It Has Begun...

I guess our moving process is officially starting today - but not by our choice! Due to an unplanned situation involving water in some unwelcome places, we are cleaning out our storage closet. With cleaning comes (hopefully) getting rid of a few things that haven't seen the light of day since we moved in last May, and possibly putting some stuff in boxes! I am excited :)

Here's the story: We made it home from our Illinois visit yesterday (more on that later). I went to do a huge load of laundry but was greeted by this in our laundry closet:

Uh oh! We quickly called our landlord Joey and found out that the leak was coming from our upstairs neighbors' AC. He thought the problem had been fixed, but we kept seeing drips. To make a long story short, Joey made several visits to our apartment, and I got the following text at work today:

"Joey and the repair man came by the apartment. Bad news: there was water in the storage closet. Good news: nothing is ruined."

I also got this picture:

My mind jumped to my wedding dress, which is stored in that closet. When I got home, I was able to confirm that Eduardo was right; nothing was ruined - except a cardboard box labeled "Eduardo's childhood memories"! But no worries - his mom had plastic wrapped everything! Everything was dry but the box :)

Like I said earlier, we now have an excuse to empty out our storage closet to make sure everything else is okay. Our camping chairs are currently airing out on the patio. I'm not sure if we'll actually be able to pack up anything yet, but maybe we can get rid of a couple things. Mainly I want to take advantage of my eagerness to pack while it lasts!

Hello World!

This isn't the first blog I've ever started - that would be my old high school Xanga, for which I won't be sharing a link! Thankfully I gave that one up once I got my college email address and could sign up for facebook. Remember when you had to be a college student to have a facebook? Those were the days. Anyway, hopefully this blog will be more interesting than my last.

I've wanted to start a blog for a little while now, since reading blogs has become one of my favorite hobbies, but my biggest fear has been not having anything to say. Well, I have some big changes in my life just around the corner, so I'm thinking it's now or never in terms of having good subject matter! Hopefully friends and family across the country might be interested in keeping in touch this way too.

And now, a brief introduction:
Hi, my name is Lisa! Currently I live in Waco, Texas with Eduardo, my hubby for just over a year now (I can't believe it!), and I work as an engineer for Mars Chocolate. In just over 6 weeks we are packing up our apartment and moving across the country to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois! Eduardo will be starting his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois. While I have experienced a variety of emotions about our upcoming move, right now I mainly feel incredibly excited. It'll be such an adventure! We are both native Texans, and I know we have a lot to learn about living in The Corn State. That's the inspiration for the title of this blog by the way! :)

Well, that's all for now! We'll just have to see how this blogging thing turns out...