I Love Him

Here is my amazing husband! Isn't he cute! He is such a wonderful husband. I am so blessed to have him in my life. Although this photo looks pretty ordinary, it makes me laugh because of his left pocket. Ever since I've known him, Rob always has about the equivalent of 4 purses full of stuff packed into his pants pockets. Sometimes at the end of the day I'll intentionally watch him empty the contents of his pockets onto the night table, and I'm amazed at what comes out, and how much comes out! When we were getting our engagement pictures taken, the photographers wanted him to sit down, and then my stand behind him. When Rob sat down, it tightened his pant legs and both of his pockets bulged up. One of the photographers noticed it right away and told him to take the things out of his pockets, so he started, and he had this whole pile of stuff on the floor from them, and all us were laughing. He's so cute!

I love spending time with Rob. We have so much fun together even when we are just doing ordinary things. Almost every day we say that we are going to go to bed early tonight, so we go to bed at a decent time, but then we lay there talking and laughing for hours until it is super late. Then the next day we are so tired. But it's worth it! I've never liked going to bed until I got married. Now bedtime is the best time of the whole day!

I think one of the most fun things about being newly weds is realizing the little quirks each other has that you would never know about someone until you live with them. We've been married for over a year and a half, and we are still always finding new things out about each other. I feel that if you have a strong marriage, you see your spouse as a someone whose soul never ends and realize that you will never get to the end of that person. I've seen some couples who seem to never really talk "to" each other anymore. It seems like they've run out of things to talk about with each other. It's sad. Marriage is about peeling back layer after layer of your spouse and even after 65 years of marriage, never running out of things to talk about or things to learn about each other or learn together. I can't wait to see what all I'm going to learn about Rob during our life as husband and wife. I also can't wait to see what we are going to learn together. I'll let you know in 65 years!

I love being married! :)

Going Up

The shine and glare of the stainless steel gives this photo a cool industrial look.

Water Drops

I love the vivid colors in this photo. Gotta love fall leaves!

Beach House

I love the angle in this photo. This beach house just kind of draws your eyes into it. It makes you want to go in and check it out.

Serenity

Diversity

Individuality can be created even amongst identicality.

Comfort

Not the most clear photo, but very touching. They stayed like this for a long time.

Homeless Man

Right after I took this, the girl in the red car in front of us must have said something to the homeless man, because he got really mad and started yelling at her dramatically and cussing her out.

Mysterious

This is a picture that of a building that is next to a cemetary. I was standing in the old cemetary in the dark when I took it. I think it's cool how you can see shadows from inside the house, and the trees hanging in front of it really add to its mystery.

Possible New Car

Edna has been good to us, but we are preparing for her death at any time, which is not comforting. No, Edna is not a friend, she is our white buick regal. I really can't remember where Rob got the name Edna, but it stuck. This past weekend Edna passed 180,000 miles. She chugs a lug when trying to make it up hills. I get worried, but Rob just calmly says to me, "she's like a grandmother pushing a cart up a big hill...she puffs and struggles a bit because she's old, but slowly, she will make it." So, we've been talking about finding a new car for months, but Edna has been doing okay so we kind of just put it off. We are now realizing that we had better start looking more seriously because if/when Edna dies and we are not ready for her to die, it's going to be stressful. Plus, we are planning to trade her in (as sad as it makes Rob to lose his first car) but we can't trade in a car that doesn't even run.

The car we've been looking into right now is the Nissan Versa. I think it's cute. It's small, but we compared last night and the interior is the same size as Edna's, the front and trunk are just much shorter. Figuring that we hardly ever use the trunk, it does not constitute as much of a loss. There is a versa hatchback which has a bigger trunk, and a sedan which is much cuter, so here is a pic of it.

I hope we can find a good deal on one. Preferably a deal on one in any color but white or tan. White would be prefered over tan though, just for the record. We haven't test driven any yet, but I really like the look of this car. It's small enough that it's cute and trendy, yet not too girly for Rob like a ford focus or vw jetta. But it isn't so small, like a toyota yaris or corolla that it makes you feel closed in, especially since I get claustrophobic in small cars easily and get sick. I've always wanted a foreign car, but living in Warroad, where no mechanics even close would look at foreign cars and parts were hard to get, it was never an option for my parents to get one, so we always had American cars. Edna is American made too. And the versa has a special transmission that is nonshifting, so that it offers a much smoother ride, and when going up hills it doesn't get shift-shocked. I like that. So soon it will be goodbye to Edna, and hello to new car (name yet to be decided).

if only...

So throughout my life I have had many "dream jobs" at one point or another. Some include: detective, hand-writing analyst, FBI agent, fashion designer, etc... but lately I've found two jobs that I would love to have. First is a behavior analyst in any realm, but preferably in the area of criminal justice. I absolutely LOVE observing how people behave and can usually pinpoint why they behave like they do by hearing a little about them, or just by simply observing them for a longer period of time. More than not, I'm usually correct in my analyzing and can usually predict future behavior based on present behavior. It definitely helps with the kids I work with. Once figuring out why they act like they do, it's easier to help them.

The second dream job I have but am much less familiar with is interior design. I love to work with colors and material and furniture and patterns and putting it all together with creativity to create things or spaces. I have no formal training in decorating, but it's something I would love to do on the side one day, after I'm out of grad school. I have a friend who is getting a degree in interior design just because she wants to. I'm sure it's not cheap, and the projects are insane, but it's something I think I would love to do. I love using color, yet I'm stuck in an apartment where we aren't allowed to paint the walls. I can't wait to get our own home to decorate! I'll seriously have a blast!