Alright, let the chaos ensue! Anybody who views this regularly should know about me, but the first post is usually explaining stuff, so here goes:
This blog is for keeping people I care about in the loop about what's happening in my life; actually, I should say, ours, Shawn's and mine. I'll post pictures, stories, lots and lots of things to let you know what's up.
Like I said, most people who will read this know a lot of this already, but for Blogging's sake, here's the basic information:
In March, I came up here to visit Shawn. We had been chatting on FB for months, though we knew each other long before, in preschool. Yeah, I know, awesome, right? Well, through FB we started to flirt. As we're both kind of shy... Ok really shy, it worked for us. For a while, I was confused, I didn't know if I could really call it "falling in love". But suddenly chatting with Shawn was the highlight of my day, and I would literally skip to the computer in joy when someone would tell me he was on and wanted to chat.
Well, Shawn, being the amazing man that he is, bought me a plane ticket to come visit him, we thought just for the summer. But I had been here a week, and I just knew, it was real love. Though the whole summer still streached out in front of me, I dreaded August, when I thought I would be going home.
But then, on my birthday, Shawn pulled out the most gorgous ring and asked me to marry him! Of course I said yes! And cried like a baby... But I was so happy!
Now we're trying to get our feet under us before our wedding in November. I'm searching for a job still, but our search for a home is over... though the last part of the search was so confusing that I get a headache trying to follow it... and I was there!
Shawn and I, right now, live with his mother in a house in the country. It's a big house with three floors (if you count the basement). It has a big grassy yard, and I love the view of countless cornfields all around. A great place. However... theres a few things that I have to tell you...
Number 1: Its a pig farm! If it's warm at all, all of outside reeks of pig. it's hard to stay inside on beautiful days, but it's hard to stay outside when you can't breathe without gagging!
Number 2: The rent's too expensive...
Number 3: It's super far away from everything! It takes quite awhile to get to a town that can actually be called a town, as in, has a grocery store...
Number 4: (I didn't actually didn't experience this, but I wouldn't have wanted to anyway) The winter pretty much traps you at the house. The roads back here are all dirt and gravel roads, and the snow plows dont clear them for you. And this last winter, Shawn and his mom got trapped back here with no power. No heat. For 10 days.
Yea, soooo we're getting outta here pretty soon. Very soon. First week of June soon. Yeah. Well, almost immediatly after Shawn and I got engaged, we started searching for jobs and homes. We looked in this trailer court at this great trailer first... Gosh I loved that place. But the rent... cant afford it on Shawns limited income. So we had to say goodbye. We looked at another trailer, smaller, not nearly as nice, but still ok. And we could afford it... or so we were told. We were waiting for them to get through the paperwork... We applied for HUD in the meantime, because every cent helps. Then right as we get the last bit of paperwork in for HUD, we're told that the trailer, the second, smaller one, has been rented out from under us! When we had tried to pay a deposit so that couldn't happen, but the lady at the trailer court told us we couldn't for some dumb reason! Of course I was crazy angry, and in in a panic. Where were we going to live?!
Well, we calmed down, but still, super worried. We drove past some apartments, there was a for reant sign in front. Shawn called the number, and we got to tour a tiny, but really nicely kept up apartment. In our anxoiusness, we gave the owner $100 to hold it until June... and I was so relieved. But then yesterday, the HUD lady and the trailer court lady came to an understanding, and they looked at the first trailer we looked at, the one I loved, Plan A. With HUD's assistance, the cost is no more than the tiny apartment. The choice was obvious...Though we're now out $100... Ufff.... Someday I'll get the hang of this Grown up thing.
