User blog:Legofrodo12/Thoughts on Moving to Missouri

​That's right, I am moving to Missouri.​

See, my dad HATES where he's working now. He's a dentist at a veteran's hospital, and it is terrible, just terrible. The negligence of the other dentists, even the chief is a bad dentist. It's insane. So he's been looking for another job since summer. Fort Leonard Wood, an army base in Missouri, had a job opening. Dad applied for it back in July. He had a phone interview in August, I think, but we hadn't heard anything since then. We had given up on it. So we get a phone call MONTHS later, and they offer him the job. Crazy. We were all shocked, and even still are trying to process it. They wanted Dad out there by November! But it looks like it won't be until December, thank goodness.

Anyway, this past week and a half, my family and I were out house hunting in Lebanon, Missouri. This was my first visit to Missouri itself, aside from just "passing through" on the way to other areas of the country. We think we've found a house we like, and have put in an offer on it. Now we are waiting for the owners to respond. We might be getting a pair of donkeys too, if we get that house.

To be completely honest (I know, why should I be honest? :P ), I don't know how I feel about this move. Part of me is excited, then there's that other part of me that is tired, and wants to stay in one place for more than a few years. After living in six houses, three condos, a hotel, an RV, and far too many states to count, you get tired of moving. Missouri looks like a really cool place though. It's not all flat, and full of corn fields like I had thought, though parts of it are. In fact, the area we are moving to is quite hilly, and filled with forests. There are also some absolutely world-class canoeing rivers there.

So I just needed to get some of this down, I guess. :P