This past Thursday, while finishing and packing up from a sewing class I'm taking, I get an anxious phone call from Aaron.
"Where are you?" he says.
"I'm still at sewing class. Why, what's up?" says me...
"Ummm, well, when are you coming home?"
This is when I start to get worried - what happened? Did he hurt himself? Did I forget to put the parking break on the car and it rolled down the hill? Did he break something!!?!
"What is going on..."I hesitantly say.
"Well, it's confusing, just come home."
Sooo - I pack up and try my hardest to get away from all of the craft ladies at the craft store but MAN do those ladies like to talk. SERIOUSLY. I was trying not to be rude but I just could not break away from the chit chat.
Eventually I just blurt that I need to go and leave. The sewing place is about a mile and a half from my house.
I walk in the door and sniff - no fire smell. no bloody carpet. no screams of pain. *whew!*
All seems well.
I find Aaron in the dining room looking oddly upset.
I fight my inner desire to go up to him and grab his shoulders and yell "What Happened!??" but instead I say I calmly say "Hey babe, what's up?"
He drops what I would call a "Glittery Bombshell"
Aaron got a job!
HURRAY!!!!!! Right??? Well - sort of. Aaron's new job is governmental which is fantastical - but, its in Utah.
What a great opportunity - what awful timing and so very far away.
We are both trying very hard to remain strong and positive about this very unexpected situation. After all - he's been striking out a lot for a year now and I think he'd given up for awhile - that mixed with the fact that he applied for this job in March/April and had heard nothing.
I'm not sure what I am expecting people to say or how they will react. Most people are ignoring the distance and separation and instead really saying how fantastic it is that he got this job.
Which it is - and I know there are the people who didn't get the job or who don't have the job - but at the end of 2009, if Aaron finished this project on time we will have only lived together for 14 out of 52 weeks.
We are newly weds folks... this is tough for us.
My good friend Michelle mentioned that it makes people uncomfortable and maybe that’s why no one is saying anything. Which could be true.
We are still dealing with this news - I have no idea how soldiers spouses do it. Really, I don't.
So here's the facts:
- Aaron is the crew leader (Hurray!)
- He'll be working in North East Utah
- He'll be doing work with an invasive herbaceous species and leading a small team of workers.
- Aaron leaves August 1st and will return at the end of November (if the project is on time...)
- There is no internet but there is a hill you can climb to use your cell phone. No word yet if there is mail service yet.
- This is a huge opportunity for Aaron to get himself out there and to maybe get a long term government job (the ULTIMATE career goal for Aaron!)
Sooooo - we're dealing. Aaron is having a harder time dealing with it than I am. I tend to distance myself from him before he leaves - it makes goodbyes easier for me but it makes things super hard for Aaron because it feels like he's already gone.
The other hard part is that there are other peoples agendas to take into consideration. The new house has two major projects (Painting exterior and sub pump under house) that are supposed to be finished before August 1st (I don’t know where this worrisome deadline came from....) and we are behind with both of them. I have a conference for a week and Aaron and I are going to Laramie together, but for research purposes - not leisure.
So, finding time for each other in July is going to be tough.
He’s also taking the car which I need for my new teaching job that starts August 6th, so if the magical car fairy could bring me a car, that would be great!
That's our news, folks!
We just never know what is going to be happening.
Love,
A&M
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Bob Villa doesn't stand a chance against us!
It's been about three weeks since my last post - woops. Time does slip away from you when you are busy out of your mind. This of course begs the question - what have we been up to?
Well - We are completely moved in and almost finished organizing. We live with my brother-in-law Nathan - (I don’t really care for the term in-law - Nathan is like a sibling). Consolidating two households into one is a lot of work - but we managed. Along the way Aaron and I (mostly me, Marissa) discovered that I have a lot of extra JUNK. This means we're going to attempt to have our first garage sale next weekend. Whatever we don't sell Friday and Saturday will be given to charity - I'm actually pretty excited to see how this works out. Some of my friends also want to simplify their lives and are going to join me. Lets hope it’s a success!
