Winter Weather

It's official: Abilene is freezing.

Seriously though, it's 30 degrees right now and it's been precipitating on and off for hours. I haven't left the house all day. I'm in the middle of my 3rd movie. Overall, a gloriously boring day.

I signed up for Blockbuster All-Access tonight. This means I'll be getting DVDs delivered to the house for $12/mo. I'm pretty excited about this. Hopefully I'll get a good movie in the mailbox soon.

i got a big envelope in the mail today that looked like the big envelope Keith got with his old passport in it. I had no idea what it could be and when I opened it, my birth certificate was in there. I have no idea how this got out of my possession or where it has been. I know I brought it with me to get my passport, but I'm 99% sure I got it back and returned it to the envelope that houses my marriage license. Maybe I dropped it or accidentally left it and some good Samaritan made sure it was returned to me. I'm rather grateful for this because if I ever needed it - which I'm sure I would at some point - I would have had to contact the state of New York and figure out how to go about getting a replacement. So, thank you to whoever was kind enough to make sure my birth certificate was returned!

I'm watching Daredevil that I taped off of FX earlier. It's a little...heavy and dark. I think I might need to follow it up with a rom-com of some kind so I won't have nightmares about leather-clad comic book heroes.

I'm still stressing over the whole job thing. I keep feeling like there is a perfect job for me out there that I just haven't thought of yet. I want a job that is understanding and flexible about Brian being deployed. I want a job that I enjoy for both the work and the people. I want a job that pays well and gives me some sort of credit for completing my under-grad degree.

I was also looking at the calendar earlier and by the time I finish training at JCP it will be March. If Brian really still comes home in April, I'll only be working at JCP for a month by then. Should I just wait? I don't know what to do. I go back and forth all the time.

Brian and I have been together for 20 months or 1 year and 8 months tomorrow (the 17th). I almost didn't realize. We will be married for 5 months on Thursday the 21st. Time flies. Ha.

Today was payday for Brian. I went to check to see how much he got and make sure it went in correctly and noticed that yesterday a random $1,000 was put in his account. I think it's from the military, but I haven't a clue why. Good thing I'm not planning on spending it on anything in case it was a mistake.

I filed our taxes today too. We should be getting $4,015 back. I'm pretty sure it's every single dollar either of us paid in taxes this year. We'll just add that to the nearly 10k already residing in the bank. We're just putting away a nice little nest egg while Brian's gone!

Alright, I'm out.

S.