About Me
- Joe Garrison
- Fishers, IN, United States
Director of Contemporary Worship and Assistant Director of Student Ministries at Castleton United Methodist Church in Indianapols, IN. Husband,Guitarist,and Drummer
Showing posts with label Homeowner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homeowner. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Our First Spring as Homeowners
My wife Courtney and I are coming up on the first anniversary of moving into our first house up in Fishers, IN. We moved in last May. We have officially owned the home for over one year now.
This will be our first full spring as homeowners. I am looking forward to all of the fun that comes with owning a home in the spring time. The grass (and by grass I mostly mean weeds) is starting to turn green, trees are starting to bud, and a couple surprise flowers have popped up out back.
I am ready to get outside and do some work in the yard. I spent last weekend seeding and fertilizing the lawn in an effort to push the grass to weed ratio more toward the grass side. I'll likely have to paint our trim outside this year and potentially do some work on our chimney to help keep it from smoking in the house so much in the fall/winter months.
Hopefully there will be a deck and nice gas grill in our future, not sure when those will happen though. It is fun having new homeowner experiences as the seasons change.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Let the Craziness Continue
It has been a crazy spring season so far. It seems that life has hit light speed and shows no signs of stopping. As difficult and crazy as that makes it, I have to say I am loving it.
Some background...
In January of this year I took over the reigns for Castleton United Methodist's contemporary/blended service on Sunday mornings at 11:00am (in addition to my fulltime job at Garrison Law Firm). My charge was to turn it from a "blended" service into a full blown "contemporary" service in terms of music. At the beginning of March my wife (@courtgarr) and I closed on our first house. We began looking for a home in early January and found a great house in Fishers. Soon after that our church began a capital campaign to retire the debt associated with building our current sanctuary. On the same day that was started, Matt Lipan (@mattlipan) and I were given the green light to start a brand new Saturday Night Contemporary service on our Castleton campus. Immediately we went to work on advertising for musicians, interviewing worship leaders and developing the service. All the while participating in hours of meetings regarding the capital campaign and all of the tasks involved in making that a successful venture for our church.
On May 14th Court and I took possession (finally) of our house. Immediately began the work of packing to move along with preparing our new home for our arrival. We spent the following week painting, cleaning, replacing things, adding new things until the house was ready for us to move in this last weekend.
On top of all that we started a new discussion group on Tuesday night at George's Neighborhood Grill for the '20 somethings' group in our area.
With all the craziness that has gone along with all of the things I've been involved in and doing lately I have to say that I haven't had this much fun in a long time. It has been a blast searching for, buying, and moving into a new home with my wife. Starting this new service (even though it technically hasn't started) has been a great experience and a lot of fun as I've put together a completely new band with new faces and talents. Even the capital campaign, as boring as that may sound, has had it's moments.
I am completely looking forward to the following months and years as I continue to lead some great bands and services and get to finally live in our new home and experience life as a home owner.
Although at times I may complain...It has been a great few months and promises to only get better.
Some background...
In January of this year I took over the reigns for Castleton United Methodist's contemporary/blended service on Sunday mornings at 11:00am (in addition to my fulltime job at Garrison Law Firm). My charge was to turn it from a "blended" service into a full blown "contemporary" service in terms of music. At the beginning of March my wife (@courtgarr) and I closed on our first house. We began looking for a home in early January and found a great house in Fishers. Soon after that our church began a capital campaign to retire the debt associated with building our current sanctuary. On the same day that was started, Matt Lipan (@mattlipan) and I were given the green light to start a brand new Saturday Night Contemporary service on our Castleton campus. Immediately we went to work on advertising for musicians, interviewing worship leaders and developing the service. All the while participating in hours of meetings regarding the capital campaign and all of the tasks involved in making that a successful venture for our church.
On May 14th Court and I took possession (finally) of our house. Immediately began the work of packing to move along with preparing our new home for our arrival. We spent the following week painting, cleaning, replacing things, adding new things until the house was ready for us to move in this last weekend.
On top of all that we started a new discussion group on Tuesday night at George's Neighborhood Grill for the '20 somethings' group in our area.
With all the craziness that has gone along with all of the things I've been involved in and doing lately I have to say that I haven't had this much fun in a long time. It has been a blast searching for, buying, and moving into a new home with my wife. Starting this new service (even though it technically hasn't started) has been a great experience and a lot of fun as I've put together a completely new band with new faces and talents. Even the capital campaign, as boring as that may sound, has had it's moments.
I am completely looking forward to the following months and years as I continue to lead some great bands and services and get to finally live in our new home and experience life as a home owner.
Although at times I may complain...It has been a great few months and promises to only get better.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Packing...Again
This weekend we began packing to move...again. Since my wife and I entered college it has become an almost annual tradition to pack up and move in May. In college we packed up our dorm rooms at Butler and Taylor in May and moved home, only to pack up and go back to school in August. After we got married I moved out to Oxford, OH in July, only to pack up an move the following May back to Indianapolis, IN.
This month, we make what promises to be our last move for a few years, at least. On Friday we get the keys to our house in Fishers, IN. We move the following weekend.
It's crazy to think about settling down and staying in one place for more than a year. We will finally have the chance to have a home, decorate it and organize it as if we really live there, do some landscaping, mow a lawn, maybe put in a deck; things you do when you are settled in somewhere for the long haul.
I'm not really sure what that feels like but I am pretty excited. We will have a place where we can put our stuff and leave it there for a while. I'm definitely ready for that.
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Bring on Summer!
I'm sitting out on the balcony at my apartment right now. I have a Sam Adams Boston Lager in my Sam Adams Boston Lager frozen glass and have some music playing in the back ground (Myles Kennedy if you couldn't have guessed). It is 80 degrees and I'm getting pretty stoked about summer. Lot's of stuff to look forward to this summer.
First thing, we get to move into our new house in mid-May. We have a nice house up in Fishers. Currently the former homeowners are renting it from us until mid-May when their house is done, or May 14th, whichever comes first. Coming with the new house will mean doing lots of homeowner stuff...mowing the lawn, landscaping, building a deck out back etc. I have to say I'm looking forward to all of that. I might even teach Courtney how to mow the lawn.
Also, hopefully by the summer we will have hired a worship leader at the church (see post below). If all goes well this will be someone that shares my vision for what our church needs to be doing in terms of contemporary worship and outreach to the currently non-existent young adult population in our church. So that is exciting.
At the new house I will have a room all to myself for my music. I am very much looking forward to having a place of my own I can go and work on music, play some guitar or drums and relax. I can maybe even get back into doing some recording which I haven't done in over a year and a half.
All in all, it's going to be a pretty sweet summer.
First thing, we get to move into our new house in mid-May. We have a nice house up in Fishers. Currently the former homeowners are renting it from us until mid-May when their house is done, or May 14th, whichever comes first. Coming with the new house will mean doing lots of homeowner stuff...mowing the lawn, landscaping, building a deck out back etc. I have to say I'm looking forward to all of that. I might even teach Courtney how to mow the lawn.
Also, hopefully by the summer we will have hired a worship leader at the church (see post below). If all goes well this will be someone that shares my vision for what our church needs to be doing in terms of contemporary worship and outreach to the currently non-existent young adult population in our church. So that is exciting.
At the new house I will have a room all to myself for my music. I am very much looking forward to having a place of my own I can go and work on music, play some guitar or drums and relax. I can maybe even get back into doing some recording which I haven't done in over a year and a half.
All in all, it's going to be a pretty sweet summer.
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