The Ramblings of a Married Woman

Well, I suppose I have been married for more than 11 days now. Time to update.
Actually, like before, I forgot that I had a blog. I'm not so sure why this concept has been so entirely difficult for me! But alas, I was reminded by a dear friend, and now here is an update for anyone out there who, well, still remembers that I have a blog. Unlike myself. Ha.

Going on 7 months of being married to and living with my best friend! So wonderful! We have decided that even after we've been married for 20 years we are still going to consider ourselves "newlyweds." Why does the spark have to extinguish just because time goes by? So long as we stay best friends and stay plugged in to the One to fills us with the love we share, we'll be able to keep the "newlywed" status. I still light up like a school girl with a first crush when he smiles at me. :-) I'm in love!

Enough mushy stuff. What else is happening....

I'm fairly settled in to my new place. We still don't have all the pictures on the wall that we had hoped to have up, but maybe someday? We don't plan on moving out any time soon (we're in no place to be considering houses when we are still in over our heads in school loans - one debt at a time, please!), so I still have time. Life just gets busy sometimes and that is just not much of a priority right now. I don't know if I'll ever be settled into small town life. Having to make a special trip to go to Meijer and Target and the movies is still really hard for me. It is a half-day event to just go to those places, considering the amount of time and gas it takes to get there. At least I have WalMart, though I hardly even frequent there much....

I have, however, fallen in love with walking to work. Even in the winter, despite my co-workers think I am crazy for braving the weather for my 5 minute walk (in the winter I don't cut across the lawn, stretching my walk from about 2 minutes to 5 minutes). Nevermind the fact that while in Chicago I had to walk 15 min no matter the weather to get to my car, which I then had to brush off and wait for it to warm up before my hour drive to work. Haha. A little different story here. Plus, most days, Matthew drops me off on his way to work, leaving me only to walk home. :-) And believe me, I need that walk home and the time I am home before he arrives to wind down.
Though, I must admit, sometimes I hate living so close simply because it feels like I can never really escape it when I can see it out my front window. Or maybe that is just because I am on call 24/7....

Work has, overall, been good. I certainly did not learn the proper way to hire and fire people in my social work classes, but I suppose that is part of my 'real life experience.' The job is not very social-worky, though it has it's tendencies and I definitely could not have done it without the degree and teachings of wonderful professors behind me. I won't go into all the details now.... but it has definitely been a.... well... an experience. A learning experience, that's for sure.

Well, my wonderful husband is home from playing is heart out at indoor soccer, so I'm going to have to bid farewell for now.
Here's a little shout out to my Katelyn! :-)

Married!

Well, I'm married now! And so far, 11 days later, I still love it!

Hungry

Sometimes I get to listening to worship music, or praying, or reading Scripture, or listening to a good sermon, and I just don't ever want it to end. For example, I'm currently listening to K-LOVE radio online... and while I don't want to just sit and bask in the music, I can't bring myself to turn it off. I'm soaking it in and don't want it to end.

It is then that I know I am hungry. It is then that I know that I have been forgetting to feed myself. I long to be filled.

Fill me, Father.


Does anyone else have this?

It's Coming!!

I can't believe I get married in less than 2 weeks! I'm so pumped!

Spent the weekend moving into the new apartment. I took another load of stuff down there and Matthew and I took a couple days putting everything away and rearranging the furniture and such. I think we got it looking pretty good! And then we spent our spare time playing Candy Land (thanks, Anika!), the card game of Life, and a very close game of Uno.

When we weren't playing games or organizing the apartment, we went to the Bucyrus fair. We went specifically for the elephant ear, and we got one! Mmmm.... I love fair food. Dinner was a fresh dipped corn dog to go with the elephant ear. And we played Skee-ball.... and I whomped Matthew. I won the small prize twice! It was a tiny little stuffed football on a string. Nothing too special, but for a game that only cost a quarter, totally worth it! Being able to say that I beat Matthew was great, too. All of the other games cost $5. I couldn't believe how expensive they are now! It has been years since I have been to a fair... but I don't remember game prices being so high. So instead we sunk $2 into skee-ball, getting us each 4 games.

We did a little grocery shopping to stock up a little for when we get back from our honeymoon. That was pretty fun but it was strange only getting non-perishables. I'm excited to have someone to grocery shop with. :-)

Well.... I should probably stop telling the internet about my life and get back to real life.