It is really way more work\stress\time\excitement than I had anticipated, but after seeing pretty much everything our little town of Mesquite has to offer, we are ready to make our offer.
This may sound kind of funny, because well, we have only been house hunting for a couple of weeks now. However, we live in a town of tiny proportions and there isn't a ton of searching high and low that can be done. We have seen some real pieces of work, as there are many foreclosures in town, and we have seen some really nice houses slide out of our grip due to our popular budget range. We have finally found one that we are ready to put an offer on the table for and it has EVERYTHING!
One of the GREAT things is that the house has vaulted ceilings in the open living room (ahhh the acoustic potential) and a perfectly sized little front room that I can see being used as the "music room". We don't have kids, but we have MUSIC to think about! Where are we going to teach lessons, and practice, and (eeeK) make reeds? This little room and its location have been an important feature in our search for the right place to live and we are really excited to have found a good one- it even has a view of the mountains for me to stare off at as I practice!
Anyway, the journey to WHERE ARE WE GOING TO LIVE? has been a bit of a long one, so it is nice to finally have something kind of exciting happen. We have been mulling over where to live for awhile, not just where in Mesquite, but where WHERE?
I am really, really happy to say that work has really picked up for me in the last few months. I kind of went from 0-60 really quickly and so that has posed some interesting challenges... numero uno being that I have been doing a pretty serious commute. The problem arises in that, Tyler's job is wonderful. He is really making a difference in the way people are thinking about music in this little town, and there is really no reason for him to leave right now. I am really happy for him, and proud of him, and excited to see what can come of his impact on the arts community here in little Mesquite. So in the meantime do we;
1. Move to Vegas- Tyler commuting every single day for work
2. Stay put here in Mesquite- with me driving in per gigs\students
(Ohhh I should say that THIS is the distance I'm talking about)
There is an obviously sensible answer, however, it does not work in my favor ;) It will be OK, I mean all of us have to drive here and there- it just becomes part of being a musician. It is 100% worth it to drive 90 minutes to do a job that I love and enjoy as much as I do playing the oboe and teaching kids how to play it. Would it be easier if I didn't have to travel- YES... but I am assured that there will come a day and another town, and another house when this will be the case.
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