Plan Move Out has encountered a hitch. Because the assumption was always that I was going to get a job somewhere, we never thought about where we wanted to go, other than "elsewhere." Now that it's my husband who has the job that he works remotely, we suddenly find ourselves with the opportunity to go anywhere. Despite this, though, we are looking at moving back to where we went to undergrad. It's half an hour away, it's where he grew up, and it's a place we know. Both of us look at it and recognise that, on a practical level, this is perfect, but on a different level, it feels wrong to have gone to so many countries, to have gotten all this education, only to end up exactly where we started. It's feels like being defeated somehow. I know it shouldn't, but it's not a place I want to be. The question is, though, is it worth it to spend tons of money to go to a new place where we have no friends and no connections, and not as good a chance of me getting a job just so we can feel a bit better about ourselves? After all, it's the chance to go anywhere, and we're throwing it away. Or is it better to stick with the practical solution in the hopes that it doesn't mean being stuck here for the rest of our lives?

On an unrelated note, I've decided that fireworks are rather a lot like sex. You're always very excited for it, and it's great when it starts, but then, about mid-way through, you start thinking "this is taking forever." It also ends in colourful explosions.