Michele Bacon
  • Home
  • Antipodes
  • Life Before
  • Events
  • School and Library Visits
  • About
  • Breathe

blogger                           

I Feel Lucky!

6/16/2014

0 Comments

 
Picture
So, we’re back in the States. Before our sabbatical ended (indeed, before we reached the one-year point,) Google nudged 1977: “want to work for us?”

So now he does. And now we live in Seattle*, which somehow feels further from our families than New Zealand did.

New Zealand was awesome. It was ten Christmases (Although Christmas in New Zealand was a low point. More on that later.) Had things been different for 1977 at work, we may have stayed forever. . .but they weren't, and now he's at Google, which would be a dream come true if he were the kind of person who dwelled on dreams.

You know how Google wins all the "Employer of the year/decade/century" awards? It's totally true.

We're settling into our new house. In a major coup, we got 2008 into an amazing school. Five months ago, sitting on my sofa in NZ, I was salivating over this school, but it's an option school, and we missed the window and I wrote it off because our timing just meant we couldn't get her in.

BUT, we got lucky. There was one spot. In May. We took it, and I could not be happier.

Seattle is pretty great. It rivals Christchurch for scenery, and my politics and lifestyle fit right in with our neighborhood. I miss my kiwi friends every day, but it's nice to be back in the States. Why hello, Trader Joe's! What's that you say, QFC? You have berries? Year round? For less than $20 a punnet? 

I missed you, American economy. I'm not ashamed to say it. (I am ashamed of some other stuff, but we'll get to that.)

So, hi! What did I miss?


*I feel like Google Maps outed me! Cupcake Royale is on that map up there. Why? Why, Google, do you need to highlight that I may have gone there once or more than once since we moved here in April? Gregg's Cycles? Fine. Everyone in Seattle has a bike. But cupcakes? No one needs to know about that, GOOGLE! I am a loyal Google spouse. Be a loyal mapmaker.

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture

    I blog rarely, because I'm busy writing books. When I do blog, I focus on writing, friendship, family, and books. Because my family's best nicknames are private, I use their birth years for shorthand:
    1977: my partner
    2008: my first daughter
    2010: daughter #2

    2013: the final daught

    Archives

    May 2019
    October 2018
    April 2018
    October 2017
    September 2017
    April 2017
    October 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    April 2014
    September 2013
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    July 2010

    Categories

    All
    Antipodes
    Bacon Bits
    Bacon Hunt
    Books
    Cake
    Chicago
    Children
    Food
    Fortune Cookie
    Friendship
    Games
    Grudges
    Holidays
    Life Before
    New Zealand
    Querying
    Science
    Screen Shot Sunday
    Seattle
    Travel
    Unsolicited Advice
    Writing
    YA Scavenger Hunt

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Home
  • Antipodes
  • Life Before
  • Events
  • School and Library Visits
  • About
  • Breathe