We are so lucky to be given this opportunity! We can't wait.. Well be there Monday-Friday after the wedding, which is perfect! Once we come back, I'll have one week to relax and get "our home" in order before I start my job!
In this cold winter, let me warm you up by letting you look at these pictures:
All images from Google Image Search
Don't they just make you all warm and fuzzy inside? I know I can't wait to be lying on the beach with some yummy lemonade without a care in the world. It almost makes winter bearable. :)
So, after being so nervous about the interview on Friday.......
I GOT THE JOB!
I am literally over the moon about this. On Saturday, in an effort to make up for the fact that his job wouldn't let him skip the Christmas party, we spent the better part of the day virtual house shopping in the NE, close to where I'll be working. Of course, at that point, I had no idea I would get the job... But it seemed like it fit. Beautiful, rural land; large lots. Everything we want. :)
I can't help but think that everything is truly coming up roses!
Here's to the end of 2009, ending much better than it came. I cannot wait to see what these next years will bring.
Also, I've been reading quite a few blogs here lately, and I've seen this trend of a running theme, which I sort of dig like "items of the week;" or "wordless wendesday." I think I'm going to try this. With what, I have no idea, but I'll figure it out... Maybe.
Til then, til then, I am, as I ever shall be.... Yours, Yours, Yours, Yours.
So I had a big-girl interview today for a job as a SLP in a school! I can't believe it's already happening.. I think it went great, so we'll see how it turns out. Downside: 45 minutes at most commute. Upside: the town reminds me of Abingdon. :)
Other news: Instead of a kitty, it'll be a puppy. A friend of a friend's doggie just had some puppies that will be ready come January. Looks like God puts things in front of us for a reason.
This was a ridiculously random post.
Light your candles for this job.
Monday, November 30, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving and start to the Holiday Season, everyone!
I have plenty to be thankful and anxious for, which is fitting for the Advent Season. I am thankful yet anxious for Josh to move down to SC. I am thankful yet anxious to be finishing up with school and looking for a job. I am thankful yet anxious that I am getting married in a mere (yes, mere) 8 months.
I was blessed to be able to spend my last Thanksgiving as a single gal with my loving family and my sister's new boyfriend. That's always fun. I am thankful, yet anxious that it is my last Holiday Season as a single gal.. I can't wait for next year: Holidays with the Myers' in Charleston. Everyone come on down to the beach. :)
In other news, my save the dates are going out on Tuesday afternoon. I cannot believe it's already save-the-date time.. It seems like yesterday that we finally nailed down a date/location/theme/everything. Wedding planning, for what it's worth, is not for the faint of heart, and not something I ever want to do again. My parents were gracious enough to mail them for me, and they are gracious enough to take over the actual invitation mailing duties, as long as I figure out the wording and templates. I'm so lucky.
This Friday is our 5th dating anniversary. 5 years ago he told me: "I love you.....buddy?" And the rest is history. There are days that I wish we could go back to that cold day in December as we were snuggling warm in a dorm bunk bed (the lower one, thank goodness). We had no idea what was in store for us, but man were we confident. We may not be the same two people we were way back then, but I know that every time I see his face, I love him just as much as I did that day and I find new things to love about him every day. It's the holidays that make me miss him the most, but sooner than soon it will all be over.
Countdown: 14 working days until his last day Countdown: 30 days until he moves down.
Also, he's coming to visit in Nashville for Christmas. I can't wait.
Be thankful, and anxious. It is in cautious expectation that we await the coming of God, and so it is with cautious expectation that we wait for most things in our life.
Monday, November 23, 2009
So the countdown begins.
Officially, Josh is quitting 17 business days from today. :)
Josh is moving down to the land of chickens and kitty cats, where no one respects a Tar Heel when they see one, and where the cost of living is ridiculously affordable (Any Emory friends reading this: come down to SC with us!!) in max 28 days.
I can't believe we're down to double digits. It's a matter of weeks, people! Weeks!
I know this sounds ridiculous, but we've been together going on 5 years (Dec 5), and have never been in the same state for longer than a school semester, and we've NEVER done holidays. Shew, no ma'am. I'm excited for him to be down here, because we can start our own holiday traditions.
Here are some things that I absolutely can't wait for:
1. Shopping for a kitty cat 2. Shopping to make his apartment our home 3. Building a life with him in it 4. Getting married (I like how this is 4th) 5. Being together all the time.
I hope in a few weeks we'll be posting pictures of our future "home," our future kitty, and our favorite places in SC. :)
What can't you wait for?
PS... I'm sending out save the dates this weekend! I know it's a holiday weekend, but I have to get them out! I even bought fantastic gold labels to affix for our return address. (Yeah I know, labels = no good.. But I'm not having a formal wedding..... soooo deal.)
So, after a few attempts at blogging, I decided I finally had something to write about. :)
I am more than excited at what's to come in 2010. I know, I know, we haven't made it all the way through 2009 yet. Just listen: after 5 years of being apart, my favorite Republican will be making his way back down South to start school and be in the same state. He's quitting his job on Dec 18, and after that, it's rush rush through the holidays so he can move into his new apartment here in Lexington. In 2010, I'll start my final semester of graduate school, and we'll GET MARRIED! in July here in SC.
To complete our new family, we'll be getting a kitty. I've never had one, and the Republican really wants a pet. A kitty was a good compromise for us. I can't wait to move in with him in May and start our life together.
This will be the place where I document our road to marriage, owning a pet, and eventually all the other steps that come after marriage: buying a house, starting a family, and what it means to be together after years of being apart.
I'm just a girl trying to make it through graduate school until I'm a speech pathologist in South Carolina. I'll be marrying Josh in July and we'll be a happy little family! Follow my stories!
