Almost a year

It's hard to believe that almost a year ago Vinney and I got married. I'm even having a hard time believing I'm done with college :)

In order to celebrate our 1-year anniversary, which is coming up this Sunday, we've decided to take a little roadtrip down the east coast. See, for the most part whenever we drive from CT down to NC it's a "get there as fast as we can" sort of deal. But this time, we're taking things slow and enjoying the drive down - stopping in various cities, enjoying the drive, the sights, the food and most importantly, each other.

Although we left CT early this morning, our leisurely pace landed us in D.C. only a few hours ago. We'll be spending the night here and then taking our sweet time getting down to Raleigh sometime late tomorrow night. Amazingly enough, we didn't hit an ounce of traffic on the road - I was completely shocked. I think it was the first time in about a dozen trips from CT to NC that we've hit absolutely no traffic on I-95. But now that I've said that, I'm sure I'm cursed for another 12 trips of bumper-to-bumper delight :)

Our vacation has a bit of a dual purpose, one is to obviously celebrate our 1-year anniversary with each other and our families in NC, but the second purpose is to handle a bunch of house-building decisions that are best done in person. The beauty and awe of building our first house together has begun to subside, and the reality of making a lot of overly stressful decisions has set in. I'm confident that at the end of the day only the former will remain, but until then it's going to be a lot of work. There are times when I do wish that someone else were in charge of putting everything together and we'd just enjoy the final product, but I'm pretty sure someone once said something about no pain and its relationship to a lack of gain. We'll see how it turns out in the end.

That's all for now, it's an exciting day today from a product standpoint. But that's Derek's job to tell, later...

Take care :)