Shane here. Somehow at the end of our summer of retirement I got a job, and Jayna got a vacation to Thailand. Something about that seems a little “off,” but what can you do? Apparently Jayna’s doing lots of fun things like petting baby elephants, visiting exotic markets, and honing her civil disobedience skills (seriously, she used to be such a nice girl). Click the photo for more.
Meanwhile I’m busy working and trying not to sink too far into the pits of bachelor-style living. For example, my dirty clothes are still entirely contained within the confines of a single laundry basket, my towel is folded on the rack, and as of this morning, there were no dirty dishes in the sink. In reality, it’s only by comparison to my wife’s activities that I am anything less than content because work is really interesting right now, and I’m loving it here in SLC.
It has snowed in the mountains every weekend we’ve been here, and it’s now looking like this weekend is going to increment the streak to four. Last Sunday afternoon I took a little drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon, and this is what I found about 20 minutes from our apartment. My excuse for the phone-level quality has something to do with the real camera being in Thailand.
So, which of us would you rather be right now? No, on second thought, don’t answer that. I’m at peace with my role in this relationship for the time being (especially when I’m at 9000′, it’s below freezing, there’s over a foot of snow on the ground, we’re only two weeks past summer, and I’m only a half hour from home). Hmm, after reading that over, I’m beginning to think it’s a good thing Jayna’s in Thailand after all. I’m not convinced her reaction would be quite as positive as mine.
Well, regardless of your preference, at this point it’s a lot easier (by which I mean affordable and logistically feasible) to be me (geographically speaking of course), and if you’d like to try that out for yourself, I encourage you to come visit us. To address a question that Derek asked a while back (which was unfortunately sequestered in a misguided anti-spam-bot’s holding tank for some time), old friends, new friends, you’re all welcome. And Derek, I feel that we particularly “owe you one” after you graciously arranged for us to have access to your hotel room in your absence after our sleepless red-eye flight out east for the Hindley wedding. Thanks again!
you both are so funny. wade and i just caught up on your blog…we love the pictures of the beard shaving…still laughing!! congrats on your move and job…
Dude. Which resort are you picking up a season pass to? I assume that you will not be spending all your time in the B/C.
Are you picking up any of the habits of a TRUE bachelor? Things like: “of course my kitchen is clean” (I never eat there), and speaking to yourself out loud…reading books while you eat. leaving reading material in the bathroom…on the tub…which doesn’t get used for showers anymore…shaving only for Sunday meeting…wearing the same outfit to Sunday meeting every week…seeing your friends only after Sunday meeting…going to every potluck ..even ones at other meetings…deciding that the plants have evolved into a new desert species and can go without water for weeks on end…looking at the carpet balls and lint and think about vacuuming…but just think about it…and then excuse yourself because you don’t “have a vacuum” …take out the trash only when the smell startles you when you come home after work….realizing that it takes several minutes after walking in your door to become ‘re-acquainted to the smell’….keeping all the blinds closed in the house…because you strip down to the old skivvies as soon as the door is closed…deciding the chair in your bedroom is only there to throw your clothes at…so you can grab them easily in the morning….using the old ‘dryer as a iron trick’ EVERY morning…napping every day…sitting on the throne and having the neighbors yell at you to “close the ******* door” because they can see you through the living room blinds…..sleeping at a diagonal to use the maximum space in the big bed that you no longer have to share….saying things like “I LOVE SLEEPING” and laughing nervously to yourself before drifting off…laughing nervously all the time for no reason…texting your married friends at odd hours…..trading exercise for lying on the floor and staring at the ceiling….giving awful gifts to your friends and then wonder why they don’t display/use them at their house…
DUDE!!! Are you in my apartment? Maybe you built a dirty-clothes blind on the couch and hid in that or something because I haven’t seen you. Otherwise you’ve got a very good inside source. The conditions described in the original post are no longer accurate. I did have to use the, “as of this morning,” qualifier at one point, and I think that was the beginning of the end.
Yesterday afternoon I had planned to go for a hike or do something else to improve my fitness, but I decided it would be better to make a todo list…while staring at the ceiling…from the vantage point of the bed. By that point I couldn’t remember what the list was about so I closed my eyes to improve my concentration. I awoke three hours later when a car alarm went off.
Rather than getting a season pass this year I’m planning to get a couple discount cards to Solitude and sample the other resorts from time to time to try and get a feel for the area.
goodness, what an accurate comment on the general living of bachelors.
We definitely need an update about Thailand Jay!
Good deal! We are planning a winter snowboarding roadtrip, we just might hit SLC
You should! That would be really fun!