Housekeeping

I know - why waste a title with as much potential as "Housekeeping" on the mundane task of catching you all up on my life, right? Well, maybe I'll write a "Housekeeping II" to make fun of the idiosyncrasies of housekeeping when you're married to a girl...but for now I want to take a few minutes to let you know what's been going on in my sometimes interesting life.

Law School

A year ago I went in for my annual review and found out I was getting a pretty awesome raise. This took me by surprise after the company all but guaranteed no raises. They offered some lame excuse about a global financial melt-down...but I think it was BS or I probably would have heard about it on the news...but anyway, I got a raise. I went in to thank my boss for the unexpected bump and he said the exact wrong thing. He said "I wanted to make sure you were getting paid so much for doing what you do that you couldn't go anywhere else." While I probably should have taken that as a kudos - a nice little pat on the back, at the time it sounded a lot more like a prison sentence than a "keep up the good work!" I didn't want to do what I'm doing for the rest of my life...and I realized that if I didn't do something about it, pretty soon I would have a mortgage and probably some little Davids running around...and I'd be stuck. The job I took after college to pay off my European adventure had already lasted about 3 years longer than I'd expected...and before I know it I'll be fifty and rather than living a life I'd chosen, I'd be living a life I'd defaulted into. So I set about figuring out what I want to do.

Since my college days where people would ask me every five minutes "so what are you going to do with a degree in English" I'd already ruled out law school. I enjoy reading - but not the kind of reading that lawyers do...and who wants to study for the LSAT? But when I went back and really thought about the kinds of things that I'd really enjoy doing, I was a bit surprised to find out that I could do most, if not all of them as an lawyer. So - long story short, I took the LSAT and did well enough to get into a couple of pretty good schools. Right now it looks like I'll be quitting my job to go to UCLA Law in August.

I should probably say something inspiring about how it's only when you leave the safe harbor that you find out who you are or some other thought that would leave you inspired for literally minutes until something shiny grabbed your attention - but the truth is, I'm not quite there yet. I recognize that I'm embarking on a new adventure, but it's not quite real yet - and so I'm not quite excited yet.

I'm a Mac

If anyone from college reads this...which is highly unlikely...they'll probably get a kick out of what I have to say next. The time came to purchase a laptop...and I did the unthinkable and bought a Mac instead of a PC. In college I used to mercilessly tease anyone who dared buy a Mac. Why send a child to do a man's job, I thought. Macs were mere toys - but PCs were for serious people. I had an entire collection of one-liners that I'd pull out to humiliate any Mac user. So what happened...? Well, I got tired of using crappy computers. I got tired of viruses and spyware and reinstalling windows every time things went wrong. I got tired of blue screens of death and compatibility issues...I got tired of all of it. I found a nice deal on a Mac Book - and I'm in love. So make fun of me if you must, but my Mac and I are happy.

Uncle-ness

You may have seen my amazing beard pictures on Facebook...some days I still miss it - but it went to a good cause. It died to celebrate the marriage of my baby sister. It's been a month since Nat and Ian got married...and last week we got a text that said: "Everyone was right. I'm pregnant. This is not a joke." Naturally we assumed it was a joke. But it turns out that the first Keithly grandchild will come from the youngest member of the clan. My parents are hoping that this'll be like a game of hearts - as soon as "hearts are broken" all bets are off. Now that one Keithly is prego, they're hoping Keithly babies start falling from the sky.

The thing that has surprised me most about this little surprise is how well my baby sister is dealing with it. If my wife were to tell me she's pregnant - even right now I'm pretty sure I'd freak out...and here these kids are, just getting started in life and they're taking it like champs.

Empty Promises

Okay - I know I've made this promise before, but I'm really going to try to be a better blogger - at least until I sell my soul to law school. So let me know what you want to hear about and I'll ramble.