Welcome!
Hello there! Thanks for stopping by to check out the new, “About Houston” blog on 451 Press. My good friend, Dee at Tot TV Watch, convinced me that having one blog wasn’t nearly enough for someone that spends on the upswing of 10 hours a day on the internet, in front of a computer.
I moved to Houston in February 2005 when I was four months pregnant with my son, Zachary. I lived with my parents in a suburban community in southeast Houston and worked all the way up until 5 days before Zac was born on July 8, 2005. I had always intended to move to a cooler climate where people wear socks and Birkenstocks with fleece jackets and carry reusable travel mugs filled with fair trade coffee or organic chai tea after Zac’s birth, but somehow Houston sucked me in. Maybe it was the cheap cost of living or the ability to wear shorts in January. Whatever the reason, I’m here to stay for the time being.
I’m hoping to explore parts of Houston with this blog through reviews on local restaurants, bars, museums, parks and quite possibly some of the 20+ daycare centers that I was forced to tour recently. Of course, there will be the prerequisite rants on Houston traffic and culture. I personally love living in a town where women will try to talk to you in a public restroom, while simultaneously peeing and talking on their cell phone. You can’t find that kind of friendliness or lack of concern about basic hygiene in many other major metropolitan cities.
That’s Houston to me - the only city I’ve ever lived in that I can simultaneously love and hate at the same time.
Houston, Culture, Restaurants, Bars, Museums, Daycares
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:07 am
[...] I wrote my first post today over at About Houston. Please go and check it out, possibly leaving me a comment if you are so inclined. [...]
April 23rd, 2007 at 10:34 am
Welcome to 451 Press! I look forward to reading all about Houston, just in case I need to come visit some day.
April 23rd, 2007 at 1:17 pm
really? love it and hate it? i learned to like, even love, certain aspects of my life while i lived in houston, but i most definitly wouldn’t say i ever loved that city!!
April 23rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
yea I got sucked in by Houston once the baby was born too, but I still have high hopes that I’ll find the ability to leave one day!!
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