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It’s been a while…

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Hello, there. I realized the other day that it has been quite a while since I last visited my blog. The reason? I recently got a new job, and have super busy trying to get adjusted to all of the newness surrounding that situation. I’m working part time at our church doing admin work, and it has been a challenge for me learning/ remembering all of the steps and tasks that I’m supposed to do. I know I felt this way at my old job, but, whew! Being the new girl is exhausting! It’s hard to remember that it will get better, especially when there are times that I feel extremely overwhelmed. Despite these struggles, I enjoy my job and I am beyond thankful for this opportunity.

Let’s see…what else has been going on around here? It seems like practically every night is a different activity for us. We’ve never been so involved in things besides school and work, so it is fun to hang out with friends and engage in things that interest us. The holiday season doesn’t help in the busy-ness area, but it is definitely one of my most favorite times of year. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are part of such a fun season filled with friends and family. We’ll be headed up to the Frozen Tundra (Illinois) for Christmas this year, and we’re driving, which should be…interesting. I’m hoping we don’t get caught in any blizzards, but you’d better believe that I’ll have an emergency pack ready!

We have made a number of new friends from our new church, which has definitely helped in the transition into our new area (I know we’ve been here since March, but it still seems pretty short), but lately, I’ve found myself missing all of our other friends from Denton, Taylorville, DBU, Granbury, and Glen Rose. I wish I could have a giant reunion with everyone! Not plausible, but it would definitely be fun.

I guess that’s all I really have for now…my train of thought just jumped to the latest GOP debate, and I don’t really want to get into that right now! :) Thanks for sticking around through my blogging drought! Hopefully I’ll get back in the swing of things soon!

March and April Update

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Well, we have been in our new apartment for about a month now (more like three weeks, but who’s counting?), and we both really love it! We are about 45 minutes closer to Mark’s office, and are now about five minutes away from the University of Texas at Dallas, where Mark plans on attending grad school.

Besides the great location, we are blessed to have more space than in our old place. We have two bedrooms now, one of which is our office/library/cat playroom. It is definitely great to have that extra room! :)

Lately, I’ve been getting into two new hobbies. The first is something I’ve kind of talked about for a while, and the second is newer in my scope of interests. I am learning more about web design and programming (as I’ve mentioned before in a few posts), and I have decided to take up gardening (sort of). I have several plants and flowers on the balcony, and I really like learning more about gardening. I have a few challenges, though, such as partial sun, high wind, and Lucy. I have to be sure that every plant I buy is cat safe because Lucy seems to think that the garden is an outdoor salad bar.

We are also testing out several new churches, due to the unfortunate fact that we are now just too far away from Glen Rose to keep going there regularly. We definitely miss our church family there, but I kind of like the search for a new church. It is interesting to see all the different churches out there. There are several Chinese churches in the area, and I jokingly told Mark we should check them out. :)

That’s all for now, I guess!

Oh yeah…

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I never really updated the blogosphere (no, spell check, not the heliosphere.Thanks, though.) with the fact that one week ago today, I got engaged. It was pretty awesome, to say the least. And I, of course, am beyond excited.

But never fear, this blog will not be weddingified. Oh no. We have a website for things like that! I won’t tell you the URL just yet because I am making it awesome, but I will eventually be putting it up here.

On that note, have a great day/night!