So the kocur.net blog looks like it has been taken over by the newest member of the Kocur clan. It’s been a weird few months and it seems like I just haven’t made time to sit down and write anything meaningful. I think a side effect of being married has been that when I have things come up in my life that normally I would have blogged about, now I talk to Jamie about before bedtime and then that’s the end of it. So, I haven’t needed the therapeutic aspects of this as much. Poor Jamie, though, hahahahh. I guess she’s needed it quite a bit!

Today we made some time to go to a coffee shop and chill for a bit. I brought the laptop and balanced my checkbook and paid bills. Jamie is enjoying some sort of designer coffee and writing like mad in her journal. Since I have some time, I might as well write something. 

Lately things have been in a bit of flux. The state budget process has been nerve-racking, to say the least. It looks like most of my department will still have jobs on July 1st, but it is going to look very different around there. Some other departments will be closed or merged. Part-time employees may be right-sized downsized laid-off fired. Luckily university employees are exempt from the 2% tax pay cut. But things for our family are doing well. Jamie got a better job in January and has been picking up more music students. My side work was slow for a month or so but has picked up and we are starting to pay down debt. We both want to buy a house but our first focus is becoming debt-free. Unfortunately deciding to be debt-free doesn’t make it so. It will take some time, but we’ll be there eventually. We’re both thankful to have jobs in this economy and a roof over our heads, even if that roof belongs to our landlord. 

Later I need to write a bit about our church visits. Jamie has written some about them already, but as we’ve taken this time to rest, I’ve had some thoughts about what we’ve been learning. Stay tuned.