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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Plans for the Future




Looking back on the year (and yes, it's almost been a whole year since Mike and I got married) it's amazing how fast time goes by. I am 2 weeks away from being done with my first year of graduate school. We have recently adopted a lab puppy named Eva, she is huge and growing bigger every day. Mike loves her though, so now we're both happy campers with two animals. I woke up this morning really excited for a few reasons. I will be starting my thesis research this summer and can't wait to get it finished so I can start writing my thesis and get on to graduating. We have also been talking about moving back to Sacramento when we are finished here, and that makes me even happier. We really want to find careers in Sac, and eventually a house somewhere in Land Park or East Sacramento. We're both really excited to be back in the 'city.' Haha. Humboldt County is beautiful but we are ready for careers, being closer to family, and for some familiarity. We can't wait to buy a house and make it our own. We can't wait for summers in Sac where we ca go to the river to swim and fish and have a picnic. We can't wait to eat breakfast at one of the yummy downtown restaurants, and take walks at night in the warm Sacramento air. I think we are both most excited to finally start our lives together. Being here is great for the moment, but we both feel like we are on hold until I finish. ONE MORE YEAR and we will we back!!!!!!!!

A Much Needed Update






Looking at my last posting I realized that I haven't even wrote about our move to Humboldt. Long story short, after moving to Pullman, WA for graduate school, getting unpacked, getting jobs, getting settled, we decided to move. The program was not right for me, the town was not right for us, and we were way way way to far from family for our liking. After 2 miserable days trying to make a decision I called up Humboldt State University, the program I was supposed to be going to that fall, and asked if their offer for admission for the fall semester was still good cosndiering that I declined my admissions. The program director said absolutly, "as long as you can make it down here." So we rented a u-haul, packed up our lives in 8 hours, and the next day headed for California once again. Those 3 days were the longest and most stressful in my life filled with lots of tears and worry. But, on the drive home we both felt the relief setting in as we left the palouse and traveled back to the Redwoods and the ocean. Mike and I both say every once in a while we miss the palouse with its rolling wheat fields. We had some wonderful times hiking Moscow Mountain in Idaho, driving across the Washington/Idaho border almost daily, and trying to make a living in a land with no trees. The palouse and Pullman, WA, with it's strange August thunderstorms and dessert like feeling will strangely always hold a place in our hearts. Although sometimes I miss that month that we spent there, leaving Pullman was one of our better ideas, and now we are here, in Humboldt County, another foreign place....but much more like home.