Sunday, May 26, 2013

Whew!



What a week! Finally starting to catch my breath just to be hit with this coming busy week. Busy isn't bad-- just hectic. It's good to have so much to do! Especially for me, since I tend to let thinking get the best of me. I need the distraction to function!

My week started out pretty fun! I've been doing some volunteering with different Christian music events, and last Sunday was Air 1's Club Awesome tour. It was fun, and really made me miss my radio days... for about 5 minutes. Ha! Setting up, talking to listeners, escorting people around. It was a nice blast from the past. I'm excited to do more work with the Promotions Manager-- she is great!

The rest of the week was filled with birthday parties, work on the house, Matt's niece's 8th graduation, more work on the house, and finally commenced with a double-date of mini-golf, arcade games, and dinner at the Macaroni Grill. It was a needed fun event! Matt and I have spent a LOT of time together lately, it's just all been work. I was ready for a break with him!

This week we move! WooHoo! We still have MUCHO work to do, but thankfully the work is all stuff we can do as we go. Everything is coming along so nicely. I've had to convince myself to just enjoy it, and not let myself wonder how long it will last. I like to change things up, and between moving into our new house, thinking about our future, eliminating a source of drama and uber frustration from my life, and learning to make myself a priority, that is a LOT of change-up. I'm ready for it. I've needed it! The panic attacks and anxiety are still there. Which really sucks. But for whatever reason, this is a season I just need to deal with. For the first time in a long time, there is brightness on the horizon. I'm not letting the people and things that normally get me down have power over me and it feels good.

Here is to more busy (but good) days ahead!

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Work...

Dang, owning a house is work!

Ha.

 


But seriously! This week we decided that we would try to get everything done. We failed. Turns out working on a house that has been vacant for over two years is only slightly within our spectrum of ability thus making it just easy enough to do ourselves, and hard enough to wish we had hired someone.

We were so thankful that so many people offered to help us sand our floors, paint and clean up the
yard. Then our house closed and the offers stopped.  Ha! That fact made this week interesting! It's okay, really. Slowly but surly as people that said they'd help backed out, our appreciation for our house grew. Strange, but true. Matt is SO proud of the floors he painstakingly sanded all on his own. While Matt has been working on the livability, I've been working on the look of everything, and making it feel like our home. Picking out paint colors, planting flowers and visiting every decorating blog known to man. Not to mention carefully picking and choosing through my Pinterest boards. It's honestly been great!

While we haven't moved in, we're just SO excited. It's a new journey for us. A welcome journey in a slew of unwelcome journeys we've been walking through. Both a bit of brightness and a bit of a
distraction. When you've been walking through fog for so long, you start to forget that the good stuff is out there too-- it just doesn't always come easy. Sometimes you have to trudge through all the crap first. It reminds me of a trip to LA Matt and I took a few years ago. We left on a foggy January evening, and drove through horrible fog for hours with no end in sight. I can hardly describe how great it felt when half-way over the Grapevine it was suddenly clear! It was like a weight lifted, and we both took a big breath because up until that point it was intense. That's how we feel now. A big sigh of relief. It's a nice change of pace!

I sure hope the feeling stays for a while!