this one's for nat...
i realized that every couple of days, i check nat's livejournal to see what's going on in her life and i don't extend the courtesy of updating this journal in return...yes, nat (and possibly ben and sean) are the only ones who even know this exists. so here you go, girl:
um. we're waiting (again) to see if andy got into grad school this year...it's one of those things that we don't talk about because i don't want to add any pressure to the unbelievable pressure he's already put on himself, but we're both thinking about it...he applied to six schools this year, instead of just three, so there's got to be a better chance this time around, right? right. i'm happy to say that i'd be thrilled with any of the locations he applied to - long island, manhattan, durham (where we are now), baltimore, d.c. or st. louis. not so thrilled with the prospective rent in any of the new places, but we all make sacrifices. i'd be willing to live WAY below the means to which we've become accustomed (big spenders that we are) if it meant that he'd gotten into school.
as far as the marriage and babies thing that i promised i'd update eventually, it's all on hold for the time being...babies, indefinitely and marriage almost indefinitely but conceivable within the next few years, i suppose...it's always been up to andy, who seems to be hung up on the fact that he wouldn't be able to afford a decent ring right now (and, in the interest of full disclosure, i must admit that a shallow part of me would like a nice ring)...i think my parents would help with the wedding, but now that they're retired, they've got to watch their money more closely...so basically, we're in no particular rush, especially in light of the fact that when andy gets into school, we'll be uprooted again, and we can't afford it right now. that last particular excuse is probably going to be rendered irrelevant as soon as we admit to ourselves that there is no time in the next 10 years or so that we're going to be making a lot more money than we are right now. i am NOT waiting 10 years to get married.
as far as babies, i'm kinda on the 'eh' downturn of my annual 'babies NOW!/babies later' cycle...it just isn't a priority now that i've decided that i will most likely go back to school as soon as we get settled somewhere...a baby would make both of our lives very difficult even if i didn't go back to school, because whether or not i am, andy definitely will be...and i've said it before - both of us are too jealous of our personal time right now to want to add a baby into the mix...i just can't conceive right now of not being able to go to a movie or out to the bar on a weekend if we want to...and babies don't travel well in the rainforests of africa...
off to work with me...nat, tell sophie that the next time we meet (at hank and erin's wedding, because you ARE going, and you ARE bringing both of your children), i will be thrilled to sing 'copacabana' with her, word for word..."her name was lola...she was a showgirl..."
um. we're waiting (again) to see if andy got into grad school this year...it's one of those things that we don't talk about because i don't want to add any pressure to the unbelievable pressure he's already put on himself, but we're both thinking about it...he applied to six schools this year, instead of just three, so there's got to be a better chance this time around, right? right. i'm happy to say that i'd be thrilled with any of the locations he applied to - long island, manhattan, durham (where we are now), baltimore, d.c. or st. louis. not so thrilled with the prospective rent in any of the new places, but we all make sacrifices. i'd be willing to live WAY below the means to which we've become accustomed (big spenders that we are) if it meant that he'd gotten into school.
as far as the marriage and babies thing that i promised i'd update eventually, it's all on hold for the time being...babies, indefinitely and marriage almost indefinitely but conceivable within the next few years, i suppose...it's always been up to andy, who seems to be hung up on the fact that he wouldn't be able to afford a decent ring right now (and, in the interest of full disclosure, i must admit that a shallow part of me would like a nice ring)...i think my parents would help with the wedding, but now that they're retired, they've got to watch their money more closely...so basically, we're in no particular rush, especially in light of the fact that when andy gets into school, we'll be uprooted again, and we can't afford it right now. that last particular excuse is probably going to be rendered irrelevant as soon as we admit to ourselves that there is no time in the next 10 years or so that we're going to be making a lot more money than we are right now. i am NOT waiting 10 years to get married.
as far as babies, i'm kinda on the 'eh' downturn of my annual 'babies NOW!/babies later' cycle...it just isn't a priority now that i've decided that i will most likely go back to school as soon as we get settled somewhere...a baby would make both of our lives very difficult even if i didn't go back to school, because whether or not i am, andy definitely will be...and i've said it before - both of us are too jealous of our personal time right now to want to add a baby into the mix...i just can't conceive right now of not being able to go to a movie or out to the bar on a weekend if we want to...and babies don't travel well in the rainforests of africa...
off to work with me...nat, tell sophie that the next time we meet (at hank and erin's wedding, because you ARE going, and you ARE bringing both of your children), i will be thrilled to sing 'copacabana' with her, word for word..."her name was lola...she was a showgirl..."