I'm not sure if I've mentioned it in pervious post or now, but Aarons parents own this house and we kids are the renters. Except - this house is in need of some updating and fixing, so for now we're working on the house as workers of course most of which we give right back as rent. It's a good little summer gig but working on a new house that needs a lot of help is a lot of work!!! So far we have spent a lot of time working in the horrible awful overgrown yard - which had mountains of poison ivy. It's now finished (if you could ever call a yard finished) and we've planted a garden full of mammoth sunflowers, pumpkins, watermelons, squash, decorative corn, tomatoes, peppers and herbs! Things are already sprouting and I’m so excited for the fall when its time to harvest all of these things. For those of you who know Missouri - we really REALLY got lucky with our garden dirt. Because all of that overgrown brush and ivy in our back yard, there was a lot of decomp underneath it and as a result our earth is fertile! We suspect there may have been a garden here previously because there was no clay when we tilled it. How lucky is that?
The same cannot be said for the privacy fence we built with the neighbors. Last weekend we built a privacy fence that separated our property from the neighbors. Good fences make good neighbors I believe the saying goes. Since we've built it we haven't seen them at all! For the record they were nice before hand and the fences were for their dogs who can climb chain linked fences. Anyhow - I have yet to experience any work that is harder than digging post holes. Whew - its tiring! The fence was built to perfection due to Robs (Aarons father) expert skills. The fence looks great!
We're also taking the paint off of the house in preparation for new paint! Taking paint off of windows is less than fan but its brainless work that matches easily with an iPod.
A new stove has been installed, new shelves built in the garage, air ducts were added to the bedroom, and we have a new toilet seat that doesn’t go *WOOSH* when you sit on it!
Things are lookin' up!
Love,
Marissa
Well - We are completely moved in and almost finished organizing. We live with my brother-in-law Nathan - (I don’t really care for the term in-law - Nathan is like a sibling). Consolidating two households into one is a lot of work - but we managed. Along the way Aaron and I (mostly me, Marissa) discovered that I have a lot of extra JUNK. This means we're going to attempt to have our first garage sale next weekend. Whatever we don't sell Friday and Saturday will be given to charity - I'm actually pretty excited to see how this works out. Some of my friends also want to simplify their lives and are going to join me. Lets hope it’s a success!
I'm not sure if I've mentioned it in pervious post or now, but Aarons parents own this house and we kids are the renters. Except - this house is in need of some updating and fixing, so for now we're working on the house as workers of course most of which we give right back as rent. It's a good little summer gig but working on a new house that needs a lot of help is a lot of work!!! So far we have spent a lot of time working in the horrible awful overgrown yard - which had mountains of poison ivy. It's now finished (if you could ever call a yard finished) and we've planted a garden full of mammoth sunflowers, pumpkins, watermelons, squash, decorative corn, tomatoes, peppers and herbs! Things are already sprouting and I’m so excited for the fall when its time to harvest all of these things. For those of you who know Missouri - we really REALLY got lucky with our garden dirt. Because all of that overgrown brush and ivy in our back yard, there was a lot of decomp underneath it and as a result our earth is fertile! We suspect there may have been a garden here previously because there was no clay when we tilled it. How lucky is that?
The same cannot be said for the privacy fence we built with the neighbors. Last weekend we built a privacy fence that separated our property from the neighbors. Good fences make good neighbors I believe the saying goes. Since we've built it we haven't seen them at all! For the record they were nice before hand and the fences were for their dogs who can climb chain linked fences. Anyhow - I have yet to experience any work that is harder than digging post holes. Whew - its tiring! The fence was built to perfection due to Robs (Aarons father) expert skills. The fence looks great!
We're also taking the paint off of the house in preparation for new paint! Taking paint off of windows is less than fan but its brainless work that matches easily with an iPod.
A new stove has been installed, new shelves built in the garage, air ducts were added to the bedroom, and we have a new toilet seat that doesn’t go *WOOSH* when you sit on it!
Things are lookin' up!
Love,
Marissa
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