New life
So I am officially a married man. Valerie and I tied the knot on the 29th, contracting with each other as man and wife in the eyes of the state and before God. According to my professional responsibility teacher, the relationship between lawyer and client is more sacred and usually lasts longer than that between man and wife, but not with this marriage :-). Val and I moved into a place together in the Whittaker district of Eugene, and after honeymooning on the Oregon Coast at the Shavers' floathouse, we came home to roost in Eugene at our wonderful new place.
Living with Val is fantastic. We spent lots of time together before marriage, but now everything feels just slightly different. We both have pitched in to make the house really wonderful, whether that means I'm fixing something with my new toolbox (thank you wedding guests!) or whether Val is cooking dinner or the two of us are unpacking all our boxes of crap.
Some domestic stuff is rather amusing, such as the five trips to Wal-Mart to pick out the right curtains (it was I, not Val, that insisted on these trips to get just-the-right-curtain-dammit!) Or the fact that the sink has been stopped up for 9 days, which is why Val is doing the dishes in the bathtub today.
We had Val's 11-year-old niece over the other day (she's my niece now, too.) We cooked dinner, played a board game with her, talked and had a great time. She retired to the guest room for the night after picking out a book to read. I guess we are bad surrogate parents because we didn't make her go to bed until midnight then she stayed up and read the whole book while Val and I slept in the other room. According to Val's mom, she slept half of the next day after her stay with us :-). Anyway, it's fun being a married couple and thinking of having kids and all that stuff (we figure 3-5 years, but if God wants kids sooner, then kids we will have.)
Law school's alright, but the commute sucks. I'm working for an attorney in Eugene doing criminal defense work, and trying to land a clerkship at the DA's office in Polk County, so I can see the other side of the criminal profession.
Will this be my last update for there months or shall these posts become regular again? Stay tuned ...
posted by -Brook at 1:33 PM
8 Comments:
It's always worth waiting for your updates, Brook. :-) Now it's my turn; thanks for the inspiration.
Great choice of photo, by the way. I like.
Love you!
~Me
Brook -
Congratulations man! This is Dylan Darling, your old co-worker at the H and N. I'm still living the journalism dream down in Redding, CA. Just randomly had the thought to check your blog after years. Looks like I picked a good time to do so.
Congrats again.
dd
I hope you don't wait another "there" months to update again. ;) :p *hugs* just messing with you cuz that is what I do.
I want to come over and see you guys' place and watch House. cuz Chase is hot. and I love you guys. and those are in reverse order of importance. :)
YAY!
I love you both!
-H
Is there any place we can see wedding pictures on the magic internet box?
Hmmm. I'll try to have pics up by this weekend, either on this site, Val's site or the wedding blog. I'll cross-link so everyone knows of teh awesomeness.
Hi Dylan!!!
HI Brook and Val
Love you guys, great to hear about your days
linda
Hi Brook,
I, too, had the random idea to check your blog after years and am so happy to see that you are married (congrats!) and you fulfilled your dream of dog ownership (remember borrowing a rather spirited dog from the shelter in corvallis?). It looks like things have fallen in place just as they should have!
I wish you both all the best, and if you come across Dylan again, say hi to him for me. We knew each other in high school. :) Small world!
- Jen DeYoung
Yo, it's Ryan Brown.
Congrats, welcome to a world of what they call marriage.
I'm proud of you sir!
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