I’ve realized how hard it is for me to let go of the power and just let someone else handle things. It’s probably because I think I could do it better, more efficiently, with more care, etc. I’m such a control freak.

Example: The hubby and I have put in an application to rent a condo in Belleville. We really want to get this place. I mean really badly. It’s the perfect location and size for the two of us, and it has a basement, garage, new appliances, and it overlooks a pond. It will be nice to have water within vision’s distance again.

That being said, we are going through a very nice, on-top-of-it realtor to make contact and follow through with paperwork and such. He’s been great–he makes calls and gets paperwork arranged and to us. The only tough thing is he makes initial contact with the homeowners. He called them on Friday–I know he did because he said he would. And I didn’t hear anything all weekend. So I e-mailed him last night, just to check in. (Can you tell the waiting is just killing me?) He e-mailed back to say that the homeowners just got married and are out-of-town on their honeymoon. Ugh. We’ll have to wait some more.

But the worst of it is is that I want to know what it going on at all times. I want to say, “Call me when you call them, just so I know contact has been made!” I mean, how neurotic am I? I think it’s just that we want this a ton, and there’s a very good chance we’re not going to get it because we wouldn’t be available to move in for another month and a half. If we could get out of our lease, we would have months ago, but alas, we are stuck paying here until December 10. We’re willing to double-up for half a month, but anything more than that is getting a little financially-draining.

He said he’s going to call them again this morning, just to see if they got our info and to tell them how interested we are.

This waiting is just eating me up. What is wrong with me? Oh, yeah. Someone else is in control of the situation. I hate that.

We haven’t found a place to move into yet, but we know we’re moving.

By God, we’re moving out of this apartment.

Getting itchy to move….

A move may be impending, but in December, which isn’t too far off in reality. That gives us, what? five months to pack, while going to school during four of those? Must check out the place first, though if one of his co-workers is moving there, it must not be too bad. Gotta be better than this place because they include heat and washer & dryer in the rent. They include something. SOMETHING.

Something is nice. Something means we don’t put out more than we should besides rent.

I hate money.

Yes, I’m one of those scrapbooking geeks. And I love it.

I had one of the best days since we moved here on Wednesday. I went to a crop with a Creative Memories consultant here, and she was so nice and helpful. And she lives in this enormous house in an upper middle-class subdivision. And she has two cats that sleep in baskets by her door.

And it’s nice to get out of this area for a while. Not only was the CM consultant nice, all the ladies there scrapbooking were nice, too. Three of them offered to drive me to the airport when I fly home so I don’t have to take a cab. And they’ll come and pick me up when I fly back here to avoid another cab drive (and expense).

*sigh* It was so nice; it makes me miss my friends back home, even though these ladies were probably more than twice my age. It also makes me want to move out into their area. Not that this area is bad. There’s just so many stand-offish college students, and there is no real community. We live along a major road in Michigan, so I can’t go biking or walking. Out where they’re at, there’s plenty of room to do all those things. And it’s more open, but it is still closer to where the hubby works.

So we’ve been talking about moving after he gets back from training in June. He’s not too thrilled about it right now because he wants to move into a cheaper apartment (I’m trying to show him that cheaper usually means scuzzy here) to save more money. The three complexes in that area that are run by the same management company as the apartment complex we’re living in (a necessity in order to avoid breaking lease fees) are about the same price as here, but they said they will be running specials this summer, so we should watch for those.

I think it’s worth it, especially for the distance factor. That and for the sanity factor.

I feel really selfish wanting to do this, but I just don’t have anything out here. And we’re so close to that major road, it’s just not the safest situation. And I’m the one who is here all the time. But it is our home. I figure it would be better to move this summer and get settled for the remaining two years we plan on staying in this state instead of waiting until the lease is up here in December, move to an apartment complex that is cheaper (but not necessarily better or safer), and only stay there for a year and a half-ish.

I’m torn, but at least we have until this summer to decide. Too bad this summer is coming so quickly. It’s almost April! I can’t believe it. I just don’t know what to think. But the bad thing is, I have all the time in the world to think these days. Hopefully, that will end soon, but not soon enough.

Monkeys is spelled correctly, right?

Nothing really exciting has happened since Wednesday. I think that made my month, so it may be tough to one-up that one.

The hubby and I have spent a nice weekend together, decorating and unpacking. We found a really big bookshelf for only $24 at Target yesterday, so now I have almost all of my books unpacked! The ones I left in the tubs will remain there until we have more space. I left a shelf and a half for Nate to put whatever books he wants on them. I know, I’m so nice, aren’t I?

We also got lamps for the bedroom. We couldn’t pass up two lamps with bases and lampshades, for a little over $7 each. Now our bedroom is fully lit. Very nice.

I still have a bit more unpacking to do, and we’ve decided to rearrange the office so we could possibly put another small desk into it. We want set up Nate’s old computer one day, and as the arrangement is, there is no way we could fit anything else in there.

So, basically, I’m extremely uninteresting right now. I have to get all of my requests for letters of recommendation from former profs and supervisors and advisors out by tomorrow. That means I have to write up little blurbs about what I’ve done activities-wise. Bleh. No fun, but at least my resume is up-to-date. That was a pain and a half, too. But it’s done. Now onto the rest of the applications.

I’m off to write, then. More fun than a barrel of monkeys, right?

Back in the Snowland

Hello, all!

