Embarking on our second year

Last Sunday was our first wedding anniversary so year two has officially begun! Some things I have learned in our first year are:

1. When he does something that I think is wierd or irritating; instead of getting mad, I should just think about what he just did and see what I can learn from him. After all, as my partner in marriage, my weaknesses are often his strengths and visa-versa.
2. Specific to our marriage, I have learned that my husband just wants me to listen when he tells me about a problem he is having. At first, I would try to calm his fears or share a similar experiance that I had in an effort to help him feel he was not alone but that just made him feel I wasn't really listening, so now I just listen and maybe ask there's anything I can do to help.

On a more superficial yet very exciting note, we begin our second year with pictures! My parents came for our anniversary weekend and gave us our wedding album as our gift. It is so amazing! It's got a mat-finish, black leather binding and the photographs are actually printed on the paper in a collage-type layout. For those of you who don't know, my dad is a professional photographer and he took all our wedding pictures( well, except for the ones he was in, of course) and designed our album, which is why it is such an amazing and meaningful gift.

Life is crazy...and wonderful

Wow, life has been a constant state of change lately! It all started when Chris got a full-time job and, as a result, could no longer take me to work. So last week I walked to work for three days. The walk took me about an hour and the temperatures were in the 90's but I actually enjoyed it because it gave me a lot of time to think and pray before work, not to mention the great exercize! Well, my bosses were worried about me walking alone in the heat so they changed my schedual from 10-6 to 7-5 so that Chris could take me since he doesn't go in 'till 8. The problem with that was that I couldn't leave 'till 6 anyway so I ended up being at work for 11 hours with 2 hour breaks( that part was nice)! Um, yeah, so that routine wasn't really working for us so last Saterday we bought a second car. That's right, I have a car! It's a white '93 Honda Civic, we bought it for $1,400 and it only takes about $20 to fill it up. How sweet is that? Now I'm back to my old schedual and we are just trying to adjust. oh, also, we were asked to join our church's teen ministry, which is exciting but also a little stressfull. My parents are coming to visit this weekend and I am so excited, I really miss them. However, the absolute most wonderful thing that I am looking forward to is our one year anniversary!!! This sunday, August 19th, is our first wedding anniversay. We check into our suite at Sybaris around 6 and we both got Monday off so we can spend extra time together and have a relaxing and romantic couple of days. It just seems unreal to me that we have been married a year already!

It's my birthday!

Today is my 22nd birthday! It's been a fun day. After work I got dressed-up and went to this cute restaraunt for " half-price martini Thursday." My friend, Shari, says that 22 is the new 21 and I think she's right because I didn't have any achohol on my 21st birthday but I did this year(it took me like two hours to drink my one martini, though, so I wouldn't say I went crazy)! My husband gave me a really nice card and a Sybaris Send-a-hint saying wouldn't it be nice to go there for our anniversary.

Job news!

Great news, my husband has a full-time job in his field! He has been working at FedEx for ten years and has been the computer tech guy for a realty firm for about a year but both of those jobs are part- time and, since he graduated from college in March, he has been looking for a full-time position in the field of computer networking and security. Well, he gave his resume' to one of his old instructors who had gotten him a lead once before and then Keller Williams( the realty place) cut his hours from ten hours a week to two hours a month. Yeah, bad news. So, we weren't so happy about that but we prayed about it and like the next day Chris got a call from a place call the Indiana Jet Center. They do something with jets and planes, I'm not sure if they build them or repair them or what, but they were in need of a computer technician and they asked him to come for an interview. The really amazing part about this is that this offer had nothing to do with his instructor and Chris has no idea how this company got his resume'.

My funny mom

Haha, my mom is so funny. She always comes up with these crazy scenarios that obviously would never happen but are hilarious. Case-in-point, we went to visit my parents last weekend and I was looking for my wedding shoes( I keep all my wedding stuff at my parents house due to lack of space in our apartment) because I wanted to wear them with a certain dress. well, I looked all over and couldn't find them so I thought that I may have taken them home at some point and just didn't remember. So, once we got home, I looked all over but they were nowhere to be found and I had no idea where they could have gone. Well, of course I called my mom and told her that they had dissapeared and, here's the good part, she said," a transvestite probably snuck in and took them. Oh, I just found an empty box with a note that says ' I have the shoes-Transvestite'." I could not stop laughing. I was like," so, his name is actually'Transvestite'?" and she said," Well, he can't give his real name, it's embarrassing!" Oh, Mom! I love your crazy stories:) So, this is a heads-up to all you girls out there, beware The Transvestite, new archnemesis of all woman, who sneaks in and steals all your cute clothes!

alright, here it is

I mentioned before about some heavy thoughts that have been weighing on me and now I guess I'm just gonna spill it. My aunt and uncle, who have been married for 21 years, are getting a divorce. I know a lot of people get divorced, even some of my other relatives have, but this news just really blindesided me because I never thought that they would. The thing is, this actually made me realize that, even though I know better, I have this wierd notion that there is a deadline for divorce, like if you haven't gotten divorced by such-and-such a year, then you're safe. Now, in the end, this is just me being silly because this is so strange and unexpected. I am totally secure in my marriage, I think I'm just "trippin' " because I love my aunt and uncle and it is sad anytime a marriage ends, especially one that has lasted so long.

I'm still here

Haha, hey everyone! Man, I've been really bad about blogging lately but I've just felt really busy and I've had some things on my mind that have just been really overwhelming for me,lately. I'm sure I will write and let everyone in on all that, eventually, I just have to let the flurry of thoughts settle first. Plus, I have been going to bed much earlier( man, what a nerd) but I think I need to stop that or at least modefy it because I am a night owl and I need that late night time to do whatever so I don't start to feel like my job monopolizes all of my time. Alrighty, I'll get to the good or whatever stuff later. Hope everyone's having a great week!