One big solace for me this few weeks is I found this beautiful park that has a pond/lake thing. It's about half a mile there and about a mile around the water. It's a perfect walking path!
Anyways, we're still unpacking and organizing. Rob has been off work the last week and a half because of the holidays, so we are just being lazy and enjoying our time together. He goes back to work on Monday and I'll get back to work cleaning and organizing. One box at a time. Once we get everything cleaned and organized and get things on the wall and put away, etc., I'll take more pictures of the house. But here's one to hold you over. After our furniture came in, and they took the loaner furniture out, we had so much more room than we expected and it was really exciting!! Rob jumped up and down and yelled "there's so much room for activities!!!!"
The other good thing about getting our stuff on before Christmas is that my 3 foot tree came!! So we got to at least minimally decorate for Christmas.
Christmas was good, we didn't really go crazy this year, but we got a new TV, blu-ray player with blu-rays and new DVD's to go with it, Rob got a new bike, and we are getting some of our wedding photos framed, finally!! We also started a new tradition of buying a new board game or two and playing games on Christmas day! I kicked Rob's butt at Comedy Movies Scene It!!! My parents got us WARMTH! We got a fleece blanket and a thermal duvet cover that is AWESOME. Rob gets really cold, so they got him some thermal pajamas, too, which have been a big hit!! I got a new stethoscope from mom and dad as well, but it looks like I won't be using it any time soon.
Speaking of which...the nursing thing is still pending. I send the necessary paperwork back to the necessary people in the states and now I'm just waiting for it to come back. I'm just hoping everyone will fill things out appropriately and get it back quickly. Either way, it will still possibly be close to 3 or 4 months before I'll actually be able to start working. Of course, I was ideally hoping I'd be working by February 1st...but I guess not. I'm thinking about finding a part time job somewhere locally. Something to occupy my time and provide a little extra spending money. There's a local hotel looking for a receptionist so that's probably the direction I'll head if they'll have me!
With all the stress and change, I needed to make a change...something new and something just for me. So....I chopped all my hair off and dyed it. You can't really see the color in this picture, but you'll get the jist of it.
Anyways, that's the best update I have at this point. Just living normal life. Hopefully within the next couple months we'll be making a trek to northern England for a really cool World War II 'tour'. And eventually we'll end up taking a trip to London. We want to pick a non "touristy" time to go, and we have to plan ahead because we can get into some hotels with seriously awesome military discounts. So, you have those things to look forward to!!
One last thing before I go. Rob's favorite part about our stuff finally arriving:
COFFEE!!! I mean...REAL coffee!!!
ps - thank goodness for Amazon.com and them shipping K cups to APO addresses!!
I'm working on a list for care packages, but as soon as I started writing this, the ideas I had all completely left my head. SOOOO whenever the ideas come back in, I'll let you know!
That's all I got for now!
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