I have a few free minutes, I thought I would catch good old Xanga up. Xanga is just like an old friend to me. Chuck went to CR to visit his Dad for awhile this afternoon and should be home in awhile. I worked late tonight….
   Actually I have been working all the time lately… The day after I got back to work from our honeymoon, I found out Shelly had been fired from the Will Call office while I was away. Rather than posting the position opening like our company always does, they waited 2 full weeks for me to get home from my honeymoon to see if I wanted that job position full time. I really thought that was an honor. So now I have a more official title, and a more important position, I am getting butt loads of overtime on each pay check… but still no raise. What do you do? That seems to be the American way. I have worked 11 hour shifts, 13 day stretches, weekends and holidays since taking this position in the past month. I miss my time with my husband. Thankfully things will slow down in another month once they get the new people trained in Customer Service and then I will just be getting a mild amount of over time each week. A healthy balance.
    Getting back from our honeymoon was instant reality check. We arrived home to a flooded basement (again) a water heater down, Chuck ran a fever, a Bat got into the house, Chucks cell phone died, etc, etc, etc. Just before our wedding and honeymoon we were tossing around the idea of trying to start a family. As soon as reality hit that hard, I became a bit gun shy and convinced Chuck that needed to take a back seat until we could pay off a few more bills… Such is life. It seems right now I am learning a lot about balance.
     Chuck and I have our eye on a farm house in Kalona on an acre of land. Chuck has known the lady that wants to sell it for years, so we have been talking with her. We went to the bank to check things out and back to the lady, and she needs a few more months. That works out well for us, because we could use a few more months to shrink down some more debt ourselves. I don’t know if it will be possible for us to buy the house, but we are looking at our options and putting our heads together to figure things out. It is exciting!
   On one hand I can’t believe we have been married just over a month already. On the other hand, it feels like 6 months have been cramped into this past month. Time is such a funny way of measuring relevance. The few free moments I have had lately, Chuck and I have been getting our kicks out of camping in our own yard and having huge bonfires. I know we are rednecks.   My Mom was in town in Cedar Rapids this week, so she came to Wellman and hung out with us for awhile on Memorial Day weekend. We had a lot of fun with her. My Dad and her will be having their 30th wedding anniversary on June 6th. My Grandpa and Grandma’s 51st anniversary is that same day. I still don’t talk with my Grandma and Grandpa and things have actually been a lot eaiser with out them or their games. Last night we had two of my co-workers over for a few hours. That was a good time. Slowly we are getting more social, our relationship was so secluded to just the two of us for the longest time.
    Still playing with wedding photos and trying to collect and organize them all together in the few free moments I have. As soon as I do, I promise I will post them on a Shutterfly link for everyone to view.

Guess that’s about it for now. I’m working tomorrow morning, so I’m going to unwind. Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!