B&C's Excellent Adventures

So this is our first attempt at a joint blog.  We thought we’d put some stuff up for some discerning readers (read: select few) that would reflect our musings, lives, adventures, and observations as we go through life.  So what prompted this sudden foray into the blogosphere?

We never in our wildest imaginations thought that we would wind up living in northeastern Indiana.  The two of us have always been attracted to large cities and the inherent excitement, culture, and diversity they bring.  Boston is probably our favorite city given the fact that we both grew up there and have a fondness for it.  Chicago’s become our second city – a home away from home as we’ve learned to love its unique blend of big city feel with a laid-back attitude.  San Francisco’s always been on our radar as well, with the beautiful scenery and the strong Asian American culture.  But life always throws curveballs your way, and you never know what’s going to happen.

There were a lot of forks in the road and little decisions that wound up getting us to this place.  And we’re sure that if we look back on this several years from now, we’ll have a better understanding of why we wound up in Warsaw, IN of all places.  We’re not the type to complain about our situation and in fact, there’s a lot of good things about where we are.  For instance, we both really like our jobs.  It’s incredibly cheap to live here, and our house (yes, a house!) sports a jacuzzi tub, a fireplace, and a huge basement that we can use either as a Man Cave (Brian’s preference), exercise room (Cathy’s preference), or a music studio (split the difference).  We’re enjoying fresh, organic, locally farmed produce (compliments of the Amish) that would make Gordon Ramsey and Anthony Bourdain proud.

On the flip side, the local restaurant scene doesn’t extend much beyond the evil trifecta of Bennigans, Chili’s, and Ruby Tuesday, so all of that locally farmed produce is definitely being used.  Diversity is a bit to be desired, and while there’s plenty of culture, it’s not quite the culture that we’re used to seeing.

We’ve always thought that jobs have three components to consider: the location, the type of work, and the people you’re working for.  If you can get two out of three, you’re not doing too bad.  Both of us agree that we’ve got at least two out of three; and in fact, we don’t hate where we are, so actually, we’re ahead of the game.

Given that we have a lot of time to explore different activities now without the distractions of things like film festivals, food festivals, sports events, concerts, and shows, we thought we’d finally put our domain and website to use.  We used to host our wedding website here; given that it’s been three years since we’ve been married, we figured it was time to find another use for this site.  So here goes our attempt to log our adventures in life.

Hello, world.