Starting the House Hunt

Nope. Not buying a house yet. Just renting. We haven't decided on an area yet, so we're going to start with renting. It gives us an opportunity to see what neighborhoods are best and what areas we use the most. It would be hard to relocate to a city, buy a house, and then realize you would rather live on the other side of town. So we're starting the renting search.

Frisco, here we come!

It'll be nice for Phillip to be way closer to work and since I work from home, all I really need is my own office. After we moved in, added all of our wonderful wedding gifts, and I moved into the office with Phillip, things have gotten pretty cramped. We have already outgrown our 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment. Plus, Murphy has been begging for a yard for quite some time now. The balcony is his favorite place in our apartment so we need to get him some green space of his own.

The search is already daunting. That area's real estate market moves so quickly. Properties are listed on the market for maybe 5 days before someone jumps on the opportunity. We're at the point now where as soon as we find a place we love, we're moving! If we don't love it, we'll hold off. Our lease is up on May 10th, so we have time to wait for the perfect one, but when we find the perfect one, we won't be able to wait. Does that make any sense?

I can't wait to be in a bigger house in a new city. I'm ready to get out of this city. I love that it's where I grew up. But I don't want to be that girl who never left town and stayed stuck in high school. I went off to college, have a great job, am married, and ready to start fresh in a new, young city with plenty of other people just like us.

With screenings at work starting up any day now, soccer season kicking off this week, and moving, there might not be much updating - and updates will likely be filled with lots of info. Our life is moving quickly right now and we could go from living here to moving at any point too. What a fun and crazy adventure. :)

Our Anniversary

You know me bloggers, I like to plan. So I’ve been planning our anniversary for a little while and I’m excited that it’s actually going to happen!

For our “big” trip, we are headed to Cabo with the family. It’ll be a few weeks after our anniversary, so I want to do something special for our actual one year anniversary. The idea of opening our custom bottle of wine (thank you Harkins!) and eating our year old cake at our kitchen table on a Tuesday night seems kind of anti-climactic for a big day. Therefore, I have decided that we will be heading out of town on a mini vacation for a few days.

One of my favorite parts of our honeymoon was how disconnected we were from the rest of the world. Don’t get me wrong, we missed our families and friends dearly, but I loved having so much quality alone time without the cell phones and computers and so many television shows. I loved “disconnecting” from the world and connecting with my husband. So I have decided that each year, regardless of how big or small we make our anniversary celebration, we will be “unplugging” while we spend time together.

I have been looking at several bed and breakfasts in Fredericksburg. We have selected a favorite, but will wait to get overly excited about it until we can for sure book it. It’s a little pricey and we will need to wait until April to reserve the room. We will drive down Sunday, June 10 (since we have a wedding the night before) and will return on Wednesday, June 13. A few days to relax together and really make eating old cake memorable.

Back to the special bottle of wine. For my wedding shower, the Harkins (who we absolutely love!) gave us a custom bottle of wine. It has our names and wedding date on it. I decided the second I opened it that we would enjoy it on our anniversary. So each time I clean our bar area, I look at this bottle and realize how much I’m looking forward to enjoying it with Phillip. We could have saved it for a special date night or another anniversary, but there isn’t a day quite as special as your one year anniversary. Can’t wait to uncork it and finally enjoy it after over a year of anticipation.

Yep. Already looking forward to our anniversary. I want to make each one special. Even if it’s simply dinner and a movie or night away from the (future) kids. That day was the best day of my entire life and I want to be able to relive it at least once a year for the rest of my life.

Cabo and Updated Blog

The whole family is officially going to Cabo! We're getting passport logistics out of the way now. But... we have all of our rooms and plane tickets booked! We're all going! We all made it happen! This is going to be one EPIC vacation for the whole family. It'll be a one-in-a-lifetime trip and we can't wait! It's so exciting. As soon as I get healed, I need to get my body ready to go. ;)

The blog layout is updated. Finally. The link/picture has been expired for a while. I took advantage of the work downtime to do some mindless updating. I think it looks pretty good.

Time for me to get back into blogging more. I feel like I have neglected the blogosphere this year. I want to change that.

Feeling a bit better today. As long as I get better each day, I think I'll be golden.

Finally Functioning (For Now)

Surgery Thursday was intense. Sorry for the lack of update...

It turns out, when they "got in" to take my gallbladder out, that my appendix looked weird. It had scar tissue on it, which concerned the doctor. He seems to think I had appendicitis at some point a while back and didn't know it. Scary, huh? So he decided to remove it too - two organs at once!

I had to stay overnight in the hospital on Thursday. Partly because he took more than planned, and partly because my appendix was backwards and hidden under my intestines - meaning he had to poke and prod more than desired to get it. And since then, recovery has been a challenge.

My goal was to be sitting up and back to a pseudo-normal by this morning. I wanted to be sitting at my desk working and ready to drive by tomorrow or Wednesday. That's not the case. Recovery over the weekend was awful and more painful than anyone ever mentioned. It also came with many more obstacles than anyone had said. I guess when you have an unexpected surgery on top of the predicted one, the outcomes change. My system was so confused.

So today I'm still in bed. I can't sit up for too long yet, and certainly not the whole day. I'm working a bit today by answering phone calls and emails but that's about it. Maybe tomorrow I'll be up for sitting at the desk. Today I'm still having to take it pretty easy. And I'm thinking driving won't be an option until at least Wednesday.

I hate being this dependent and needing everyone to do so much for me. And I hate that I'm just now able to eat solid foods. This has been one heck-of-a surgery. Didn't feel laproscopic at all.

Exhausted on the Eve of Surgery

I am already exhausted. This week has already been one for the record books. Phew. Just thinking about it. And I haven't even had my surgery yet. Wow.

Phillip and I have been up at the hospital since yesterday morning with his dad. Don't worry bloggers, everything is good. But we had a scare after a routine procedure that has him in the hospital through at least Saturday. So we've been up here for almost 2 full days. Didn't spend the night. But between errands run for the family and going home to sleep last night, we've been hunkered down in the private room.

Today I went to pre-op for my surgery that's tomorrow afternoon. Originally my pre-op was scheduled for yesterday. However, yesterday's events forced me to reschedule for today. Everything seems pretty straight forward. I have some pre-op stuff to do, on top of finishing up cleaning and laundry. But I should be ready to go. I head in tomorrow at 12:15. Poor Phillip will have to spend another day waiting in the hospital. Then Friday, his dad has another procedure so he'll go back up to this hospital. Crazy.

I haven't worked at all this week, except for Monday. I've been fielding emails and other communications. But other than that, I haven't been able to do as much as I had planned. I'm thankful to have an incredible boss who understands and is completely ok with me taking the time I need in order to come back full-force next week.

Heather and Kevin are coming in town this weekend. Exciting. They'll stay with us to help out with me when Phillip goes up to the hospital for his dad, and to help with Murphy when Phillip is taking care of me.

What an exhausting week already, no? And it's just going to be more of a marathon. I'm getting nervous about my surgery too....