I began understanding something the other day that has eluded me, the tendency to not recognize a change in life immediately, only gradually. We are done with our undergraduate, that may not seem life changing but it is. We are now "dinks", we are now free to plan evenings, and weekends, holidays are still a cage match of family interests but that is another post.
What to do with our time now? I don't know. One of the things being in college does for you is insert change into the everyday routine. Its like scheduling change into the Fall and Spring every year. Even the summer has a different feel when you know the change that is coming soon after. I haven't been in school for a year but my wife's school did that for both of us. There were late night study sessions, runs to Barnes and Noble, comfort food breaks and a steady decoration of folders and notebooks along the couch and living room floor.
What to do now? When life is dictated for so long its hard to find your way to understanding what to do without that constant time master around. We've run the gamete over the last few months. We've spent massive amounts of time "catching up" on classics such as "House M.D." and we've spent time eating out with friends, going out and eating more dessert than we should.
There seems to be an everydayness creeping in. Maybe this is why so many of our friends are having kids. They reached this point a couple of years ago, spent some time sitting and waiting for events and decided they wanted to insert a little chaos into the mix. With my wife being a teacher she is well versed in the chaos factor of kids, she said one of the things she enjoys the most is the fact that its never the same.
So here we are, I'm hoping that over the next several years we can enjoy the everydayness, and break the monotony with a dog, traveling, maybe picking up an extreme sport (skydiving) or a scooter (motorcycle), buying a house. There are millions of ways to insert chaos, and some of them don't require diaper changes.
