Beautiful Weekend

Julie and I have been married for a little over five years now and we are finally able to enjoy weekends together. She had been working in the catering industry as an event planner for Naman's Catering and I had been working in retail for over fifteen years and co-owned my own business, Cadence 120 Bicycle Works.

Both jobs not only kept our weekends full of work activities, but our schedules conflicted with each others and we didn't really see much of each other. Last July, Julie began working for Meet Your Market and in August I began working for SmartEtailing.com. Both of our new careers allow us to work from home, so now we see each other much more than we did in the past, some of our friends even suggested that seeing so much of each other after having barely spent much time together may be a strain on our relationship.

I think the fact that we both work from home has been beneficial, in that we both enjoyed working face-to-face with people, and transitioning to working from home with no personal face time with people would have been very difficult. Now every few hours, one of us will walk across the house to the others office just to see how things are going.

Today we spent the moring at the park with our two labradors and our best friends with their two sheperds. The dogs had a great time. Later in the day, Julie and I decided to take a drive over to Mississippi and look at the recovery progress since it has now been six months since Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.

You can see it on TV many many times, but nothing can give you a sense of the destruction unless you see it yourself. We drove down US HWY 90 from Biloxi to Pass Christian. When we turned north in Pass Christian, we were blown away at the amount of damage that extended not just blocks, but miles north of the coast. We took some pictures that I will post to our website. It will be years before they are recovered over there.