Jenerally Speaking

It’s amazing how quickly things can change.  In my case, the changes are pretty good – with just a touch of sad mixed in.  My little brother, Christopher, is going to be moving out to California at the end of this week.  He was offered a job opportunity last week to do web design for a start-up business out in Sunnyvale.  His old boss was offered a job and then put a good word in for Chris and the next thing we knew, he was offered a job, too.
And away he goes!

So, how does this affect the rest of us?  Well, our family is pretty small and we have always lived near each other.  In my case, my brother has lived downstairs for the past year.  Our house has a odd sort of layout.  We have 4 bedrooms upstairs and each section is kind of separated into little wings – which is great for privacy.  My parents are in one half of the house and Meghan and I live in the the other half.  The back of the house has a guest bedroom and study.   Don’t say a word about the fact that I live in the same house as my parents…I’m incredibly sensitive about that.  LOL    Having somewhere to stay as I finish my degree has been a blessing…I love my family – they are amazing.  XOXOX
Okay…back to the story….the downstairs part of our house is also finished off with another bedroom, living area, etc. That is where Chris has been staying.  (My mom jokes that she feels like she’s on the Cosby show…the kids leave, but they keep coming back!)  Well, Chris left his full-time job about a year ago to start his own web business.   It has been a rocky road…and one I guess he won’t have to travel anymore.  With this new job, he can do what he loves and get paid a nice amount of money for it, too.  Crazy how things work out.  I love it, though.  It gives me hope when I see things happen like this! 

The sad part is that I am seriously going to miss him like crazy, though.  He is probably the one person I hang out with the most (next to Meghan.)  We like most of the same shows, we’re both programmers (although he is MUCH better than I am now) and we like gaming and debating and just chatting about the world.  I have friends…I do…but most of my friends barely have the same interests as I do.  I met most of them over the years because they are parents of Meghan’s friends.   Blogging, the internet, Twitter, etc. is so foreign to all of them.  Blah. At least with Chris, I had an adult friend who actually knew what I was talking about.   Bummer.

So, this is going to be one heck of a busy week.  Lots of packing and I’m sure there will be quite a few tears.  Change is exciting, but it can be a little bit sad and scary, too.  I’m so proud of him, though.  I guess I know where Meghan and I will be visiting for our summer vacation next year!