Our First Place

After much research (mostly on Brian's part) and driving and looking, we have found our first apartment together, Huntington Chase. It's midway between our workplaces and is nice and spacious. Our 3rd floor apartment has vaulted ceilings, 2B&2B, a great patio, plenty of storage, overhead lighting (yeah, I've waited a long time for this!), fitness center, tennis courts, sand volleyball, a car washing center, pool, and probably tons of other stuff I don't know yet. We're really excited, and Brian gets to move in around May 1st (not fair).

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50 DAYS!

Everything's Coming Up Roses

It's no secret that life is a series of ups and downs. I have had my share of both, not always completely believing that God is going to bring back up from the depths.

Flash back to the Fall 0f 2005 and then the Fall of 2006. Life was less than great those semesters. Then, Brian came into my life, and things started to change, slowly but surely.

God has continued to take care of me. Today I got a job as the head choral director of Peach County High School in Fort Valley, GA! And to think, I was 20 minutes late for my interview, too (I got lost--Surprise, Surprise!). It's a town of 8,500, and everybody was so friendly. Plus, Brian and I started looking at apartments today. There are some great, affordable places in Warner Robins. I can't wait to put down the deposit tomorrow;)

Everything's falling into place. Crazy that I don't trust Him sometimes, huh?

I'm Leaving on a Jet Plane

So, I'm leaving Thursday 'round 8:00pm to go see B. We both get to leave the Atlanta airport at 11pm and return to our respective quarters at 1am. We're both gonna be draggin'. Brian has Friday work, and I have a job interview at 8am with Peach HS's new principal and existing Asst. Principal Gray.

We are gonna be so tired. THEN... we have apartment appointments (say that 5 times fast).
Fri.
3:00
4:14

Sat.
9:00
10:15

And just think, Brian hasn't scheduled the other 3!!!!!!!

And if Peach doesn't work out, I have a teacher job convention to go to at 1:30 on Saturday.

Oh, yeah, we're gonna have fun. When did we become adults, anyway?

2 Months Today!

It's officially 2 months until the wedding! Everyone's gettin' revved up along with the happy couple. I took the wedding invitations to the post office today. Lemme tell ya, it took 20 minutes in line to check the accuracy of the postage and to ask the USPS to hand cancel our envelopes. I mean, L'view has the record for slowest post office of the US. For those of you that don't know, hand cancelling keeps your invitations looking pretty for your recipients. If you don't ask the USPS to do it to special letters, they will arrive looking crumpled, and really, who wants that after so much time has gone into preparing them?

Oh, and 9 days and counting til I visit Brian in GA. I finished the online app for Houston County School Systems tonight, and it was looooooooong. They are thorough in Middle Georgia. Hopefully, something will miraculously happen in the music department there. I'm told that they don't have many openings due to the fact that the music teachers are fabulous, the fine arts are strong, and the kids just keep enrolling.

I can always hope.

Meanwhile, Brian is still hobbling around his room. If you think of him, give him a ring. He's still spending alot of his time alone because getting out tires him.

April Fool's ;)

Did anyone else forget that today was April Fool's? Wow. Didn't remember til 6:30pm when my mind started to wander during the sermon at church.

Just to catch you up, my baby brother, Jim (he's not so much a baby anymore. 6'2''), graduated from UTI!! I wasn't there, but I heard that it was fabulous.

We had a small party for him Sunday night after church. I took pictures. It was fabulous.

On Friday at 6:00pm, my tension headache went away. *Surprise* My contest was finished. My Girls' Chorale made a 2 onstage and a 3 in sightreading (Bb is not an easy key to read, people!). I am really proud of their showing, and as a bonus, I didn't faint in the process. Smiles all around. It wasn't a Sweepstakes performance, but they have learned so much from a 1st year teacher in the last 7 months.

Now I get to choreograph their Grease medley and Razzle Dazzle from Chicago. Can anyone say "School is over?" Other than that, I will be cleaning up the choir room and compiling a "Choir Bible" for the future director; the one I inherited was seriously out of date.

Wedding in 60 days and counting. The invitations go out Monday at 1pm.

Things Brian Doesn't Eat

Chocolate
Cherries
Green stuff (peas, salad, green M & M's and gummy bears {ok, that part I made up})

Feel free to add your comments:) I'm sure I don't know everything he doesn't like.