My New Place!

Hey all,

I just finished moving into my new place in Tyler today! As most of you already know who talk to me on a regular basis I'm living in a house that has 7 seperate different rooms. Some rooms have a couple people and others just one with most of the residents being college students at TJC(Tyler Junior College). There is like a 40 something year old lady here so at least I'm not the Old Maid of the house. Its nice because my room is large enough to feel like I have my own small apartment aside from sharing the kitchen area with everyone else. I haven't had a chance to meet everyone yet but everyone seems pretty cool.

It is just exciting to be living in Tyler instead of Jacksonville, back into civilization! Even being able to write this blog from the comfort of my own bed is something I haven't been able to experience since moving down here. I am going to miss the simplicity of living with Dianna and Waymon but I'll definitely take phone service over simplicity any day.

Casper has done a great job winning over everyone and especially my landlord. He was worried about him being so big and then ofcourse he fell in love with him as soon as he saw him. He actually offered for Casper to come stay in their big fenced in yard while I'm at work during the day. I'm going to go swing by their place to pick up a copy of my lease and check it out sometime this week hopefully. What a shmooozer this dog is. No wonder I adopted him.

The only other big thing that has happened here is the SNOW! I know that none of you think its a big deal up there in that icy midwestern tundra but down here some young people have never even seen snow. We got 6-8 inches in Jacksonville but over a foot near Dallas. It was actually really beautiful but wont be here for long; back up to 57 degrees tomorrow :)

Oh, and tomorrow I'm meeting up with a group of people that I'm going to be playing slowpitch softball with here in the upcoming weeks to go to an indoor hitting facility. I dont know if it is going to be some of the same people I practiced with last weekend or not, but I hope so. It always feels good to take a few cuts. It will be a sad substitute for VUSB having their opening day tomorrow and me not being a part of it :-/

Anyway, here are some pictures of my new place and the snowfall from today. I have also put up a couple from Jacksonville Lake from last week.



Lake Jacksonville


This is the night we went to a "greasy spoon" and Dianna and Waymon sang acoustic blue grass gospels.







These next three photos are of the common area that everyone in our house uses. There is a shot of the house from the outside as well.