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Reunion

Can you believe that last year I said that I was going to blog consistently? We can tell that worked out very well.

So the new year, a new life, and several new goals.

So here's an update on what you've missed: I am actually engaged this time, the fiancée and I are moving to Texas, I am going to be our sole income provider, and I've learned to make my own lingerie. In the next year I plan to actually get better at blogging, make a crap ton of new friends with big hair who will aid me in my quest to make it in the Texas social register while drinking lots of margaritas, by kayaks and mount them to the roof of my Volkswagen beetle, and get big hair of myself.

I am also willfully trying out Dragon voice recognition software with Microsoft headset and feel like a complete loser. My fiancé is at work and I am on the couch talking to myself. I'm not really even sure where to make eye contact because when I look at the computer there is a delay so to try to wait for the tax and speak so slowly that I annoy myself? Or do I awkwardly look around the room as if I have an audience? So far, I am choosing to awkwardly look around the room. The funniest thing about this is I am a hand gesture person. So not only am I talking myself I'm gesticulating like I am in high school again presenting a debate topic. Ridiculous. Anyhow, if they can make myself at this awkwardly tonight may be, maybe I can get one of my new goals accomplished in.

*I included this hysterical photo so that you can see how in love we are. Can't you tell we're getting married? Definitely a great start to a long lasting relationship. In the next picture in this album he flashes a nipple. (Do you think we can get a google rating for "Flashes a Nipple?")

Holy Cow

Funny how far things have come since the beginning of this blog. One goes on a long hiatus and all their dreams come true. Almost.

I don't have the house, the dream job, the yard or the dog.

I have the man. And it's really freaking cool. We are really freaking happy.

So now The Plan:

-The Bear (aka the boyfriend, who is large, hairy and so cuddly) is in the process of applying to grad school all around the country. The list is: New Hampshire, New Jersey, Philadelphia, 2 schools each in Texas and Colorado, Portland and Las Vegas.
-When he gets in we will accept someplace and plan a move across the country.
-We vaguely talk about getting married. But he hasn't asked- and I think I've got some time to wait on that. (Happily! We're so busy!)
-The Bear is bought into my ideas on raising adopted kids- and I'm thrilled. I'm still set on 2, at least one girl. Two because there are multiple little humans and not so many that I can't lift one under each arm and carry them out of an emergency. Which is the idea. Who knows what will happen, but I want to carry them out.
-I need a career! Retail is hilarious and lucrative... but hardly sustainable. The hours suck. I'm tired. My feet hurt. And I don't control my staffing. I really want to run a business with a team I hire that creatively guides women in their 20's-40's through etiquette, careers, glamour, fun, crafts, parties, child-raising.

So now I'm actively working on the idea of how do I run a flexible, creative career. Time to get on it.

I'm pretty sure that my overzealous well slept blogging today won't last. But let's hope we make this work on a semi-regular basis.

I want a house.

And a husband, but I might have figured that out. Or... let's put it that I've figured it out and am now doing a fantastic guerrilla marketing campaign in order to convince him that he hasn't gone crazy for mysteriously falling in love with me. It involves a lot of sex and home cooking. A little bit of ego stroking. A great sense of humor. And a lot of naps.

But this was really intended for my commentary on housing. I'm very excited. I desperately need to pass my next round of interviews, but basically I want more money so I can spend it on a house where I will spend my day in the garden. So perhaps I need a raise for a garden? I want a huge crazy awesome vegetable garden with rows. Which is how one generally plants vegetables. But in particular I'm looking for a big garden with a lot of vegetables and fruits and flowers and time out doors.

And a husband to sleep with when I get back inside.

And to brush my hair out of my eyes and shower the dirt off with.

Is that the wrong life plan? Nope. It's heaven.

So the best thing about blogging may be my ability to rant.

Presently I'm focused on a lot of unimportant things: like the fact that today my cat is sleeping with one eye open which is probably the creepiest thing she's done in weeks. Which is saying a lot because my cat is bat shit crazy. She's the creepy insane adorable type of cat that frequently runs into walls for the hell of it. But when she is sleeping with one eye open her pupil slides back and forth and occasionally you think she's looking at you until her eyes slip up and right. Then her whiskers start twitching and her eyes move quickly which makes me think she's mildly possessed of a small demon. But small demons I can handle because she's usually pretty damn funny.

Okay- so the other thing here strangers, that we need to get on is that I want to Befriend (stalk? take out to tea? sit next to uncomfortably close?) several bloggers on the internets. So start fucking reading so I can write them uncomfortably honest emails. Truth.