix the problem. If it doesn’t fix it then actually fixing it would most likely cost significantly more than the car is worth. So we are car shopping. Right now Brandy is looking at a 2007 Volkswagen Passat 2.0T Wagon and is really excited about it. Test drive coming after we eat lunch. If she likes it we may end up with it. We shall see. |
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