Still Here... :waves:
Ok, so I've not updated LJ in... we'll say a LONG time and leave that as the understatement of the year. What can I say, lots of change and a long forgotten password and changed e-mail kept me away.
But I'm back and ready to make my annual-ish update.
So...
Still married and loving it :sees several faint in the distance:. #3 anniversary coming up on the 20th and Seth's taking me out of town the weekend after (because I couldn't get out of work the actual week of, not because of any fault of his). Finally got him to admit he wants kids at about a level of 11 on a scale of 1-10 a few weeks ago and realized I'm really a 1 or 2 on that scale now. I'm looking forward to a ski trip in the Swiss Alps, having a wedding renewal so my friends and family can attend this time (probably on the 5 yr mark), and enjoying my figure and the independence to do what I want when I want to do it, at least for a few more years. Then Seth will get out of the Navy, get some college done, and we'll be entirely devoted to our little hellions :several more readers run in horror:. So that's that.
Work really sucks still. Love the job but really can't figure out and thus get along with the coworkers for the life of me. Which is difficult and frustrating because I really got along all these years being able to fit in everywhere, at least in the beginning. It was one of my strong points. When did I lose it? Hopefully it'll come back soon. Or we'll move again soon. Really not picky on which one happens.
And now, after thinking for a couple long minutes, I have to say that's mostly it. We still keep in touch with our few Navy friends (and of course Nik Nik, even though she's AF :-P ) but the culture and expectations are quite different (Navy wife-dom) from the plan I've made for my life. I didn't marry my husband with the intention of staying home for the rest of my life bringing up little Navy brats and thus am disadvantaged when it comes to socializing. And you can really only fawn over so many kids before you begin to wonder why they have so many (and want more) and yet can't stop complaining about how they have no money to do anything. Really? I guess that's my rant this year.
So love, work, and play all nicely summed up in what I'm sure doesn't even make a page. It's been a good year and if anything else comes up and I happen to remember my password, perhaps it'll be a bi-annual update next year.
Cheers.
But I'm back and ready to make my annual-ish update.
So...
Still married and loving it :sees several faint in the distance:. #3 anniversary coming up on the 20th and Seth's taking me out of town the weekend after (because I couldn't get out of work the actual week of, not because of any fault of his). Finally got him to admit he wants kids at about a level of 11 on a scale of 1-10 a few weeks ago and realized I'm really a 1 or 2 on that scale now. I'm looking forward to a ski trip in the Swiss Alps, having a wedding renewal so my friends and family can attend this time (probably on the 5 yr mark), and enjoying my figure and the independence to do what I want when I want to do it, at least for a few more years. Then Seth will get out of the Navy, get some college done, and we'll be entirely devoted to our little hellions :several more readers run in horror:. So that's that.
Work really sucks still. Love the job but really can't figure out and thus get along with the coworkers for the life of me. Which is difficult and frustrating because I really got along all these years being able to fit in everywhere, at least in the beginning. It was one of my strong points. When did I lose it? Hopefully it'll come back soon. Or we'll move again soon. Really not picky on which one happens.
And now, after thinking for a couple long minutes, I have to say that's mostly it. We still keep in touch with our few Navy friends (and of course Nik Nik, even though she's AF :-P ) but the culture and expectations are quite different (Navy wife-dom) from the plan I've made for my life. I didn't marry my husband with the intention of staying home for the rest of my life bringing up little Navy brats and thus am disadvantaged when it comes to socializing. And you can really only fawn over so many kids before you begin to wonder why they have so many (and want more) and yet can't stop complaining about how they have no money to do anything. Really? I guess that's my rant this year.
So love, work, and play all nicely summed up in what I'm sure doesn't even make a page. It's been a good year and if anything else comes up and I happen to remember my password, perhaps it'll be a bi-annual update next year.
Cheers.