This past year has gone fast! Yesterday marked our first full year in
Michigan; naturally we celebrated by going to a Red Wings game :) That wasn't actually why we went but the
timing just worked out nicely. It’s been
quite a busy year for us with lots of ups and downs but overall its been an
worthwhile experience. I’m even
beginning not to completely dislike it here-or as Matt say- I’m beginning to
tolerate it.
Sadly, this year has not been as warm as last year which is
a big bummer for me since I now have an open yard to play with. We finally got the management company (by way
of the owner) to tear down the terrible gazebo like thing in our
backyard!! Yay for small victories :) Getting rid of that thing made our yard look
about twice as big-and not nearly as ghetto (always a plus). It also means I can plant more flowers in our
back bed and hopefully the back part of our yard will actually be able to grow
some grass. We did our first outside
work day/afternoon this past weekend. We
removed a bunch of old boards that were “edging” out our driving and replaced
it with some plastic edging. It’s
amazing how much a quick $50 project can make something look so much
better. It only took us 2 hours to take
out the old boards, move the dirt as needed, run to get more edging (we
underestimated the length of our driveway) and set the new stuff in the
ground. Overall not too shabby. We’re also working moving some dirt around,
moving some rocks around, and just prepping the grass and dirt for when spring
truly decides to come.
On other news and updates (since it’s been a month since I posted
last) we successfully navigated the new car adventure. It was one of the more stressful things for
us, not because we couldn’t decide on a car, but because I am someone who
figures out what I want and then I immediately want to get it. Matt figures out what he wants and then
researches and tries to haggle to get the best price possible. When you put those two things together it can
result in some tense discussions and planning.
We made it through however and I am now running around in a 2013 Subaru
Forester! We ended up just leasing it
but we calculated things out pretty well so we should be good on miles and either
way I love this car! Except the new car
smell-that gives me a headache every time, I’m hoping that goes away soon.
Let see, what else is new….not a whole lot actually. We finally made the jump to a new
mattress. Well we ordered it and it’s
arrived but it’ll be a few days before we can sleep on it. We decided to buy a memory foam mattress and
it was shipped to us so we have to wait a few days for it to reach its full
size. Tonight is installation night…we’re
getting some wood boards to put across our frame and taking the thing out of
the box. I’m pretty excited because it
means we can finally put our current bed in the spare room and the futon can go
down to the basement which means we will have a legitimate bed for people to
stay in when they visit! I feel so adult
now! Matt’s also pretty excited because
it means he can get a second tv to put in the basement. Although our basement stays fairly cool in the
summer so we’re thinking it will helps us keep our AC costs down if we just
watch tv in the basement during the summer.
I think that’s about it for me. Work is going well. I’m also managing to keep myself busy through
my Gilda’s Club event committee and I’ve taken on a co-chair position for the
Membership committee of AFP here in Detroit.
That is turning out to take up a decent amount of time and energy. Plus there’s still wedding stuff to be
done! Overall we’re keeping fairly good
track of everything and not annoying each other too much about everything that
needs to get done. Now if some warm
weather would get here I would be a very happy camper!
