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Tonight, Britt is coming into town to move the remainder of her furniture and other things she can fit in a truck for good.
It's hard to believe a year ago, we moved into this apartment with so much excitement for the coming year. We were so excited to decorate for fall and fill the rooms with all the things we kept in storage when we lived together at the house on Chelsey that was already furnished. If only we knew how much life would change in the year we lived in this space.
Britt was engaged within a month and we had so much fun preparing our place for Christmas, even holding a Christmas cookie exchange with some friends. We were snowed in for weeks at a time in January and February and spent our days watching movies, playing games, braving the weather when we had cabin fever.
At the end of February, plans Britt had made for her future fell apart and I was inspired to see her handle her broken engagement with such grace and unshakable faith that God had a plan for her. Over the following months, there were many nights where we just sat talking or watching TV and we really bonded as she began to pick up the pieces. After applying for job after job, one in Atlanta started to pursue her, following up for about five months when Britt decided she needed to get out and move to Atlanta.
It's been an interesting few months without her.. Her things have remained in the apartment and she would be back in town from time to time for visits, so it felt like she hadn't really left. Even though I didn't see her much since she packed up her car and left, it was still a comfort to see her things.
I'm so proud to see all that she has accomplished as the summer turned to fall. She got the job in Atlanta and is in a workplace that she absolutely loves. She's been living with her grandparents (and out of her car a little bit) so she could save money for a place of her own. Tomorrow, she closes on a townhouse and will be moving in with the belongings she packs up from our apartment.
Coming home after dinner with my parents, it really hit me that she has moved on to a new chapter in her life. Her room is practically empty, all that's left in the dining room is a painting she didn't have room to take with her. Cabinets in the kitchen are cleared out of her belongings. It's definitely bittersweet. While I do have another person who's been living here for the past couple of months, it's just not the same. And the absence of Britt's things tonight just make it final that the chapter has been closed on that part of my life and it's time to move on, with uncertainty, to the next.
In two months, I will have another roommate (hopefully) as the current one can't commit to staying past December. I have no prospects, and it's very stressful to know that when I'm coming back from Dallas at the beginning of January, I have no idea who will be living with me. I keep thinking of how lucky I was to find Britt on craigslist, so I'm hoping that going that avenue will work out just as nicely again. I just have to hope and pray that things work out the way God wants them to and that things will fall into place as they're supposed to. That's all I can do, otherwise I'll just drive myself crazy.
It's times like these that I think it would be so much easier to be married. Guaranteed roommate, can't beat that!
It's hard to believe a year ago, we moved into this apartment with so much excitement for the coming year. We were so excited to decorate for fall and fill the rooms with all the things we kept in storage when we lived together at the house on Chelsey that was already furnished. If only we knew how much life would change in the year we lived in this space.
Britt was engaged within a month and we had so much fun preparing our place for Christmas, even holding a Christmas cookie exchange with some friends. We were snowed in for weeks at a time in January and February and spent our days watching movies, playing games, braving the weather when we had cabin fever.
At the end of February, plans Britt had made for her future fell apart and I was inspired to see her handle her broken engagement with such grace and unshakable faith that God had a plan for her. Over the following months, there were many nights where we just sat talking or watching TV and we really bonded as she began to pick up the pieces. After applying for job after job, one in Atlanta started to pursue her, following up for about five months when Britt decided she needed to get out and move to Atlanta.
It's been an interesting few months without her.. Her things have remained in the apartment and she would be back in town from time to time for visits, so it felt like she hadn't really left. Even though I didn't see her much since she packed up her car and left, it was still a comfort to see her things.
I'm so proud to see all that she has accomplished as the summer turned to fall. She got the job in Atlanta and is in a workplace that she absolutely loves. She's been living with her grandparents (and out of her car a little bit) so she could save money for a place of her own. Tomorrow, she closes on a townhouse and will be moving in with the belongings she packs up from our apartment.
Coming home after dinner with my parents, it really hit me that she has moved on to a new chapter in her life. Her room is practically empty, all that's left in the dining room is a painting she didn't have room to take with her. Cabinets in the kitchen are cleared out of her belongings. It's definitely bittersweet. While I do have another person who's been living here for the past couple of months, it's just not the same. And the absence of Britt's things tonight just make it final that the chapter has been closed on that part of my life and it's time to move on, with uncertainty, to the next.
In two months, I will have another roommate (hopefully) as the current one can't commit to staying past December. I have no prospects, and it's very stressful to know that when I'm coming back from Dallas at the beginning of January, I have no idea who will be living with me. I keep thinking of how lucky I was to find Britt on craigslist, so I'm hoping that going that avenue will work out just as nicely again. I just have to hope and pray that things work out the way God wants them to and that things will fall into place as they're supposed to. That's all I can do, otherwise I'll just drive myself crazy.
It's times like these that I think it would be so much easier to be married. Guaranteed roommate, can't beat that!