One More Month

Can everyone believe that? Because I sure can’t. Exactly one month from today I will be in Las Vegas on the eve of my wedding day. Wow. How fast time has traveled! It feels like the last few months since Travis and I set our date have absolutely flown by faster than anything before. I mean, I feel like Colorado was just a couple weeks ago, and that was Labor Day weekend! Seriously, it seemd like the time just went: Colorado, Halloween, Fort Walton trip, Thanksgiving, and then all of a sudden it’s eleven days till Christmas and 31 until my wedding?! Eeeeep.

No wonder the time feels like such a blur…I have barely been able to keep up. Seems like every moment I am busy planning or working or trying to catch up on missed rest. Example – for the past two hours I have been in bed because of a stress headache. Work has been beyond stressful, since I work in finance and it is time for year-ends. And of course, what better time for them to do a floor-wide activity that requires so much of our free time?! We have a retreat on Thursday that’s supposed to “build a community feeling and teamwork” (translation: bullshit bullshit bullshit). With that I have been asked to captain one of four teams and lead the trivia challenges. That entails meetings and time spent on the computer doing research. Not undoable of course, just that I would much rather doing something I enjoy.

Wedding wise…it’s almost all planned by now. Flights and hotels booked, apparel bought and/or reserved, bands bought, engagement pics taken. The main needs are still to find our apartment and for Travis to find a job here. Most of the few things left to do aside from that are again just a matter of waiting. Apartment-wise we have narrowed our choices down to three suitable buildings, a tough call because not one place has every last thing we need. We need to be flexible and made some tradeoffs, but probably one of the top things is that we refuse to live someplace that charges $75-$100 A MONTH on top of rent to park a car. Double if you have two cars. Tell me if that’s not the most ridiculous thing, having to pay to park IN YOUR OWN HOME. Job-wise, Travis has a few new leads, including a scheduled interview here in the next week, so we will see. I even found him a position in another city department that I think would suit him nicely. We will see; just need more prayers, because one day we will have full confidence and another one of us will be panicking. We just don’t need to be doing that on top of our normal work and life stresses.

One big stressor down for me was finishing my Christmas shopping. The last pending ones were my mom and my future father in law – but the books I ordered for Mom came in, and today I won a DVD for him on eBay. So that’s all, with time to spare, lol. I’m glad I get paid this week because with Christmas and paying for wedding stuff my bank account just took a very serious hit. I’m just thankful that Travis and I can afford to get what we needed, and while we probably spent a bit more than we wanted, it’s not like we have to scrounge around to find rent or food money. That is the work of God of course, who has led us to where we are today.

I just can’t wait to be living in the same place (not to mention, city) as Travis, because these weekend visits are just too short. This past weekend was a Kokomo weekend, and with two basketball games and all the errands we ran it felt like by the time the weekend was up, it should have just been Saturday, lol. We did put up the Christmas tree, which while time-consuming it came out gorgeous. Living together will also save considerably on gas and mileage, so that will be a big help too.

Okay, back to trying to make something useful out of my evening and to make this headache go away once and for all….