January 2011 marks ten years since I left for the MTC. Since then I have lived in many different places and for some reason I have never really settled down. Tara and I are contemplating yet another move in order to get out of Lexington and into one of the surrounding towns where we can hopefully find cheaper rent while moving into a house rather than an apartment. Thinking of moving again has made me realize that the last decade has been pretty crazy for me. Here is a list of all of the places I have lived in the last ten years:
1. Home on Reata rd. in Kennewick, WA: Jan 2001 (the last time I really lived at home)
2. Missionary Training Center in Provo, UT: Jan 2001 - Mar 2001 (bad food with good friends)
3. Marks, Russia: Mar 2001 - Jul 2001 (a small muddy town with friendly babushkas)
4. Ulyanovsk, Russia: Aug 2001 - Sep 2001 (the birthplace of Lenin)
5. Balakovo, Russia: October 2001 (a creepy town with cool church members)
6. Samara, Russia near Kirova Square: Nov 2001 - Dec 2001 (I lived here while working in the mission office)
7. Samara, Russia near the train station: Dec 2001 (great views of the city from this apartment)
8. Samara, Russia near the soccer stadium: Jan 2002 - Feb 2002 (still working in the office)
9. Saratov, Russia: Mar 2002 - Jun 2002 (springtime in Russia was awesome)
10. Samara, Russia in Bezimyanskiy area: Jun 2002 - Dec 2002 (my favorite area)
11. Kennewick, WA and Liberty Lake, WA back and forth: Dec 2003 - Mar 2003 (living and working)
12. Provo, UT at Cinnamon Tree apartments: Apr 2003 - Apr 2004 (roommates with Josh)
13. Rexburg, ID: Apr 2004 - Jul 2004 (this is where I met Tara, roomies with Isaac)
14. St. Petersburg, Moscow, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Marks: Aug 2004 (traveled throughout Russia)
15. Provo, UT at Victoria Place apartments: Sep 2004 - Dec 2004 (Tara and I dated and got engaged)
*Tara and I got married in Dec 2004*
16. Idaho Falls, ID: Jan 2005 - Mar 2005 (we didn't have a clear direction in married life, so we moved to Idaho to be near friends)
17. Columbia, KY at Hartland circle: Mar 2005 - Jul 2005 (moved here to try - and fail - at Nikken)
18. Nampa, ID: Aug 2005 - Dec 2005 (tried my hand at sales, hit rock bottom, then wised up and went back to school)
19. Provo, UT at Parkside apartments: Jan 2006 - Dec 2006 (Tara and I had some really good times and some really dark times here, but being back at school was a very good thing)
20. Provo, UT at the green house on 311 E 200 S: Jan 2007 - Aug 2008 (we still think of this house as home, it was a good time for us and we long to be back in a house)
21. Columbia, KY with Tara's parents: Sep 2008 (time between graduating and getting hired at Lexmark)
22. Lexington, KY at Colt's Run apartments: Oct 2008 - Oct 2009 (working at Lexmark, meh)
23. Columbia, KY with Tara's parents: Oct 2009 - Feb 2009 (laid off from Lexmark, worked on side projects until I found my next job)
24. Lexington, KY on Shoreside dr.: Feb 2009 - Jun 2009 (hired at Savi, yay!)
25. Lexington, KY in our current apartment: Jun 2009 - Present (moved to a larger apartment)
Wow, that's an average of 2.5 moves per year! We're hoping that in a few years we can get a house and settle down, but first we need to feel that life is more stable and we want to save up a good down payment. Here's hoping the next ten years have more stability than the last ten years.
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Wow, that's wild. My list is much shorter, I'm sure:
1. Kennewick, WA at the Hansen home on Reata Rd: Jan 2001 - August 2001 (finishing up high school, hanging out)
2. Provo, UT at Whitney Hall: Sep 2001-Apr 2002 (freshman year of college!)
3. Kennewick, WA back at the ol' homestead: May 2002 - Sep 2002 (miserable semi-employment and waiting to start missionary service)
4. Provo, UT at Missionary Training Center: 25 Sep 2002 - 15? Oct 2002 (a rough couple weeks, especially for the digestive tract)
5. Latrobe, PA on Jefferson St: Oct 2002 - Nov 2002 (our ghettoville apartment that was totally abandoned by its owner)
6. Latrobe, PA on Main St (I think): Nov 2002 - Feb 2003 (moved here so we could have some heat)
7. Penn Hills, PA: Mar 2003 (emergency transfer!)
8. Kennewick, WA: Mar 2003 - Apr 2003 (back home, occasionally chillin' with David)
9. Provo, UT at Cinnamon Tree apartments: Apr 2003 - Aug 2004 (sloggin' through school, trying to survive; roommates with David most of this time)
10. Provo, UT at Moon Apartments: Sep 2004 - Aug 2006 (fell in with some cool roomies there)
11. Provo, UT at Bountiful Court apartments: Sep 2006 - Apr 2007 (the smell of cedar wood and chlorine will always remind me of this place)
12. Salamanca, Spain at the apartment of a "host mom" whose name I never even learned: May 2007 (random, wacky adventures with a gangster and a guy from DC, roaming the Spanish streets, trying to communicate with people in Spanish, French, and English)
13. Paris, France at a hostel near Montmarte: first several days of Jun 2007 (sheer tourism with some friends)
14. Provo, UT back at Bountiful Court: Jun 2007 - Aug 2007 (an aimless summer)
15. Provo, UT at Alta Apartments: Sep 2007 - Apr 2008 (finished my bachelor's degree)
16. Pasco, WA at Tallia's house: May 2008 - Jun 2008 (hanging out with my sis! We also went to Disneyland)
17. Provo, UT at Alta Apartments: Jun 2008 - Aug 2010 (bumming around, first year of grad school)
18. Provo, UT at my current residence in the south part of town: Sep 2010 - present
If you include all of my vacation stays, I think I've actually spent about a year and a half in Washington over the past decade.
How do you keep track of all that?
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