I’ve got graffiti in my blood, a chrome engine in my chest…

 Very exciting & many changes happening to my partner and I recently.

Wedding planning:We picked a cool concert venue to have our spooky but still super musical wedding at. [We talked about doing a little musical presentation of “Settle for Me” from Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Which means we need to have my friend Brandon teach us tap dancing - probably.]

We volunteered to lead a ghost hunting group for a fundraiser in our favorite local place to investigate. Our group had so much fun and we introduced different ways to catch activity that even seasoned ghost hunters were impressed by. [like playing some music from different eras and seeing if it got a response/got the k2 s and rem pods to go wild - it did - specifically on some Dean Martin.]

We’re house hunting! We both work from home and despite being able to function in my little office cubby it’s not good long term especially since we would like to start having kids and/or adopting soon. We need a room that isn’t my DJ friend’s crash room to put a baby/child in. So that means I need to fix up and sell my current home. 

The first house we put an offer on was soooooo cooooool we loved it. It was creepy but  little modern. It was exactly what we wanted and was in a trendy area of Cleveland that still had low property taxes. But the inspection came back with a gas leak, a 100% chance the finished basement would likely flood, and a number of other pretty expensive issues that we did not want to deal with like the chimney falling apart. I had a friend just spend 30k to fix her chimney with a similar problem and I don’t want to spend 30k on something for it to look exactly the same. So we backed out. I was really sad. Shawn was sad. We cried in the car back home that night.

It felt like breaking up with someone you actually like. Or ending a relationship when you are still in love but you know it is the right thing. I told Shawn it felt like the day I  left my one ex - how I was so depressed but knew with the tools I had I couldn’t “fix” him and I couldn’t remain with him. So I made it into this joke, “So, you know the best way to get over someone? Go on a bunch of blind dates… with houses!”

So we went to like 10 open houses the next day. My thought process was either we would get more sad because no house compared or become hopeful because other houses might fit our needs.

It was just sad because we could actually see our whole life play out in that house? You ever felt that way? We walked in and as soon as I stepped in the main hallway I could see in my mind’s eye kids and cats scurrying about, could see making food together, could see playing games in the dining room with all of our friends. Like it was SO clear. But that also could have been the gas leak. We found a couple cool contenders during our blind dates - one we like more than the other. But they both have a couple drawbacks including they are a little more than our last one.

We have a couple houses scheduled to see today with our realtor and Shawn’s parents are also coming along because they had a lot to say during the inspection so I would prefer they come and say all their words before we put an offer on a house rather than after. 

Shawn and I put our ghost hunting and engagement video together which I will share below. We used a phasmabox to communicate so it is just clips from that. Our video camera did not get sound but our friends also filmed the actual engagement - so that part is subtitled.

Also my all time favorite band who wrote what I call my “soul song” - “The Start of Something” released new music after years and years of silence and a break up. I gotta say when I saw they released a song it was like the world got a little brighter. The song is a jam too. Do the kids say that now-a-days? 

But man, do I love Voxtrot. Something about their music just gets my poetic heart going.

“Can happy endings and Coca-Cola save our damaged souls?”