3 Years!

So when I started this blog, three years ago, it was timed with the purchase of my house. My inspiration was the timing of buying the house on my 30th birthday along with the now 30 years of debt for my mortgage that seemed to fit nicely for a title of a blog.  I thought that after 6 months or so it would be filled with my new adventures in home ownership and exploring TN. Instead for 2.5 fun years it was filled with my road trips and thoughts as I lingered in NY waiting to move. And now that I finally did move to TN it has been mostly silent . . . .which is awesome because it means I have been out and about and so busy I am not on my computer. I have started blog posts and will post them and hope to get myself on a schedule to post regularly. I mean people with far busier lives of greater importance manage this all the time I'm sure I can too! Also, I like doing it. I can't tell you how awesome it is to check the blog stats and see that someone across the world in countries like Singapore somehow managed to find my blog. I really don't know how they do it but I am glad they stopped by.  It was also exciting to have a blog post reach over 200 views.

Right around the time I bought my house and started this blog my sister, two cousins, and myself started discussing birthday plans for the future. Meg and I had wanted to do something awesome for our 30th birthday . .. which I did cause I bought a house :-)  . . .. What we started talking about was on our 33rd birthday we would go to Disney because we have friends and family who are Disneyphiles and it would be a fun place to visit. We could even do the matching tee shirt thing whose plans usually involved poking fun at our quirky family habits which we have lovingly nicknamed "Keohanigans".

It made sense after all 33 is a significant number. I mean even three major religions agree on its importance (when does that ever happen): Christ performed 33 miracles and died on the cross at 33, 33 is the numerical equivalent of Amen and the Star of David, and Al-Ghazali wrote that dwellers in Heaven are in a perpetual age of 33.

Also the number 33 pops up in literature too since Dante was 33 when he made his descent into hell, Julius Ceasar was stabbed 33 times in Shakespeare's (AKA Edward De Vere the Earl of Oxford) play, and "The Man with The Blue Guitar" by Wallace Stevens has 33 sections.

Well we didn't end up doing anything like going to Disney. No what we did was even better. We went to a fancy restaurant, Kitchen Notes in the Omni Hotel, and had dinner out together for the first time as residents of TN. I couldn't ask for a better birthday than to be with family in our new home state and to look forward to many more celebrations together.