My Dreams Have Come to Fruition

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The week has consisted of a disappointing and endless job search. In an effort to take my mind off my inability to find gainful employment E and I are headed up to my grandma's to swim in her pool and visit with my mom and brother who are visiting from Iowa. I'll be back with a real update eventually.

Shoplifting and Alergies in Lexington

This is the first official week in Lexington. E and I moved our furniture down here last Thursday, but had to wait until a few days ago to actually move down here ourselves. Things have been going alright so far. Our new apartment is great; I never realized just how much it would mean to have quiet neighbors and our own washer and dryer. Incidentally, said washer came in quite handy after Adin, for some reason, was unable to hold her bladder during the measly 1.5 hour drive between the old and new apartment...

E had his first day of work yesterday. He's working as a camera operator at a retail store. You know who I'm talking about, the guys who are usually in their mid twenties to early thirties who wish they could get a job in law enforcement but are too much of an ass (which is saying a lot) to get along with other officers. So instead, they sit in a small room by themselves for ten hours a day praying that a twelve year old will steal a pair of panties so they can show them who's the boss. Yep, that's my fiance. To be fair, as far as I know he's not like that on the job. He's also not quite in his mid twenties yet, and he just needed a job that would work with his school schedule. Anyway, the job seems to be going alright. My only concern is his probationary period. Apparently if he doesn't get enough stops during his first few months on the job they may let him go. This has led to me pondering which scenario would be worse: E loosing his job, or me being arrested for shoplifting. It's not like I'm having any luck finding a job anyway...

One down side to Lexington that I have noticed, what's with the air here? I swear, I've never had allergy problems in my entire life, but now that we've moved it seems I'm sneezing, wheezing, and coughing all the time! During an interview today I had to put more effort into holding in a sneeze than I did answering my interviewer's questions. At the end of the interview when she asked me if I had any questions for her I had to fight off the urge to ask whether or not the air here is physically doused with pollen by some supernatural being or if it just seems like it.

All complaints aside, Lexington is turning out to be a vast improvement over Cincinnati. Of course, it would really take effort to rival the atrocity that is Cincinnati's west side.

It's All How You Document It

It's been quite a while.

What have I been up to since December that has kept me too busy to write? Well... I've been finishing up my final 28 credit hours in order to complete my BA, working an internship, attempting to maintain a healthy relationship with my fiance, planning a wedding, looking for a full time job, working on a new web project, and preparing to move Lexington.

I can honestly say that the past six or so months have been the most hectic and stressful of my entire life. However, because I have already not been blogging about them, I've decided that I'm going to pretend that the overwhelming stress never happened.

It'll be like that time my dad and I went to the Pirate's Dinner Adventure Theater in Orlando, Florida. The performance was horrible, especially since it was meant for children and not adults. However, we decided we'd still like to look back on it fondly. So, after the performance we decided to take a ton of pictures like the fun loving fools we are. Now every time we pull out our vacation pictures from that fateful trip to Orlando we look a this Pirate Dinner Adventure photos and think, "Damn, that was a good time!"

That's what I'd like to do for this time period in my life. Because, overall, this is turning out to be a great year. Getting engaged/married to E, finishing my BA, starting my life, these are all major milestones. I'd hate to look back on this time period ten years from now and only remember how incredibly stressful things were.

So yes, I'm in deciding right now that I am not going to go back and update everyone (all two of you) on the past six months. Instead, I'm going to focus on the here and now. The move, the job, the marriage, everything that's happening that I'm so incredibly excited and happy about. And ultimately, ten years from now, those are the things that I'm going to want to remember anyway.