the next step

amy and i are moving to kansas city.

we've been talking about it for awhile, but the time is finally here. a couple weeks ago i took a scouting trip to scope out the city and go through a few interviews. this week i accepted an offer from vml, a world-class marketing agency, very strong in interactive marketing. i'll be working with their seer tool, which basically measures the presence of a brand in user-generated content (blogs, forums, myspace, etc), sort of like a focus group. most of my job is to figure out what to do with the data seer brings back. and play more foosball. most importantly, i retain my hard-earned nerd status. you can't just give that kind of thing up. the office is the main terminal for kansas city's former airport.

we decided on kansas city not because of its plentiful snowboarding opportunities but because it's closer to amy's family in iowa (there's no way we were ever going to move to iowa) and my family in colorado and arizona. it's also home to cheap homes and already big and growing city with lots to do. and lots of chipotles.

i start work on march 1, and i will officially leave eugene the weekend before that. knowing our time left in oregon is short, we're trying to make the most of it. we spent the weekend before last in pacific city, we'll be in seattle this weekend, going snowboarding the next and who knows what after that. we'll update pictures as we take them so you can pretend you were with us wherever we were.

amy has to work through the end of february, so she'll see kc for the first time a couple weeks later. her working future is in the works; something part-time might be waiting for her, but not until after she unpacks all the heavy stuff while i'm at work.

we don't yet have a place to live, but we're hoping for a house to come along sooner than later. a nice fixer would be a welcome test for everything we've learned from flip that house. you're all welcome to come hang out when we get our place. actually, we hope you'll come visit because we only have one friend in kc at this point. and that's a lot of pressure on dana.

our phone numbers will change, but our emails will not.

as you might imagine, we're both excited and overwhelmed, scared and overjoyed, and most of all, looking forward to the 16 chipotle's in the kansas city area. oh yeah, and uh, starting the next stage together. yeah, that too.