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.

Early Christmas

E had the day off yesterday so we decided to celebrate our early Christmas. We're both somewhat shy and absolutely hate the whole Christmas tradition. You know, the one where everyone gathers around at Christmas and each family member takes turns opening their gifts while everyone else watches them... I especially hate coming up with something to say afterward, because without failure I either don't know who the present was from, or I'm not exactly sure what the gift is or why it was given to me. It's just too much pressure!

Anyway, in order to cut down on the amount of gifts we would have to open in front of our families, E and I decided to go ahead and exchange our gifts to each other. After much thought and advice from family members and friends, I decided to get E the Ipod Nano in black. Thankfully, he seems to love the gift. Right after opening it he started talking about going to Target to get the Nike running kit to go along with it. Hehe. I originally wanted to get that to go along with it, but we made each other promise that we would stick to a strict spending limit this year, and alas the purchase of the Nano didn't leave enough in my spending limit.

As for my gift, E got me a couple of things! First, he got me this cool battery charger/tire pump for my car. I've been having a lot of problems with my cars air valve lately. Every couple of monts it seems to be suddenly cracking and causing me to get a flat tire. E's been with me every time it's happened and has been able to take care of it, but I know he's been worried about me being by myself when it happens and not knowing what to do. So yeah, this thing will defintely come in handy, as long as he teaches me how to use it! He also got me a new digitial camera! It's one of those cute Nikon cameras (the one's in the Ashton Kutcher comercial), and it was much needed. My Sony met it's fate a while back after I managed to scrath the lense while carrying it in my purse. I'm not sure how this happened, but if anyone was able to pull off such a feat, it would be me.

In other news, tonight is The Office Christmas special! Some may not find this blog worthy, but I LOVE The Office, and the Christmas special is almost always my favorite episode every season. They didn't have one last year, so I'm hoping this years encompasses the the hilarity of two specials wrapped in one. I don't think E realizes it's on tonight, so I'm going to try to make it into a little Christmas event for him. I'm thinking hot cocoa, those white chocolate covered pretzels, and some type of appetizer. I just want to do something nice for him. He's feeling kind of down about the possibility of not being able to go home to Iowa this Christmas.

Fuck

Can people not keep their minds out of the gutter? Earlier today I told my dad I'd like money toward a camcorder for Christmas so E and I could make movies of our adventures together. As soon as I said that I knew I'd made a mistake...

Dad: I don't think I want you two making movies together!

Me: I didn't mean that type of movie Dad!

Soon after I texted E at work.

Me: I told my dad that we wanted money toward a camcorder for Christmas.

E: For what?

Me: To record stuff. Maybe our honeymoon or something.

E: I doubt our families will want to see that.

Me: *Sigh* You're just like my dad.

Seriously, who in their right mind tapes themselves having sex? And why would anyone who knows me think I might be interested in doing it? If I ever have to talk about something sex related with dad again I'm gong to kill myself. Just a tad too awkward for me.

Passion of a High Schooler

Sometimes I think back to my time in high school. I was so incredibly passionate back then. I was able to feel so much, and now it's like there's nothing there. I swear I could remember every single moment from the beginning of 2003 to the middle of 2005. I can't remember anything now. Back then there were amazing moments, and completely horrible ones. Now I just hope I can remember the moment E asked me to marry him. There were times back then when I honestly thought I might be swallowed by my emotions. It was almost as if I was manic. Sometimes the feelings were terrible, but at least they were present.

I hate so much that ex got to experience my passion. He didn't deserve to know that person, and now that I've found someone who does my passion is gone. I hate the fact that ex made me afraid to be myself. I was drained for a year and a half of everything wonderful that I had built up inside of me. I've gotten better since then, but I'm still not as happy as I was. I want to be able to give all of myself to E. Everyday that goes by I'm cheating him, as well as myself, out of just how amazing our life together could be. I need to do things differently.

Engagement

I haven't been writing very often... obviously. Since the last time I blabbed on here Obama was successfully elected to be our next president, E has pretty much decided that he's going to enlist in the air force, and oh yeah... I got engaged!

E proposed to me tonight after getting home from work, and I of course said yes! Just a couple hours beforehand we were texting back and forth about how important it was to both of us that we get married before he gets deployed (if he joins the air force), but I had no idea that he had actually just picked up my ring that day! When he got home I got up to give him a hug, and he got down on one knee in our living room and asked me to marry him! I felt like such a tard; here I was this whole time thinking he hadn't really devoted much thought to our future, when in reality he had been saving his money and waiting for my ring to get done being customized.

It was too late to call my parents by the time E proposed, so I went ahead and called my best friend and future maid of honor. She was ecstatic! My other friend that was there didn't seem that excited, but she just ended her engagement about a month ago, so I can kind of understand. Tomorrow morning I think I'll start with a phone call to my grandma and aunt in Rochester, then work my way to my mom, and eventually my dad. You know, in order of most likely to be happy for me to least...

I'll write more later. Right now I'm absolutely beat from a day of homework, the surprise of E's proposal, and of course our celebration of the proposal...

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