Sorry I dropped off the face of the planet there. Was a little tough to find time to write a blog posting, even just a little one, with final papers, packing, picking up my mom and dad at the airport, packing everything we own into a U-Haul truck, driving back north to our new home, unpacking the truck, unpacking boxes, and then driving back to MN for Christmas and New Year’s and all that good stuff.

So, yeah, I’ve been busy.

But nonetheless, all is well. We love our new apartment and are happier than happy to be out of GA and back to an area we know (sort of; we’ve never been to this state before, but now we are getting to know it well!). I’ll post some pictures of our new apartment sometime after the new year.

I’m excited to be taking a semester off from grad school while we get settled into our new place. I’ve already been in contact with the graduate coordinator for the program I’m interested in in our new area, and they seem interested in me. I’m really excited about their program! It sounds like a solid academic program with its feet set firmly on the ground. In comparison to the last program I was at, that would be a good change.

Well, I’m going to go back to eating lots of delicious food and most likely getting terribly fat (oh, there’s always the new year to begin again, and I will be), and I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, in whatever you do (or do not) celebrate.

A Week from Yesterday

A week from yesterday (Tuesday) is my birthday. My 21st birthday, at that. Am I going to go out and get raging drunk? No. Do I have any desire to do so? Definitely not. It’s okay for those who feel getting drunk on their 21st is a rite of passage or a necessity, and, really, to each his own, but I’m staying in with my handsome husband. We’re going to fry up the catfish fillets we got on sale this week ($3.99/lb, which may not be that great, but it made them affordable for us), bake potatoes, boil up some pasta, and, thanks to my darling friend, Josh, opening a lovely bottle of white wine for the occasion. I’ll got out with some friends and family that following weekend, but with my birthday during the week, it makes going out tough.

I really wish I could be with my family on my birthday. And my really, really good friends from back home (oh, you all know who you are). Not that my family and friends aren’t great down here because they are. Everyone’s just so busy, that’s all. That and it’s just not the same.

Just a month and a half, just a month and a half…

A few words from the hot and steamy South

Things seem to be going better and better every day. I hope I don’t jinx myself by saying that, but it is true. Nate took his drug test (said he barely filled the cup to halfway, just so you all know; was, most likely, stage fright, thought they don’t watch you pee, you perverts), we got my social security card changed (which we waited over an hour and a half to do, and good Lord, was that a terrible wait, and the bathroom was frightening), and we are set for car insurance and renter’s insurance. It ends up if we go through the company Nate was through before, we get a ton of discounts, and if we get our renter’s insurance through it, as well, we will save over $100 every six months. $200 is a lot of money when you’re young and just starting out.

So now I get to battle with our current renter’s insurance company tomorrow. We’ve only been “using” their sevices for the past seven days, so I hope they pro-rate it, and I also hope there is no cancellation fee. I looked at their website and at the paperwork I have from them (which is startlingly little, actually), and there is no information about cancelling. There isn’t even information for current customers on their website. We’ll see how that all goes tomorrow.

It was a good day. We got a ton done, and we have a bit more to do tomorrow. We’ll sign for our new car insurance and, if all goes well, our new renter’s insurance. Hopefully, we can get our GA driver’s licenses, but that may prove more difficult than I thought as they are sticklers for rules here, and I don’t have my new SS card, and Nate doesn’t have an “official” mailing to prove he lives here. So, we’ll see. Should be interesting, to say the least.

And yes, I know I am boring and very domestic. And I love it. So there.

Update!

Life has been a whilrwind for the past three weeks, and I apologize for not posting sooner. I can barely find time to think let alone blog!

The fiance and I went to GA to find apartments, and we have one! A great two bedroom apartment right near to the university. Within walking distance, actually.

I really like it down there. Bright green with fluffy trees. People down there have been nice so far. We had a good time with the fiance’s family, and I look forward to moving. Scary, but exciting.

Been spending lots of time with my family, which has been fun. I’ve been watching tons of Veggie Tales and Blue’s Clues, and after reading Shakespeare and Southern Writers all semester, this is a great hiatus!

Wedding is in exactly two weeks. Excited, thrilled, nervous, all that great stuff. Will probably update a little before then, but probably not much after then as we are moving pretty soon thereafter.

Life is fast, but we’re trying to take things slowly. In two weeks, I’ll be a married woman! I’m so excited!!! I’ll make sure to post a picture or two from the wedding and the reception/dance. Take care, all!

I’m back…

Hello, all! Sorry I have been such a butthead about posting. Life has been busy, busy, busy!

Planning a wedding and getting fitted for dresses and picking up odds and ends and shopping and sleeping in (sort of, when I can) and reading and writing and now volunteering at the local public library- they can all keep a person pretty darn busy.

And I’m loving every minute of it.

And I don’t even mind the rain! Who can mind the rain in such a beautiful place as this? I did miss home when I was at college. Everything about it makes me happy. The cold is a bit of a pain sometimes, but the rest of it makes of up for it two-fold.

I’ve been able to spend a ton of time with my sisters and nephew and parents. They keep me chugging along.

And now I’m going to be helping at the public library in a neighboring town. Get to write poems for little kids and set up programs for them for the summer reading program they have. What joy!

Less than a month until the wedding. I can’t wait.

We’re off for GA for four days to look at apartments and the University and jobs and all that grand stuff. More family time (Nate’s side, this time), which will be fun and busy, busy, busy, too.

Busy, busy, busy…