Long Overdue Update
I went home for Thanksgiving and had a lovely time with all my friends and family. I miss them all so much.
December was a very eventful month... It all started with a long plane ride to ATL... and then a long ass drive from there to Cortland, NY. And, realizing that I had left my birth certificate on my coffee table in Germany....
Adam realizing he forgot his in Georgia....
But he had one of those wallet-sized ones, so they let him slide.
But, I had to call my friends in Germany (who have a spare key to my apartment cuz they take care of my babies if/when I have to go somewhere) and begged them to overnight me my birth certificate.
AND, coincidentally, Sandra works at FedEx... AND gets a 50% discount... or was it 75%? I forget. Either way, it only cost me $15 to get it overnighted to me. *whew!* So, thanks to my loverly German buddies, we were able to get a marriage license for the getting married stuffs on Dec 27th.
We officially tied the knot on Dec 27th in upstate NY (Catskills Mtns... tiny town called Conesville) at his grandmother's house, but we're having our "big wedding ceremony" in California on Dec. 27, 2008. That's the one where everybody's gonna be invited. ^_^* So, don't get butt hurt for not getting an invite to this one.
It started out to be plans for a courthouse-wed-by-the-justice-of-the-peace thing... but his family got involved and made it a lot bigger than we were originally planning for. *shrug* it was nice, though.
Dad won't acknowledge this one... whatever. Mom's supportive, but doesn't want everybody to know that we've already married.... (more like, she doesn't want her friends to know about it because it's supposedly "embarrassing" cuz it wasn't in a church, etc.) Again... whatever. I'm happy. Adam's happy. That's all that matters, right?
I just had my 24th birthday on Jan 20th.... it was nice. Had me some bulgogi and sushi lunch with some friends.
Then we went ice skating... and then bar hopping. Well, the intent was to go bar hopping, but we ended up staying at one bar the rest of the night. It was cool. Nice to be surrounded by loved ones.
Adam gave me the most precious thing EVER.
More time together. I won't go into details, but basically, he quit smoking for me/him/us~ because the best thing he could give me/him/us is more time together. Yea, some might think that's corny, cheesy, whatever, but I think it's absolutely the sweetest thing. It started as a "cut down on smoking" new year's resolution to a "quit cold turkey" thing on my birthday. That silly man went out and bought $30 worth of tic tacs!! He figured that since he spends about that much on a carton of cigs, he'll spend it on tic tacs and pop one every time he gets the urge to smoke.
.... I'm getting at something, I really am. Just bear with me here....
SO, of course now I feel like I have to quit, too~ right? Well, I do... and he says I don't have to do anything I don't want to do. Do whatever makes me happy. If I don't wanna quit, don't. HE IS TOO DAMN GOOD TO BE TRUE!! But, that only makes me want to quit more. I want more time together. So, I have to quit smoking. I've already started eating healthier, taking the stairs more often, walking from a further parking space, etc. So, yea.... Today is the last day for smoking. I don't know if I'm gonna go out and buy a ton of tic tacs like he did... but I'll figure something out. Maybe gum.
I just hope I can do this. I've tried before... and failed miserably. Wish me luck!!
