Same Great Folks, New Location

I suppose this blog's title is now a bit of a misnomer.  If it were to reflect the true reality of the situation, I should probably entitle it The Contemplative Oklahoma Cityite or perhaps more truthfully, The Contemplative Inhabitant of Mustang.  In all actuality, life is currently in more flux than I would prefer, so none of the above is entirely accurate.  Allow me to explain.

After the Fallin for Governor campaign concluded, I began exploring options for my next line of employment.  All along, Sara and I had our sights ultimately set on a move to the Oklahoma City area for numerous reasons.  My wife is from OKC and her business, Simply Sisters Wedding Planners, is based here as well.  The wedding planning business has been blessed with prosperity, which, in turn, necessitated increasingly frequent weekend trips to the state's largest metropolitan area.  Despite pop culture notions to the contrary, my affection and affinity for my wife grows with the passing years instead of having the opposite effect.  As such, weekends apart from my beloved are what those of Hispanic descent might describe as "no bueno."  Finally, my desire for a long time has been to work in state government in a policy capacity.  Since the capital of Oklahoma resides in Oklahoma City, you can see how living in Tulsa just wasn't cutting the mustard anymore. 

As it turns out, my dreams of becoming a banker came true...oh wait, that's the plot of an old Seinfeld episode.  Let's try that again.  As it turns out, my dreams of becoming a policy advisor/International Man of Mystery came true.  That's better.  In December, I had the honor of becoming the Legislative Director for President Pro Tempore Brian Bingman in the Oklahoma Senate.  You can read all about it here.  Suffice it to say, I absolutely love my job and take great pride in the fact that I get to use my talents (whatever they may be) to make our great state even better. 

After Christmas, we put our house in Tulsa up for sale and moved to Mustang, OK.  Did I mention that we moved in with my father-in-law?  Yep, consider us boomerang kids.  It's just temporary until our house sells.  We're not big on the whole "paying two mortages" thing.  been quite an adjustment, but things seem to be going okay with the new living arrangements.  My father-in-law got internet at his house and purchased a big screen TV, so that went a long ways toward easing the transition.  In fact, with amenites like this, we may never leave. 

Just kidding, Dave.  Just kidding.