Austin is moving back to Indiana.
He got laid off from his warehouse/tractor parts distribution center job in late April 2009 and came down for a visit, arriving on May 3.
Assuming current plans don’t change, the visit will have turned out to be about three weeks shy of a year.
The original plan was that he would stay with us for two weeks, during which time he would get a job and an apartment. He’s still in our guest room because he couldn’t find a job that paid enough to pay rent on an apartment.
We were supposedly working on a solution that would have him living independently and restore our empty nest status, but nothing was happening on that front and I couldn’t imagine a scenario that would make it happen.
I hadn’t considered the influence of a girlfriend. In this case, it’s a Lebanon, Ind. girl Austin knew from high school. The first clue we had was the announcement on his Facebook page that he was “in a relationship” with the girl. Then we noticed the non-stop cell phone and Skype conversations. He went up to Indiana two weekends ago for a visit, which led to another trip last weekend (we’re talking at least 14 hours on the road each weekend) and the announcement that his old job is waiting for him. So he gave notice to his employer, our BMW friend Charlie who is a pharmacist and hired Austin to work in his drugstore in Paragould, and plans to leave for Indiana a week from tomorrow.
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