City of Excitement

I honestly hate the question "so what have you been up to?" because really the answer is always the same "Boring stuff. Work. School. Married life." Then the conversation is over. And now it's awkward.

We literally are totally boring, we go to work, Landon goes to school, we hang out at home. Maybe venture out into the city to go on a date weekly, usually bi-weekly. It's me more than Landon. He always wants to go out with friends or go do things around the city but I hesitate because even after two years in the area and being with my husband, I feel totally unsafe in the area.

I watch too many cop dramas on T.V. and I grew up in Suburbia. Downtown is scary. Especially at night. People get in my space and even though I consider myself a touchy-feely person it gives me anxiety.

But last week... well life got exciting! We were sitting at home and heard knocking on a door over and over. Finally I looked at Landon and stupidly asked "that's not our door right?". So he got up and looked out the peep hole to discover police cars all up and down our street. Police cars with police knocking on the neighbors door. And when I say police I don't mean friendly neighborhood traffic cop. I mean full on SWAT helmets and bullet-proof vests and big guns police.

They negotiated with the neighbor for about an hour while we peeked around our blinds waiting to see what was going to happen. At some point I started texting everyone we knew and said something to Landon like it being like Law & Order in real life. As it turned out they were taking him in for a psych evaluation to make sure he isn't crazy crazy. {If he is in fact totally crazy that makes for three crazies on our block which would probably mean it's time to move}

But for once, something exciting happened and I feel totally justified in my fear of the city. Can we move the suburbs now?