Happy Easter!; house sitch; free Wi-Fi at Starbucks?

Happy Easter everyone! I hope your kids are having fun with easter egg hunts and chocolate bunnies. There's very little spirit of Easter in these them thar parts. I got John some Easter jelly-bellies. I suppose I'll pick myself up some Cadbury eggs or Sees jellies sometime this week. Those are the only Easter basket goodies I like. 

What can you do? No kids, no church - no Easter. Hopefully this time next year I'll be knocked up and we'll be settled in a town where we can start thinking about a church. At least I'd like to. I didn't grow up with church and therefore wanted to be every denomination my friends were from Catholicism to Judaism. Didn't matter, sign me up. But with John's family history, I'm happy to go to a  Southern Baptist church.

I'm a bit of a news junkie these days. My brain has been in 5th gear. I check Google.com/trends several times a day now and am watching the development of Guy Kawasaki's AllTop via Twitter. If you have any great social media Twitter pals that you can recommend besides Jowyang and Guy Kawasaki - let me know. They keep my phone pretty busy, but I'm open to following any exceptional thought leaders that use Twitter. I love it. Of course, I love Otis' tweets and I'm still waiting for Pauly and Iggy to kick in with their genius on Twitter.

House sitch: I think about it all the time. Which is better than being sad about my dad. We were so excited to decide on Oceanside - near my family and friends, and so much like the old Redondo Beach that John remembers when he was a kid. We had a near miss with a house that was next to a sexual predator, and now there's not enough inventory popping up - nothing we want to consider. I did get excited about a house with a pool in Carlsbad (the more affluent neighboring town to Oceanside) this week. Our agent is supposedly looking at it today. If she gives the innards the thumbs up - then I guess I'll fly out there this week to see if I like it. I'm totally fine with it being a fixer. I'm watching home improvement shows on HGTV and TLC like my life depends on it.  Luckily you don't have to pay too much attention to them, you just absorb the design tips  as they play in the back ground, occasionally look up to see what colors they used, how they hung the drapes near the ceiling instead of above the window, and look at how many different ways you can spruce up a fire place.

The Carlsbad house is enough to keep me quiet for a week, maybe a month if we join the three others in the running for it. Otherwise, I'm a nutbag looking up houses on Redfin in Palm Springs, Long Beach and ready to consider any town. We have a visit in charming Charleston the beginning of May. If we don't have a house in California by then, I won't be surprised if we start shopping there again. I desperately want to give our future zygote some kind of stability and not the temporary lifestyle I've been living (and have quickly gotten extremely sick of). The only downside of Charleston is that I will travel to California at least 3 times a year - and more likely four times. John's not so keen on that. But he'd be traveling more. Too soon to tell. But that picture up there, that could be the view from the rooftop deck at the Carlsbad house....

Free Wi-Fi at Starbucks? Hey Hugh - check this out...you were asking me about working at Starbucks... Maybe I'll try this out this week. From Upgrade Travel Better - How to get (sorta) free Wi-Fi at Starbucks. If any of you have tried it - let us know if it worked.

CURRENT: LAS VEGAS
NEXT: SAN DIEGO???

Comments

[Jenn C.]

Hi Jen,
Audrey had her first meal on Easter. The bibs you gave her are awesome! Good luck with the house hunting.