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Moving in with my girlfriend
On a totally personal note, on September first I’m moving in with my girlfriend, Rebecca, pictured to the right. We’ve rented a house together, with a third person to keep costs low and to add some extra fun into the mix.
What makes this especially interesting for me is that Rebecca and I will have only been dating for three months when we move in with each other! This is unprecedented for me.
Here are some of the exciting things we plan to do together:
1) Living raw
I’ve been vegan for 21 years, and Rebecca is a fairly recent convert to vegetarianism. She also has some training in raw food cooking and we’re going to take classes together and start “cooking” predominantly raw food. I am really looking forward to this, and to having regular sit-down meals with the household and friends.
2) Yoga in the morning
She teaches yoga. How yummy is that? I love the idea of doing yoga in the mornings and have wanted a partner for that for years. We’re going to keep the living room free of furniture, and full of pillows.
3) No television
I’m going to get serious about selling my stupid big television. No cable and no renting movies means more quality time spent doing things with friends.
“Wait a minute, I like watching movies” she said, when reviewing this post. Okay, maybe we’ll keep the TV, but no cable!!!
4) Music
The thrid person, Ken, is a professional musician. I play the guitar somewhat. Rebecca used to play the guitar and organ quite well so perhaps she’ll take them up again. With many musical friends between us all, we intend to have lots of jams and singalongs to fill up all the time we might have been sitting around watching television.
5) More travel
My girlfriend is an accomplished world traveller, much more so than I. We should soon both be able to get to a point where we can work from anywhere, as we both work in the computing field. This means some extended trips, exploring the world while we continue to work.
6) More blogging
Rebecca has quite a following on her personal blog and on FaceBook and I’m learning to be more open about my life. We plan to blog about our adventures when we start travelling. (We already are doing some small trips, but nothing extensive yet.)
7) Massive purging
Rebecca has done some purging of stuff she owns. I’m doing a massive purge. Everything that is currently in storage will be brought out and either put to use, sold, given away, or thrown out. All the stuff that I’ve been pack-ratting for years will be gone, reducing my load for living and travel.
Exciting times ahead!
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August 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Rebecca used to play the guitar and organ quite well so perhaps she’ll take them up again.
I suspect the likelihood of this is quite high!
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October 6th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Congratulations to you both!
I trust that 1 month into the arrangement everything is going well?
I basically gave up television back in high school and really don’t miss it. (The only problem is when you are talking to people and they say something like “so you know that commercial where the guy in the cubicle…” and you have to say “sorry, I don’t watch TV…” and hope you don’t sound like a snob
) We do keep a TV (on wheels, so it isn’t the permanent focal point of our living room) with a VCR/DVD combo player, since we like to rent movies from the library.
I hope you are enjoying a meal or a trip right now!
Best wishes
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