The Graduate

I sit here at my computer on a Sunday night. I went Christmas shopping and tonight I got to wrap a few of the gifts I’m giving Phillip. I still want to buy a few more things but only have a week to do so. I can’t believe our first Christmas is fast approaching.

It seems like a lifetime since the last time I wrote about my graduation – and other times it seems like seconds. It’s weird how time feels. It drags and flashes all at once. This year, especially, has felt that way.

Tonight my darling husband graduated from UTA. It’s been quite the trip for him. Starting at Mizzou and finishing at UTA. What a journey. I can’t believe we’re both finished and ready to move into the grown-up world. In the past year, we have both graduated and gotten married. So mature. So grown up. And yet, we still feel so young with the whole world ahead of us.

This time of year always makes me feel this way. I’m caught between the nostalgia of the previous year and the hope for the future year. I love spending time with the family and yet yearn for those moments to be alone and reflect on my own thoughts. A contradiction, I know. And trust me, I realize this post is making absolutely no sense at all.

Watching Phillip graduate made me think of all that we have gone through. Our relationship has always prided itself in allowing each other to pursue our dreams with no limitations or regrets. The biggest obstacle (yet biggest contributing factor)  in our relationship has ended – college. We did it!

When others said relationships couldn’t stand the test of time – we proved them wrong. When others said distance would be the death of us – we proved them wrong. When others said being a married student would end in failure – we proved them wrong. We proved them wrong every time and we still are.

But with our biggest challenge out of the way, we are now embarking on a relaxing time in our marriage – one focused on each other and our careers. Gone are the big challenges, and left are the small day-to-day challenges that strengthen our resolve and transition us into a stronger love. It’s kind of exciting.

Time for me to head off to bed. I swear, my mind is racing these days with so many thoughts and ideas. It’s hard to sleep at night. But until next time…

The End of An Era

Tomorrow is my last day of work at the bank. Who knew I’d be so excited about being let go from a position? Weird. I remember a month ago when they told us this day was coming, I thought things were going to be sad about this time. I’d have no job and be completely lost and worried – hence the sudden push for job searching that led to two offers. But anyway….

I’m excited and ready to move on. Talking with my new boss has made me even more excited and I’m ready to jump into this head-first. So many perks. So many rewards – especially the ones you can’t put a price on. So many great ways to change lives.

Can you tell I’m really loving this new job even before it has started?

P.S. Phillip graduates on Sunday. Yay!! This day has been years in the making and I can’t wait to see him walk across the stage and get his diploma. We have both worked really hard to make sure our relationship and our college plans can coexist. It’s good to know we’ve both made it. :)

One Year in the Making

That's right guys. For the post you have all been waiting for (besides the proposal and wedding posts)....

I HAVE A JOB!!!!

They formally offered me the position and I will start in January!!!! I get to work from home and make a difference in so many lives. Who could ask for more!?!?

I will be coordinating low cost EKG screening events for high school athletes!! How fun and exciting! It's the PERFECT combination of my health passion, student affairs experience, and allied health background.

Thank you for supporting me so much. It's been a really rough year in the job hunting world. I've paid the piper. I now get to bask in the happiness of a new job for the new year.

Too excited!!!!

When It Rains

It has rained every day of December up here - and has been steady rain for the past three days. I love it! The cold and wind are finally here an I'm really getting in the spirit of the holidays.

However, the rain has brought with it some unfortunate events.

1) Our roof is leaking. Tell me how exciting that is. It's a slow and steady leak and they should finally be fixing it today once the rain stops. Then will come the wall and ceiling repairs. I hope it's done soon. Thankfully there is no carpet damage and we moved our stuff before it got worse.

2) My car got hit face-on and the culprit left without so much as a sorry. Yep. A hit and run. Luckily it was all cosmetic but I'm on a mission to find out who did this. I don't want to have to pay a dime for the necessary repairs. (p.s. does this mean I need a new car even more!?!?)

So merry first Christmas to us so far. Hopefully the remaining memories will be good ones. At least we know our first one will be memorable.

King of Hearts

Phillip had chest pains today – well, as he says it is “chest tightness”. Whatever you call it, it made me very scared today.

Years ago, in high school, he was having an irregular heart beat. After begging him to go see a cardiologist, he did. He saw a pediatric cardiologist who proved to be of no use. Basically they said they didn’t observe anything abnormal and stopped seeing him. Pretty useless, huh?

So today his pains required him to get immediate attention. Instead of opting for the emergency room, I made a phone call to a close family friend who is a cardiac nurse and she was able to arrange for an appointment that second! She was such a lifesaver!!!

The cardiologist ran an EKG and found it to be normal. So the chest pains are nothing to worry about right this minute. However, records will be sent from the previous doctors, and more tests will be run to see if we can get to the bottom of this.

Side note: The pediatric cardiologist did suggest Phillip shouldn’t take any medications with decongestant in them. Phillip followed the advice thought he was skeptical. The other night when we were both feeling under the weather (see previous post), I gave him some of my over the counter meds to help… not even realizing there was DECONGESTANT in it! In a nutshell, I unintentionally poisoned my husband. Not a moment I’m proud of. That probably set all of this off.

At least he has a good cardiologist now to see that this doesn’t happen again.

That’s all I have for tonight.

P.S. Due to the immense response from my attempt to change my privacy settings and Blogger’s extremely inconvenient privacy settings, I have decided to leave my blog public. It’s just too complicated otherwise, and my background gets all messed up, and I don’t want you guys to all have to sign up for a blogger account. Just a mess. So ignore the emails that were automatically sent out to you. I’m keeping it public! Resume normal viewing activity. :)