Absolution

Despite the fact that I've been offered a dream apartment on the East Side, for a song...well, typical contrarian Ted...I've decided to change plans.

You see, Josie and I took today off from work to really plan our future together. As I've indicated, I've been having some second thoughts. Is this the right decision? Are we doing the right thing? Can we swing it? Even at the reduced rate, the East Side location came with other bills: electric, natural gas, gas, parking, not to mention phone and cable.

So today, we woke up and brought the kids to school, and then went out for breakfast. After breakfast, we traveled to my parents' house to scope out the furniture. With my folks moving, everything's up for grabs, and we wanted to figure out what we'll bring to the home, what I'll take, etc.

Well, we got to talking, and we still hug and kiss each other...that'll never change, no matter what; and as we were hugging, I said to her (as I had said several times today), "Are you sure that we're doing the right thing?" and this time she kind of shook her head, looked down, and said...

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