Hi. So this would be my first blogging attempt (officially, but I have used sites like deviantART and even Xanga at one point). Didn't really realize Xanga was a "blogging community" myself. Oh well, those days are long gone anyway. Ya'll are probably curious about the photo above. It's a photo I took about a year a half ago when I was in one of my favorite college classes, Development Biology. It's a chicken embryo. That black spot is where the eye would have formed. To think, a human embryo looks pretty much identical.
Anyways, I felt the image would be a fun way to introduce my newbie status. I'm here for a few reasons:
1) I get bored while my husband is off at school finishing up his engineering degree. (And no, not a technical homemaker. I have a B.S. in Biology and am looking at career options in this horrible economy.)
2) It's nice to share at times, struggles and joys, with someone besides the husband. Besides, rants are much easier online, lol.
3) It seems like a fun way to document my life so I can look back on it in the future. I have a terrible memory. Somethings I'll never forget, but I seem to forget the things I want to remember.
I'm 22 and a newlywed. Been married, oh, four months in five days. All the older married women are laughing. "You'll figure out it's not all it's cracked upped to be, deary." They're right. Older women usually are right (older men will tell you that, especially if the wife is around, haha). But my husband and I haven't any problems so far, no relationship problems anyway. That may have something to do with the fact we're almost twins. Our personalities are very similar. We don't care for lavish things, constant outings on the town, or shopping. Actually, I think he could easily out-shop me if he wanted. Very rarely will you get me to walk around a mall for clothes. My own mother bribed my sister and I to shop with her by offering town-food (usually mall Chinese, sister's fave, or something like Applebee's). I consider the activity more exercise than fun; besides, if you don't have money to buy anything, how can it be fun?
Oh how I wish I could go on those outings with my mama again with her paying for the clothes. At least then, I could get something when I went to town. Now, I leave on the bare minimum, and I mean bare. I guess I should do a quick recap of the last few months to get ya'll up to speed.
Dec:
Got married. Parents so happy they don't have to shell out dollars anymore. I'd say the amount spent was closer to $2,000, so not bad in terms of a wedding. It was very small, mostly because my family is crazy (no, really, NUTS, but I won't get into that unless some of the crazier individual return into my life), simple, outdoors. Really, it reflected our relationship. We're just not "go big or go home" type people. We also went on a slightly pricey honeymoon (under $1,000) because we wanted something nice before we entered real life. (Good thing too, real life can be quite mean.)
Jan:
Now we've moved to his rental house. And, real life begins. First we got the main bills out of the way. We used loan money to pay off all the rent for five months (he knows the landlord, so he got a deal with no lease agreement). Tuition and his on-campus meal-plan are paid. He also had a grant so that helped. Then, he paid for books. If you hadn't realized before now, we didn't have much in the bank before this (a few hundred dollars before he got his loan money and grant money). So, we started out the year with under $2,000 to pay the bills and for food for five months. I'm estimating because we were using his account, and I don't remember what we started with.
(Note: This does include my money. I wouldn't let us touch my stashes until we really, really needed them.)
Feb-March:
Life goes about. He does school work, goes to meetings, interviews for jobs. I feel terrible I don't have a job to help pay bills. Nothing is available in my field for such a short time (we would only be in town for a few months). There were a few waitress and minimum wage jobs open; however, I'm a little clumsy for waitressing (I trip on flat surfaces) and did not have a car to drive to any jobs that weren't within walking distance. It was cheaper to leave my car at his parent's so that I could go visit my parent's if I wanted, who were only an hour's drive away. Plus, I felt it was safer since my parents' are still paying the insurance; I didn't want to get into an accident far away. On the other hand, I don't spend money either. As I've said before, I don't like to shop, eating out is something I've always considered a treat, and I don't need my husband showering me with gifts (though his card and one bar of chocolate for V-day was wonderful).
April:
Finally, back to the month at hand. My husband is still looking for employment (fingers crossed for the one he just applied for), but I learned I should have a job in late May. It's nothing permanent, just contract work, but I'm happy for the opportunity. The job will be almost identical to my college thesis project so it should be relatively easy but time consuming. Hopefully, whatever it pays (still no clue) will be enough to tide us over until my husband gets employment.
You take your blessings where you can get them. Well, I feel I have chatted long enough.
See ya'll.
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