So this week I went apartment hunting but found that you can pay the same price to rent a home or condo, so now I am leasing Courtney palms 2 bed 2 bath condo for Susan and I's marriage.

We will never want to leave this gated community and the price was very cheap for such luxury.

Compared to the 600 a month ghetto apartments that one advertisement had me visit, this is a steal.

Our Tampa life will rule, you guys can all visit sometime and it has enough space for all our crap.

Wish us luck on the moving part of things the weekend of the wedding.

The day after my marriage was also a very big day, for Susan and I planned on packing up all her stuff in Troy into the parked truck and planned on leaving that night to stop somewhere in Ohio that night.

In the morning, our hotel was a wreck from all the gathering and getting ready that all the bridesmaids needed to get done the previous day. Susan and I dreaded cleaning all this up, but it wasn't as bad as I thought.

We did kind of get freaked out from this noise that sounded like someone was breaking into our hotel though. It sounded like someone was opening and closing our door. It was extremely loud and you could tell it was happening in the next room. After getting up a few times investigating, I found that it was the wind that was opening up our balcony door and pushing it inward to make that noise.

Susan and I then ordered our first meal as husband and wife and it was a delicious eggs Benedict.

Later it took a few hours to pack up all our belongings into my brother and . . . Read More..

The morning we had to unload the truck sitting in the parking lot, I rearranged the parking job and took up two handicap spots to perfectly lay the walk way very close to our stairs. Susan and I unloaded the 26 foot truck in about 3 hours and I lifted some crazy heavy things that day.

My neighbor Keith helped us out big time and helped me transfer our bed and dressers into our place. He was ripped and definitely could handle the weight. He and his wife Karen are awesome, new friends for sure!

I spent the rest of the day setting up tables, beds and breaking down boxes before our friend Tim came over.

That day when setting things up, Susan found a little creature who I knew was a current resident. A cockroach inside of the Dishwasher! She screamed really loudly and after I killed it with a pole and wiped it up I freaked her out a little bit too at some point after things died down when I was cleaning out the dishwasher.

I never told her of it when I initially saw it on the wall . . . Read More..

So I also wanted to update friends and family with pictures of our new place.... I know all of you have been wondering what our exotic life is like down here in Florida and for the first time in my life I have a home that I can be proud of because I made it all happen and set this place of.

Since my cousin Anthony came up here this last weekend, Susan and I spent a few hours cleaning the place up.

It was a good excuse also to take some photos of all the un-packing we had to do with our 26 feet of goodies we drove down here in a truck.

Enjoy!

I have been married for about 2 and a half months now and mostly just hang out with my best friend Susan.

But sometimes it is good to have a night away and to hang out with the boyz.

When I started my new job this week I instantly made lots of friends.

All the developers at my new job are really great people and really cool and hard working.

So anyways, last night I played smash with this programmer friend of mine named Matt.

He and I drank a few beers, played smash, philosophized and ate pizza.

We have a lot of the same opinions about programming techniques and about a lot of different topics.

It was really great to finally have my first boys night out where men can be men and we can just chill.

Thanks Matt.... good to know I got some new friends here in Tampa.

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